The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-08
rCoucluded from First Pan. I

holds ignorance ana lnlQulty Wnen tlllt
alignment of parties takes place, not by
the old or present names, but with new aud
terribly significant ones, donned for the
flight then you will find the heaviest end
OF the people, which means not the weight
est tax payers and most intelligent only, but
the most of them, counting man by man,
you will find the big bulk of the mass so
far onto the precpice, and so heavy, that
the rest of the mass cannot tip them off in
to the abyss. The height may be dizzy, at
which strife shall eliminate, and the dan
ger we escape, no less than the antipodes
of all we hold dear but we shall escape 1t,
because there are dominating multitude Of
vigorous and clear-mnded, conscientious
citizens, who do count more in power to-
generate educating and purifying iGtlu-
ences and institutions and to perserve
them, than either the tax list or the tally
list can explain And | tell you, you say
to me, that that generous mass of lcaven
is more than proportioned to the moral TO
be learned. And II has not lost its vitality
nor its unbelievable, inflexible purpose.
The salt is then in superintendent quantity,
and it has not lost its SAVIOR
Then say, very we'll If you know
that, II the all-seeing eye discerns that it
it SO Amen SO let i,Ebe. Your expecta-
lions and wishes, and mine, and all good
peoples wishes, will be realized, and more
than realized hundred fold in this hun
dred years to come. If that is true, which
you have asserted. to the effect, that
cleaning sword, two-edged with iutelli-
gence and moral discrimination, is in the
hands of the ruling majority of this people
tl, Il ts.tr re a a
wise Providence concerning our history;
then grant you that we shall soon begin
to see the climbing down of day that
cau.ot be darkened except by the fair-
weather clouds that do but diifuse the light
and beautify the heaven Itself OF a long and
busy century. and ornament its setting with
the triumphant tricoors OF our own starry
banner more thiclSly spangled and without
stain. ! grant you, not reluctantly, that
If you are right, we shall soon see the mys-
terry Of Babylon of denominations, chiefly
in.lhe interest of alcohol, that surrounds
our treasury, fallen indeed, never to rise.
We shall see wise appointments and the
stability of merit and experience in the
civil service, undsturbed by petty and par
titan changes To feed cormorant politicians.
We shall see foundation principles and in
diepensable provisions clearly stated by our
ltGlslhbOIc, anu Dld1tu WI bitsh III th' ~
ganic law, beyond the reach of meddling.
but made to reach the disObedieDt and cor
tentious. We shall see judges restored as
for the first purpose and intent Of the judi
cature, to bear not the sword in vain against
aggression crime and wholesale deprida-
ton. We shall see the legal casuisity of
the courts something else than net and a
snare to stumble and defeat the righteous
wrath of the public conscience. We shall
find that conscience quick and powerful to
assert the law of truth in civil matters, as If
ii were, what the enlightened conscience
really is, silver, nay whole bolt OF the
thunders of Sinai. And that because, back
of and before all this, the church has washed
its garments and "made them white in the
blood of the lamb, SO as no fuller or earth
can white them :" as no selfish prudence,
or worldly maxms of self righteous NOR
atty can cleanse or compare with them.
All this and much more must have, will
have taken place before that bright, emf
nent epoch a hundred years in the future,
which answers to this one as the snowy
splendors of the Sierra stand over against
the rugged dullness of our Rocky mount
aims, and which you and will never see in
the flesh. But God and our children, and
perhaps we from some heavenly hill, sh0ll
see much more than this, wbich it would
now be deemed iiorid extravaganza to an
tcipate. If, that ia, it is true what you
say, that we shall last and find 'in more OF
life true life" still more, another hundred
years. THY people also shall be all right
eous they shall inherit the land forever,
the branch of my planting, the work of my
hands that may be glorlfed. the Lord
will hasten il in his time"
But it remains to be said and | think
you will agree with me, that we have nc
need 10 be gingerly cautious of anything
that will make our country more christians
both in name and in reality. II it ia chris
tian in name only, like some of the nomi-
nal christian governments of Europe, it j:
not So in reality. And if 1t Is christian il
reality, it will not hesitate to put the wore
God wherever his honor and our best in
terests and convictions demand that il
should be. If the question is not raised o.
recognizing him in our constitution as thu
God of all empire we will not agitate Thu
matter and hope others will not But if Al
inexplcable sequence of discussion ant
events draws US on to that battlefield
whether we will or not, as no army can al
ways CnCUbC to OWil IBhtihS tiihC VI Sibhht
and il there is rabble of his haters lik'
that which once in France voted him on
of the universe and then rode rongh-shot
over his humble Hucgonot disciples-ant
France has not recovered from that bias
phemy to-day-if that issue is forced upoI
us, which God forbid, and we do not ex
pect it, see no harm in saying, but inf
mite harm and shame in not saying, in blacl
and white, in our constitution, that TIT
God of America is the ever living Jehovah
1t is true, we had better have his spirit il
our lives, and his word only between tn,
lives of our common law but do not lie
men say too often and too tlippantly, tina
it is no matter whether we acknowledg
him or not, when we are challenged 20 ack
nowledge or deny him For that very say
ing is challenge, which only forments tn
perhaps unwise agitation Of the subject
do not expect that agitation to carry u
away. Our loyalty to God will show itsel
in private and public thankfulness on &C
casions like this, and in such places and as
semblages as Observation-Disclosures for VIVA
we have of good, and in preserving it
Here at least their is no cOnslraint. II j
is silly and fanatical for our representative
to pray with bowed head and earnest, pro
found sincerity in congress; if it is sectai
ian to read the Testament in school, and
thing to be sneered at, the idea of havin
this nation any more christian than Mo
hammedan or infidel here certainly, undo
this roof, and on this day, without let ol
lingering fear of the secularsts, of the sub
tie and tinical fools that have said, there i
no "God in American history; we need no
be hampered by the cob-webs of their con
tempt, but shout cheerfully "with lou
noise" God is in American history. :
let him be more and more And let all tn
people say, Amen.
lie is in our constitution in that very Pre-
vision, that the government shall do nott
ing to enforce or hinder the propagation O
christianity. That is, christian doctrine
The church does not propagate itself b
force AS soon as she seeks to do go, sh
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