Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13
FIRING THE PATRIOTIC HEART.
bishop Haven's Political Sermon Over the
Remains Of the Chisholm FamiIy-Another
Civil War Pradictea
From the Chicago Times.


Remains Of the Chisholm FamiIy-Anoshel
Civil War Pradictsd
I From the Chicago Times
An immense audience gathered on
Sunday last at the Metropolitan
Methodist church. of Washington. 10
attend the services in commemora-
ton of the massacre of the Chisholm
family iD Kemper county, Mississi~
ppi, on April 10Th, 1877. A large
number of prominent persons were
present, among them many leading
literary persons. Mrs. Chisholm and
the surviving members of the family
were present and occupied the front
seats. and the widow during the
entire services was so overcome as
to be compelled to rest her head in
the lap ola lady friend and weep.
On several occasions the audience
INDUCED in applause After giving
a graphic and detailed history of the
massacre, the bishop concluded as
| follows:
We shall not enter into field that
lies before your every thought. Why
was this deed done and what shall
be the end if these things are allow
ed to go unrebuked of the nation ?
You need not that | should teach
you your indicting. No pleasant
thought; perhaps it may prove a
profitable matter. The angel of
death, not God-sent, but devil-sent
hovers over much of our land, smit-
ing with blood strokes the victim of
his cruel wrath. He has left your
homes free, yet only for season.
Sensation.1 If we allow murder for
opinions sake to be the law of one
part of our land, it will soon be of
all parts. Can one member suffer
and not all suffer with it? Can a
leading citizen and his family be set
on and slain in Massachusetts and
peace and safety attend the ballot
in Mississippi ? No more can the
reverse be true. The present honey.
combing of Pennsylvania with MUIR
der which stern and unrelenting JUS
tice cannot abate, the communistic
threatenings in Chicago aud Califor-
nia,the bloody strike along the Ohio,
the tramps wandering murderously
over one-half of the Union, is the
natural, the inevitable outcome of
the unwillingness of the national
government to protect its citizens 10
the other half The theory that state
governments have absolute coutrol
Of life and death within their terri-
tories that the nation cannot cross
their boundaries TO protect it's citi-
zens and punish their murderers, has
brought US to this weak and miser-
able pass. We are affrlghted at the
shadow glowering at our own
hearthstones. In secluded Vermont,
in crowded Cincinnati, in remote
Maine, in central Indiana, the same
terror besets us by night, tie same
deadly danger by day. One Indian
massacre arouses every part of he
land. be it the Modocs of Oregon. or
the Sioux of Minnesota, or the Uies
of Colorado, or Comanches, of Ari
coma. Indignation and wrath leap
from end to end of the continent. and
that, too, when no one dreams that
the dreaded foe is to steal again 10
to eastern homes and renew its hor-
rors in Wyoming or Schenectady.
But this deed has universal national
application. 1t proves universal ma
tional weakness 1t breeds univer-
sal national disaster. A people that
cannot protect itself is no people.
TApp!ause]. 1t falls to pieces when
it allows its members to be cut TO
pieces. The old world is overgov-
erned, we undergoverned. 1t strikes
US more forcibly than the lack Of our
nation al power over its own citizens.
Unless stronger government arises
we shall dissolve and disappear as
nation. We sigh for the verification
Of the seal of Massachusse an up
lifted arm holding sword, which
alone gives peace and quiet under
liberty. W. have taken the first
step in verifying our right to exist
as 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 right, [Applause] We must
defend freedom of speech and free
dom of ballot Or we perish from the
earth. Prolonged applause.] To
this coming perfection Of national
peace and power this sad 9ent will
contribute. The family group are
martyrs to American equality of
right, to the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence, and the preamble of the con-
stitution. 1t was for the cause of
equal rights that the father fought
and the family fell. It was for the
protection of every citizen at the
polls, for true democracy, the gov
eminent of the majority of the vo-
ters, legally and freely expressed, for
the American nation, for the right
of mankind, that this citizen of
America, with the brave son and
Drawer daughter laid down their lives
Applause. God forbid that the ban
ner of universal bitterness of spirit
shall light upon our land. Yet if the
deluge shall come, if the water of
death shall prevail even above the
tops of the highest mountain, if the
nation shall be wrapped to the flame
of civil strife more dire than we have
yet seen, and our indifference to the
fate of our brothers shall draw on
US o worse suffering, out oft all the
new earth shall come. The deluge
shall pass away. The land of righte-
BUSINESS, of brotherhood, of Christ,
without caste or violence or hatred
or disloyality or murder, shall ap.
pear above>the food. "[Sensation.
Referring to the two Chisholm
daughters by name, be said: "Cor-
nelia is q name that ranks high in
Roman annals. Her boast of her
sons as her jewels has shone her
highest jewel for more than twenty
centuries. This Cornelia excelled
the earliest of her name. Her jewel
was her passionate devotion to her
father in his hour of death. That
shall shine forever. No waste of
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