The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-03-07
THE DAILY BULLETIN.

DINERS have but just began to feel the ter
mic shocks which, sooner or later, shake
TIE strongest fabric 10 the ground.
When ! speak Of republican govern
nent US being one Of the two extremes, dc
! speak correctly? | think ! do. Fo
las il not been conceded tina
II II is the best form OF gov
eminent, in theory At least, that has eve
existed or been devised; The chief objec
uon to il has always been that it was gooC
only in theory, that il was Utopian, thar i
Claimed too much for the individual, tha
It's theory was an assumption of mans be-
inc much better than he really is; thai
practically il would be found weak, that
where everybody ruled, soon nobody woulo
rule, and hence, anarchy. But time, the
ovcr-tuIner OF theories, is happily the cstab
fisher Of theories also; and time become,
history, and history tells Us, l think, that
these fears and prophecies Of weakness and
disintegration are not well founded. For
while We must judge the future by the
past, we must remember that only
like causes can produce like results; and il
you can find q people exceptionally Sit
uatci, exceptionally advanced in intcii.
cance, in morals, in recognition # the in.
a.leEar.e right, Of men, is il too much 10
expect an exceptions! result
Having thus noticed our situation, our
surroundings, our advantages and oppor.
'ua!tics, and also, - some extent, the phil.
osopAy NJ our government, let Us consider
for o while what tie philosophy Of history
teaches Us rs people.
!t.eacbe, Us that without intelligence
and morality We can EXPECT no permanent
success, This is Mt only the teaching
and, Therefore, the philosophy Of history,
5u' il IS also the philosophy Of the system
i'."f.
Other forms %! government are not con.
,'i,a:ci, Ike uuys, upon the principle that
tie government is 20 be by the people. In
o,l.y!0gms, IN proportion as the people have
Jess r1iae!n the administration OF pubic az
! IL. there is the less need Of intelligence
a.d morality among them. Indeed, in
proportion as intelligence and morality are
required in the one form, in the same pro-
portion is their absence required in the
other forms. So, in the descent from re-
pH5hcanism 10 absou,sm, you will find
light and knowledge, virtue and morality
declining and coming 10 nothing the
foot Of the scale. The genius Of
abso!utism is power, and that rests
upon ignorance. The absolutist cndcAyors
10 preserve his power by perpetuating igno-
rance. Absolute power in the prince is
consistent only with absolute ignorance in
the subject, They are twin allies; the one
is never about without the other; the one is
never found without the other.
Can ANYTHING be more conclusive than
tins fact, that as We ascend from the lowest
70 the highest, from the monarchy, in lis
old and exact sense, to the republic, intelli.
gcnce is found 10 increase. rs presence in
the one and absence IN the other has all the
force Of demonstration.
But are We sufficiently convinced Of this
fact today Do we look upon
our government as one log
icaly requiring the recognition
Of this truth in all lis amplitude! Do we
look upon our government as a logical
system, as one constructed upon principles
the disregard Of wheel must be iraught
with danger; ! fear we do not.
No system can stand regardless Of the
foundation upon which il is built, The
foundation of our system IS the intelligence
and morality Of the people, l couple in.
telhgencc and morality together-morality
in Is broaiest sense. In a republic they
are as inseperaby necessary as are abso-
lutte power and ignorance in q despotism,
Do not say TO me, this is all very well,
but il IS all very common place; every
body talks that way; there is no
end 10 the writing and speaking
and printing Of our intelligence, education
morality and all those concededly good sorts
Of things; they are good enough perhaps
but they are old and very stale; give US
something new, or, if you cannot, then give
Us something old but dress it up or de-
scribe II so that We will think il is new,
and never mind the imposition.
VIVA, y miserable mistake. The Ath.
cnians went up and down the streets Of
their city inQuiring for something new.
But they were cXcusab!e; for the world
was then very small, and Greece was
thought TO be the principal part of it, very
much as Americans once thought of our
country,
What is needed among US, upon
tins subject, is not state.
ment Of new thoughts, # they can be
found, nor q restatement Of old ones IN
some new or disguised garb, We need rather
the statement of the truths themselves,
with such emphasis as will reach the con.
sciousness Of men, such statement of
them rs will not only obtain the mental as.
sent of men, but obtain from them such ac-
tions as will show their conviction Of the
truths themselves.
We are greatly mistaken if we suppose
that we are the only people who have at.
tempted the formation and maintenance of
a Republican form Of government. His
tory tells Us Of the wrecked and stranded
nations and people, who, regardless Of the
elements, or lack Of elements, they pos.
sessed, have reached cut in couvu siye
agony after that of which they
we're not then worthy, or for which they
were no, then prepared, A few rays Of
LIGHT niercin, their almost imnenctrablp