Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-25

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over" The Democratic party says;
"Elect our man and the sectional strife
will be over" Now, l call you out from
the work Of mean personalities to settle
that one central question on the first
Tuesday in November. Discuss it,
pray over it; vote with reference to it.
1t is High Time that this Sectional Strife
Ended.
Massachusetts, and Alabama, after 9
long divorce, need to be married. The
Penobscot and the Appalachicola need
to find out that they are sisters. Fol
the sake Of civilization and religion and
the financial and moral welfare OF the
nation, break up this aggravating line
between the two sections. Let the pc .
pie 90 down and come up to the Ma.
tional cemeteries at Richmond and Muir
freesboro, and by the graves OF the blue
and the grey, forgive and forget, and
pray and embrace each other. Surely
fifty years OF quarrels are enough! Bad
blood enough. National debt enough
Graves enough! Widowhood enough !!
Orphans enough! Agony and woe
enough! hope that We are having the
last political platform in which there
shall be any mention OF North or South.
II we are to
Be in . Perpetual Wrang'e
from age to age, think it would have
been e:ter to have let the South 90 in
1861. Your fathers and brothers, who
imperille and lost their lives in that
great contest, fought to keep the South,
not that We might be in more conven-
lent antagonism, but with the hope that
in the future there might be unity and
good understanding. Lock out how
any OF you defeat the Object for which
that great holocaust was enacted.
Let the sections visit each other and,
as the Brigadier Generals OF the South
have during the last month stood in
Cooper Institute, New York, so before
the election has passed let Brigadier
Generals OF the North stand in the
great halls OF Charleston and New Or.
leans. Let Northern men escape the
wintry blasts by trip to the orange
groves oil Florida, and Georgians the
torrid blasts OF summer by visit to
Saratogaand Long Branch. AS once
you came face to face to destroy each
Otner,
Now Come Face to Face to Bless
Once YOU crossed swords, now cross
palms. Let not the sun Of this genera
ton 20 down on our national wrath.
Before We, who are now in mid life, lay
our heads in death, may We see the
whole nation paciled. We cannot well
sleep our last sleep until these angry
,nl b,, ah.l EAF
They would disturb our pillow Of dust.
BE still, the North, BE still, the South,
BE still the East. BE still, the West,
And let the united nation do homage to
the God OF the Maine forest and Florida
lagoon, Michigan wheat field and South
Carolina rice swamp, New Jersey peach
orchard and Mississippi plantation. Let
the ballot box Of the first Tuesday in
November be the altar upon which We
shall sacrifice all our sectional hates and
the throne on which national unity
shall begin her benevolent Sway.
TIL, Obiec, of the Sermon.
You see that the first OF my two SER
mons on the Presidential contest has for
its design, first, to call you away from
the defamation Of public men; second
Is, to concentre your attention upon the
one great question as to how best We
shall obliterate all sectional antipathes
There are three reasons why we are
bound to do our best for this country;
UuI fati',."' -.-'~.', ~,-' o-" ,,"oiv an"
our chidren's birthright. When | say
our fathers graves | make Your pulses
run quicker. Whether they rest in tie
city cemetery or village graveyard, their
ashes are precious. They lived well
and died right. We will never submit
to have have their tombs dishonored by
the reign OF any other government than
that under which they lived and died.
Yea, this land was our cradle. We may
have been in it roughly rocked, but
still it was a good cradle to be rocked
in. How much We owe it, Dear land
of our boyhood and girlhoOd days.
Yea, it is to be our childrcn's birth
right.
We Will Soon be Done With II.
We will not see many more OF its spring
blossoms, or reap many more OF its sum.
mer harvests, or gather much more "t
its adtumnal fruits But our children!
They must get it from us as we got 1t
from our iathers-a free land, happy
land, Christian land. We cannot have
them trod OH OF despotism, or lashed OF
crucl.ies, or ailrighted OF anarchy. We
hand this country 10 them over the
ballot box, over the desk OF the school
room. over the church altar, and charge
them to put their own lille between 1t
and any keen stroke that would destroy
it.
And now, Lord God Almighty We lay
hold of Thee, in thousand-armed
PRAYER. Remember how for this land
our fathers walked with bleeding feet
through Valley Forge. Remember the
hunger anu the thirst and the cold, the
long march and the fever hospital. Re-
member the charge up Bunker Hill.
Remember Marion and Kosciusko. Re
member Lexington and Yorktown, and
Kings Mountain and Gettysburg. Look
upon the lake where Perry fought, and
Hampton Roads where the Cumberland
went down.
Remember Washington Praying by the
Camp Fires.
Remember Plynout rock and the
landing among savages. Remember In
dependence Hall and how much il cost
our fathers to sign their names. Re.
member all the tears and blood OF three
ars-l716, and 1872 and 1864. Yea,
remember the groan that was mightier
than all the other groans, and the thirst
that was sharper than all other thirsts,
and the wounds deeper than all other
wounds, and the death ghastlier than
all other deaths. the mount where Jesus
died to make all men happy and free,
and for the sake OF al, this human and
divine sacrifice. have mercy on this
nation: and whosoever would blot II
out, whosoever would cut it down, aud
whosoever would turn it back, let him
be accursed.
Go home in high hope; the car OF
national progress will never roll back
ward, God is on the side OF this
nation.
He h Is sounded forth the trumpet that shall
never call retreat;
He i sitting out the hearts Ct men tctore His
judgment seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, TO answer Him Be juo!-
liant my feet
our God Is marching on.
Republican Demonstration at Chicago.
CHICAGO, October 23.-The Republi-