The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-31

OF religion, have recognized the ordina-
tons of a supreme viii ruling over the
! contingencies of this earthly sphere
Surely all this does not happen by
myste rious chance. These are not soh-
| tary and accidental revelations through
] wayward fancy stumbling haphazard
u on the truth. Consider ii well and you
| viii find illustrations of this historic JUS
| tice crowding upon you, unravellng the
dark deeds of the past and bringing You
| face to face with prejudices that are
hoary with age. Somehow, the good who
have been stabbed by SANDER will not
| sleep in peace. Their restless ghosts
wander above their historic tombs, fit
! ting in the dim moonlight, until their
spell is cast upon some champion of their
| wrongs. Passions, too, which have shak-
en- the world to its center, subside at last,
! The mists of error roll away after hang
/ ing their curtains long around the truth.
! A holy Providence gives the token of its
I own judicial process by and by in that
lower tribunal it has erected in the human
! breast, and eternal justice throws its
great shadow upon the earth in these
solemn historic rstractions-ths last Judi
cial findings in its court of appeal.
Mistakes of History.
"AH this is immensely typical Be-
I
| ted line there is every shade of credulty
! in the facts and deductions of history,
and every phase of skepticism TO both.
| With those who encounter disaster and
! defeat. there is Il prevailing tendency to
| spurn the testimony of all human records.
| They are in a condition to see how his
| tory is manufactured for purposes how
an impudent partisanship manipulates
| the facts; how the truth which one per-
sonally knows, is suppressed; how gross
, fictions are stereo&yped by endless repe-
| tition; how the brand of injurious cpl
! thets is freely used to stamp falsehood
with the seal of truth; how misrepresen-
! tation and caumny are stuffed into books
! and circulated around the world 90 pre-
occupy the minds of men. 1t is strange
| that some should morbidly infer all his
! tory to be romance at best, If II be not
also a libel and a SANDER. To which !
reply that, with all The uncertainty hang
| ing about this or that particular fact,
! there is a residuum of truth which can
not be destroyed, and which constituted
a basis for safe appeal to the Judgment
! of posterity. For instance, throw into
fable all the achievements of Semiramis
and Sesostris; still Assyrian and Egyp-
| tian history will survive-which in the
| aggregate; we are unable to measure, and
! whose precise value we can determine,
| History delves amid the ruins of Nineveh
! and Persepolis, walks around the hang
| lilS SdIutIlS u bdDy ION, surveys t6u-
| pies and tombs and pyramids of Egypt,
| calculates the physical force that lay in
| all these ancient despotisms, and then
| pronounces her decree. Il is that this
long succession of gigantic empires SIM
| ply held the world, until the light of
| freedom could break from the West; I'M
| til, out of the bosom of a better civiliZa-
| ton, philosophy and science could rescue
! it from a superstitious and fantastic i'm
agination. Il points the wholesome NOR
| al, that of all things on earth, no thing
| is weaker than what men call force and
in its calm, judicial tone, uiters a with
| ering sarcasm upon the ambition and
| achievements of the sword.
Regard the siege of Troy a myth; re
nounce all belief in the existence of Hec-
| tor and Schiles;, discount the more verit-
| able records of Xerxes binding with fool
ish chains the angry Hellespont-or of
| LeonidaS holding at bay the hosts of Per-
! STA in the pass of Thermopylae, or the
! sublime story of Themistocles gathering
| her. population within the wooden walls of
| his fleet, and standing on the prov of his
own ship, exclaming, This is now
! Athens Yet when you have winnowed
| Grecian history of thousand legends, and
even of many of her accredited facts,
there It stands before you with its indent-
| ed coast line, and you pronounce to-day
| just how much Greece has been TO the
world. In the vast Pantheon of history
| she mas meme Wnlcn no nation on the
! globe can occupy but herself.
Let Niehuhr. with his dissecting criti-
! cism, prune away the legends of ancient
Rome let the stories of Romulus and the
| she wolf of Numa and the nymph Egeria
! dissolve like the mountain mist; yet Ro-
| man history will remain in rugged grand
| eur. throwing It's bleak form against the
background of the sky-working out the
| great problem of government and law and
! laying the broad foundation on which rest
! the systems of jurisprudence and the con-
! stitutions of civil government still obtain
! ing amongst men. In like manner we pass
| through all the galleries of modern his
| tory and unlock the chambers in which
| are kept-assignng 20 each country It's
! proper place, and the contribution made
! by each to the common civiliza ton.
Cannot Change the Facts.
what affirm, then, is this: That the
value Of these final CONGRATULATIONS is
scarcely impaired by the doubts as 10
! this or that minute fact Contemporane-
GUS history written in The interest Of pref
udice or passion may be largely a libel,
and future criticism may be sorely puzzle
! TO distinguish between the truth and its
travesty: yet in the aggregate result
! these by a strange smelling process. are
eifted out as not material to the issue. As
we may poison a fountain, but cannot
! poison the ocean, so we may corrupt single
| facts. but cannot transmute the whole
history of a people into lie. thousand
hints of the truth will lie imbedded in the
record which antiquarian research wi
/ disentornb. The long silent voices will &C.
/ liver their testimony In the court OF fnai
| adjudicaii0ns. and in these solemn historic
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