Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-10-14
SHIP OF STATE,

This is one of our most favorite pictures
of the government and people OF the Uni
ted States. In fair weather, out at SC ,
with right smart breeze, gallant crew.
every sail unfurled and the stripes and
stars at mast head we love to see the stately
movements of our ship. But in storm,
when every rib and beam and plank from
stem to stern resists and dashes back in
foam The angry billows and every spar and
rope and line hold against the fury of the
winds and every man stands at his post in
the teeth of the appalling tempest and amid
the horrors of the great deep, to keep right
on the course and everything in its place
the sublime movements of our ship fill
our hearts with love and admiration. Then
she has never been on her beam ends in a
cyclone or white squall never has been
beached on lea shore never has injured
keel or prov on sand bars, coral reefs, or
sunken rocks. Then what is still more re i.
markable having shipped crew of all
tribes and nationalities there has been an
unusual degree of harmony on board mu-
TIMES have been promptly quelled, and pi-
ratical crafts driven off or conquered. In
the outfit of shipno necessities are greater
than the mariners compass, chart, sound
ing line and log book, constant and careful
reckoning each day, and on close observa-
tion OF the weather, the winds, tides and
currents OF the ocean; n pilot who knows
his latitude and longitude on the trackless
deep; captain who by his nautical skill is
master of the situation with faithful off
GERS and hardy seamen who can be trusted
to meet any unlocked for peril. In all
these respects as to safe and prosperous ad-
ventures, our republic may be compared
to we'll built and ably manned ship ex-
posed to many unforeseen and inevitable
dangers. We have been saved TINS far
and live ms II milton to day by the utmost
skill OF the greatest statesmen and by the
unmeasured sacrifices of heroic and pat
riotc people. We encountered one terrible
storm in the war of the revolution and
another in the war of the rebellion. Our
country never could have stood the temp.
est OF those battles if we had not had ut
the helm OF affairs such men as Washing
ton and Lincoln. No man or set of men
guided by selfish aims rejecting the pure
| ~O"b'o' vi IhHPiiahIou anu CaStillp AWAY
the Bible, that compass aud chart and
sounding line and log.book of the political
and social world all IN one, could have
saved the nation. Vice and crime, cruelty,
slavery, poligamy, lcentiousness, injustice
and violence, drunkenness, sa abbath break.
ers, ignorance and superstition. the spirit
OF assassination and murder prove as dis
astrous TO a nation as the beating of the
tempest upon stranded ship on a lea
shore. We have well grounded fears " he,
men come to the front who have no fear oil
God before their eyes, who break up fami.
lies, separate husband and wife, who put on
a smooth face and Use an oily tongue ia
begnile The people. No matter what pro
LESSONS OF loyalty these men may make
they are steering the ship of State to GER
tain destruction. Let the people will, one
voice demand the removal of vice and
crime in all lis forms and educate all the
citizens OF the Republic in the ways of wei
doing as the only ways and land marks o.
our national and political salvation.
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