The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-02

atone Tor the sacrilege by a louder
anthem to God? ~
fancy God wants no such worshin
He wants his people to be as righteons rs
they are devout, and to have AZ mich
conscience as they have rapture. More
gardens to show. But, | ca]cnlate>
when we git the gold out of natures
bowels into our pockets, there Won't
much of the milk and honey of that
country go East. No, sir; it'll climb
this way. Why, Colonel, you ken talk
about your gardens States a
reg lar cornicupio, with the big end
Iufned this way. In ten years you'N
md the human race coming out to
Colorado to live, and expectin' Kansas
to help .em through. All we can do ia
to give 'em their lungs full and their
pockets full. The people of that val
ley down there will fill their bellies
You bet"
than once has God told his people that
ne was tired of their new moons and
SaDbaths, and has commanded them to
offer less worship and practice more
goodness; to put away the evil of their
doings, and to relieve the oppressed.
For the church to be silent abont such
wrongs as these would expose her to
the taunts of her enemies s:that she
has less justice than truth, and less
goodness than piety.''
we are all too apathetic. We have
no just sense of the enormity of these
01tenses. TauntS make us cOwardlv.
ana preJudices make us Indifferent. It
is easy for us to sit in our safe and
quiet homes and forget the woes of
the world.
1t does not become me here to SIG.
gest how men shall vote. I merely
state the case and leave the logic of It
to carry you whittier it will. But 7
will say that voting now, in view of
n! this, is no tritling affair. Every
ballot has in it veal or woe for the i'm
poverished people Of the South. Be-
fore this question every other subject
in our national politics dwindles into
insignifcance.
Shall this dominion of blood and RI
OF be given loose rein until terrorism
bursts upon the south in a universal
tempest, or shall the government be.
encouraged and empowered to crush it
with a strong hand9
The. question before us now is not
one OF finance, but of the rights of
man. Let us pray for guidance. and
vote knowing that we shall give &C.
count thereof to God.
Mass Convention of Union Soldiers and
Sailors.
HEADQUARTERS UNION VETERANS NATIONAL
CoMMlTEEE, NEW York CITY, July II, 1876.
10 the Soldiers and Sailors who served in
the Union Army and Navy during the late
COMRADES The undersigned, a COM
mittee appointed by your grand Ma
tional Convention. held at Pittsburgh.
Pa. Sept. 18th and 18th, 1872, hereby
invite you to meet in Mass Convention
at indianapolis, Ind, on Wednesday,
the Goth day of September, 1876, at 10
CLOCK a. M, to- express your senti-
ments in favor of the principles for
which you contended on flood and
field. and to indorse the Standard bear
ers of the party which, sustained the
the Union and your efforts to preserve
1t. while endangered by domestic foes.
In the War against the Rebellion,
you offered your services and periled
your lives to maintain and perpetuate
the Union established by our fathers.
Returning to your homes, after your
great victory over its fees, you re-
sumed the peaceful pursuits of civil
life; but, as good citizens of the Re-
public which your vaAer had pre-
served, you lost none Of the inspira-
lions of national honor :szsd patriotism,
and abated nothing from your pur-
pose to perpetuate the principles for
which you had been contending.
Since the War, you Rave met at the
ballot-box the same political organiza-
ton which used it's influence against
you while fighting in the field, the
party many of whose leaders boosted
in progress, that they had s'never
voted dollar or a man to carry on
this unholy War; the party which in
1854, in National Convention adopted
the resolution declaring your efforts
in the field a failure, and demanding a
cessation of hOstilities.
It is the old fight again; the same
party and the same men are arrayed
against you. Upon the issue of the
contest depends the question whether
history shall vindicate you or your op-
ponents, -whether you or they were
fighting on the right side.
The Democratic party are at
this time, as ever, true to their senti-
ments; and they have presented two
candidates who had little sympathy
for you or your cause. That party de-
ponds for its success upon the votes of
the men whom you conquered in the
field, and, if successful, it will be DOM
mated and led to the same political
element. Crippled Union soldiers will
be removed from public offices, as
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