The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-06-06
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not afraid to speak the truth. The bod
les of the murdered Chisholm family
were brought North, where they could
have Christian burial, and services were
had last Sunday week at the Metropol:-
tan NJ. E. Church, in Washington City.
Bishop Gilbert Haven pronounced the
eulogy He said:
We will not enter on field that lies
before your every thought. Why was
this deed done, and what shall be the end
if these things are allowed to go unre-
buked of the Nation? Ye need not that
I should teach you. The angel of death,
not God-sent but devil-driven, hovers
over much of our land, shifting with
blood strokes the victims of its cruel
wrath. He has left our homes free, yet
only for season. 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 it2 Can leading citizen
and his family be set on and slain in
Massachusetts for political causes, aud
peace and safety attend the ballot in
Mississippi No more can the reverse be
true.
The present honey combing of Penn
sylvania with murder which stern and
unrelenting justice cannot abate, the
communistic threatenings in Chicago and
California, the bloody strikes along the
Ohio, the tramps wandering murderously
over one half Of our Union, are the natu-
raj, the inevitable outcome of the unwill-
ingness Of the National Government to
protect its citizens in the other half. The
theory that State Governments have such
absolute control of life and death within
their territories that the Nation can not
cross the boundaries to protect its citi-
zens and punish their murderers has
brought us to this weak and miserable
pass. We are frightened at the shadow
glowerings at our own hearthstones. In
secluded Vermont, in crowded Cincin-
natl, in remote Maine, in Central 1ndi-
ana, the same terror besets US by night,
| the same deadly danger by day. One
Indian massacre arouses every part Of the
land, be it the Modocs of Oregon, or the
Sioux of Minnesota, or the Utes of Colo
| rado, or the Comanches of Arizonia, in
dignation and wrath leap 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 re-
new his horrors at Wyoming or Schenec-
tady But this deed has universal ma
tional application 1t proves universal
national weakness. 1t breeds universal
national disaster. people that cannot
protect itself is no people. Applause. ]
1t falls to pieces when it allows its mem
bers to be cut to pieces. The Old World
is over-governed-we under governed.
Nothing strikes one more forcibly than
the lack of our National power over our
own citizens. Unless a stronger Govern
ment arises, we shall dissolve and disap-
pear as a nation. We sigh for the verifi-
cation of the seal of Massachusetts,, an
uplifted arm holding a sword, which
alone gives peace and quiet under liberty.
We have taken the first step in verifying 6
our right to exist 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 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 event will con-
tribute. This family group are martyrs
to American equality of right to the
Declaration of Independence and the
preamble of the Constitution. 1t was for
the cause Of equal rights that the father
fought and the family fell. 1t was for
the protection of every citizen at the
polls, for true democracy, the govern
ment OF the majority of the American
nation, for the rights Of mankind, that
this citizen Of America with his brave son
and braver daughter laid down his life.
| [Applause. God forbid that the horror
of universal bitterness of spirit shall
light upon our land Yet if the deluge
shall come, if the waters of death shall
prevail even above the tops of the loftiest
mountains, if the Nation shall be wrap
ped in the flames of civil strife more dire
than we have yet seen, and our inditfer-
ence to the fate Of our brothers shall
doom us to a worse suffering, out of it all
shall the new earth come. The deluge
shall pass away. The land Of righteous
ness, of brotherhood of Christ without
caste, or violence, or hatred or disloyalty
or murder shall appear above the flood