Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-30

now on their way to safer resting
place, be recalled, as were those Of
/ Dantes, BY the city of his birth, by
| those still hostile citizens to til
place of their birth and death, and tn,
name of that country, SO dishonored
now, by this act of penitence be re
stored 50 its former esteem.
To the future then, poor stricken
wife and mother, poor fatherless AM
sisterless youth, to the future cas-
your wet but hopeful eyes, wet witt
joyful tears, tears for the dead beloved
Joy that they died so gloriously an
won in one short hour immortal fame
! Had they not thus died the world haC
never known them. Had they not thu
died, liberty, equality, fraternity fol
all our land and all its peoples, perhaps
had never been attained. There may
be many another bloody step ere that
high tablets humanity and Amer
lea is reached. 1t may be that others
who now speak and hear may be re-
quired also to make for their nation,
like holy sacrifice. In this city,
where our greatest citizen gave his life
| for the life Of the land, we can pr oper
ly note the slow and bleeding feet OF
| the martyrs to Christ and our country.
May we if called be as willing and
ready to follow the Christ and these
his disciples for the protection of the
work Of human regeneration. It may
be that the whole nation will yet be
compelled to wrestle in the sweat OF
this great agony for equal rights of all
men, as it has had to wrestle for indie
pendence and for existence. 1t may
be that Encleadus will yet arise from
under this mountain of permitted pre-
judice and hate in manner at which
all the world shall stand aghast-a
Kemper county massacre in every
hamlet Of the land. 1t may be that
we shall yet be compelled to cry out
in bitterness of spirit:
All me! for the Ian that is sown
With the harvest of despair.
Where the burning cinders blown
From the lips of the oTerthrown
Enceladus, fill the air!
God forbid that such horror shall
light upon eur land Ged viii not for
bid it if we let His children's blood cry
to Him from the ground. God did
not forbid, could not forbid Gains del
uge from washing out Gains sin.
Yet if the deluge shall come, if the
waters of death shall prevail even
above the tops of the highest mount
aims; if the nation shall be wrapped in
the flames of I'LL strife more dire than
any we have yet felt, and our indiffer-
ence to the fate Of our brothers shall
doom us to a worse suffering, ont of it
al shall the new earth come The
deluge shall pass away, the land of right
| eousness, of brotherliness, of Christ.
| without caste or violence, or hatred, OF
disloyalty, or murder shall appear alb.
owe the food. And then will still
CLEAN forth, nay will more brightly
blaze, the fame of this just father, thi
brave lad, this Cornelean jewel of FL
ial maidenhood
Hope then. sad hearts; hope, endure
and be PATIENT Pray fer those who
despoiled your house of its heme, it,
head, its heart. Pray for them by
name, pray for them with all the heart
So will you be still one household, fol
thus prays your family in heaven, II
Christ they lived, for Christ they died
with Christ they dwell. Live ye il
Christ ia petition for the forgiveness:
Of your enemies, so that if spared thu
martyrs fate. you may still rejoice in
the martyrs crown, for then you shal
win like honors from God, with those
of your own flesh and blood that hay,
gone up, yes, blessed to the Lord
gone up, up, up, IN human love
and reverence, in earthly falae, inte
heavenly seats, through great tribula-
ton, and have washed their robes O
blood, and made them white ia the
blood of the Lamb who dice
for them az they died for Him, anc
will make them to reign with Him il
peace and bliss for ever and ever"
Yours truly,
X. Y. Y.
THE Investigating Committee have