Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17

proud Is not ourS-that We, TOO, must
60 hence-that for the time only we
hold them in trust as charity y-fund for
the orphan worlds, methinks | hear the
soldier-dead again call out, in the Ian
guage of that sublime truth which comes
down to us through eighteen centuries,
"Now abideth faith, hope and charity,
these three but the greatest of these is
charity" Let me then urge upon you
the exercise of charity, not alone as an
individual virtue, but as the true alche-
my for transmitting into harmony the
many differences which always will arise
under government of the people. And
especially in these Strengthened times let
broad charity be exercised toward the
poor. Let capital be charitable towards
labor; indeed capital ought to know
that therein lies its only safety. for the
history of the race plainly shows that
capital is never safe when in the pres
ence of empty stomachs and idle hands.
If capital, then, would look well to its
own. it should provide some plan by
which the hungry should be fed and the
naked clothed. Then in turn will labor
no longer take counsel from those twin
apostles of communism. hunger and cold,
but will go merrily forth, clearing up
our forests, cultivating our fields, devel-
oping our mines and quarries. building
our railroads and canals, constructing
our breakwaters, building our ships and
cleaning out our rivers in short, push
ing forward those great physical enter
prises which constitute the material
wealth of people. and by means of
which capital again in turn doubles it
self. Meantime under such regime good
order would prevail, and the public
mind thus engaged would naturally be-
come less partisan in its methods, and
that good time celebrated by the ballad
ist might be reached,
"When no one would be for party,
When all would be for the State,
When the rich man would help the poor,
And the poor man would love the great"
But, comrades, we have not yet reach
ed this political millennium; and as you
journey thither you will encounter many
obstacles, and will need all the hope
which the future promises, all the inspi-
ration which the past afords-and the
past is full of inspiration.
When Napoleon led his army into
Egypt, he exhorted his battalions to
deeds of valor against the Mamelukes
by appealing to the past. Said he !:
"Soldiers, forty centuries look down up
on you from these Pyramids.
To the same end, the hero of Trafal-
gar, on the morning of that historic day,
stimulated his men to duty by remind.
ing them of Westminster Abbey-the
place where rest the ashes of England s
famous dead.
In like manner you also have West.
minister Abbey and what comes nearer
still to you, because filled with those
men who stood shoulder to shoulder with
you in the red glare of battle, you have
the numerous National Cemeteries, and
the known and unknown soldier graves
scattered all over the land.
You have, also, all the unconscious
influences Of the great deeds Of your An
glo-Saxon fathers, from Agincourt t.
Approximation Runnymede to Inde
pendence Hail. You have, also, all th,
precious memories of your own expert
ence in war that will make bright 1t
place in history. You have beneath
your feet Gods green earth /; above you
heads His bending sky; and surely witt
all these things to help you, holding al
honorable discharge as soldiers, you viii
never finch nor falter in the discharg
of whatever duty may fall to you as cit
lzens but ever maintaining as the ram
part of your liberties, the Union of thes
States, and the supremacy of the consti
tuition and the laws under that Union
you will in the work still left you to dc
be true in all things true to God, tru
to your neighbor and true to yourselves
THE FORTUNE TELLER,S