The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-02
Che pemOrrat.
A. McGREGoR, EDITOR.
Death of David Tod.
God works in a mrstsrloas way"


One OF the War Governors most no
ted during the Reign of Terror, has
just breathed his last, at his place Of
residence in NIahoning county. 1t
would have been a most grateful du-
ty, on our part, to lay upon his tomb
the tribute of respect, if he had de-
served it, and to commend his memo
ry to the public veneration, if he had
not forfeited all right to such distinc-
| ton.
The atheism Of the American peo-
Pile of this age, has been demonstrated
| in numberless ways since the inaugu-
ration of Abraham Lincoln in 1851
| But God has vindicated His power,
and the justness of His judgments,
signally and in many instances. True,
He has permitted the preparation of
mOnstrous crimes by individuals, as
we'll as by the people at large-as has
Deen the course of His Providence
since the world began; but He has
held individuals and the people at
large tO rigid accountability, and
will inflict retributiOn as infaIlibly
hereafter as he has done heretofore. .on
Judas and Herod, and upon ''alI the
nations that forget God" Brough
and Morton rotted above ground. The
one was mercifully permitted to die,
while the other is damned with a pro-
longed existence, than which hell it.
self could not be more intolerable.-
Yates is haunted by n fiend wherevei
he goes; and is periodically tortured
by myriad snakes, whose fangs faster
in his flesh, and end his eye-balls.-
While Tod, the hateful. cowarUly, cru
ei, arrogant braggart and tyrant-
Tod, the killer of John w. Keyes!-
follows his victim to the grave Unde
circumstances which show the fnge
of reIribution. He made use of hi
place as Governor, to pamper his ava
rice, and by the betrayal of the Stat
made himself immensely rich. Onl,
one thing more was needful to his te
licity. His passion for OstentatIon
was the ruler of all his faculties, ant
| IAAC AAAoPAlCA VI CNCAl lis dNSAL4CC. IL
must needs have a palace! A yea
and half ago he had it completed
but conhagratiOn interpOSed, AM
burned il to ashes. Again he had /
flushed, and all ready to move in
to. Guests were invited music en-
gagged and the side-boards were Ia
den with wine. But that God VIII
would not permit the builders to OF
cnpy the impious tower on the plain
of Shinar, smote the War Governor s
that he died and the vanity whic
had been the motive power of his lii
prompting his usurpation, his tyrann
and his avarice, was foiled in the yer
hour OF its supreme qualification. Th
palace was finished but the vain an
wicked builder crossed not its JhresI
hold, but laid outside of its gates, col
and insensate as the stones of its four
, dations.
To these signal and most marke
examples of the immediate powC
and justice of God, let the atheist ad
! that of the perjured court which az
quilted the murderer of Bollmeye
The Judge smitten with lunacy ,an
sheriff, clerk, and jurors summone
hastily to the judgement seat of Got
i, if these are not enough, let him pol
der the history of the gang who col
{ spired and accomplished the murdt
4 of Mrs. Surratt. Other eXampI
might be adduced ad infhitlln1; bl
cumulative evidence is ruled out, N
only by jurists but by logicians; b
- cause it cannot add to the confirm
nation of truth sufficiently prove
"a We are qui e aware that the go
y erning power of this country believ
not either in God or HIS Ievelatio
Its individuals will console theI
selves with the belief that the exar
Piles we cite are the results of 'chanet
and are ''coincidences" that may n
= again occur. Let them not clay IL
,f flatterlng JUNCTION to their souls"
:. they can eliminate from their bel
the God lolsO governs the UsiUerse
GalC, still the Ial0 remains, And I
more certainly is he burned who pU
his hand in the flames, than is
e punished who commits moral wro
q1 4 ScliOjlClyeZ is NOT tolerated in The II
ies
q; Uerse Of GOd-praise be to the Divi
1T. name! The wicked mans "sins "
ny find him out"
".Sis 1t is not an agreeable Guty to
Gg scribe the true character of an in
Tsr nous public man upon his tomb |
it is an imperative duty. from the p
l formance of which the shrieks 8
imprecations of the rabble never
deferred us.
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