Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
MINISTERIAL ENDORSEMENT.

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MINISTERIAL ENDORSEMENT.
While Mr.. Blaine was in New York
last week he was waited upon by one
thousand and twenty-five clergymen,
who called in a body to give him as
surance of support. They represent
ed all the churches, including the
jewish. 1t was somewhat remark
able circumstance that Mr.. Halliday,
"pastor of Plymouth church, as he
was introduced, Mr.. Beecher being
called the preacher, should be pres
ent and assure Mr.. Blaine of his sup
port. DR.. Burchard at the request
of those present made q brief speech
in which he said:
"We are very happy to welcome
you to this circle. You see here a
representative of all the denomina-
tons of this city. You see the large
number that are represented. We
are your friends, Mr.. Blaine, not
withstanding all the calumnies that
have been urged in the papers against
you. We stand by your side. We
expect to vote for you next Tuesday.
We are loyal to our flag. We are
loyal to YOU"
The speech visibly affected Mr..
Blaine and moisture glistened his
eyes when he responded:
"Mr. Chan man and Rec. Gentlemen ::
This is altogether a very remarka-
BILE assemblage remarkable beyond
any of which l have known in the
history of political contests in the
United States, and it does not need
my personal assurance that you should
know | am very deeply impressed by
il. do not feel that am speaking
to these hundreds of men merely; |
am speaking to the great congrega-
tons, the great religious opinion
which is behind them and as they
represent the great Christian bodies
I know and / realize the full weight
of that which you say to me and OF
the influence which you tender to me.
Were it to me personally, l confess
that [ should be overcome by the
compliment and the weight of conf.
dence which it carries, but l know
that it is extended to me as the rep
resentative of the party whose Greco
and whose practice are in harmony
with the churches. The republican
party, from its very outset, stood
upon the impregnable platform O.
opposition to the extension of human
slavery, and it stood on that platform
till it was drifted by the hostility i
provoked into a large assertion O
national sovereignty and thence int
a bloody conflict to maintain it from
that onward. Now, gen
tlemen of the church, I address al
earnest word to you. The policy o
the United States in the past and il
the future must be one of broad liberal
Christian principles, and in that pol
icy it must be one, in my judgment
which draws nearer within the circl
of the sympathies of the Unite
States, those other struggling reput
lies of North and South Americ
which bring them first into trade re
lations and then into closer person:
and moral relations and | beliey
that we shall not only have that gre;
gain that comes from intercourse
but we shall enlarge the civilizatio
of the Anglo-Saxon until its limi
shall include the utmost southel
point of the lower continent. l d
!, not intend, in accepting and acknow
edging the great sense of obligatic
feel for this honor, to go into
prolonged political speech. I ha'
but indicated two leading poin
which / think are involved IN Il
pending election. 1t only remain
for me to say to you that | recogni
it's full worth-and it's full worth
- very great-the meaning of this a
semblage. We have no union
church and state, but we have prov
~ that the church is stronger witho
= the state, and we have proved til
- no state can be strong without t
church. Let us go forward as
+, have gone, the state growing a
IN strengthening by the example of
- church, and the church growing a
70 strengthening by liberal co-operati
; with all the great reforms which it
the immediate province of the &C
eminent to forward and improve.
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r ST. JOHN ON EDUCATION.
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We have two systems of education
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