Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-21
GRANTS PARSON.
He Tells Us What He Learned as He Sailed
Around the World at Public EXPENSE.

ne Tells US What He Learned as He Sailed
Around the World at Public Expense.
The lecture last evening at the Opera House
by the Rev. DR.. Newman was literally attend
ed and highly appreciated. The speaker was
introduced by j. Ham Davidson and began his
remarks by stating that he was not in phys
zeal condition to do justice to his subject, by
reason of a severe cold and hoarseness. His
subject, Our Country; It's Mission and It's
Future;' was handled in manner that showed
he had made good use of his opportunities
during his foreign travels. He prefaced
his remarks with lot of sta
tIstlcs, showing the difference in crime,
pauperism, intelligence, etc., between the vari-
GUS European countries and our own. At the
head OF European nations stands England, in
civil, social moral, political and religious ex-
cellence; and crime, pauperism and iliteracy,
even In that model country is three hundred
per cent. greater than in the United States. He
paid glowing tribnte to France, and spoke of
the progress she had made in the last century.
Alexander the Second of Russia, was paid a
fine compliment for lifting twenty-eight mil
hon serfs from bondage up to the broad
basis of freedom, civil and religious
the land of flowers and the fine arts, but IL
literacy. priest-craft and superstition dark
ened the picture, and clouded her bright skies
and sunny cline with moral blot that the
leaven of centuries has been unable to cleanse.
But the nations of the earth were stepping for
ward into the daw n of brighter era. The
seed planted by the Pilgrim fathers were ger
minating, and the dynasties of Europe were
beginning to throb with the spirit of freedom
caught from the young giant on
this side The United States and the
European powers were in the very
geographical centre of the highest order of
| intelligence and advancing civilization. Within
the confines of those boundaries grand sys-
tenn of republics would arise from which the
outside nations would imbibe the spirit of a
new life, and the world would be redeemed
| through the saving grace of republicanism and
religious liberation. There was a growing
| strength to-day in the body polite the world
over, and with all the lessons of history to help
on the progress of the ages there can be no re-
| progression of the nations.
The speaker alluded to the blacks of the
South, of the exigencies of the war that
brought about their freedom. 1t was not for
their sakes that they were freed, but it was a
war necessity. To-day they are virtually in
the hands of their old masters, and it remained
to be seen whether they would abuse that power
or treat them fairly in their new found condi-
ton. Those who made them free, however
would see that their freedom was main
tanned. In speaking of the Mongolians
he thought the spirit and intent of
our government was to make our country
an asylum for the oppressed of all nations
We have opened the gates and invited the ma
lions to come in and dwell among us, and how
can we discriminate? The Chinese on our
Pacific border were law-abiding and industri
Gus, and they were adding to the wealth of the
country, and as such their rights should be re-
spected.
In speaking of the growth of liberalism and
contrasting the present time with the condition
OF things hundred years ago, he said ''the great
Ulyssus had slept in Windsor CASTLE" Laugh
ter. The speaker closed his lecture with a
glowing tribute to our country her people, and
her institutions. The growth of conscience