The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-03
CHRISTIAN POLITICS.
NOBLE SENTIMENTS OF A DE
VOUT LIBERAL.
THE SPIRIT OF THE SERMON ON
THE MOU Mt.

The following lie an extract from late
political address of Ex-President Mahon,
formerly a Republican and president of
Oberlin college, Ohio. 1t is forcible and
pathetic appeal in behalf of the charity of
the Liberal cause:
l shall be pardoned here for single
Renaissance. In late political gather
| ing in Cleveland, Ohio, l made the fol-
| lowing statements: I'm your great city
| cemetry lie the remains of an only son,
| who lost his life from injuries received
| first from Southern bullet, and then from
| u clod of earth thrown against his body
| by ball from Southern cannon. BY his
side lie the remains of the wife OF my
youth, who died from grief and over-fa-
| tigue around the sick and dying bed of
our son. BY their side lie the remains OF
a blooming daughter, who, as all her ply
sicians testified, died from no other cause
than dropping hesrt-sickne.s Oh account
of the death of that mother and brother.
In the army of the Potomac l lost the
only then living child, noble young man,
of my only sister then dead, and one
of two sons of the only sister Of my first
wife. Such are my grievances. What
duties do they impose? Duties to my
dead, TO myself, and to the living people
Of the nation. Do they call upon Inc 10
cherish in myself and excite in the living
around me bitter and revengetul reminis-
cences? Cannot each Southern man
who has been bereaved, too, excite in him
self and the people around him what are
to him and 10 them remernbrances equally
bitter and embittering: Will such a
policy benefit our dead, ourselves or our
country? Does il not tend, while il can
no. reach our dead, and bless God
for il, 20 blight our virtues and our Joy,
and to ssyAgeizs the national heart Uoes
| not the spirit Of amnesty, goodwill, and
national brotherhood on tie other tt.9
tend equally 70 perfec! our vi-.2ss- DEEPEN
our .oys aud con,olatlons, AID - pur:y
and 20 patriotic the ns!iorA. hear. Did
10. He Who is our supreme example: learn
obedience and love, amnesty, TOO, from
/ itings which be suffered Shall 10. our
/ grievances teach - similar lesson Such,
al ! understand the subject, are the duties
o. the ps!rio, and Christian in this crisis Of
our national existence. Such, a. under
| stand the subject. is the fixed tendency Of
The party OF the people
How can We as patriots or Christians
| give our SURFACES for the continuance in
power of al administration which has
forced and will continue TO force upon
these subjected states, forms Of govern
rnent which are inaic.ng upon them the
most ruinous and intolersble evils? Seven
years Of carpet-bsg mis-ule has increased
their state Indebtedness, just after the
desolating effects Of internecine war, from
s7s,OO0,0O0 TO $500, 100000 and has
forced upon them the most ruinous forms
Of taxation, and all this with no assigna-
bic benefits to these peoples. Under
this same misrule we have had
generated war Of races, most an
tagonistic TO state or national unity, most
| demorslizing In itself and irreligious in all
its tendencies. With all these evils be-
fore it, this administration openly "pro-
tests againsts shaking hands across the
bloody chasm made by the war, and as
openly avows its purpose to continue for
An indefinite future, military rule and
carpet-bag misrule over these states. viii
our Christianity permit US by our suf-
frages to perpetu ate such an administrs-
| ton?