Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-25
And Its Twin Brother, Politi-
cal Desperation.
The Only God 1t worships Is Eternal
Smash-Up;
The Only Heaven 1t Wants Is He'll,
and Wants 1t Now.
Lessons Of the Terrible Assasslna'
tions in Ireland,
Sermon Preached by Rev. 7. Dewitt
Taimage, D. D.. in Brooklyn
Tabernacle, on SUM-
day, May q, 1882.

ddy, WAY ~, ioo<s
subject Of the Sermon: "Assassi-
nation In Ireland"
TExT-Psalm, lxxvi, 10: Surely the
wrath of man shall praise Him."
There may be more beautiful places on
earth, but have never seen anything so
enhancing as Chatsworth, England, on
the day we crossed the river Derwent on
the Beely Bridge and alighted at its
gates. The surrounding lawns were oc-
cupied by groups of peopla come by car
riages and teams to keep gala day. some
of them lying under the trees and some
dancing on the green, the working peo-
pie OF England, always welcome to this
place on holidays. 1t is the grandest of
forty-six manors owned by this proprie-
tor. The glory of the lordly estate ap-
pears almost supernatural. It seems not
so much to have been built up as to
have alighted, and a commingling Of the
celestial with the terrestrial. William
the Conqueror gave the grounds to his
son William Peverell, Christopher Wren,
the most famous architect of the centur-
les, planned the mansion. From 1883
until now the work of building and en-
larging ond improving have progressed.
The historical "reminiscences are almost
,overpowering. Here Mary Queen of
4 SCOTS was for thirteen years imprisoned.
Here the child of tragedies, Arabella Stu
art, was born. The conservatory is three
hundred feet long, covering an acre.
The glass house was built by Sir Joseph
Paxton, the designer OF London Crystal
Palace. The vast mansion is surrounded
by gardens of every botanical and horti-
cultural luxury; orangeries with entrance
!, lion guarded; the camelia-house the or
child d-house, the water-works, with drag
ons and dolpbins, and cascades and the
Emperor fountain with its wild toss of
crystalline brightness two hundred and
sixty.seven feet high. worth crossing the
ocean to witness. Within the mansion
is the grand staircase and the floors of
mosaic in black and white marble, walls
and ceilings with embossed leather, and
battle scenes in alto relieve and bewitch-
ing with Gremling, Gibbons wood-carv-
ing, tables of jasper and hornblend,. and
malacbite. wainscoating of cedar, Cor
inthian columns, rooms with suits of
bbtlH WOUu hHu LISoCO, anu dTdUebQu6,
the largest private collection of paintings
in the world, the old and new masters
represented, Raphael and Rubens and
Titan and Murillo, and Rembrant, Leo
nardo da Vinei and Landseer and Cole.
ethe very best specimens of Italian, Vene.
tian, French, Flemish and Spanish
schools the finest sculpturing of Thor
waldsen, and altar-pieces by Clibber, and
mantel-piece by Westmacott, and the cell
brated Hebe Of Car ova, eight t-wiudowed
library, with ceiling of white and gold,
rooms with all that ceramic art can gath
er, an infinity of bric-a-brac, crests and
monagramst and Inedallions coronation
chairs and foot-stools of Kings and
Queens, museums bewildering with rel
les from all lands and ages. full bloom of
pictured walls above snowbank of spot
less statuary, the glow of tropical colors
looking upon the arctic wbiteness of
eternal purity. A day at Chatsworth is
cut out from all other days of man s
lifetime and stands alone for brightness
and poetic suggestion. Ten miles of
foliage and statuary and palace and foun.
tain and garden. There is nothing be.
yond it to imagine.
v
row should ever ceme there. But over
all the scene today there is a shadow.
The lustre has gone out of the wave and
the golden hue out of the cloud, and the
corridor of statuary is line of tomb
stone chillness, and every drop of the
fountain is a tear. Sorrow leans against
every carved pillar, and looks out from
every window, and sits in every arbor.
The Duke of Devonshire, the owner of
the great estate, has lost his son-lost
him under most appalling circumstances
lost him under the long, keen knife of
assassination. That son brought there
into these great halls on Wednesday life.
less, and on Thursday under the Queens
wreath, and, in presence of Lords and
and Princes and Cabinet Ministers and
the pomp of England, carried out-ash-
es to ashes, dust to dust How are the
mighty fallenl No wonder the whole
world was shocked at the murder of
Lord Frederick Cavendish. Sent out
from England as an emissary of peace to
Ireland; arriving, in. Dublin on Friday;
Saturday forenoon taking the oath as
Chief Secretary, and Saturday evening
graphing his murderer, shouting at the
desperate, "You villain!" but is over
powered, and falls stabbed in breast and
back, and lies dead on the highway, hav-
ing given no offense, having made al
ready arrangements for the liberation of
political prisoners, planning nothing but
amity and kindness; yet, in broad day
light, slaughtered, his wife and his aged
father having to take back into their
bosoms the bleeding and butchered body
OF the beloved one who, a few days be-
fore, in life and strength, had gone forth
on patriotic and illustrious service. His
Assistant Secretary goes down under the
same fate. Their corpses we're found
side by side at the close of the struggle
in Phoenix Park, a public garden, the
floral attraction of which was so great
that returned again and again to it ma
king a contract with the gardner for the
transportation to this country Of some Of
its most exquisite growths-its carnage
of color deep enough to be prophesy Of
the massacre now enacted.
Since id this day, by submarine tele-
graph, the world is one neighborhood,
we have two OF three duties to perform.
Our first duty isto help fix the guilt of
this assassination and! find no difficult
ty in doing il. The constabulary are
searching Ireland and England for the
miscreants, watching the starting and
arrival ,Qf every train, holding every mys.
terious person, watching withia fury of
vigilance that it seems must be successful,
but can not tell you who did it. There
is NO need that the Ifishmen OF the Uni
ted States, Canada and Ireland In grgat
eetings declare that the friends