Nevada County picayune., 1891-11-26

grand and prosperous nation, we see that the sun of our glory has past the meridian, and the shadow of our doom is beginning to deepen. What is the remedy? I answer there is none.
 About the year 300, B. C., the Saxons, though ignorant, were the undlsturbed masters of Northern Brtian. Then every man was king, and they lived happily underneath the misty cloud of ignorance. Greed for gain and hence for precminence, was yet unborn to them, but unto the Romans just across the English channel had been born this spirit which has ever since cursed the na- tions of the earth, and by this they fell.
 Less than five centuries ago there reposed another happy disposed na- ton, underneath the sable wight of superstition, and ignorance, but as time moved on, the sunshine of pro- gress, and the base begotten spirit to predominate, began to stream in up- on the peaceful possessors of this continent, from across the then mys- terious Atlantic. It was then the funeral knell of their destiny rang out, and how about that nation to- day? They have fallen.
 Like the Saxons, they have been subjected to the basest humility, and their possessions have been deprived of them. Time still moved on with its process of developing new schemes and strengthening them, and may l not say there is another power to-day that is weighing with tremendous force upon the common people? That power is not another anxious and jealous nation, but the hungry monopoly of our own nat.on. It is already powerful, and that pow CT is increasing at an astonishingly rapid rate, and ere long it will pre- dominate.
 The order of the rise and progress of nations have assumed the same course in America, since it has been wrestled from the Red men, that it has assumed with every other fallen nation. It is but natural for Us to prefer a progressive view of things, | but we are only nation of God $ most enlightened creatures, and must therefore acknowledge our common destiny as such, which is to rise in our splendor like the pyramids of Egypt that kiss the clear blue sky, and fall as the order of the rise and progress of nations demands.
 We ale living in the very dawn of another era.
 Rome stood like the gigantic oak that had withstood the storms of a hundred years, for about seven cen turies before she fell, and during her progress no nation ever had fonder anticipations of perpetual glory than she. But that same irresistible fate that had befallen every other nation at last claimed her as its own,
 How about this republic; It has stood only about one century, aud even now she is beginning to rec like drunkard. 1 can hear the rus, tie of the wings of the vulture that has preyed upon the vitals of the glory of all the nations of earth And now from the history of the past, prophecy that the crisis i, nigh at hand.
 Surely if the angels of Heaver ever wept. it was when lovely Greece the mother of philosophers and statesmen, surrendered her glory |, q much baser people, and stopped to do their bidding, And may I no' say that far more bitter will be thei' grief, when :his proud, boosting re public shall humbly bow, and tn, winding sheet of her glory shall b, folded about her and much les, worthy element of her own national ity predominate as kings and popcs
 GREEN WILSON.
 Prescott, Ark, Nov. 10th, 1891.