The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-03-24

Nor shall II from our grasp BE- rsf-
For Fatherland and freedom we viii de.
Or live vieioriously."
rhe Cioaing Wears of 1--WE cen.
rurics.
Memphis Appeal.l
The fearful end OF the Car ofRus-
sia is Indicative OF "events that cast
their shadowsbeforc" There are Ger
tain resem mblances Of this period to
that at the latter end Of the last cen
tury that ada 10 the startling signih-
canoe Of the recent assassination.
At that time general skepticism
had peryaded society. Criticism had
begun its healthiu searchings into
christian hooks and christian evil
dence, 10 the end to tho advantage Of
both, but al The beginning apparently
only destructive The current Of
disbeliefset in among the refined and
cultivated classes Of society, to be
made gross and repulsiye in the end.
al which crisis it passed among the
lower ranks Of sociely In that
stratum, where continents soon
translate themselves into actions.
the disbelief Ia good, and III the
Nazarine who was the personiacation
Of all virtue and tenderness, develop.
cd itself at the guillotine in the death
Of the French King At the latter
end Of this present century we see
inference drawn from partially un-
derstood science doing what an i'm
mature criticism did a hundred years
ago. We see u Etro Supreme agaiu
voted non existant and Immortality
exchanged for the fate Of the COW
and the hog. And now. as last cen
tury so this. those who proclaim
themselves the worshippers Of liber-
tY, sink to the degradation Of becom
ing assassins. The fact is that the
denial Of Immortality is denial thai
justice is principle predominant 10
the arrangements OF the world in
which we exist. The pure add tie
debauched. the honest and pirate,
the deliberate murderer and the sui
fering victim, the jest and the unjust,
all meet the same fate, al equally
miss the results Of their conduct,
whether it were good or bad. Such
hideons denial OF justice as all this
implies, shocks the moral sentiment
Of man, anil society can reeoucilo ii
self to such a denial Of al truth ana
right as directing the affairs of man,
only at the expense Of bis ows moral
ruin, the fatal degradation of his own
moral ideal That degradation ac-
comp'ished, with Milton's sable
browed hero the deluled mortal ex-
claims EVIL, be thou my goodr'
and be, on calculation, deliberately
does evil that good may come lie
became a sonscuiOttea hundred years
ago, and was philosophe nov he has
becomes communist and is agnostic
then he guillotined a Louis, now he
dynamises an Alexander. Nor is
this all The tragedy of Paris was
preceded BY the establishment Of the
American Republic; the assasaina-
ton at St. Petersburg follows the
solid settling Of the gepublic estab-
lished 10 France We know what
succeeded the death Of Louis XVI,
how The fields OF Europe were
drenDhed with gore; how youth was
snatched from the mother, and ma
ture age from the wife to take their
part in the battle field country after
country Fedgeed to suhjeetion, and
towns and cities burned as h0lo-
causts to appease the demon whom a
misguided philosophy had aroused.
The tragedy just enacted only ushsrs
in vet darker deeds and backer days
to come-for one death is not going
to appease the just whetted taste for
blood. What is to follow? will
tue new Car add new cruelties to
those that have already disgraced
Russia ? and the oppressed aud in
jured, will they stoop and meekly &C
cept their chains Not such is the
spirit that oppression has evoked in
Russia Will the now Czaf and his
nohles meekly accept the indignities
that have been heaped upon them,
and bear 10 silence the execution
done upon their heads ? No, the
aristocrat and the despot do not so
kiss the rod that smites The no
bIcese win be bitter and the people
relentless We may, as we do, con
! denim and abhOr the crime OF assas-
sinati0n. but what has led 10 the
crimeg Innocence, sweetness, kind
ness, generosity No, none Of
these, but oppression so bitter, 50
! CALLING to the soul, so rendiug to the
heart. that for years men and women
persons Of station and refinement
have taken their destinios IN their
hands, ready to give up life so thar
they might avenge unheaped inius
tice, and deliver their weeping. suf-
fering people from the arrogant bra-
I tality that has pursued them with
deliberate. cold, black. passionless
malice. Is itnoihing to awake 10
tie morning and find that your dear.
est have been stelen from you ia the
night by the hand Of power, and
thrust without trial, without even
pretense Of Justice, into jail to
herd. II may be for years, with con-
vicis. the outcasts of The earth. 10 a
prison. Is &c nothing to end broth
er. husband. daughter any among
those your soul clings to hardest.
your heart knils to closest-aro
driven from you into exile; departed
to Siberian wilds, exposed 20 the
rigor II penal laws more harsh than
the tempeafs ragings 10 that IN
clemene DESERT OF immurred deep IA
mines. never % see oarih's surface.