Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-11-23

full Judgment OF bis peers" sc.
The great question, who i-a + eeman
has yet to be decided in England. Des-
potC aud unjust laws have proved an ut.
ter failure in the world, tine cause of
nearly all civil connections. The gross
Inequality in the tax laws, aud not he
barbarlans, destroyed Rome. See Mllls's
Review of GuizOts History of Clvilz ttion |
The history of the three civil wars which
our race has carried on during the last
three centuries is conclusive proof that in
equality in law Is frou0ht with both weak
ness and dangers A government ioun q
ed upon justice must satisfy every one but
the criminal classes and such a govern
ment is 80 Strgng hat it does not need 10
be pinned together or propped with bay
onets.
Another important result growing our
OF the reservation of the federal republic
IL that we avoid "A standing army, With
slave cOntederacy on the South and
Great Britain on the North, n standing
army would be an absolute necessity.
DURATION OF TIE RESULTS OF TIE WAR
"As the sun,
Ere it is risor, sometimes paints its imaC
In the atmO ,phere; so often do the sp rit5
OF great events stride on before events,
AND In to-day already walks tomorrow.
lColCTidgc'a Translation Of sender
"For every principle contaius ie Itself the
germs OF 4 prophecy"
War, into which is thrown every human
energy of body, mind and SOU, war es.
pecially is work that neither begins with
the first nor euds with the last shot thai
is fired. In q near view even every arm
less sleeve, every wooden leg, every
SCARED and crippled veteran Is living
proof that war does not end as the smoke
of the last battle floats away. But as We
take wider survey i'll the light OF history,
and carefully study the situations, tn,
overthrow of slavery and the establish
ment of liberty over large territory, If ii
true, as our national historian, Mr..
Bancroft alleges, that "Principles grow
into life by Informing the public mind,
and in their maturity gain the mastery
over events" it is evident that the vic
tories of this war must bring the distant
ages within the ever widening circle Of
their Influences. Bear with ME while
quote briefly from few authors showing
the duration Of the effect OF some war
and battles. OF cOurse much depends
upon race characteristics, ma ional tenden-
cies, moral influences and similarity o!
situations aud conditions. Proving the
lasting benefit of one war may or mny n"
prove that OF another. Prot. Greasy close
mis- account of the battle of Marathon as
follows: ut secured for mankind the IN
tellectual treasures of Athens, the growtt
OF free institutions. the liberal eulight
ment Of the western world, and the
gradual asc ndeucy for many ages of The
great principles of European clviltz,
tom
John Stewart Mills says "The battle OF
Mara hon, even as an event in English
more 'lmportaut than the bntte Of Hast
- If the issue of that day had beef
different the Britons and the Saxon
might still have been wandering in tht
woods
The fleet Of the battle Of Hastings on
our race aud its laws, language and liter
AZURE, Is well known. L. was fought So
year. ago, ard the Duke of Normandy
with ms fol overs a. once established him
self in Eng and. The priests used thu
Latin, h. King, mobiles and the courts q
law used Norman FIench, and the resul
Was after hevetal centuries the Englisl
race and English language.
Our own most d,sti iguised scholar
George p. Marsh, says; I'VE find, accord
lugiN, that in the three centuries who.
elapsed between the conquest and III,
noon tide of CbHucer's lite, a large proper
ton of The Auglo-SAXOu dialect Of religion
Of NORA aud intellectual discourse, and 0
taste, had become utterly obsolete an.
unknown" Again, he says: The Nor
man Conquest did not cau,e, it only has
tenec, the downfall OF The Saxon com
m0uweelth, and bylufusing the elements
OF a new life into an exhausted race, 1t IL
atoTed its organs once mon to healthy &c
ton and thus rescued it from sinking int
the state of NJ q barharis!n to which Il
was rapidly tending
But if the English race and language. a
we now se9 it, are the results of the Nor
man conquest, it Is equally clear that
the race and Language of Frducr
are dependent on the campaign
OF Julius Caesar, l. centuries earlier. IN.
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