The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-08

rene may not be h1dden away forever LII oiie
.dark unfathomed" columns Of the Times, we
reproduce Ii for the enlightenment OF O be-
nighted world, and pause a-tiptoe to catch
the thunder of applause that must follow tho
enunclation of such immortal truths, truths
that underlie and overreach and over
top and oyerjump and overwhelm this Won
drOne, wicked wretehed world.
Great Alexander Cesar, Mahomet, Charlie
magne, Tamerlane, Napoleon Bonaparte,
Ghengis Khan and Cetewayo, how things are
buzzing, booming, whlrling, waltzing In cease
less circles and senseless cycles, and empires,
rings and things are being disrupted, SHAT
tered, riven, split wide open and bursted into
everlasting smash and smlthereens what
the devil liz the matter anyhow What IL
fellow going to do about 1t. IL events keep os-
cillating lii "the vast cycle Of the universe
and human affairs keep swinging between the
extremes of genesis and dissolution Some
thing will have to break: nothing mortal can
stand such m internal strain as that. The
extremes Of happiness and misery, prosperity
and want, peace and war, destruction aud re-
construction (shades OF Richard Taylor, de-
composition aud decomposition were bad
enough and depressing enough, but we mildly
and faintingly protest against ringing In gen.
esis and dissolution.
Prophets, Prof. Maury, Prof. Tice and
Probabilities, where arc you? Here are wars,
revolutions, famines, pestilences. political,
earthquakes and moral cyclones, and the
gay and giggling world. swinging merrily
around In ring, making mysterious music
and not caring continental who objects to
It, Stop her!
Again the melifluous pen OF the Times,
tuned to the pleading and seductive thunders
Of the grand orchestra Of the universe and
timed with the lurid fires Of the profoundest
depths thrills us with it's terrible eloquence
and pours upon our troubled and listening
souls these solemn words, 30 full OF deep.
unfathomable, mysterious meaning:
| Eyerything comes back TO where 1t started
| from, aud passes through MI the varied phases
| OF birth. development. elimination. decline,
decay decomposition. decomposition and y new
| career around the Il, ut race course tn al
ways leads back to th starting point.
| Awful truth Tremendous revelation We
| how In reyerenttal awe at the announcement
that Everything comes back to where 1t
started FROM"
| When Alexander the Great on the field OF
/ bunker Hill Stbb Uu HIS WdlIlui Spoeu, SlopbCu
In the purple and crimson clouds that relied
liz eerulean pillows across the physiognomy
Of the circling universe bestrode his hell-black
staed, and stretching forth one mailed hand
to grasp the setting stars, and the other te
scoop up the sounding waters OF the Hgear
sea, exclaimed, the battle-tire blazing In his
eye young man. 20 Vest" the youth start
ed on his journey. We have received the sol
emn assurance that he will "come back tt
where he started FROM" But empires will
pass away; the everlasting hills willcrumblt
Into dust, and the eternal stars which roll. anc
glitter, end pranoe In the arching heavens vii
/ fade away and 60 out like tallow dip before
the youth Of destiny has traversed the mighty
cycle Of the universe and returns to where
he started FROM" to again begin the mysteri
Gus journey.
But enough. Language falls us. We ar
overcome with emotion. We faint. we ex
pire, we howl with mingled emotions of awe
and wonder, and ecstacy. What are the VILE
waves saying2 Let the mysterious prophe
Of the Times, wrapped In gloom and clouds
tell us, and then. mani saw his leg off will
a bar of soap. Once more we fasat, Wrap u
up in the American lag psa sad siaSF US OUT
We have finished: ssa INK ssSs .;ss