Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-10-12
Spurgeon on the War Path.

SpurgeOn ON the War Path.
InTt of.s,nsl and uniqne preacher,
Spurgeon, has laasely trade one of his char.
wst has e9ercised him to that exteftt thyt
he has addressed s Isttsr to Napoleon and
King William, in which he takgs those BEL
icose gentlemen tartly to task for their 1t.
tie quarrel and scrimpage.
Spurgeon rises above the nice questions
Of Sou.t diplomacy and sticks to his
Bible-taqght htli8atits. He is eminently
practical. He makes q stiff afgtfasnt, I'D
ko'nirae2tSJ that Will bear Reproduction. lie
thus qtioths5
Did either of you ever think of What war
means? ? Did you ever see man head
smashed or his bowels ripped open Why,
it you are made of flesh and blood, the
sight of one poor wounded man, with the
blood ooaing out of him, will make you
feel sick: [ don't like to drown q kitten; [
can't bear even to see a rat die, or sn ami
NAL in pain. But man! where's y6ur
heart if you can think Of broken legs,
splintered bones, heads, smashed in,
brains blown out, bowels tori, hearts
gushing with gore, bitches full of blood,
and heaps of limbs and carcasses of man
gled men?
Oo you say my language is disgusting?
How much more disgusting must the things
themGelves be And you make them! How
would you like to get man into Your pal
ace garden and run knife into his bowels
or cut his throatl If you did that you
would deserve to be hanged; but it would
not lie half SO bad as killing tens of thous-
ands, and you know very well that this is
just what you are going to do. Do you
fancy that iy opS fifaS
ers and fneries and pomp, make you
wholesale murders one whit the less abom-
inable in the sight of God? Do not deceive
yourselves; you are no better than the
cut-throats whom your laws condemn.
Better? why, you are worse, for your
| murders are SO many. Think, pray you,
for your poor people will have to think
| whether you do or no. Is there SO little
want in the world that you must go tramp
ling on the harvest with your horses and
men? Is there 50 little sorrow that you
must make widows by the thousands? Is
death SO old and faeble that you must hunt
his game for him. as jackals do for the
lion? Do you imag inc that God made men
for you to play with2 Are they only
meant for toys for you to break? o
Kings, plowman tells you that their souls
are as precious in Gods sight as yours !;
| they suffer as much pain when bullets
| pierce them as ever you can do; they have
homes, and mothers and sisters and their
deaths will be as much wept over as yours,
| perhaps more.
How can you sit down to eat when YOU
have caused war? Does not the blood rise
in your throat and choke you? Or are you
only devils with crowns on? Creatures
| who were never sucked at woman 8
| breast and tharafnpa how no
ing? 1t twill be hard for you to think of
he blood you have shed when you lie dy-
| ing and harder still to bear the heavy
hand of God when he shall cast all muir
derers into hell. Whichever it is of you
that has caused this wicked war, [ say you
smell of blood you ought to be more hated
than the common hangman, and instead OF
being called ''His Majesty" you ought 70
| be hooted as p demon
Etsgeiiie Under Dtfeat- Last DAYS III
Paris.
| Paris, Sept. 3-Nght-Corresponde of Irish
(Dublin) Times.
On the Stock Exchange they could moi
believe that the cause of France was thor
oughly lost in the northeast of the empire
and it will forever remain singular exam
pie of the blindness of naonevea t,ien, 81
of their seihshnef3 (having an eye tc
peace), that on this fatal day there was bu
a tall OF one per cent on the Bourse O
Paris in government stock.
Later in the evening, believe, the EN-
press first received the fatal and terribl,
news in its full extent and with full authen
t1clty. Tor 1t was late when the announce
ment to the Prefects. signed hy all tn,
Ministers was written out and forwarded
It the Ministry previously knew it, proba
| hlu IL IL, Il
break it to the Chamber aud the nation
The Empress, poor, unhappy lady, Dor,
the shocking intelligence better than an,
human being could have contemplated
She was pale as marble and was arrayet
in that negligence of dress and persona
adornment SO sadly habitual to her sine
this crisis has arisen. With hands claspe,
and eyes raised to heaven, her first word
were:
''Louis, my son?"
MADAME, the Prince Imperial was a
Maubeuge, and must be quite safe in Bel
gium."
''Poor France. poor Francel" she thel
repeated several times. "And the EN-
peror, she said innocently, s'they vii
not, surely, insult or ili-treat him?"
Madame" replied M. Cherreau, s'it i
palace prison of gold and velvet, ana anx
lous sympathy, which ever await such
prisoner as his Majesty"
"And MacMahon?"
| ''Fhe Marshal is very badly wounded
please your Majesty"
"Ah! I fear me the gallant duke ha
sought death and has found it"
'And De Failly?"
81 think yoHr Majesty must make u
your mind for the worst rs regards Gen
De Fallly; there is no certainty, but man
reports say he was killed on the 29th O.
The 30th"
Such was the scene at the Tuileries.
do not presume to give you rs full
authentic the ipsissinaa Uerba, but from
source certain learn that something YER
near the foregoing words were uttered
IHE patent duplex rail is now in use O
nineteen different railroads, and is beo0nl
ing favorite rail among railroad men
Orders as high as 1000 tons from a sinoI
road have been given for its ir,mediat
manufacture.