The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-06-21
NEWBERRY. S. c.. FRIDAY JUNE H. 1901

| viz iio"l' VI VIC DuFQcncu masses. Inc
fountains OF soul arc brokcn up and
shaped into uniform mass with an
irresistible purpose. The outcome is
inevitable. Man is freed from the thral.
dom OF cruelty ana injustice.
Men will not make brick without
straw always, nor bend their backs
suplncly to the rod Of the tyrant. A
Moses shall arise, an Aaron shall come
to lead them against their foes to VIC
tory into Il land flowing with milk and
and honey. Under the guidance of
such peerless elders, the walls of the
mightiest strongholds of evil shall
crumble to dust, the sea Of opposition
shall roll back its waves, divine light
reflected from tho skies shall direct the
advance, darkness and confusion shall
cover the retreat, the giants of wrong
shall dispcrsc G as mist before the ad-
vancing host.
The progress of civil liberty among
the English people Is both interesting
anu instructive in this connection.
For almost thousand years there
|
tyrany Wrongs grievous, cried to
high heaven for vengeance. Meanwhile
popular government was gaining slow
~, but surely, foundations deep and
broad. BY that peculiar English trait
Of never yielding a liberty once grant
ed, they have advanced from abso-
lutte, to constitutional monarchy. The
final battle for freedom was won when
Cromwell beheaded Charles and set up
the people as supreme power of the
realm.
Taxation without representation
forged the American mind into de-
termincd opposition to English tyr
any, scorning British concessions, de-
manded free government. The cx-
treme needs of the hour yield
to the world that prince of men,
"Thc father of his country" How this
young nation followed this peerless
chicftain with nightly blade to COM
plctc victory But there was lurking
! in the constitution Of the new nation
two ideas destined to deadly conflict.
Federalism and Republicanism were to
meet in fierce combat in the public
arena. Again arc we saved by great
| man.
| Hear the matchless cloquence Of the
hero Of the moment; like q god in pain.
Mighty words, grand purpose! The
destiny of the nation fixed for all time.
The nation is his monument. With
broader views Of life and duty; with a
common spirit Of brotherhood; with the
national heart In sympathy with bleed
ing humanity at our doors, the nation
rose as one man to give oppression the
greatest rebuke of modern times. The
pearl Of the Antilles is free. The world
is taught lesson in love never before
known. How tho circumstance has
united the American peoplel What
opportunities as a world power have
thus been opened up to us! Old glory
waving her folds Of freedom to every
cline; potent factor in commanding
the peace Of the world!
But let us consider that true great
ness can only end in virtue; in individ-
ual character; and full of hope learn a
lesson in charactcr-building from the
little mariner of the briny deep.
"This is tho ship of pearl, which poets
| Sails the unshadowed main,
The venturous bark that filings
On the sweet summer wind it's purpled
| wings
In CULTS enchanted, when the siren sings
And coral reefs lie bare,
When the cold sea-maids rise to sun
| their streaming hair.
It's webs of living gauze no moro unfurl:
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Whero its dim dreaming life was wont
| to dwell.
AS the frail tenant shaped his growing
Before thee lies revealed,
Its irised ceiling rent, It's sunless crypt
| unsealed.
Year after year bchcld the silent toll
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still as the spiral grew,
lie left the past years dwelling for the
Stole with soft step its shining arch
way then,
Built up its idc door,
Stretched in his last found home, and
know the old no more.
Child Of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap forlorn;
From thy dead lips q clearer note Is
born,
Than ever Trion blew from wreathcd
While on mino car 1t trings,
Then the deep caves of thought 1 hear
avoice that sings:
Build thee moro stately mansions, O
my soul,
AS the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the
last,
Shut thee from heaven with q dome
moro vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine out.grown shell by life's
unresting sea!
Other building makes life huge
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