Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-28
ing! What burning prayers that he may
yet be heard from.
In That Awful Waiting for News

ing. missingn' What made matters worse,
all this might have been avoided. There
was no more need Of that war than that
this moment / should plunge a dagger
through your heart. There were few
Christian philanthropists in those days
scof!ed at both by North and South who
had the right of it. Ii they had been heard
on both sides we should have had
No War and No Slavery!
1t was advised by those Christian philan-
thropists: Let the north pay in money
for the slaves or set them free" The
North said: 1--WE cannot afford to pay"
The South said: 1--WE will not sell the
slaves anyhow" But the North did pay
in war expenses enough to purchase the
slaves, and the South was compelled to
give up slavery anyhow. Might not the
North better have paid the money and
saved the lives of 500, 600 brave men, and
slavery and saved her 100000 brave men.
swear you by the graves of ypur fathers
and brothers and sons TO new hatred for
the champion curse of the uniyerse-War.
o Lord God, with the hottest bolt OF thine
indignation,
Strike That Monster Down Forever!
Ever implies on it the deepest dungeon OF
the eternal penitentiary. Bolt it in with
all the iron ever forged in canon or moulded
into howitzers, cleave it with all.the sabres
that ever glittered in hattie and ring its soul
of all the pangs which it ever caused. Let
it feel all the confagration OF the home
steads which it ever destroyed. Deeper
down let il fall and in fiercer fame let 1t
barn till it has gathered in its heart all the
suffering of eternity as well us time. In
the name of the millions of graves OF its
victims | curse it The nations need more
of the treaty and less OF the spirit OF war.
Less OF the Disraelian and more OF the
Gla6stonian.
Again, by this national ceremony we
propose to
Honor Courage.
Many OF these departed soldiers were vol
unteers not COnScripts, and many OF those
who were drafted might have provided a
substitute or got of on furlough or have
deserted. The tact that they lie in their
graves is proof of their bravery. Brave at
the front brave at cannon's mouth, brave
OH lonely picket duty, brave in cavalry
charge, brave before the surgeon, brave IN
the dying message to the home circle. We
put a garland on the brow Of courage. The
world wants more Of it. The Church OF
God is in woeful need of men who can
stand under ire. The lion OF worldly de-
rision roars and the sheep tre-nble
In Great Reformafory Movements
at the first shot how many fall back. The
great obstacle to the Church's advancement
is the inanity, the vacancy, thaisoft pretti-
ness, the namby-pambyisil of prof ressed
Christians. Great on a parade towards in
battle. They go into battle, not with war
riOrs' gauntlet but with kid gloves; not
clutching the sword hill. too tight lest the
glove split at the back. In all ouI reforma-
tory and Christian work,the great want is
more backbone, more nettle, more daring,
more proves. We would in all our
churches like to trade oil hundred do
nothings for one doeverytaing. "Acquit
yourselves like men; be strong"
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die;
They see the triumph rom atar
And seize IL with thar eye"
Again by this national ceremony we
propose the future defense OF this nation.
| BY every wreath of flowers on the soldiers
| graves we say, Those who die for the
| country shall not be forgotten" and that
ne will give enthusiasm to our young men
| in case our nation should in the future
need to
| We shall never have another war between
| North and South. The old decayed bone
OF contention, American slavery, has been
cast out, although here and there de-
| praved polticisa takes it up to soc If he
| can't Enaw something of it. We are tioat-
| ing Of farther and farther from the possl-
| bIiity Of sectional strife. No possibility Of
civil war. Bat about foreign Invasion |
am not 50 certain. When spoke against
gar | said nothing against Selfdefense.
| An inventor told me at Washington that
/ he had invented a style OF weapon watch
could be used in self-defence but not in
Aggressive Warfare.
| said: When you get the nations to
adopt that weapon you have introduced
the millennium ] have no right 10 60 on
| my neighbor's premises and assault MIN,
| but if some ruttian break into my house
for the assassination OF my family and |
| can borrow a gun and load it in time and
aim it straight enough | will shoot him.
There is no room on this continent for any
| other nation except Canada, and better
neighbor no one ever had. IL you don
| think so 90 to Montreal and Toronto and
see how we'll they will treat you. Other
| than that there is absolutely no room for
| sny other nation. | have been across the
continent again and again, and know that
we have not half inch OF ground for the
| gCuty foot OF
| Foreign DespOtism
| 10 stand on. But | am not so sure that
| some of the arrogant nations OF Europe
| may not some day challenge US. do not
know that those forts around New YORK
Bay are to sleep all through the next cen
tury. do not know that Barnegat light
| horse will not vet look of upon hostile
navy. | do not know but that half dozen
nations, envious OF our Prosperity, may
want to give US a wrestle. During oul
! civil war there were two or three nations
that could hardly keep their hands oil oi
us. 1t is very easy 20 pick national quar-
rels and If our nation escapes much longer
it will be the exception.
IfForeign Foes Should Come
we want men like those Of 1872 and like
those of 1862 to meet them. We want them
all up and down the coast, Pulaski and
Fort Sumpter in the same chorus OF thun
der as Fort Lafayette and Fort Hamilton
Men who will not only know how 70 fight,
bnt how TO die. When such time comes
ifit ever does come, the generation on the
stage OF action will say: my country will
care for my family as they did in the sol
| diers asylums for the orphans in the Civil
war and my country will honor NV dua'
as il honored those who preceded me in
Patriotic Sacrifice.
and once year at any rate. on Decoration
day | shall be resurrected into the remem.
brance of those for whom | died. Here
20 for God and my country. Huzza. II
foreign foe should come our old sectional
animosities would have no power. Here
90 our regiments into the battle feld: Fif'
teenth New York volunteers. Tenth Ala
bama cavalry, Fourteenth Pennsylvania
rifiemen, Tenth Massachusetts artillery,
Seventh South Carolina shsrpshooters.
do not know but it may require the attack
of some foreign foe to make Us forget our
absurd sectional wrangling. l have no
faith in the cry: "So North, no South, no
East, no West"
Let ali Four Sections
keep their peculiarities and their prefer
ences, each doing its own work and not in
| terfering with each other, each of the four
carrying its part in the great harmony
the bass, the alto, the tenor, the soprano
in the grand march OF the Union.
Once more this great national ceremony
means the Identification Of the tombs,
whether of those who fell in battle or scci'