earropoittutt.
DANIEL'S TRIAL AND YICTORY.
BY.BET. B. E. ADAMS, D.D
"Wherefore King Darius signed the writing
. and the decree, that whosoever in the
kMgdom shall ask a petition of any God or
man for thirty days, save of the king
himself, he shall be cast into the den of
lions."
Now is an immortal soul brought to
its severest test. Now is it to be de
cided whether this captive Hebrew,
Daniel, is really great and good. To
himself is the proof to be given, - either
of grandest triumph or of saddest failure.
He is to ascertain, with -perfect assur
ance by actual trial, whether his faith
is really in God, whether he is above
or below circumstance, whether hence
forth he shall go on in the development
of a noble manhood, of a glorious re
ligion, or take a desperate step down
ward over a precipice which he can
never reascend. And to his accusers,
ifs king, and to his "distant nation, and
to the kingdom whose, power he had
• swayed—indeed, to all generations
through which the current of his history
shall run, is he to demonstrate either the
.strength or feebleness of his piety, , and
give an example that shall either shame
r Ander illu,strious the faith of the
7,k9rch.Ll , tiscow te-be decided whether
'4here is in sis soul a principle -:that; 'fills
aifu cannot crush, that power cannot
- secure, that• malignity cannot alarm,
that 'all theforces of evil cannot wrench
irromsteaclfastness. Whether the heart
ol , apoor mortal can hang upon heaven,
and,''like a; sacred censer, send the in
„C'effse of its faith” o God, from the tem
*eats °and the whirlwinds that sweep
through this poisoned:air.
skiftpese thitt,,lionrs are often passipg,
ns,my readers, in which, though
there is no terrible demonstration of
trial, no stern decree coming athwart!
the. pith' of f diftY,!_no gathering of the.
-elements about - us, • no appliance of
courtly terrors, no force of public senti
ment to drive ne" from the right, we,,
fyineless il feel: the power of conflict-'
Ingl , Wtive l s;and 'in the silence of. our
Ombra, or,the deeper silence of. our
hex s, "6111164 h the process which
'decides Zither for 'or against our piety,
our virtue, our happiness, our salvation:
In the wise, hittlnscrutable ordering of
R k rovidence, elcen. s now may the heaviest
weight of your, probation, rest on your
character 1 Even now may some one
of you be baliCaing;in your conscience
the influence which shall land you in
hell, or leave you high and far upon the
oshomfotlieaven I And so the decisiou,
lig 4 Dillifel,* ; his resolution, his courage,
hisT achievement of right, may come . in
to turn the scale of your life for eternitri
,wheii , Dardel'knew that-the writ
•
aalitipwas, signed; he, went-into hie house,
"inChiti :WindOW 4 hilitg open - in his cham--
ber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon.
Ids - knees three times a day and
,prayed - ,
and gave.. thanke•;before his. God as he
did afore - time."' "' -
The pietY'of :the prophet was not a
sudden outburst; not the product of cir-,
.cumstatices., •It did not noir, , for the first
time, blaze forth like a meteor whose
-dlight, 3 f es:ip l a moment from, the sky..
'But it is a, permanent, a habitual thing.
It is the daily_ life of - the man founded in,
conviction, and lect'hy blear, , subduing.
views of I- Mid and duty. We:find that in
the outset of his life in' 'the, palace, he
put himself under. the most rigid'inoral
discipline. .HeAzotild not defile himself
by partaidag, ofrthe food provided for
~,him by the• r kiug, because it was con
klf4,ted with idolatry' He cast himself
upon the care of his. God for,health,,arid
'Dr existence. And all.through his course
..,tdthis hour of 'his great trial, he was
ittuhained by singleness of purpose in
..the „service of ;his Creator.
~He had
learned how to trust, how to pray, ho'W
to live. indeed in wisdom and
in science, and suPerior even.inhis Youth
tdtbose . about him in all that gives dis ,
tinctibn and position, in, all that . qualifiew
one for secular duties, be was more dis
tinguislied for . hiS4dety. When, there
fore, thiar,- great hour. ,of :his:' affliction
came, it did note overtake him too sti* -
,denly or 7i too ;.powerfully ; for his resis
tance. - Aud it is"b`rily - in harniofiy with
his wholelliCe rthat we find• him hale,
•erect, strong, confident, knowing whither,
tb r tftrol, to', cl,e, how to. peet the
stupendous emergency. Ahd his eXpe.,
•
irience. ;teaches us :that it is only by,
habitual Uselof our =weapons that we can,
parry and smite down the adversary.
It ishy previdus,surveys d knowledge
-of . .thengyolord that we are
,at home On
when the great battle is • waged..,
Daniel; when he kneW that : the decree
was signed pursued the ,same daily:
' course. of piety as before. Had be not
known , it, his habitual devotion had oc
casioned, no remark. But he did .know
it, and , knew all that it signified ; , knew
how the matter would terminate ;,knew,
that the decree would 'be put =in force 4
knew that -his enemies would succeed ;
.'!,that the king must yield against his
convictions,, against his affection for and'
.confidence in him, his honored subject;
and knowing all this, foreseeing • his im
mediate .and „certain exposure to the
hinger`and rage of. lions, he moped
in thmsame path of; duty, without os
tentation, withcitiVichange of manner,
without .fear.' was above.
The force-of his religioh, his faith in
God,' allorelim to and thrOiigh the ordeal.
Like 43. deep, • clear, majestic current, the
purpose.i of his .soul.flowed onward, little
heeding the obstructiorr that had . fallen
into it; scarcely deigning'even a,ripple
token of resistance. He went into his
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house, and repaired to his chamber,
where he was wont to pray and praise,
and with - his windows as they were be
fore, open toward Jerusalem, whither
his eye and his heart turned in his exile,
did he kneel down in affectionate, hum
ble worship.
Although primate of a mighty realm,
his house be consecrated to God. He
opened not his doors to political schemers,
nor did he invite to his mansion crowds
of flatterers, nor, fill his halls with the
fascinations of beauty and art, nor con
secrate his domestie life to wine and
lust; but he had a - chamber for devotion,
whither he found time, because he had a
heart, often to repair for communion
with heaven, for devout meditation and
holy thought. How many are there
now, who, under such a pressure of duties
to the State, with such' cares and claims
on their time, and such throngs of appli
cants for favor or for service, with lines
of interest . and responiibility running
through a mighty empire, and reaching
to distant courts, would think themselves
able, or in any way obliged thus to re
member their moral obligations ? How
many would spend one season of devo
tion •in, the secret chamber ? How many
would not altogether abanden'both pub
lie and private worship,' and excuse
themselves on the ground• of other claims,
which could• riot be set aside?
The trial is now heavy on the servant
of :God. Ho* easy :might it - ‘seem to
suspend his usual:petition for thirty days,
that -the king, who really "loved him, and
desired to favor him, might not be oblig
ed to execute thedecree ! Did he not
owe this sacrifice to-his patron and friend?
Ought he not to so far sympathize /with
the royal
,heart the ,dilemma;: into
which the wily presidents had brought
him? Moreover; can he not, pray with
the same acceptance insilence, and with - -
out the outward ' -formality ? not
God : accept the .pions breathings of his
heart? Whatever questions we may
imagine for him r there is .no .evidence'
that they entered:his thoughts: He had
a principle. He worshipped God accord
inrto own conviction•and- the-,Di
vine,appointment. Tliat was - Ms law,
'and by which eferfAiolVer 'of - his nature
gravitatekleavenward. ,4nd he would
as, soon have expected to see Jbe _earth
break from the
„solar attraction, as to ,
have allowed himself to turn aside from
duty because htimii,n law interposed.
Not that he despisell governments—he
was loyaletn the person.and the author
ity of the king.-• He recognized all the
statutes of the realm, as, in their govern
mental relations, appointed of God ; he
respected the immutability of the decrees
which went forth with' the royal seal
upon them, 'and he would - have been the
litailnanin the realm to question, or con
trovert, or disobey an edict of Darius.
But there was.another King to whom
he owed supreme allegiance—the law of
his God was hie first and last` dependence
'83:01 appeal. A.'id t Dailnel6iew He
also knew that Daniel was not by his
devotion to - the GO of Abra
ham, violating any of me rAghls,,itor in
vading any interest of his realm. Daniel
knew that the, kingilicl o gtot, expect him
to surrender his ,Teligion---Alid not feel
that he did wrong by continuing hik
habituatprayer, even after thepromulga
licak- of thedecree. • -
- t Ms* allegianee", therefore, to the mor
tar-' king :Was not impaired; but rendered
mere valuable by that loftier devotion to
the iiiiiddrtal. His mind had not been,
it could not be perverted and warped by,
questions of policy and eitiediency. He
felt the majesty of the higher law, and
every sentiment of his heart, every con
viction of his .re . itson,,e,very_al;fecticni,
:.his, nature,,weut fo:r,th powerfully, in, obe
dience thereto. , .
He could say,l love my, -king. I love
the nation over 'which he has set me.
They shall have the service of, my tal
ents, of my life. But I love my -God
supremely; and them the - more for As.
sake,--sq much, that lor their' ultimate
hafipinesi, as*well for niy'own 'conscience,
obef the Ruler of the heavens,.
and„if it Must 'be - so; fall beneath the
cruel, the extorted`decree of my sovereign::
And,se hl3,twls true to his ifaith—and
they: doomed , him, to the lions—and• he
spent the dreary night,inAheir den ; and
the envious officers ,exulted o endthe
Was wakeful and , tearful; and Ged
watched over his faithful. saint; and in
the " early 'rnorn the king came to. the
den and called for Daniel , and answer
came back, c. o"king, live• forever I" -And
they rejoiced together; and blessed - the
God of salvatiOn andlhe prophet- With
taken from" the den nnhadeted'; and his
accusers were plunged into it and per
ished, and Daniel was Cialted yet more;
while the king, convinced of the majesty'
Band` yof Jehairall,-34ade ai other de=
tree, and ,wrote to people of every
tribe and la,Oguage - in his broad ern
pire, sajthig,—" Peace be multiplied unto
you. il , make ; a decree,that, every,
dominion of MY kingdommen tremble
and/e)34 before the God , of, Daniel : for
He is A theli*ing d-od'and i hleadtati ' -for
ever, and. His kingdom, that which shall
not be destroyed, and ilis,dominionshall
be even unto- the end. He deliveretia
and rescueth, and Ile. - -worketh signs and
wenders in heaven and in earth, ,who
k hath delivered Daniel from the power of
the lions.".
" So this Daniel prpspered in the "reign
of Darius and; in. the
. - reizn of Cyrus the
Persian."
It is best for a man to be upright in all
things. Often.in these days of wicked
gain, We hear men say :--" It is impos
iihleto lige honestly. -. •Such is the •com
-plication of business; such - the state of
politics, that a man must` be' utterly cast
aside or do as others do.l Now this
plea is not only unchristian, it is un
manly. It is the very thing that helps
to perpetuate the evil. and forth and
be a Daniel ! Suffer for \your upright
ness, if need be, and you shl II not only
gain, the approbation •of you own con
science, but you shall beginaiprocess of
reformation, and see your, accusers and
oppressros beneath your feet! The world
needs at this hour just that, stern integrity
which would die rather/that* wrong ;
which tosses all gains land` distinctions
to the winds when they com in the way
of duty; which pressea dopride and
passion, and marcheipn in e sublime
,
path of the godly. .
. i I '
Many organizations ,p.x.ts in these
days. Men form societies and associa
tions)l for almost every branch f moral
and secular enterprise—and thi is well
enough, provided thoSe ,who mit them
do not lose their 'individual se se• of
duty, and their personal action n the
mass—and so all waste their: ti e and
talents in' mere organism, and., /souse
when they ought to act, enjo their
I, tl,
sodalities when they ought to ibe broad
in their mission of love., A l it •f any
organization is needed just ao , it is
one composed of upright me and
women, fora the -purpose of putting a
stop to theft and plunder i high life I
To form a society which :,w uld• banish
every member found to hay embezzled
from the public,treasury; or our private
di
employers, from anks or c rperstions.
Let those men of . style and pretension,
whose extravagance is fed- Ity robbery,
by violation of confidence, ''owned
from society t. Let.their car de tile . ites
be answered by " Otherwise. nived."
Let thetibe dropped frourp Wm!. If
the law canna Put them in' 'riscin, let
public sentiment take charg of them,
and be sure to place them were .they
shall not corrupt our children-nor have
1
occasion to congratulate themlves that
theY hive not lost their respe ability !
If we can't correct them, let s banish
them from our dwellings andolir hearts.
j
"We are growing too lenient towards
crime in this age arid - country. `#re 'are
41.shing our tolerance to , sic -,unwise
degrees that the •national life i elf is in
danger. - ' - '• ' \
If a man would become pe , anently
1
great and influential, he ,mu ; ; be much
with God. Daniel did .no
gather an artily' to resist the king and
reiolutionize 'the realm, )1 - e_;did ' not
.have to assemble the, wise ni ,to take.
counsel, to devise Plans, to • rk skill
li.
, fully upon the mind of king d people
Ile was in the right way befo . - Ttkiire
Was need of no. change in 1 Olity or,
principle. He remained with oii and .
I ti
went to his daily work! :-; A kio sublime'
is such a character, suck an a ribute !
Calm as a su9n.ex. mornin r stern as
w
the bro of•Cagnel; and const tas the
courses of the .planets, he bad Within
him the might and the majesty ; & Gpd I
All Assyria could not cruel:it-him. He
' ,wasflod's hero, to conqier by suffering—
type of him who. descended into the den
of evil and waged war with fiat:* liot_lo.
with principalities and ..powers—c — if - di
made . a show 'of them openlyi, nailing
them to ihe cross ! Go ye and • serve
God as Daniel served linLyl,Put on
strength in the'chamber of prayer. • Get.
Divine, thoughts into :your
. inind,' and
Divinejove into•yeur heart—then meet,
and.win, and conquer the world. There
n il
mist first be sorrow, then 'oy ; first war
with sin, then victory in holiness; first
the weight of agony, -.the the, weight of
glory; first the church militant, ttufn the
church millenial ; first 'the ' crown of
thorns, then the royaltyof Paradise 1
MR. WARNER'S LETTERS sON AECON
STRUCTION.' •
NO. I'V.
REV. AND P_Eakii, :—As everybody
Federal .Constitution guaren-,
tees to:each State of the .Union "
republican form of government."
Of course, in passing upOithe new or
gaitismi, of the South l the President (if
the jnrisdiction of review be., his will
take care that they be of-this character.:
He has indeed advise&the'freedmen that.
their adMiesien to full citizenship de-:
pend.s upon the, ustice okthe States they
live-in; ; but ,he has not told them, and •I
trust is -not prepared to tell them, that
he will not do what he lawfully may; to,
bring that "justice" to, a right, 'decisiou..
'" A republican form , of governinent;".
then, what is-it ? • ThetirrObledlssbeelf
a good deal agitated of late, but as far es
I have seen, „without result. IV:riceme:
only to.remind us of the old preverb,-
that men'are, apt to knovr leist of what•
they are most familiar with • sd'hard
itto turn the.sye home upon itself.
The term,_iepnblic has; I think, two:
meanings in combination :—one ancimit;r
general, etymological'; he other, techni-,'
cal and Modern. Let uiponder tfien
•
The ancient meaning of the termie ,
simply that of its etywon, , rea publica
which may be rendered s public 'concern
--that is, concern of the,PeOple at larip ;
in contradistinctiou from monarchy or
one-man government ; ;from oligarchy, &
government of a
, few ; from-aristocracy,
or the government of-a large but yet lira-,
ited portion of society, under the notion
of-their being aristoi, the best of the peo
ple, and entitled, consequently, to lord it
over them. Our English word; conimont
wealth, is a very fair equivalent ; for
common means public, and the original,
Saxon for wealth is weal, which signi
fies well-being. Nor is it strange that a
polity sacred to the well-being of an en
tire community, should have deriv:ed a
name from the benevolence of its object.
By an easy metonymy, frequent,'" ill 'all
languages, the notorious object of a thing
is often taken for the thing itself—the end
for the means.
Well, sir, the name republic, thus ap
propriated to denote a free, popular, com
mon-weal government, became at once
historical ; and it passed from . age to
age, through twenty centuries or more,
without the slightest change of sense,
_down• even to our " Declaration of Inde
pendence," which was essentially an
adoption of the principles it stood for.
The general nature of the thing was uni
versally understood. Everybody knew,
at least, that it meant a government es
tal3lished for the people at large, one and
all, as ,equals..
The early examples of this polity were
democratic ; that is, they were adminis
tered by the people in person. Agents
were employed, but not political agents.
The great secret of dividing the sover
eignty into 'parts, and delegating •one
part for administrative purposes, while
the rest is held in electoral and visits
torial supremacy by the general mais of
citizens, was not for Greek or Roman to
discover. They were doomed to strug
gle ion in democratic confusion, striving
after the benefits of republican polity by ,
means that.could only give them glimpses
of the good they sought, and with a cer
tainty of crushed hopes in the end
It remained for our American fathers
to devise 'a working' system suited. ade•
quately to the design. They thought a
scheme of administration by representa
live, vents, under, due popular .Tapervi
dim, and control, would answer, better
than democracy. Experience has shown
that they were right. Our governments,
general and particular, all attest the
happy wisdom. of the, eonception. Like
other great discoveries, political repre
sentation, now that it is known, seems
but a simple , matter. I 'believe, hovi
ever, thatin importance to the welfare
of mankind, the proudest triumphs of
Science do not siirpass it
A.nd thisosir, is our Modern technical
addition to the long established general.
impoft orthe term; republic:= It takes the
place of the old teChnical demodracy, and
is now the grand distinctionof Our system.
The:two methods (such, I may call them)
are- popular and free ; both regard
all - nien as
r ?-hy Oure equal ," but in
details of worliiiii,imachinery for accom
plishing their --aim, they differ exceed
ingly. - American citizens do not con
dnottpair public affairs . by direct vote, as
the,Anen of Atherdonce did, but by the.
:agency of representative functionaries,
:who • di? the business ' , for thorn upon
trust
I conclude - therefore, that wheieas an
.Athenian would lave, understood. the,
phrase " republican form of government",
to mean a geyerdment of and fdr the;
people at large, personally adttinistered,
by themselves; ,on the other hand, in
our day and to us j the meaning is, a gov 2
ernment of and for the people at large,
'Clp2.2:nistered by dgents popularly' chqsen
for the _purpose. :v And just as he, would
have added to' the general notion of a
icivernment the special ore of a
democratic administration, so must we
,add to that notion, not his miserable
qnillet of mob-management, but instead
of it our' own masterpiece of techaical
polity, the representatixe',,sy,stenr. In a
word ; ," a form of, governateat,'!,,to,te
Jfrepublioan" within the polity-pledgelof
the Ponstitution, must be apeople's got
- .•
vernnient
.representing all,,and
. gdn - tinzs
tered fo r r all by popularly phosen-agents.
Will it , be donhted) whether - the first
part _Of-this definition is,inater 'Of :form,
ae as of prineiple ?
A goiernment is an orgnniFnliop., ;• - A .
State government is an mOmization. of
tbe people of a State. Can the form be
801)0.1100 „froWts subject matter'? Does
not, cligarAiY .diffpr in form , from ails-
Ancracy And yet the difference lies
:solely in.the; proportions of: the people
comprehended in them respectively. •
Moreover the gharanty Of the Consti
tution ,is given to the people, and,of
course to the whole of thern,lassuring
them' 1.11 a republican organization ; and
how
• - g
;can such an assurance be made good
by an. organization that shall leave half
of them. out ? • =.
I say the :guaranty is , 'given to the
people, • becanse,thelienple are the parties
'to the ,charter compaci, as. its own ring
declare; and because it would be ab
"surd to suppose •a form of -'government
assured to - forms of government 'Already
extet,4l.
But ,even if this, absurdity were en
actedtthe, people personally would Astill
be the ultimate 'objects, of 'tbe
_pledge
tde inanigeTs'Of the imsree .
tire, State goiernment.a ..must be deemed
4ifeapable receivingiit.otherwise than
In every ', point OFview therefore the
,people. are the doneen of the pledge ii - the
'people:atlarge and indiscriminately:
Yirtire slaves an exc e ption in their
tirriel .If '
so, it.was because . ey were
slaves, and• not because they were: col
ored ncken. As slaves (though=not under
'that name) they were indeed the sabje4te
of a special arrangement of compromiee.
But that arrangement was ,itself excep
tional, and:against the general: policy' of
the Constitution. ' Of course it must be ,
taken strictly,- and cannot be enlarged by
construction, to the prejudice of freemen.
Colored freemen, even then, were quite
beyond its reach. And as all > are now
free, the special arrangement as to Wives
has bucome effete.
The better opinion is, however, that
the old thraldoms of the South were
never such in fair political account. The
Constitution did not recognize them. It
knew of "persons held to service," but
of human chattels it was profoundly
riorant.c- So that alavea, , as between
them and the general Government, were
always citizens.
Bat whether so or not, they are citi
ze-
zens now ; let this suffice. They belong
now unmistakably to what is called the
people—that great body of political com
mons whom it is the province of repulb
lican institutions to care for in a policy
of universal justice and equality. Their
rights are the same precisely as those of
their late masters. They owe the same
allegiance, are amenable to the same
- - .
laws, bear public burdens by the Bathe
rule of apportionment, and have an infi
nitely better record of past conduct.
Who can
,chink of"reviving, under any
modification, the wrongs they itave here-.
tofore. suffered ?
My friend, one thing is certain : let us
lay it, to heart : NO PLAN OF GOVERNMENT
FOR THE LATELY REBELLIOUS STATES CAN
BE" REPUELIdAN THAT IS FOR WHITES
ONLY. ' And •I want the President to
understand this. Should •he
,' demur, I
*ant Congress to instruct= him on the:
snbjeet. Irthe last resort, I want the
patriotic masses everywhere to take up
the proposition, and to. proclaim it in a
.voide:Aihich none bnt , the dead ..shall fail
to hear and respect.
- What, sir are we to measure out
political estates by rules of moonshine
disetithinationll by accidentaldifferences
of or . of blood-lineage? Sup-
•
pose LOnisiana were t 6 framelam organi
zation, making over all power to the
French—division - of her..people, leaving
Yankees;. Spaniards,- negroes, . under
political.,disfranchisement ; could it be THE 'YEAR-DAY THEORY.
regarded as republican ?—andnof rather
Mn. Enrroa :—Having observed in
an aristocracy - 421,
Suppo !your , paper, a few weeks since, a state
want 1 the se
franchise Georgiaof election,' (and .of
ffi ment that a certain reviewer was labor
were to say, " we "
course the oces , of. , Government,) con-
ing to overthrow the "year-day theory e
fined.t k e Our men of red hair i and blue
of prophecy, as it is called; and a hope
eyes?? although but af, fraction of the expressed that that "baseless theory
would be exploded," I was led to examine
whole community ; n
would that be earer
that point a little; and should like it, if
to the mark, or farther off?. I know not
you will allow me, to state the result of
how fertile their climate is in red hair
and: blue_ eyes, but _"I suppose my inquiries it could 1
' his
I find that the time appointed for t
hardly muster enough•for an , aristocracy,
prosperity of Anti 'chriiitian powers is
ands of too 'many for an oligarchy.
designated in three ways: " time, times,
Suppose, in- fine; that in South Caro-
and a half," (or three years and a haf t )
•line; where the blacks and whites are
"forty and two months, " and " a thdu
aboutlequal, the latter should, resolve to
sand two hundred and sixty days r
compensate their< late loss of civil lord-
these all, reckoning in the Jewish way,
ship by assuming ay lordship of political
'thirty days to a month, come to the
-supremacy, ,torthe -exclusion and; relative i
same number of days Now these digs
-prostration of the other moiety ofothe
I either mean literal days, or some "other
citizens.; the usurpation being fotinded,
period. •But they certainly cannot inean
not upon any reason of intellectual, literal days,‘as they are used by Daniel
moral, or educational superiority, but just
and John to measure the duration of
uPon u*t_ioluior .14T0Rn_4 1 . 3 --U, iit.a..-ii,es_s of I that pluiecuting -power into whose hands
.so/ar light absorbed, 'Vitae more reflected!
' , the'isaints should be delivered. To ,Well, sir, allowing the node - stv
' 4ef I terpret them as literal days, would vio
'this, (and r modesty abounds in Sou t h late the truth of 'history, as well as the
Carolina,) the question again nomes,np,
symbolical' character of the prophecy;
would it answer the notion of a common
~. -for the saints were actually persecuted
weal, government ?—a
_.-government 61 ./ by the 'Papal " horn" for a much longer
and for the people at large ?—a 'republic? period than 12,60‘days. Moreover, the
Sir, df,it could. bp ,deemed anything woman representing the Church' was
better than aristoeracy—,rank, rancid
"nourished in the wilderness"? during the
eristeeraeY=3, see,not wherein. , rteP but ; this cou ld
same perzod of day•s _
Aicanism- never exalts one class of pita- haveno counterpart in-histarfif we take
ZeltB atzove, another. Even w en eornima
h-- I nl a ------ these air literal days. The same remark
were slaves, it was not republicanism,
may be made respecting -the " two wit
nesses
aristocracy under;that name tha t
._ ' nesses" who prophetryinsickelothduring
kept-them the 49l Y, ll „bY*9°Pirfglf P a fe ra the same period, probably repiesbriting
11 P-aa dd S nni a ant * ' t - • the. trueLohurch. , Hence, tneithei the
I repeat, therefoie„And u implore
.., the tads -of history,
nor vie
nature
g' p el i s aw 'and , right. ; _ feeling of the prOpheey, Will i allow us to interpret them
country to consider;-what Lsay,that,ll9 i,
___ s literal days. ' ,
,ufs l S4referring organization 18 .1)r _ . ,, ° ".„ . ' What 'periods, then, do they repie
be law f ul ' ander - 14 ' PP 4b Y eit iO e • °J the _ sent i'• , Onr 1-bnlY 4 way is .torgoqojthe
great charter. 1 - ~ Scriptures, and lot themrinterpret them-
So long as the esolored men were in selv es Now es Now we know that. on one oc
civil bandage,liolitical , rights' ivere;
of easion,. the Prophet Ezekiel was ordered
course 'Oen* thein Political rights
-- 1 b :Di inedirection to reresent in car
ve Aainly for .the ;protection of
.t rig
. fain , symbolical,. actions, 'by a certain
..thai are civil. Bat now that civil bon
1 p
dage is ist.
se
end, the freodmen,onght ' number
dur of ing w Kish the days,Gd would
s o ame w num d be s r e ' n o li f
surely to be 'clothed with the legitimate y ears du r ing
certain ich astisements on Mel josh.
armor af their ne.W.COndition.
Ta-w-tnt. - Here we find /that God has aetuidly
it, is to be exposed to all manner o
f vbhosen to represent ti year - by a :day,
wrongs andll.dignitiei from th e preferred • ,
.and therefore we may reasonably infer
and ruling older; that is, the whites.
that he might ,do so again. Besides
They will be mercilessly domineered_ ,
this, David =has 'done just this thing in
over. No man can doubt it. Let um
i another part °fails prophecy. "Seventy
provide 'against the evil. In 'anci ent
weeks are determined upon thy people,"
Rome, proud, as she was, a -e7ile Y . etc. Were these literal weeks or days mi slave took ground at once Wo one pretends it. But more distinctly
?-
among the people in full citizenship; met
wit) "them in the comitial assemblages - still eillnow therefore and .unders tand,
.
voted with them there, and was & PQ, 13 ,4" ' ndment to restore and to *did -Jera
cal
cape ual among them to all possible in
tents: -Why eiliotily conceded ?ld wegrudge what Rome Salem, unto Messiah the Prince, shall
be seven weeks and threescore and two
so ful
~ ,
weeks." Eler,e we are..compelled bighe
The fight of -suffrage is all we hare
1 facts to understand these .a a, weeks, of
occasion , to claim for the liberated ne
yeare; but a week is seri:l3l , days, and
groesi, for it is the only' right (w host,
.therefore. each dtay in these weeks repro
however,' in itself) t hat, ' c ontin u e s to be a , year , ,
_.,
. 0 . I
withheld from them., They are, -free to ,
The •same thing is seen in another
hear arms, to .reside and. go where they part of , Revelations for, in, the, ninth
please, to sue out their habeas cu runs liif .
_chapter the, Turkish, angels are said to
need be,i to demand the • 'f erviees , °F
~be: Tmepered.l4o: slay the third cl ime,' of
re'agistrates and courts, to p etition or
m o u th
. ring ~" an. hour and a day6and a
redress of grievances , to Veal; wri f te,
month ,andaa( year." NowimekcJl &his
publish , wfatever whitemen may.. And
as ..a day for L a year, audit WAS AdriSed
yet' they are gravely told, ,they must not
irfthe history of that, power, as pay' be
vote—that
_js, must have no pr l , seen
in.
,By
Newton And __father
share in,th_e governMpu of the co,untry - I . h
And the pretended reason is,they re, a : Onathe prophecies ; , bat,,teke it
a
- literallypand it becomesfahsurd. .
too ignorantl some of there, too vicious.
I think, thereforeittliat ~.there,- is a
There would be foreeln his if it were • -' •
, i show strong serzpturalkusesiorinterpoitingathe
urged,consistently. _,But facts that
1260, 1290, and 1335 days as reproAent
it, is •not., Observe the eagerness with lug so many years; that while felpwing
which we. - rush- -to make: citizens of tife , ,
prophetsthemselves
tve ),it and
on
fQFPiguers, before they have learnt the
impiegitable gronn t il • and that teoiirist
first letter of our. institutional alphabet, 1, -••:, ~.., ~,. o 2 , T•.,
entry with beripture style, they can be
and while their characters are utterly
inte l ipi nv ete.d in 'no other way Mr:l'. I
unknown.'• An this manner the poor
' ES'AIOINES; Ais;l;Sept. 20; 1865. "
houses, the prisons,•theyenitentiaries of- _
Euriipe are yearly robbed of their proper
inhabitants to make voters of in free
America! Yes, to make voters of—pre
cisely and specifically that. And yet it
is attempted there, in free America, to
keep four millions of colored natives, as
I may say, , unnotyro/ized--in other-
words, only half-eitizens, and beneath
the voting privilege"; because, forsooth,
some of them are not as , vii t us' and
none knowing, as • thermight be 1 -
' -The city -of New Yorkkcis now goy-
sated by foreign voters; 'of whom a large
majority are unlettered papiats,_ from
everybody knotvs where. Alas, :Ali'
doomed city ! I believe the Pr;: . otegli
negroes of Virginia could detail tor ker
a voting Opulation 'more intelligent,
more virtuous, every way superior.
But, sir; I waive all .this. There is
another angwerlto the objection it com
bats. The danger, whatever it be, of
opening the polls to colored voters at the
South, may be readily - qhviated by put
,
ting the suffrage under prudent limits
tions, as was universally dene there in
the early State .constitutions. Take Whit
test you will—ability to read and write„
or a modicum of property ;, only let it
be applied to all colors and races, so that
,
this sysibth shall be truly republican.
This will sift the voting thithig;, 163 d -if
the blacks have more chaff among them
than the whites, be it : throw out she
chaff wherever you find it; but do'thia
by a just, a uniform rulp. And - so the
btighear of this objection vanishes:'" F.
:May God inspire the President Nigh
wisdom for the duties of
People say he is pardoning all the 'rebels,
and Will' 'never cross their -purpose' of
renewed injustice towards the Colored
race. I cannot, will not believelits If
their viewsof government-forms' eaVfin*-
republican; President Johnson is 'hot tilid
than to shrink from saying so at
proper time. .ft must be said, and that
decisively. Very truly yours,
Aw anaox:- 7 The most COMMon !error of
;men' and women, is that of looking fot hap
piness somewhere outside of useful work.
_lt has never - yet .been found, when thus
sought -and never will be , While: the world
stands; and the sooner this truth is learn
.Ed the better for every one. -If You_dhubt
thßpiopositicin,,gl T ae e around among your
'friends and: acquitinfitikees, and mark those
'Who appear to . Fia;le the most enjoYiWi t t ia
life. Are - they idlers, and pleasure= kern
'or 'earnest weikkeirar- We knoWiliiintyour
answer will be,' °
H. W. WARNER