Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-16

Il
means complete and eternal smash-up.
IL makes the holding OF property crime
and II il had its way IL would put a
/ dagger through your heart and torch
J TO your dwelling, aud leave the world
| in the possession Of theft and lust and
| raDine and murder Where does tins
monster live? In Brooklyn AMI New
I York and every city and every village
| OF the laad. This monster offers
His Red Hand to This Far Republic
and saws ne will have her, II not by falr
means then by foul. He says he VIII
| break up the ballot box and the legis!a-
tive hall and the Congressional assem-
| bly. He will take this land and divide
II up, or rather divide it down. The
| idler shall have as much as the worker,
and the good as much as the bad. Nj
hilism, Tits panther, after prowling
across all nations, has set its paw OH our
soil and the time is not far distant when
il will make a spring for its prey. Ii
burnt the railroad property at Pitts
buryh i'm the great riot Ii killed black
people in our northern cities during the
war. IL mauled to death Chinese last
week in New York. Ii glares out OF the
drunkeries at sober people going by. 1t
would leave every church, chapel, ca
thedral, school and college OF the United
States in ashes. Nihilism. 1t is to day
the
Worst Foe oft the Poor Labor ng Man
in all the country. 1t browns out his
honest cry for reform with vociferation
for anger and blood. II the yagsbOnds
and criminals ranging through these
cities crying for their rights when their
first right is the penitentiary, could be
hushed up, the oppressed and down.
trodden laborer would have more bread
for his household. Riot and violence
have never won larger wages or more
prosperity. The best weapon in this
country is not the brickbat or shillelah,
but the ballot. Let not the poor come
under the banner of Nihilism. He will
make your taxes higher, your
wages smaller, your table scan
tier, your children hungrier,
your suffering greater. Still Nihilism
with ieet yet wet with carnage comes
forth and offers his hand as suitor OF
this republic. Ii it were taken where
would the marriage be and who the
officiating priests and what the music.
The altar must be a white altar OF
bleached skulls. The officiating priest
a dripping assassin. The music the
smothered grcan OF multituiinous
victims. The ring made from the caain
OF eternal captivity. The garland twist
ed out OF nightshade. The viands APP
Piles OF Sodom. The wine, the blood OF
s.. Bartholomew massacre. Nay, nay,
nav. IL is not to Nihilism, the sanguin-
ital monster, that this fair land shall be
married. Let God and angels and fifty
millions Of people forbid the bans.
Another suitor for this national
bride is
Iufidelty.
When midnight ruflians despoiled the
grave of A. 4. Stewart, in st. Luke's
churchyard, all the people were shook
with horror. But infiielity proposes to
do something worse than that, namely,
the robbing of all the graves OF chisten-
dom OF the hope of resurrection. Ii
would chisel ont from the tombstone
OF your Christian dead the words
Asleep in Jesus" and cut fer
| substitute the words "Dismember-
ment and Obliteration." 1t would take
| a letter Otthe worlds Father inviting al
nations To virtue aud happiness and
tear il up in pieces so small that not a
word OF II couli be read. IL would
leave every broken heart without conso-
lation, and every dying man without a
soothing pillow. IL would swear in the
President OF the United States, and the
Supreme Court, the Governors OF the
States and the witnesses OF the court
room, their right hand on Payne's Age
| OF Reason" or VOltaire's philosophy Of
History" 1t would take from this
| country that book which has made the
| difference between this land and the
kingdom OF Dahomey, between Ameri-
can ciyilization aud Bornesian canuibal
ism. Ii idfidelity could succeed in the
destruction of the Scriptures in two
| hundred wears all the civilized nations
would be turned oac into semibarb trIsm
and from semi-barbarism into midnight
| sayagery, where the morals OF a menag-
erie of tigers, rsttlesnakes and chimpan-
gees would be better than that OF the
shipwrpcked human race. The only im.
pulse in the right direction that the
hem the Bible. 1t was
the mother OF Roman law and all
healthiul Jurisprudence, the mother OF
all great charities. the mother OF English
! magma charta aud American declaration
o! Independence. Benjamin Franklin
500 with it in his hand reading Haba
cue To the intidel club in Paris and not
knowing what it was, they pronounced
il the finest poetry they had ever heard
| /, brought down George Washington on
| his knees in the snow at Valley Forge
| and made the Tyiug Prince OF Wales to
ask some one to sing for him 'Rock OF
Ages" The worst attempted crime OF
the century is 10 destroy that book and
vet In6delity, the loatbesome, ,stenchful, =,
| iep-ous, rotten and pestiferous monster
puts out his hand, icaerous with death,
/ asking Tor this nation. He would take
| pos session no: only OF the parts OF this
country fully occupied but the two
| thirds of this contisent not yet fully set.
tied. He puts out his hand through Sc
ductive magazine, lyceum lecture and
pirlor caricature Of religion. he
saws: "Give me all the land
etst of the Mississippi with
| its church keys and its christian
printing presses. Then give me Dakota,
slye me Montana, give me Wyoming,
give me Arizona, give meAlasks,give me
everything west OF the Mississippi, that
| NAV hold it by right OF possession be-
fore the Gospel shall get fully entrenched
there. He presses his claim with an ar
dor and determination appalling. What
saw you? Shall the bans be proclsimedr
"No," saw the home missionaries OF the
west-a band CT martyrs amid mslarias
and fatigues end starvation-"not il We
can help it: by the privations We and
our children have suffered We forbid the
banns." NO." saw the genuine patri-
OTIS, "our institutions were bought at
too grea. price and have been too
dear a sacrifice to be thus cheaply sur
rendered" "No," SAYS the God Of
Plymouth Rock and Independence Hall
and Bunker Hill and Gettysburg, 81 did
not start the nation for such a farce. |"
Il Il. Il II. a. l.