The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-06-06
BISHOP HAVEN.
He Expresses Himself ST the Funeral
or the Murdered Chisholm
Family.

The angel Of death, not God-seut
but devil-Jriven, hOvers over mucl
Of our land, shifting with blood
strokes the victims Of his cruel wrath
He has left your homes free, yet only
for season. IL We allow murder fOl
opinions sake to be the law OF one
part Of our land, it will soon be of al
parts. Can one member suffer and
not all suffer with ii ? Can q leading
citizen and his family be set on and
slain in Massachusetts for political
causes, and peace and safety attend
the ballot in Mississippi ? No more
can the reverse be true. The present
hOneycOmbing Of Pennsylvania with
murder, which stern and unrelenting
Justice can not abste the Commun-
istic threatenings in Chicago and
California the bloody strikes along
tue Ohio; the tramp wandering muir
derOusly over One-haii of our Union,
Is the natural, the inevitable outcome
of the unwillingness of the national
government to protect its citizens in
the other half The theory that State
| governments have such absolute con-
troll Of life aud death within their ter
ritOries that the nation can not cross
their boundaries to protect its citizens
and punish their murdereTs has
brought US to this weak and miserable
pass. We are Rtlrighted at the shad-
nW glOwering at our own hearthstOne.
Iu secluded Vermont; in crowded
Cincinnati In remote Maine; in
Central Indiana, the same terror be-
sets Us by night, the same deadly
danger by day.
Ono Indian massacre arOuseS every
part Of the land, be it the ModOc OF
Oregon, or the Sioux OF Minnesota, or
the Utes, OF Colorado, OF the Conan
ches of Arizona, indignation and
wrath leaps from end to end of the
continent, and that, too, when no one
dreams that the dread foe Is To steal
again into Eastern homes and renew
his horrors at Wyoming or Scheuec-
tady. But this deed has universal
national application. 1t proves uni
iversal national weakness it breeds
universal national disaster. a people
that can not protect itself Is no peO-
pie. It falls to pieces when it allows
its members to be cut To pieces. APP
plause.l
Said gentleman TO me but yester-
NAyI WIZ hhN just ACNuAbCu lIOul
abroad: "The old world is over gov
erned." Nothing strikes one more
fOrcibly on re-entering his land than
the lack OF national power over its
own citizens. Unless q stronger gov
ernment arises we shall dissolve and
disappear as 3 nation. We sigh for
the verifieatiOn OF the seal of Massa-
chusetts, an upIifted arm holding 8 /
sword which alone gives placid quiet
under liberty. We have taken the
first step in verifying our right to ex-
ist as a nation on gigantic fields of
strife by bloody and costly valOr. We
must carry forward and complete this
work in the national protection OF
every citizen in his every right. APP
plause. We must defend freedom of
speech and freedom or ballot, or we
perish from the earth. To this COM
ing perfection of national peace and
power this sad event will cOntribdte.
This family group are martyrs to |
American equality of right, to the
IhRee hReetaeSni6l6 81 iii" constitution. 1t
was for the cause OF equal rights the |
father fought and the family fell. 1t |
was for the protection OF every citizen |
at the polls for true Democracy ; the |
government OF the majority of the |
voters, legally and fearlessly express ]
ed; for the American nation for the |
rights OF mankind that these citizens |
of America, laid down their lives.
Their cries OF agony and death shall |
never be forgotten, never below, new
er above;
"TheIr means
The wales redOuble to the hills, and they
To heaven"
Their forms will be wrought into |
marble, painted upon canvas, honor
ed in prose and verse, held In high |
and higher remembrance as years and |
ages go by. The children of the faith |
ers who so ignOrantly slew them will
build their sepulchres. That lone and |
dread procession that thrice threaded |
the dismal path 8 score Of miles-A
feeble few, without minister or even /
sexton to assist them-bearing the |
bloody dead, In jeopardy OF life, as |
they pursued their mOurnful journey,
will yet be changed into q solemn,
PenltentiaI, but glad multitude Of the
citizens OF the same county, with
their wives and daughters and sons,
gathering about that green spot,
where they were thus buried,
to make confession OF their fathers
transgressiOn by such deeds of
atonement as marble, and eulOgy, and
prayer, and sermon are able to give.
May those remains, now on their way
to 3 safer resting place, he recalled, as
were those Of Dante, by the city OF
his birth by those still hostile fellow
citizens to the place OF their birth and
death, and the name OF that country,
so dishOnOred how, by this act OF peni-
tence be restored to its former esteem.