The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-06-21

the heart Of the burdcncd masses. The
fountains Of soul aro broken up and
shaped into q uniform mass with an
Irresistible purpose. The outcome is
inevitable. Man is freed from the thral-
dom Of cruelty and injustice.
Men will not make brick without
straw always, nor bend their backs
supincly to the rod Of tho tyrant. A
Moses shall arise, an Aaron shall come
to lead them against their foes to VIC
tory into land flowing with milk and
and honey. Under the guidance Of
such peerless clders, the walls Of the
mightiest strOngholds of evil shall
crumble to dust, the sea of opposition
shall roll back its waves, u divine light
reflected from tho skies shall direct the
advance, darkness and confusion shall
cover the retreat, the giants Of wrong
shall dispense Us mist before the adj
| vancing host
The progress Of civil liberty among
the English people Is both interesting
and instructive in this connection
For almost thousand years there
was in the mother country conflict with
tyrany. Wrongs gricrous, cried to
high heaven for vengeance. Meanwhile
popular government was gaining slow
ly, but surely, foundations deep and
broa" by that peculiar English trait
OF never yielding Il liberty once grant
cd, they have advanced from abso-
lutte, to constitutional monarchy. The
final battle for freedom was won when
Cromwell behcaded Charles and set up
the people as supreme power of the
realm.
| Taxation without representation
forged the American mind into de-
termined opposition to English tyr
any, scorning British concessions, de-
manded free government. The ex-
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
chieftain with nightly blade to COM
plctc victoryI But there was lurking
in the constitution of the new nation
two ideas destined to deadly conflict.
Federalism and Republicanism we're to
meet in fierce combat in the public
arena. Again are we saved by great
| man.
Hear tho matchless eloquence of the
hero of the moment; like a 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 tho
national heart in sympathy with bleed
ing humanity at our doors, the nation
| rose as one man to give oppression the
| greatest rebuko Of modern times. The
pearl of the Antilles is free. The world
is taught lesson in love never before
known. How the circumstance has
united the American people! What
| opportunities as 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 MISUNDERSTANDING from the
little mariner of the briny deep.
"This is the ship of pearl, which poets
| fcign-
Sails the unshadowed main,
The venturous bark that filings
On the sweet summer wind its 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 more unfurl:
| Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont
AS the frail tenant shaped his growing
shell,
Before thee lies revealed,
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt
| unsealed.
Year after year behcld the silent toll
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still as the spiral grew,
lie left the past years dwelling for the
| new,
Stole with soft step its shining arch.
way then,
Built up its lido door,
Stretched in his last found home, and
know the old no moro.
Child Of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap forlorn;
From thy dead lips q clearer note is
born,
Than ever Trion blew from wreathed
horn
While on mine ear it rings,
Then the deep caves of thought 1 hear
voice 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 thco from heaven with q dome
more vast,
Till thou at length art FREQ,
Leaving thine out.grown shell by life'e
unrcstfng sea!
Other building makes life huge
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