Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-22

God and the law, moved west
ward from Calvary with its revolutionary
influence upon old institutions, to the Az
lantic ocean. Columbus carried III west
ward across the seas. The emigrants from
England, ireland, Scotland and wares,
from Germany and Holland, from SWEDEN
and Denmark, from France and Italy,
have, under its guidance and inspiration,
moved West, and again West, building
States and founding cities until the PACING
limited their march. The exhibition OF arts
and sciences, OF industries and inventions,
of education and civilization, which the re-
public of the United States Will here pre-
sent, and to which, through its Chief Mag
istrate, il invites all nations, condenses and
displays the flower and fruitage OF this
transcendent miracle.
ABsoLUTIoN IN THE STATE,
f5 Sa Inland and epierprseg m td ig fbt
tury. The divine right OF kings stamped
out the faintest glimmer Of revolt against
tyranny; and the problems OF sciences
whether Of the skies or OF the earth,
whether OF astrology or geology, were
solved or submerged by ecclesiastical de-
cree. The dungeon was ready LOT inc
philosopher who proclaimed the truths OF
the solar system, or the navigator VINO
would prove the sphericity OF the esrtn'
An English Gladstone, or t'rencn Gath-
BETA, or a German Bismark, or an ltaslsn
Garibaldi, or a Spanish Castelar, Wouiu
have been thought monsters, ana thels
deaths at the stake. or on the scaffold, aud
under the anathemas of the church, would
have received the praise and approval OF
kings and mobiles, Of priests and people;
Fifty wears before Columbus sailed from
Palos. Gutenberg and Faust had forged
the hammer which was TO break the bonds
Of superstition, and open tho prison doors
of the mind. They had invented the print
ing press and movable types. Inc prlor
adoption of q cheap process for the manu-
facture of paper, at once utilized the press.
It's first service, like all its succeeding Ell
forts, was for the people Inc nrst porn
of the marvellous creation or these prlnl,
tive printers of Mayence, was the printed
Bible. The force, which made posslole
America and its prefix influence upon
Europe, was the open Bible by the FAMILY
treside.
GOD ALWAYS HAS N TRAINING
some commanding genius for the control
of great crisises IN the AFFAIRS OF natlons
and peoples. The number OF these leaders
are less than the centuries, but their lives
are the history OF human progress. Inougn
Caesar and Charlemange, and Hildebrand,
and Luther. and William the Conqueror,
and Oliver Cromwell, and all the epoch
makers prepared Europe for the event, and
contributed 10 the result, the lights which
illumine our armament to-day are Colum-
bus the discoverer, Washington the found
er, and Lincoln the savior.
Neither realism nor romance furnishes q
more striking and picturesque hgure than
that OF Christopher Columbus. torty-four
authentic portraits OF him have descended
to US and no two Of them are the counterfeits
of the same person. Each represents a
character as distinct as its canvas:
| strength and weakness, intellectually and
stupidity, high moral purpose and brutal
ferocity. purity and RIGHTEOUSNESS, the
dreamer and the miser, the pirate and puri'
tan. are the types from which we may Sc
lect our hero We dismiss the painter, and
piercing with the clarified vision or tile
dawn of the twentieth century, the veil OF
400 years, we construct our Columbus. The
perils of the sea in his youth upon the rich
arposies of Genoa or in the service OF the
licensed royers. who made them their prey
had developed skillful navigator and In
trepid mariner. They had given him &
glimpse Of the possibilities OF the unknown
beyond the highways Of travel, which rous
ed an unauenchgble thirst for adventure
| and research.
All hail, Columbus, ulscOVerer, uFeslnSE
hero and apostle. We here. Of every race
and country, recognize the horizon which
bounded mis- vision and the infinite scop'
of his genius. The voice OF gratitude anC
praise for ali the blessings which hay,
| been showered upon mankind by his ad
! venture is limited to no language, but i
uttered in every tongue Neither marbl'
nor brass can 6tly form his statue. Con
tinents are his monument, and unnum
| bered millions, past, present and 10 come
who enjoy in their liberties end their hap
uiness the fruits of his faith, will rever
entity guard and preserve, from century Il
| century, his name aud fame.
| Trolt{11Jied on, Third Pace.