The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-05

the 23d verse of the chapter wdich he had
read: THY princes are rebellious COM
pdnionS Of there's; every one loveth gifts
and followeth after REGARDS; they Judge
not the fatheriess, neither doth the cause
OF the widow come unto them"
Isaiah had said: How deep have they
fallen, the mighty and strong, they who
but few years ago were the pride Of the
nation"
"Oh! how has she become harlot Ian
Augean stable), the true and faithful city"
This, but again illustrated the degra-
dation to which the nation, in corrupt
hands, had fallen. Was it not time for
the people to awake to the Importance of
the stuDendous work of publication?
Ought not these Augean stables to be
deodorized and removed out of the reach
OF honest nostrils? nay, should they not be
wiped out of existence, dumped into the
sea, leaving nothing COMMUNICATING be.
hind? The monstrous pillar of corruption
should be RACED and each particular stone,
great and small, should be hid away where
mortal man could no longer contemplate it
and think it ever constituted any part of
this government" He continued
Must we, however, despair of the
future, and disconsolately walt the bells of
Independence Hall, which hundred
years ago sounded the tocsln of freedom.
to toll the funeral kuell?
Must we despair of haying the lives of
so many martyrs, the blood of thousands
of patriots shed Cor naught during the last
civil war?
shall the light, which in the last two
decades, has gone forth from this country
,fu -
guished in the land, and in the very place
where it first arose? No! God Forbid
The same prophet who so terribly cast
gated the moral, social and political corrup-
ton of Jerusalem, concludes, nevertheless,
with the divine promise that il will be
again called the Faithful City, the Land of
Honesty, Justice aud Equity and that
the agencies by which the redemption will
be accomplished are Justice and Right
e0usness "a promise which, though, after
the most painful trials and revolutions, and
not before the second Temple, was never
theless redeemed.
Let us then be hopeful of renewed
birth-of return to the old fidelity. The
strong feeling OF selt-reliance of the Amer
lean people; its indestructible national
pride, even under the severest blow; its
Incompatible energy that shuns no saeri-
flee and no obstacle; its magnificent gen.
crosby aud beuevolence: and, last, but not
least, the bright and shining paragons that
watch ed at its cradle. All these will sooner
or later burst its moral shackles, and in its
wrath it will drive off forever the would-be
aristocratic wolverines that hunger for i 5
emaciated body, and like a young eagle
take its flight higher and higher, its starry
wings-the emblems of bessing-protect
ing and sheltering all humanity"
Rabbi RUsenspitz briefly alluded. before
the close OF his sermon, TO the admission
to the centennial exposition of Dom Pedro
and the crown prince of Sweden on Sun
day when American citizens were refused
admission on that day. 1t was downright
hypocrisy to require the poor man to work
on the buildings on Sunday while the man
ayers made 1t sin to go and worship be
tore the shrine OF art and science Blu
the gates were opened to the princes, who
had no more right to be there than any
other visitor who had, perhaps, come
long way across the country to see thu
grand spectacle there presented.
The following jeu u esprit on Gen. Haw
ley, from the Boston Herald, very aptl
illustrates the point made by Rabbi Rosen
spitz as to the closing Of the exposition Of
= Sunday:
/ Joseph was a very good little boy, an
was careful about Sunday. He put ava
all his playthings on that day, and woul,
not even take walk in the fields with hi
2 mother and his little sister He stayed u
! in his room and read good books al. da
long. When Jack, and Pat, aud Mikl
, came to visit him they were the poor boy
who lived IN the viliage-and asked hiu
, to take a walk with them through th
! beautiful garden By the river, he woul
not even 90 down 20 them, but called on
through the window, $50 away, you ba
boys!' So Jack, and Pat, and Mike di
go away, very sorrOwiui, for Joseph ha
the key to the beautiful garden. His incl
: had given it to him TO keep through tin
d summer, aud nobody could get it with
= out this good little boys leave. Ever,
/, body praised Joseph for being so good an
: so careful on Sunday, After time tw
v other little bows, from foreign countr,
y came to see Joseph; and of al, DAYS in th
IA week, what should they do but come q
! Sunday Now YOU will all say this was
y splendid opportunity tor Joseph 20 sho,
what was right to the two other little bows
dhu 'iIdL vi course ne gave eacn OF them
i good book to read, and made them 81
[ down IN his room and keep very STILL as h
did. You will be sorry to hear what
, dreadful change came over the good littl
4 boy. When he saw the beautiful clothe
= these little strangers wore, and what littl
r gentlemen they really were, he jumpe
aud clapped his hands, and took down tn
key in a hurry, and they all went out t
the garden and played there the whole da
C long. For, strange to say, Joseph did nc
Y seem to care so much about breaking tn
n Sabbath when it was Pedro aad Oscar tina
came
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