Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-10-28
THE RED DRAGON.
The Sermon of Rev. DIR. TaImage on
Prohibition.

xvii, NncEcLu l1c ShCpISlu bO1 OaNld3
armed by faith alone, goes forth to slay
Goliath, the giant warrior Of the Philis-
tines. The formal text for the discourse
OF the morning was from Revelation,
xii, 3, L." Behold great red dragoas
having seven haals and ten horns, and
seven crowns upon his heads. And his
tail drew the third part of the stars OF
heaven. To the preacher mind the
monster Intemperance, which had
dragged down kings and queens and
orators and poets from { ornament
of power, was the worst al red drag
ons. He continued
Last Sabbath in my discourse repre-
heuded the degradation Of the two polit-
ical parties OF this day and suggested
that, as probably they might have full
flied their mission, the loss of both of
them would not be very great loss
The Republican party was organized to
kill slavery. Wei slavery is dead and
damned. The Repu oiican party, having
accomplished its object, it should pass
ont of existence J. could see no very
great loss. The Democratic party was
formed by Thomas Jefferson to oppose
the law Of primogeniture by which all
the inheritance came 10 the olde child
and to drive out from this country all
foreign titles and to give equal rights to
all classes OF people. These things hav-
ing been achieved, if that party should
pass off the face of the earth it would
not be very great damage. / said to
you last Sabbath there needed to be in
this country some great party with
God-given. sublime idea. l said TO you
that the first principle of that party
ought to be tine recognition of the eter
nal God in the affairs OF men and Gov
ernments. [ went on, also, to show
you that such party ought to be an
tagonistic to all national wastefulness
and the friend Of all national economy.
This morning I take step further,
and say that such q party ought not
only 10 Whisper b1t to thunder against
the clrse of curses, the abomlnatlon OF
denominations, the infernaiism of in
fegnalisms-the iutemperance of this
country; and that with national-not
State, but national-prohbtion it
oueht to go forth to slay this red dragon
of nv text. Ii you have any idea, my
friends, that the prohibition victory IN
Kansas and Iowa is fapatical paroxysm
YOU have mode very great mistake.
Ia six years the prohibition party will
hold the balance of power in every
State of the American Union. 1t may
not have 9 majority OF the votes, but 1t
will hold the balance of power, so that
no man can be Governor, or Lieutenant
Governor, or Secretary of State, or hold
any important position in the State
until he is a pronounced prohibitionist
aud in twelve years it will have its
President in the White House. l wish
that what / say this morning might be
received in entire silence. No party
has ever risen into power SO rapidly as
tho prohibition party is now rising.
The anti-slavery party came out from
under the mountain Of scorn and con-
tempt to take the Presidential chair and
both houses of Congress, but the pro
hibition party, il you will watch the
statistics, is coming with four times the
celebrity. / give fair notice to all poiiti-
clans in America of what is coming
Better lead off as follow in afterward as
stragglers. Many of the strongest men in
both political parties, North and South,
see the rising tide of this reformation
and they are preparing to fight the red
dragon. There may be many defeats
before we get the final victory, but
victory will come as surely a. there is q
God in heaven. This nation was moi
intended for Cne great drunkery.
nominate for President and Vice
President of the United States in 1884
caring not which is the first or which
the second name on the ticket, although
| one is Republican and the other a
Democrat, and the one Western man
and the other Southern man, but both
pronounced proFbifionists-GOvernor
st. John, OF Kan as, and Governor Col
quit, of Georgia. The far West ought
to have by this time man il the White
House, and, no that the war is over,
let us prove that it is over and that we
realize that it IS over by nominating to
the highest or next to the highest Office
the ilustrious Georgian. o, my Lord
ana my God, what a country this would
be with no dramshops No dramshops,
no poorhouses, no penitentiarles, fewer
broken hearts and fewer desolate homes
no woman brought up In luxury,
afterward married to q man who sets
her with shrivellad arm and hollow eye
and pallid cheek and consuming lung TO
fight back the wolf that thrustS l65
nostril through tine window panes smut
fiue for the blood of her helpless babe.
Let the temperance men, the men be-
longing to the temperance societies,
stop their quarrelling about this, that
and the other insignificant thing-let
this contention between the great tenn
perance societies of America cease aud
the 10000 men belonging to the tenn
perance societies of the State of New
York join Lands with the hundreds of
thousands of tenn perance men In other
States and the millions of men who be-
long to no temperance society, but who
are anxious for the salvation and the
disenthralmept of tins country, and the
work will be done. and done in less time
than l tell you. First of all we wa an
amendment to the Consti 'dtion of the
United States, ratified by three fourths
OF the States-an amendment prohibit
ing the manufacture and the sale OF
alcoholic liquors in all tho States and
Territories, except for medicinal, artls-
tic, mech nical and scientific purposes,
and prohibition of the importation OF
foreign alcoholic liquors except for the
same purposes. We want a great ma
tional convention his year or next year
or the wear after to demand an amend
ment to the Constlt ltion of the United
| States for national prohibition, and |
invite such convention to come to Brook
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