The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-06-03
miscellaneous.
TALMAeE ON, "PoL1T1cs."
He Ventures to Suggest His Creator as a Dele
gate. at-Large to Chicago aud Cincinnati

gate at-Large to Chicago ana CincinhAu'
At Talmage's Tabernacle on Sunday
morning, the 23d, a crowd assembledto
hear what the man on the platform had
TO say about politics. In opening his
sermon, DR.. Talmage said:
Encouraged by the example Of the
best ministers in all ages, and by our
duty as good citizens, and the authority
of the word of God, l address you to-day
on national affairs, and you will receive
what l say in silence. My text is, Acts
of the Apostles 1928; "I was born free"
Seven hundred years before Thomas
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of indie
pence, Paul uttered these words, Ispeak
to you Of the despotism of American
politics, and how we are to treat it. The
troops are gathering at Chicago and Gin
c%innati, the ~stragglers are being whipped
into line. The political guillotines are
rolled out, and the reCalcitrants are
shown the blade and the basket; dele
gates are having the stout rope of in
structions put about their necks, and
they are given to understand that it may
tighten until they will breathe with dis
comfort. Every town has its boss, and
every state its bigger boss, and all these
meet together and select a biggest boss.
l protest against this, l demand that at
every ballot box men shall vote as they
please, with God only as Judge. First,
we must refuse to belive that every four
years everything is at stake. If our gov
eminent is 80 riCkety, let it 60 to pieces,
and let us have a government with some
elements Of strength in it. I Lave seen
ten general elections, and each time the
country was just on the verge of the
preCipice of destruction but more than
half the time nothing has been at stake
except the possession of Office. One tells
us we are to have bloody Caesar on the
throne, who will Rave vultures and buz.
yards as parlor pets, and turn the capitol
into a colosseum of debauchery, and on
the other side we are to have an old
paralytic who will pension off the rebel
brigadiers, reinstall African slavery, and
let the South miserably eat up the North
l recall, when eight years of age, l heard
in the broiling sun at Somerville, N. j,
from a western orator, that the election
of Harrison over Van Buren, would make
it useless for me to grow up, because
there would be no country to live in.
Last autumn we were told the existence
of the state depended on the outcome of
the duel between Robinson and Cornell.
But ies us quit this crisis business, and
let us believe that God made this Connt.
ry to last, and that it will not depend on
the work at Chicago or Cincinnati in the
least. The only difference will be that
if the Democrats get in you Republicans
will get out, and that is all. But even
that may not happen, for your profess
sional politicians have a way of chang
ing their political sentiments, and they
do it "conscientiously" too. The old
lion of the Government has had his
body covered with the miserable little
blue bottle flies of oficeholders, and if
he shakes his name in November, he
may only get a or lwd of other blue bot
tie flies still more hungry. Men may be
Disseminated against, but not parties. l
put the Louisiana Returning Beard in
opposition to the Maine fraud; | put the
Belknap rottenness against the Tweed
blasphemy, and say there is six of Oae
and half a dozen of the other. We need
a man who has an established moral
character. | am grad to see more NOR.
ais brought into view, greater integrity
of character. We have had in the past,
libertines in the Presidential chair, and
one Vice President was sworn in drunk.
/ say the man must be a respecter of the
Christian ~religiOn-aye, he should have
a good, Christian character. This nation
was settled by the Puritans, and our ba-
sis of government is not the Constitu.
ton, but the Bible. Our first President
was a Christian, and we have never had
his equal, in that respect at least. He
must be able to represent all the States.
lie must not be a sectional man, nor the
f~avorite of any section. When General
Wa hington took his seat he only had
thirteen coursers to drive, but the next
man will have forty horses in his care,
and -ome of them very skittish. too,
but the wire bit of the telegraph makes
it easy to manage them. All lies in the
will and ability of the man to do it. Let
us kill ~sectionalism, and let US have
twenty years of quiet amnesty; aud cul.
tivate friendship and general good feel
ing with all sections of u country. Can
we not raise good crops OF wheat wit b.
out saturating the soil with human car.
mage? Is it necessary to strew the land
with human bones as fertilizers, and
punctuate the continent with monu.
ments. l give you as the panacea of all
political ills-the Characterization of the
people. Lift them to an appreciation of
moral ends, The politicians got us into
the four years war, and the people lifted
the country out. Let the churches have
the ballot box, and hat will end repeat
ing. Hold your primaries in the Chur-
ches. Let us have more of the notes of
Gladstone to Austria. Some people de.
clare it weak. | declare that apology
sublime. | believe God has grand things
in store for this nation. The morning
smiling on our eastern shore will give
glad greeting to the red band of the ev.
ening on our western edge. Most High
God Of Bunker Hill and Appomattox
Court House, protect this land! l care
not who is President, only so he posses
es a good, sound, Christian character,
and God, only, shall be king.
Then in the closing prayer Mr.. Tai
mage requested that strong drink be ia
ken out Of politics, and that "God GO as
delegate at large to Chicago and Cincin.
natl.
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