The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-09-28


as this. Cries Of shear" "hear"l Ihave
Ichcers.y j knew especially that il was
srmy' lc Chez II knew that the men whom
had met on fields Of battle were not towards
enough 70 threaten 70 be assassins. ! knew
that. and felt IL. for brave man knows
how "A brave man Will act knew that II
THE WHOLE FEDERAL ARMY
was canvassed--all the three million Of men
that they put into the neld-they could not
ind one hundred men among them all who
would forget that they had been soldiers and
and and, know il and say 70 you that have met
hundreds and thousands Of veterans. not
only In battle but since the war, and had the
solution of those troubles after the war
been left 10 the men Of both armies who
fought on many battleficlds, we would have
had none of the troubles and sorTOws and
wrongs and evils OF reconstruction. Loud
cheers Brave men would resort 10 no such
measures as that. lChcers.l My friends, /!
have spoken very little about agriculture.
raise na fs "a k y"" dons
care 10 know how we grow cotton and make
sugar and plant rice and tobacco and dig
sweet potatoes. That would be of no interest
TO the people OF Illinois. should like, how
ever. 70 talk 70 you, II had time OF your
great state. ] may not live TO see IL, but
many Of you will live 20 see
THESE FERTILE VALLEYS
illed up. part OF your state Is called
Egypt" Why could you not be as prosper
Gus As the Egypt OF old? We are told by an
cienf writer's that along the Nile there we're
in "A space OF ten or twelve thousand square
miles twenty thousand cities and towns and
eight millions Of people in them. lou in ILL.,
nois have over nifty thousand square miles.
wn., mould yoSYr W n
as that on the Nile. You have a climate far
better, and above all you are peopled by the
younger races q the world, ana the grand; q
your hands, Think what the Mississippi val
ley H. Think that Il reaches from the Blue
Mounain n. on the east ito 70 the Rocky Mon .,a
I tropics to where perpetual snow shines in the
sunlight. Think of the hundreds Of millions
OF people that could be supported here, and
then think OF
THE GLORIOUS DESTINY
that must be yours; and when you think OF
what may be that glorious destiny forget not
what was the destiny Of the people OF Egypt.
Rich and cultivated a. they. were, with sci
they have died, leaving only stupendous pyr-
amids as burial places for their dead and the
ruins of splendid temples that were dedicat-
ed 70 the worship OF apes and crocodilcs. lou
have the great problem TO solve that the peo-
pie Of all times have had 70 solve. The great
! problem Of the relations Of labor TO capital,
the great problem Of the relations OF people
and states TO the General Government, and
that problem is made more difficult by the
infusion Of universal suffrage. But believe
tntt We tan ~oiet 0iat 4utrtltu II VIC atfotc
10 IL one half the energy that we do TO mate
rial pursuits. We can do IL by education;
and when ! say education do not mean the
mere improving of faculties 20 that one can
read and write. mean
THE EDUCATION or HEART AND SOUL
as well as the mind. when you have sue
cceded in doing that, when You will make
man learn that all learning Is foolishness in
the light Of God, when you can teach him that
and make him look 20 God for life and Tree
DOM then we will be on the high road that
leads 20 peace, prosperity, and happiness.
My friends, l. have been led on into saying
more than intended can only close as
have begun. by thanking you for the cordial
welcome that you have given me- IL II more
than personal honor and do not take IL as
such. ! take II as an evidence OF the good
will OF the people of Illinois to the people OF
my own state in the far south. lApplause;l
We are all now bound together We are all
standing under one nag, obeying one Consti-
tuition, and IL H. for us 70 say what will be the
future of this country. Give u- your help and
we will give you our hearty co operation. We
feel and know that II this Is done, II we can
have n restoration Of fraternity, II we can
make the people o. this country understand
each other we feel then that there's
GLORIOUS FUTURE
before the whole country. We can make il
So We can make IL so by each and all of US
performing in his allotted sphere his duty,
and having done that 20 leave consequences
10 God. Having performed our duty, looking
back to the past only to gain wisdom for the
future, and using the present wisely, ana
looking to the future with hope and trust in
God, am sure that we may all say, North ana
south. paraphrasing the wish OF the poet. that
our states may all be distinct as the pillows,
yet one rs the sea. lApplausc-l