Weekly Trinity Journal

Benjamin's Allegory.—"Those who prate of and strive to dissolve this glorious confederacy of States, are like those silly savages who let fly their arrows at the sun, in the vain hope of piercing it. And still the sun rolls on, unheeding, in its eternal pathway, shedding light and animation upon all the world."

This remarkable sentiment was uttered by Judah P. Benjamin, the Secretary of War of the late Southern Confederacy, in a speech made in San Francisco in the Winter of 1860, just after the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency. What could have changed Benjamin's mind so, two months afterwards, as to make him desert these principles? He is a traitor, an outcast and a wanderer, if not a felon, seeking rest and finding none, with every man's hand against him, "And still the sun rolls on."—Sac. Bee.