The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-06-04

i lineated and so wonderfully I'M
pressed with the living. breathing
image of man. that an enraptured
poet has exclaimed: "You could al.
most hear their marble speak p
Their literature also challenges our
highest admiration. Their music
was enchanting. Their orators
swayed the multitudes as the trees
of forest are moved by mighty
wind. Their poets sang with a
sweetness and FIRE and enthusiasm
which kindled at once the warrior
and the statesman and at the same
time cultivates the highest senti-
ment in the human sonl.
THE KEY WHICH UNLoCKs THE MYs-
Terry.
My friends, there is key which
unlocks the mystery of these melan-
choIy failures in governments. 1t
is this /: they paid but little atten-
tion to the education and enlighten-
ment of the masses-and this for
two reasons. In the first place, be-
fore the invention of printing it was
difficult for them to do so; in the
second place, the principles upon
which those governments were
founded, revolted at an enlightened
citizenship. Examine them for a
moment, if you please. Their kings
were autocrats. They held the lives
and liberties of their subjects at |
whimsical disposal Their mobiles
and aristocracy were men who look |
ed upon the common laborer and
upon the whole science Of agricul.
ture with contempt. The common
people were slaves in their govern.
ments; and it mattered little Wheth-
er Nebuchardnezzar or Cyrus, Phil
lip or Caesar was their king; they
we're still the same down-trodden,
ignorant wretcbes under
them all. Without any voice in the
government, or any representation
in the counsels Of their nation, they
were often dragged from their wives
and little ones to fight the battles of
an ambitious despot. A despot
who often had no other cause fer
war than to humble or destroy RI
7al, or to fill his Golfers with the gold
'poils of a weaker neighbor.
A PERFECT MODEL. I
Now, my friends, all this is in I
triking contrast with the perfect
model Of Free Government-giv- {
N to guide US by the Great Ruler of
IL nations. And while we attempt e
o examine some of the prominent
arts of this model, we solicit your t
arnest attention. When the Di- e
inc Law-giver proposed to estab- t
sh a government upon earth-to i
est upon everlasting foundations f
lis very first efforts were directed t
gainst ignorance. Mark this. He Q
Tell knew that no government p
rhether human or divine-could t
ong stand upon this earth, founded s
pon an ignorant citizenship hence, t.
e sent out teachers iDte every o
ook and corner of the habitable 4
lobe, with the significant and royal S
ommand-"Ge, teach all nations )" u
how them the hight from which il
ley have fallen tell them upon the o
Of their Maker that their t.
is freedom, freedom, glo- e
Gus freedom. And so important c
id the wise Ruler consider the fac Il
or of intelligence in His govern. 8
lent that He absolutely refuses to r
Iaim for it universal dominion uu- o
j its principles are taught to all {
ations, Now this divine model is v
in its form, and teaches Il
le purest republication it teaches e
lat government should depend en-. n
rely upon the consent of the gov c.
rned. There is not slave among Il
le millions of its citizens. Their o
,uler fully identifies Himself with v
lem and calls them "brethren," n
-e calls them kings. He under. O
ertakes no great enterprise upon G.
lrth-He never has and He never ri
ill, without the willing and joyful n
cooperation of His brethren"
here is not joy that swells their O
osoms, there is not tear that d
eals from the eye of sorrow, but ia
lat it touches His own great, sym b
athletic heart. In word, it is i'm. ci
ossible for US to ask q model Of 2
overnment whose maxims are more Al
st or in full accord with the affec- q,
ons Of the human heart
JR REVOLUTIONARY FATHERS COP.
led AFTER THIS MODEL.
My fellow.countrymen, | do not
y that our Revolutionary fathers
ere inspired men, but do say that to
I their wisdom. prudence and fore sc
ght, they have inaugurated a gov. es
nment upon this continent more in W