The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1877-01-25
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Dec. %,

rive copy the following Interest,"
ing letter from the National (Ind)
Banner. We think it contains n
good bit of common sense, and hope
oil will read it and agree with US
Ed. Posr
The move vo 1.-Two. IN, moe brier appear
Our LIES succee ding stage.
A day u childhood seems a year
AID years iixs passing ssss.-oAMrsfLt
More than q twelve mon th has
passed since tho writer has given ev
ideuce OF his existenca.to the readers
OF The Banner through its generons
columns. The time seems q little
more than n summer day and VIM
ter evening, 30 silent aud uneventful
has been the gliding on of existence
tho unseen, unfelt progress Of my
life. But in the wider, broader,
more eventful life OF our national
existence, how marked have been the
scenes through which we have pass.
cd, and how much Of history we
have made in our brief year!
A RErRosprcr.
As We look back upon the events
which mark it's course, and which
alone remind us how it ran. the sues
cessful accomplishments OF the first
century Of our existence as q Repub-
lie Of frecmen marks an era in our
history, SECOND only to the Declara.
ton Of our Independence, one hum
dred years ago.
The celebration OF oar CentenniIl,
at Philadelphia, was success in
every particular, aud tho results
crowned with new laurel tho truth
OF the adags that "Peace hath her
victories no loss renowned tha war"
The nation was brought together at
Philadelphia as it had never been
brought together before during its
history. In ono hundred years OF
intense industry and marvellous do
velopment we have grown from few
feeble colonies to powerful nation
Of more than forty millions Of people.
We have been so busy that We have
never been able to look one another
in tho face, except during four terri
BILE .rs Of civil war. In friendly
wav, for brotherly courtesies, we
have never until this year como to
gether. Well. that which divided
US il h,ppily gone, anl aronnd the
old family alter at Philadelphia. AS
y consolidated and rs uuited nstion.
,.,lity, we met and e'nbraco1 like
brothers, casting into forgctfulness
.ho bitterness en- ,enlerei by tho
oiyil war-and rejoicing together in
tuo greatness AMI grandeur Of the
present, aad together looking to the
future when Faith is lost in full
frui,ion'-wien iroo America shall
achieve still greater peaceful victor
io' and develop still moro her won-
derful resources of national wealth
and prosperity.
Added to our cen tennial anniver
sary, aud as another item of univer-
sal interest for the future historian,
is that Of our past and present
PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST,
when the remarkable feat is seeming.
ly accomplished OF electing two
Chief Magistrates for a united peo-
pie. Ii is to be earnestly hope,
that tho good sense aud sound iuds.
ment Of tho American people will
not permit this unfortunate anomaly
in our national affairs to counteract
the good feeling offraternity engen-
dered at Philadelphia, but that ont
Of the presant chaotic condition of
our political whirlpool will come Or
der, harmony, goodwill and revi-
val of the business of the country.
For more aud more it becomes evil
dent that the hope Of the Republic
s the personal virtue. honesty and
Judgment of its inhabitants-outside
of offics.holders aud otfce -seekers,-
md that in the present crisis OF po-
itical affairs, as in every great crisis,
the essential condition to q success
'ul issue rests entirely upon the
moral worth. Of the individual citi>
zen. Whoever ia to be our next
whether Hayes or Iilden,
ve have sufficient faith in the
American people to believe that he
will be such by peaceful means on
y. aud not by resorting to tho pas.
Iions Which will lead Us into another
.errible war.
YEAR OF UNUSUAL nohAoa
The columns Of our daily newspa'
,ers have day after day. during the
rear just closiug.. teemed with ac~
,ouuts Of shootings and stabbings
Indmurders in every revoltiug form
n which the sin Of Caia has learned
o hide its bloody front, or stssl mp
N its unsuspecting victims. But
very now and then the constant
'ecord OF violent desths 10 broken
n upon by the louder sud deeper
'oice OF some great calamity, in
vhioh human life is cut down as by
! broadside OF sharpnsll and tossed
~ Wholesale into the black pit that
3 bottomless. First and foremost
a order of time, as we'll a. in the
lwful aud appalling depth Of the
tragedy, came the fearful massacre
u the gallent
CUSTER AND MS aALLENr MEN.
Every one who hos read tho story
las fslt every nerve within him