Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-22
Chisolm Memorial Service.

Bi,hop Gilbert Haven delivered the address at
the Chisom Memorial Service, last Sunday, in
Washington. After referring to the circumstan-
ces Of Judge Chsolm's death he said
ave shall 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 al
lowed TO go uprebuked of the nation Ye need
not that should teach you. The spgel Of Death,
not God sent but devil-driven, hovers over much
of our land, shifting with blood strokes the VIC
tins of his cruel wrath. He has left your homes
free, vet only for a season IL VIC allow murder
for opinions sake to be the law of one par, of our
land, it will soon be OF all parts. Can one mem
Der suffer and not all suffer with It'll Can lead
ing citizen and his family be set on and slain in
Massachusetts, for political causes and peace and
safety attend the ballot in NJ ssissippi! No more
can tue reverse be true.
The present honey -combiug of Pennsvlvania
with murder which stern and unrelenting justice
cannot abste, the communistc threatenings in
Chicago and California the bloody strikes along
the Ohio, the tiamps wandering murderously over
one half of our Union, are the inevitable outcome
of the unwngDess of the national government
TO protect its citizens in the other half. The
theory that State goveI nments have such absolute
control of life and death within their territories
that the nation cannot cross the boundaries to pro-
tect its citizens and punish their murdcrers has
brought us to this weak and miserable pass. ln
secluded Vermont, 10 crowded Cincinnati, in re-
besets by night, the same deadly danger by day.
One Indian massacre aronses every part OF the
land, be it the Modocs of Oregon, or the Sioux of
Minnesota or the Utes of Colorado, or the Co.
msnches Of Arizona. Indignation 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 renew his horrors
at Wyoming or Schenectady. But this deed has
universal national application 1t proves univer-
sal national weakness. 1t breeds universal ma
tional disaster.
people that cannot protect itself is people.
Applause. 1t falls to pieces when it allows its
members to be cut to pieces. The Old Word is
over -governed-we under governed. Nothing
strikes one more forcibly than the lack of our Ma
iiopsl power over own citizens. Unless Q
stronger government arises, we shall dissolve and
disappear AS a nation. We sigh for the vertical
ton of the seal Of Massachusetts, an uphfted arm
holding sword, which alone gives peace and
quiet under liberty. We have taken the first step
IN verifying our right to exist as q nation 81
gantic 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 eve
ry right. Applause. We must defend freedom
Of speech and freedom of ballot, we Perish from
the earth. Prolonged applause.
To this coming pei fiction of National peace and
power, this sad event will contribute. This fami-
ly group are martyrs to American equality of right
10 the Declaration of Independence and the pre-
smble OF the Constitution. 1t was for the cause
ofequal rights that the father fought and the fam
lily fell. 1t WAS for the protection of every eli
zen at the polls. for true democracy, the govern
ment of the majority of the voters legally aud
fearlessly expressed for the American nation, for
| the rights OF mankind, that this citizen of Ameri-
| ca with his brave son and Drawer 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 loftest mountains, if the nation shall
be wrapped in the flames of civil strife, more DIRE
than any that we have yet SEEM and our indfer.
ence to the fate of our brothers shall doom US to
suffering, out oft shall the earth come.
The deluge shall pass away. The land of right
eousness, of brotherhood OF Christ without caste,
or violence, or hatred or di.loyslty or murder
shall appear above the food.