Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-18
PHILOSOPHICAL.
The Tremendous Exercise Of Faith Neces-
sa,'N to Endure THIS.

sayv to Endure This.
[Cincinnati Enquirer.
Notwithstanding the result of the election
in Ohio, on Tuesday, We firmly believe that
| the late civil war in America will one dav
end. 1t may not be in this day and genera
ton, but that war will some time close. We
have faith like quart of mustard seed-a
faith SURPRISING that of sacred history. We
say this, not unmindful of the faith of Ged-
con, and of Barak, and of Sampson, and of
Jephthae, and of David, and of Samuel and
of the prophets, who through faith subdued
Kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions, quenched the violence
of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of
weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in
fight, and turned to fight the armies of the
aliens. Apostles reminded US that ssthrough
faith, also, Sarah herself received strength to
conceive seed, and was delivered of child
when she was past age, because she pledged
him faithful who had promised" and that,
"therefore, sprung there even of one, and
him as good as dead, so many as the
stars of the sky in multitude, and as the
sand which is by the sea-shore innumer-
able" We have no wish to underrate the
instances of faith that float down to us from
the days of Abraham. We only desire to
emphasize our own. We are inclined to take
cheerful view of things. Almost half a
generation of men have come and gone
since the war closed, and still the war is
not ended. This would discourage people
without faith, but it does not discourage US.
There are little boys and girls prattling
in play yards, riding in baby car
riages, nursed beneath the pine or swinging
in hammocks, who can not read the news
papers of to-day, or of the day before the
last election, who will grow up and become
voters, or wives of voters, who will look
upon the war of 1861 as ended. AS these
babies get older they may sing together, be-
meath the same apple trees, "My country,
tits of thee," etc., and "Away down South in
the land of cotton" etc., and the childish
voices may chime together just as
though there had been no civil war.
And as little boys and girls grow
older they may mingle together in the
same schools, and attend the same
church, and look at the same pictures, and
read the same books side by side, without
knowing that some are Montsgues and some
are Capulets. And by and by the lustrous
eyed, tropical girl may be wooed and won by
GUS romances the opposite banks of the Ohio
may be more closely welded, and the war
may become tradition. Even if this is too
severe strain upon the imagination, our
faith still stretches out and sees children yet
unborn and unbegotten who will surely grow
up, and in the PROFESSIONS of seed time
and harvest, as life and love and
death run on, as marriage and business and
society draw closer together, the people of
the orange and the palm and the people of
the hills and hemlock will certainly discover
that the war of 1861 is ended. Or, even if
these unborn and unconceived children do
not consent to regard the late civil war as
closed, their children or their children's
children surely will. That war is bound to
end. Our faith tires not. We are the more
encouraged about this because the beauties
Of this social, and commercial, and political
Union have already attracted the attention
of the politicians. The administration saw
them more than two years ago.
We have faith, also, that the time will
come when valor and heroism for the union
may relieve Democrat from the charge of
treason, and when the loss of two legs and
an arm in the fight for the union will be con-
siderea primaa facie evidence of devotion to
it on the part of Democrat. 1t is already
demonstrated that the loss of one leg is in
sufficient. We have faith furthermore, that
the day will come when men will not be
afraid to vote for the Declaration of indie
pendence because it happens to bear Dem
ocratic label. We also believe that the time
will come when the people of this country
will not be anxious to hire and subsidize cor
porations to loan their debts.
But we see these things only by the eye
foSk NIo& - -
speak is not now. The people of Ohio have
said that they don't want union soldiers to
be at the head of the State government
They have said that they wish to retain the
national banking system in power; or, if
they do not SO wish, they have succumbed to
the seductions of the especial measures
which the national banks announced that
they would take to carry Ohio
for Mr.. Foster. The voters of Ohio,
at all events, have said that
they prefer National bank notes to green
backs and silver, and the chastened but in
domitable people of this great State have
voted that the secretary of the treasury
spans the heavens with his right hand, and
balances upon his finger the sunshine and
the storm, exercising, in some mysterious
way, controlling influence over the soil,
and being himself the industry, and enter
prise, and energy of millions of men, which
no vicious legislation could altogether over
come. Sometimes intelligent men are inca
pable OF rendering unto Caesar the things
that are Caesars, and unto God the things
that are Gods.
Washburn Will be Unseatsd.
Rice County Journal.
The contested election of Congressman in
in 1873, is still unsettled. We have received
pamphlet copy of the contestants brief,
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