The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-06-17


had with these barbarians the force
of law, their wild, unrestrained spir-
it of independence, made one side of
the picture. Gradually these wild
tribes became tanned by Christiani-
ty, softened by the action of climate
and luxury.
And at last, under Charles the Great,
they consolidated themselves into a
grand Empire, with fixed organiza
ton and stable laws. The Goths
were the most tractable of these
barbarians; they were the first to
become Christians under the teach |
ings of Ulphilas, one OF the worlds
immortals, who gave these people
written language and religion. He
received his coronation when he fell
martyr to his love for men and for
his religion. The Franks were among
the fierciest of these Northern
tribes. They wele slowly domesti
Gated and Latinized and transform
ed into fierce race, first BY the1n-
fiuence of Clovis, then by n line of
great leaders, chief amongst whom
was Charles the Great, who gather
ed into his mighty hand the loosely
scattered and contending tribes of
the West, and assuming the iron
crown of Lombardy became King of
Italy and Roman Emperor. He reign
ed forty y-seven eventful years, and
died at last at AK La Chapelle,
where, says his contemporary hlsto-
rian, Eginhard, "he was laid i'll the
tomb he had made for himself On
the gilded arch beneath which he
lay was his etfigy and the inscrlp-
ton Under this tomb is laid the
body of Charles the Great, an ortho-
] dox Emperor. who mobl y enlarged
the kingdom Of the Franks, and for
fortv-seyen years reignel prosper
ously. He died, being seventy years
old. in the year of our Lord Sl4,
the fifth day before the kalends OF
February. Then in the vault be
low, he was left sitting, as in his life,
on Il marble throne. dressed in his
imperial robes, with his crown, his
sword, and his book of the gospel
on his knee And there, says the
legend, he was found by Otto 3D.,
who yentured to open the tomb, and
who beheld the undecayed form of
the great Emperor Of the Franks.
II Frederick the lst, of Germany,
called popularity the Barbarosa in
: the 18th century, did much for Euro
| pean development; he perished in
, crossing the river Calycadmus in
conducting the third crusade. The
! legions Of Germany describe him as
= being buried under mountain, sit
!, ting like Charles the Great, from
: whence he was to emerge after one
: thousand years to deliver Germany
+ 1t is strange, this idea of holding
= the borders of the native land by the
4 power of the ghosts of its immortals
Even the Indian tribes of Americs
hold it; and the great Chief Iatal
= commanded that he should be in
: tered in cave in the side of 7,
! mountain, sitting erect on his favor
- ite colt and looking towards th'
!, ISouth, whence the white men wished
|, to come to take the lands from hi
,fI people; and so he is buried, hayins
,el Joined the bands of the worlds i'm
"a mortals and become part of tn
Il thought of the highest beings in hi
q limited career, a true patriot, ant
i SO classed among those who low
n their people and their country, ant
y, who gave themselves for the welfar
n of mortals.
"a With the last of the Carlovingial
70 line, 9S7, came the end of the Franl
= power. In the prologue of the Sal
"a ic law. written in the barbarous latil
: of the day, are these proud words
i "The iIlustrious race of the Franks
= created by the hand of God, mighty il
" arms. deep in counsel, stable III tn
, bonds of peace, in body noble and stal
: wart. in fairness and beauty matchless
IT daring, swift aud stern, newly come &
J. the Catholic faith, free from heresy
o While it was still in the barbarian stat
q vet by Coils inspiration it sought tn
; kew of knowledge, and according to th
" bent of its own qualities, desiring
righteousness and holding fast piety
Is its chiefs dictated the Salic law"
les The Franks were merged into tn
u latinized race of the French an
. partly into Germans, but the unite'
&c race of the Franks of Charles tn
y u Great, are known no more in hlstor
y after the extinction of the family Q
!; their greatest man.
i Stilicho died under the axe OF til
lo executioner after he had drive
t. t. back the Goths three times from tn
+ portals of Rome. Boathius wrote L
~ prison his ''consolations OF phllosc
phy." Brum died at the stake, an
/ Sayanarola, in Abelard, found asy
!, lum in a monastery. Tycho Brah'
~ prosecuted and laughed at,died say
e. inc. "ne foustra ixipse vindea
" which must be interpreted as some
, thing between hope, and declal
:. alton that he had not lived In va!I
IL The chains which Columbus wor
= are still exhibited He left thel
Il Il as legacy to his country to sho
~ the gratitude of monarchs. Rogt
!. Bacon died in prison, Kepler died
y a feyer brought on by vexation an
. disappointment; Napoleon died Q
LIST. Helena; Francis Bacon died
al disgrace, and bitter disappointment
u leaving in his will these memorial
l. words, my name and memory
ne leave to foreign nations, and to m
u own countrymen after some time
" passed over"
at Shakespeare wore the crown I
to thorns, as his soanets testify. tt
q. Instance that beautiful on whlc
y begins: .....
:, |"When in disgrace with fortune and mer
!: eyes,
81 all alone bewail my outca,t state,
l. And trouble deaf heaven with my boote
ie- cri6s,
rn And look upon myself and curse
icI fate;
- Wishing me like to one more rich IN hop
s'' Featured like him, like him with fren
sc protest,
Desiring this mans art, and that ma
he'll scope,
..o With that most enjoy contented least
hel When Michael Angelo was dyir
Ia he said, Gin your passage throus
,st this life remember the sutferings
as Jesus Christ"
IS am not reading over the dyptit
of of the worlds immortals as they Ii
10 od in sanuanee. IL is rather aS th,