Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-07-13

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triumph Of Aurelian. wss human power
more dei6ed than whea imperial thrones,
mighty princes and illustrious war
riors did homage to The successor Of St.
Louis At vefSailles Never since the
day when Ata crossed the Danube and
marshaled hisSmighty host upon the
Plains Of Ra\enna, was the majesty Of
Rome more terribly menaced than when
Engiand's stern and pensive king rallied
al the elements Of unfettered though,
to disarm the Vatican of its power and
hurl the successor of St. Peter from the
spiritual throne of the Christian world.
As distinct were they in moral charac-
teristics As in political policy and reli-
gious faith. With one, the most solemn
treaties were but halts in the march Of
an invading army to dominion and pow.
er. With the other, the word Of the
king" was ~ the judgment Of God, and
90 far Is human agency was concerned.
Is unalterable - the iet Of destiny it.
self. --...
| As strongly eontrssted was the per.
sonnet Of these two rival Potentates as
their history. The one, with all the i'm.
perial majesty Of Augustus Cesar, won
the love Of women BY the classical beau.
ty Of CONFERENCE.-The admiration Of
men by the scholastic sraces Of Julian,
and fascinated the most polished oflux.
urious courts BY the Wit Of Nerva. The
other, cold, stern and silent, was as un.
social in his manners a. his features
were harsh and repulsive. That dread
intensity Of feeling which maddens men
rendered him Is grand ~ he was gloomy
in his isolation. The magnificent Kins
of beautiful France" bequssthed to hi.
subjects and his successors the retribu.
tive r lction of centuries of home mis-.
rule. which in after years required all
the horrors Of the French Revolution, the
most awful political CONFUSION ever re.
corded in history, to eradicate.
The other bequeathed to his country.
men the grand idea of constitutional lib.
erty, the most glorious heritage Of the
Anglo-Saxon race. The waves of the
Atlantic bore conflicting passions and
interests from the Old World to the New
to darken the struggle of creeds and
races with all the horrors of Indian bar.
barity. From the mouth of the St. Law.
renee. along the lakes to its source, from
the crystal lake lying in the shadow Of
dark mountains pouring its water.
through the rocky gorge to feed the
Mississippi-with the same to its EN-.
bouchure into the Gulf of Mexico-the
genius Of La Sale was laying the foun.
dations of a French Empire in the Ne~
World, to realize the dream of Richie.
lieu doomed to naught but dream.
French enterprise was connecting the
Valley Of the Ohio with the Valley ol
the Potomac. French policy was put.
ting into requisition all the material
means Of human strife to blot England
from the map Of America. Bitter sec.
tartan strife embittered the hearts of the
English colonists while their blood
flowed like water upon their frontiers in
battle against French aggression, Jaco.
bite treason and Indian treachery.
In these days q generation of meu
were living in the province of Maryland
who had heard the Covenanter's Bat.
tie Chant" in Old England, who had
seen the last act Of the Great Rebel.
lion." that deadly struggle between the
"prerogative" Of crown and the right.
Of the subject, which brought the first
Charles to the sca6old-the Temporary
a>eendancy Of the stern military fanati.
cism of Cromwell-the social reaction
Of restoration Of the Stuarts in the per.
son of Charles H., and finally the Great
Deliverance" Of 1888 which drove the
Second James from the throne Of his an.
cestors and established the supremacy
Of an elective Parliament upon the ruin.
Of royal hereditary right. Men were
then living in the colony who had reared
the first Legislative Hall in which the
doctrine Of civil and religious liberty
the rights Of man. were first taught and
praeticed in Legislative enactments-
whose hands had felled the first trees
Of that pripeval forest. whose voice, ..
it waved the wind. was like the roa'
Of IN oeaA, aad whose shade was like
the night upon the face Of the world.
A generation Of men were passing
away-but not gooe-who With minds
sublimsted BY that deep intensity q
feeling which war Of interests
sions-dynasties and ereeds-alxsys pro.