Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-02-24
HISTORY.


bears us back through
the musty records of almost forgot
tan ages into remote antiquity,
where the lustre which surrounded
ancient Egypt made her appear as a
beacon in the ocean. But she per-
secuted and fell. Assyria and Baby
lonia succeeded. The splendor which
adorned their palaces, the wealth Of
their kings and the sensuality OF
their courts apparently eclipsed that
Of modern England in the time OF
Charles the Second. But their
grandeur was bought on the dearest
rights Of man, the groanings of the
common people and truth in its on
ward march silently consigned
them to oblivion. Next, India and
Persia appeared upon the scene;
while they confined themselves to
their ancient constitution, while the
cultivated rigor and discipline OF
their people, together with their as
oetic habits, controlled their poll
CT, their armies were sent forth
but to conquer, and bid fair to uni
versal empire. But with prosperity
came corruption; the few prosecuted
the many, and enervated by the lux
uries of conquest at the Pass of Their
moypl@, their victorious army was
vanquished by a handful of Grecians
who persisted to a man, and the de-
cline of their glory was inevitable.
The freedom and liberty unfurled
by the constitutions of the cities of
ancient Greece had vivifying effect
upon the manner and habits Of their
people free from the enervating
influence of their predecessors,
trained in that school of hardihood
and asceticism in which no vestige Of
prodigality appeared, until all that
was beautiful and grand in man
found its prototype in the physical
and mental energy of the ancient
Greek. Her career was an eventful
one; her achievements in the arts,
science and literature stand as a
mausoleum to attract the admiring
gaze of the civilized world. Her
philosophers, historians, poets, sculp-
tors and architects. while vestige Of
her ancient glory remains and as long
as time lasts, will call forth the eulo-
gy of man.
Power and wealth brought with
them their corrupting influences and
disturbed the very heart of Greece.
Like cancer they eat into the very
vitals of her constitution, until at last
that ambition became aroused which
Is a bottomless pit, and into which
were you to heap province upon
province and empire upon empire
you would never be able to fill up
the mighty void.
Her northern neighbors, the Rom
ans, beheld with pleasure the suscep-
tibility of her corruption. They had
now subjugated Carthage and were
bidding for universal control. With
skill and vivacity her intrigues com
menced, and Greece became discord
ant, discovered and belligerent; hel
land was r,nt with civil feuds and
drenched with fraternal blood till a
last the battle of Cheronea sealed hel
doom and Rome ruled the civilized
world. While she, too, observed thu
rights Of her citizens, she conquered
but to set free, and her achievement
were spread ell over in characters o
living light. But jealousies divided
her councils, ambition seized her lib
ties and in the ignorance of her pop
ulace, whose excitability was easily
famed to a fame, many Of her mobiles
citizens were sacrificed to intriguing
and ambitious leaders. The Rubicol
was crossed and Rome fell, crushed
with her own ponderous weight
Thus do We behold from remote tint
those two great antagonists, trutf
and error, striving for the mastery
In the political constitution of ma
tions, as well as in the actions of man
right must always win. In the ma
tons that have disappeared from thu
face Of the earth or now slumber II
insignifcance, while truth found
amongst them an abiding place
while justice prevailed their career
was grand and glorious; but they
persecuted their fellows and higher
power, which controls the destinies
of worlds as we'll as nations, left
nothing but desolation to mark the
spot of their licentious revelry.
Tho retail grocers OF San Francisco
have hoist the wholesalers with their
own petard. Tho latter fixed gold as
the standard of coin they would re-
ceive in payment for goods, and the