The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-08-02
SOUTHERN outrage,
The Duty Of the Nation
to Protect Equal
Rights IN the
South.
Sermon by the Rev. DIR.
Bayliss on Assassination
for Opinion'tsake as
an Element of
Free Govern
mentn
From the Indiaaaposss JearaaI JaIy II


From the Iadiaaaposss Joarnai yaIy II.
Trinity NJ. E. Chufeh was crowd
ed to repletion last night to hear tn,
sermon of DIR. Bayliss, suggested by
the outrages upon the family of Sen
ator Twitchell, in Louisiana, witt
which this community have become
familiar by reason offhe funeral o.
Mrs. Helen E. Willis 10 this city
last week Hundreds went away
from the church because of lack O
room. The discourse was listened
to with the deepest interest, anc
three times the audience broke over
the restraints of the Tine and place
applauding loudly, when with earn
est indignation, the reverend gentle
man spoke of the insuh heaped upon
the memory Of the dead woman by
the editor oftbe Sentuael, 10 compar
ing her funera, to the funeral of 8
street-ear horse But the sermon
speaks for itself. 1t vas as follows
THE TEXT.
Ps KEW, l-6: o Lord God. to
whom vengeance belongelh; o God,
to whom vengenee beIongeth, show
thyself.
Lift up lhyself, thou judge of the
proud. Lord, how bng shall the
wicked, how long shall the wicked
triumph How long shall they utter
and speak hard things, and all the
workers of iniquity 9ast themselves:
They break in pieces thy people, O
Lord, aud afiiict thine heritage.
They slsy the widow and the stran.
ger, and murder the fatherIess.
Tue SERMON.
Without knowing or intending it,
the psalmist has here given US pie
ture Of large proportions ofthe South,
and has furnished form of PRAYER
tor the stricken oness
The truth has been forced upon US,
for we have had among us duriL g
the past week spectacle which to
many of US was appalling. We have
followed to the grave the remains OF
a woman who was killed by South
ern cruelty, and we hare seen follow
ing her in his solitary sorrow, man,
both Of whose arms have been de-
s,royed by bullets from rife in the
hands Of Southernor. The woman
is at rest. The angry surges of sec
tional hate will sweep over her no
more. The crack Of the assassin's
rifle cannot again disturb her sleep
She has heard of the murder Of her
kindred for The last time. Let US
congratulate her The brother is not
so. He still livec-lises to remem-
Der the graves of his murdered kin
dred; lives to look at the meager
stGmps of his helpless arms, and to
be reminded by them every day of
bis life of the malevolent coolness
with which an assassin, in open day,
in the most conspicuouslv public
place In Southern village, deliber-
ately fired twenty one shots at him
and his companions, and then rode
unmolested away. Lives also to
think that be has suffered all this in
a country for whose freedom and
unity he had received other wounds
in the open war. Some of US have
seen this man sitting in the deep
shadow of his bereavement, and alb
SO helpless that a friend was
compelled TO sit by and wipe for him
the tears which ran over his SCARED
face as be mourned for his dead. We
have seen bin helped Tito a carriage
by friends who found it difficult to
assist him because be had no arms
tor them to take hold Of; and yet be
could not go alone, because the same
assassin had made ghast,y wounds
in other parts of bis body.
And as We looked some of US went.
partly for pity for him, partly for
shame for our country that is SO stain
ID by those infamies, and partly in a
sort o. helpless indignation or impo-
ent rage that such is the structure OF
,ur government, and such its relation
% society and pubic sentiment, that
iuch outrages can be perpetrated by
be thousand, as they have been, and
he guilty parties go free, no arrests
made, no indictments found-a free
lot Of blood.
This comes home TO US. We hear
# such instances often, but they are
ar away and distance robs them OF
heir startling borriblepess. Indeed,
o the peacefulness of our Northern
ociety. it seems to US that the reports /
must be e4aggerations. 1t seems in
redibIe to US that in civilized society
ssassins should prexl about day
nd night. killing men for their op:n-
pms. The most of Us had read Of
his case, hut We gave little heed to
!. We did not hear the crack OF the
life, nor see the cool murderer ride