Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-14

OF the BedouiR or under his restless
tents. He neither plants nor builda
That which today were The incurable
evil OF society-that il be stationary-in
the beginning was the one anchor OF
hope that the human group should
stay in ono place long enough
to catch the contagion OF hui
manity, Property in the soil arose with
property in man. All progress, all en-
pire, all the law, and all the piety OF the
ancient time grew up around this centre.
Competition, as motive force, is about
coeval with the impulses thrown into
the great world scales by the voyage Of
Columbusr' Voluntary cooperation has
Just begun. There was no permanent
property until there was permanent
force, nor continuous production until
there was servitude. This was the in
exorable necessity Of civilized life. Prior
TO it man cannot be eaid to have even
lived by bread. But by it man planted
himself behind the stone wall on which
has grown the moss Of ages, and ceased
himself to be the rolling stone which
gathers no increase. He stood upon the
ancient ways and boundaries and said to
the predatory nomad without, "Thus
far and no farther"
ROW AGRICULTURE BECAME STABLE.
The stability OF agriculture came for
the first time when men could be fast
ened to the soil and forced to work it
when unanimity Of labor had been
acquired The army of labor, like the
army OF battle, was first victorious when
if poured its sinew and its FIRE from the
iron energy of single will. 1t was the
stakeholder. and only tho STAKEHOLDER,
who could take up the fifth part Of tho
land OF Egypt and store it against the
years OF famine. II was from agricul-
ture that the city sprang, after which
man was no longer dependent, like the
wild beast, upon the lair of ma
ture. Tho first great stride OF pro-
gross which carried man 10 civilized
permanence was borne upon the back
OF slaves. However rude, however vio-
lent this origin, the substance OF it was
the protection by strength Of weakness,
which could not save itself, and the un-
conditional service Of that weakness to
its only saviour. Slavery meant saliva
ton.
On this agricultural basis and organ
IEed social strength ell ancient civiliZa-
ton was reared, and on this same
organization modern Europe had been
formed. For 5000 years slavery
had been the customary law Of the civil
lied world. Undoubtedly the ele-
ments existed of another structure
of society, which may be considered
to have been prophesied from the be-
ginning by the very nature Of being
organized to communicate, and still
moro certainly included in the realiza-
tion OF the era, which displaced Caesars
tribute. This is the movement, much
retarded, oft reversed, but inevitable,
and on the whole inyincible movement
toward the reign Of commerce. But the
retirement and disappearance Of the old
supremacy has been a very slow retreat
inch by inch stubbornly contested. Not
7 until the memory of men now living
= did the sceptre decisively pass iron
the agricultural dominion, and
slavery was not doubtful until
that sceptre began to wayer. in
1713 tho twelve judges OF
England, headed by Chief-Jus-
,uu. tice Holt, replied to the crown:
,Tjy, "In pursuance of his Majes-
@e-///IA7, ty's order in council, here
, - Z IT.. unto annexed, we do hum
m In y, bly, certifyour opinion
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