The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1877-08-09
"Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way,
But to act that each tomorrow
Find rs further than to-day"

'sNoi ENJOYMENT and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way,
But to act that each tomorrow
Find MS further than to-day"
Above the subsiding waters of the
food, comes the dove, with its olive
branch. We shall be happier than
the confused toilers on the plain of
of Shinar, for after our Deluge there
rises secure a temple Of Love, human
and divine, against which no storms
can prevail.
This movement comes sin the full
ness Of time, and to the djaentlralE
ed IS arelcOnae,
''As the sight of stars and sky to prisOned men,
Or light to the wOrld-seeBing GenOese.
It is an angels song, bursting up
from the heart of chaos. Tt is
fame that, like love, burns without
consuming and without waste.
We wish to prove, by the data Of
historical illustrations, how import
ant and superior this method of re-
form is in contrast with the preced-
ing ones.
In an able review of the topic,
.sThe Turks in Europe" by Charles
Kendall Adams, published in the
"Internationl Quarterly" the writer
thus reafirms, from his standpoint
of observation, the ever-renewing
evidence, the ever-repeatiug warn
ing, as to false or unreliable methods
of reforms:
"After the Crimean war, came the
| famous "Tdnzimat" of 1856 It
guaranteed full liberty of worship to
every religious profession. It de
clared that no one should be forced
to change his religion. 1t provided
that no legal document should ac-
knowledge any inferiority of one
class of Turkish subjects to another,
| in consequence of difference in re
igion, race, OF language. It enacted
that all foreigners might possess
landed property. The Sultan issued
on imDeriaI order commanding all
this, and it was substantiated by a
protocol, signed by the representa-
tives of all the powers of Europe.
But Notwithstanding these assur-
ances, given in the most formal and
solemn manner, all attempts at sub
8tantiaJ reform haze resulted in sub
stantidJ failure" "
APPLICATION OF THE ABOVE ILLUsTRA-
TION:
Mr.. Adams continues impressively,
thus:
''This affords but another of those
examples so abounding in the histo
ry of the world, Of THE INPossIBMITI
OF WORKING ANY GREAT SOCIAL AND PO-
L1TICAL CHANGE BY MERE ENACTMENT OF
LAWS. Important alterations depend
so much more upon the general hab-
its and convictions of rulers and
people, than upon the nature Of the
statutes, that no great ameliOratiOn
of wrongs can be expected until Gtte'
q change in those habits and con
victions has taken place. Hence
hitherto, no political nor even con
/ stitutionaI changes have brought
any true reform in Turkey. The
populace and the government con
{ tinue to be venaI, capricious an6
ferocious."
We see in this striking and bril-
liant picture of the condition o
Turkey, in defiance of mighty ant
apparently overwhelming author
ties. that real reform is jpteTndl-ii
only genuine when it is from within
- that the woes of society must b.
- healed from the bone outward ; tina
} all superficial healing is deceptive
We will, if we rightly realize thi
e great fact, proved anew to each age
+ be all the more Jealous to concentrate
r all our energies for the complete sue
cess of this vital reform now, when
guided by ages of instructive exam
= pies and historical teachings, W
4 stand firmly at last on the principle
4 and methods of eternal truth. w
T recognize the free agency Of man a
p an imperative condition Of real pro
S gress, and as an imperishable ele
,. ment to which true reform appeals
J and which to defy and desert for tn
{ law of force, is a blunder, that rt
= signs the greater for the weaker, an
fatally renders that voluntary pin