The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-05-06
The CairorLBulletin, May 8.

thunder and tightening Of the clouds,
which clap their hands and answer back
from peak to peak Of the Alps, echoed
back to the dying from the living mass
looking on and aching at the suffering.
There was father, brother, son, crushed
In clouds OF lime dust, with arm raised and
cry of pain bursting forth for help, an
swercd to by the shrieks Of mother, wife,
sister, daughter, father, brother,
friend, not helpless, but hardly hopeful.
Help was there noble, gallant help from
all of our classes and colors: White
helping black, and black helping white, in
one brotherhood Of humanity. Pain and
suffering and calamity brought men of
every sort together In common sympathy
and why cannot they, come together and
live and let live, and save and help save
in piece and prosperity, and In the ordin-
AIRY every day SC, Of life.
Aye, there is something to think and to
do on this occasion besides weeping and
lamentaton. Me is not a true weeping
Prophet even, nor real Jeremiah, who
does not extract moral and lesson from
this grief. The Arst lesson here, then, is
from henceforth TO drop all controversies,
quit all passions and compose our strifes ;
in the Language If my brother Kelley,
| cherish more charity and brotherly love
for one another.
What brought about this calamity 2
| War itself had spared this Capitol, and
| wondrous strange II Is that after all the
rsvases Of war tie Cspitot fell Of ITSELF
That astounding Incident is itself q lesson
which would all volume with commen-
tary. This will say: Strife since the
war hsd brought together an anxious, ea-
ger crown In heavy mass on the weak floor
I Of an upper chamber of this building t.
| hear the decision of fatal controversy By
| a Supreme Court; that strife preciptated
that crow and crushed the mass TO agony
and death That alone is teaching ad'
! monition.
The Capitol !. old, 1t !. OF the pact, pas
sing away. Let it be built amer II th'
durable and solid granite Of your rich riv
er bank, laid deep in the solid soil Of ou'
country, and let its supers,ructure raise I
lofty tpire toward heaven. a sign o
covenant with God And let this b
symbolic Of moral and political founda
ton, laid anew and deep. for super
structure of love and brotherhood anon.
men, which shall be approved and blessed
on high.
And lessons come not alone from tn
dead, but from the living. From the un
II
dead are gone, no sign can be given. TIL
sign must be given rather from the living
who are spared and are here, and not frou
the dead, who are taken and whoare gone
as I am living witness and example
Thanks be TO my God and my Savior tna
/ am here q living example Of hi mercifu
divine, special providence. 1fthere be Al
infdel in this assembly who lack
faith and needs proof let him hear mt
poor sinner, saved BY the mere
Of Gods special providence. j va
counsel in this very case o
strife and controversy; II wa
; nv duty and desire both to be present a
the announcement Of the opinion and til
decision Of the court In the case; my sea
would have been At the very center VI I'll
. danger, where my brothers Neeson an
: Wells, and Meredith and Chandler, wer
sitting, and who, every one, have been 81
riously and severely, II not dangerous,
wounded and mangled. They fell in III
midst Of danger aud Of death, and the
SnsAsneai bhx- ada uersiuSd by Q clier
messenger from Heaven at the very m
7 ment when was striving to be present
the court room. One and another col
A juncture Of circumstances held me BAG
and detained me 10 within ten minutes
the terrific disaster. My brother DAM
= and myself, one on each side, out Of 4
counsel. alone were spared, and certainl
!, through no worthinc.s Of mine. ! belie'
in no blind fAte--,here is no fate Of ma
but what Gods Providence controls, and
am not ashamed TO confess him only b
fore this multitude Of people; and for m,
.elf and all, pray that We may devoutl
praise Him, and Him only for He inani
Goodness and mercy