Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-13


casket In sympathy and in tears. | did hone
that seetlonallsm was done. But. moi What
Is needed Is to split every State in the Union
T6o 1n.o TWO NotioO OF i9ree great parties.
must become one great body; the national
| capital the heart sending through all the ar
| terles of communication warmth and light to
| the utmost eXtremities. You might as well
have solid head against solid foot, solid
eyes against solid ears, and a solid nose
against a solid cheek. Yea, we are one fam
lly, ana you might rs well have brothers solid
against their sisters, and the bread tray solid
| against the cradle, and the dining room solid
| against the parlor. That which is the interest
Oh georgia is the interest Of Massachusetts,
amt that which is best for New York is best
| Tor South Carolina. The Ohio river does not
| change Its politics after it goes below Louis
Vllle, vet every four years on Mason and Dix
on,s Inc both sections hang out their politi-
cal washing Have you any idea that these
| great sectional antagonisms can exist without
permanent compound fracture?
Another thing threatening the destruction
| OF our American institutions is the low state
| OF public morals. What killed Babylon2
Mhat Killed Phoenicia? What killed Rome?
| what killed all the natlonalties now living
| stark and ghastly in the gravevards
| of the past? Fraud, and drunken
| ness, and lechery, which slew other nations,
| Will slay ours unless God prevents it, To
prove that there is low state of morals cau
| you to consider the character of candidates
| often put sp for Office. We have now in nom
| inatlOn for President and Vice President eight
| good. But among the eight men for these two
| offices there are three candidates at least no
more fit for either Of these important Offices
| tnan wolf Is to be professor of pas
| tOral theology over a flock of
! sheep, or blind mole to lecture class OF
| eagles on the science of optics or the yulture
| 10 chaperon the dove. The mention of some
| OF Inelr names demands in the room carbOlic
acid and fumigations- Yet Christian men will
vote for them because they carry the party
standards. American politics has sunk until
| g.g d.
this corresponds with what is seen IN ali diree-
tlons. The peculation and knavery hurled to
the surface by the explosion of banks and
business firms are only specimens of great
CotopaXis and strOmbolis of wickedness that
boil and burn beneath, but have not regurgi-
tated to the surface. The heaven descended
Democratic party eclipsed everything by the
Tweed rascailty until the heaven descended
Republican party Outwitted pandemonium by
the star route infamy.
Then there are thousands of men who scoh
at tue marriage relation and say there is no
such thing as chastity, ana walking in polite
parlors are men not good enough Tor scayen-
gers in SodOm. When visited San Francis
co. that beautiful city, the Queen of the Pa
cihc, the Mayor of the city and the Health
officer called on me and wanted to show me
the Chinese quarters, so that, getting back to
the Atlantic coast, l might tell what awful
people the Chlnese were. But the last night
was in that beautiful city, standing before
many thousands in their great opera house, l
said: "Wlll you let me frankly express my
luli OptIliOH! Abu Jucy CTl6U. ~ / bS, yCS.'
Then said: 1.-The great curse of San Fran
cisco is not the Chinese quarters but the great
curse of your city is the millionaire liber-
tines" and some of them sat before me at that
time, Felix and Druscilla. SO it Is in all our
cities. l never swear, but when |
see going about unwhipped of justice men
who laugh over their shame and call
their damnable deeds gallantry and pecca.
dill0, am tempted to hur red hot anathema
and to conclude that If, according to some
peoples theology, there is no hell, there ought
to be. There is LO-lnV Ouf-QnH -pnt hppu.-
tiousness in our American cities to invoke the
wrath OF heaven that on Aug. "A, 20, covered
Herculaneum and Pompei so deep in ashes
that the subsequent l,S05 years have not COM
pleted their eXhumatlon.
There are whole blocks of houses in some of
our American cities known to the police of
tho-c cities as Infamous, and which, by pay
ing the officers Of the law a certain amount of
hush money, get as much protection from the
city government as do public libraries and
asylums OF mercy. These great ulcers on the
body polite bleed and gangrene away the life
OF the nation, and the civil authority looks
on their way and expects Christian
But | will not look the other
way. You can't cure such wounds by silken
bandages. We must put in deep the lancet
of moral surgery and burn with caustic of
holy wrath, and by immediate and all decisive
amputatlOn cut OF these scabrOus and putrefed
denominations. AS the Romans were after the
Celts and the NOrmans after the BreOns, so
our nation Is being chased by perls that will
attend the obsequIes of the American govern
ment unless we first attend theirs. Supersti-
ton says that marine monster, the cephal-
optera, EMBODIED and crushed q ship of war:
yet IL Is no superstition, but fact declared
by the history of many fallen nations, that our
snip OF State is in danger of being crushed by
the all-encircling cephalOptera of national
depraylty. Where Is the Hercules strong
enough to strangle this hydra? Is it not
time to speak by tongue, by pen,
by ballot-boX, by the roll OF prison door, by
hangman's halter, by prayer, by Sinaitic de-
tonation? l have read that the son of Crnsus
was dumb and had never spoken word but
when his father was about to be put to death
ne broke the shackles OF silence and cried out,
xiii not my father, King Crwsusw SO at the
spectacle of the cheatery and the wantonness
and the manifold crimes that are attempting
Inc parrlclde, yea, the matricide, Of our in
sututlons, it is time even for the lips that
nave been for long year dumb on these sub
Jects TO utter IN Generous tones fierce protest
There are other evils threatening the life
OF the nation, and Will in other Sabbath
morning discourses, if God continue my life
and health, discuss then, as also the modes in
which they are to be banked. l am going to
put before you tins whole subject, SO that you
viii all know how to vote and pray. This |
nation is not going TO perish. When Alexan-
der heard of the wealth Of the Indies, he
divided all of Macedon amongst his soldiers
self. He replied, "HOpe." And that treasure
| keep bright and shining whatever else
surrender. H0re thou in God, and He will
set back these oceanic tides of devastation
Do you realize that the prize now being CON
tested for is the American c0ntinent2
Never since the day when, according to John
Milton, Satan was
''Hurl'd headOng, flaming from the etherial |
sky
With hideous ruin and combustion, down."
has he been so busy as he is now in trying to
take possession OF this continent. But he shall |
not have it.
What prize it is! A jewel carved in relief.
the cameo of this planet. The Atlantic ocean |
parting from -cFOWdpH Enrona
side and the Pacific dividing us from super |
stltlOus Asia on the other side, and the A ret |
ocean gymnasium in which our navigators |
ana explorers develop their courage. A con-
tinent l0,50G miles long. An area of H. coo eco |
square miles, four times larger than All of
Europe, and all but about one-seventh capable |
tants. All flora and fauna. All fruitage ana |
all grains. All precious woods and all metals. |
Appalachian range the backbone and |
ganglia of rivers reaching in ali /
directions. The lsthmus of Darien. only the |
narrow waist of giant continent, all vet 10 |
be made one government, and that free and |
ChfIstlan, ana, trust, the scene of Christ's |
personal reign on earth, II, according to the |
expectation of many good people, he does set |
up throne in this world. Magnificent prizel
Who shall have it. Christ or Satan?-the com
merce OF our rivers, the shores of our inland /
seas, the silver of our Nevadas, the gold of our
Colorados, the wheat of our prairies the rice
OF our sayannas, the telescopes of our Ohserv- |
atofleSs the brain OF our universities. the two |
ocean beacheS-the one from Banin's Raw to |
TERRA del Fuego and the other from Bebr
lng's straits TO Cape Horn, the temporal, |
spiritual and everlasting destiny of popula-
ton, which cannot be prOphesied, save by |
tllm with whom thousand years are as one
day.
Who shall have this prize of the hemi-
spheresF 1ou and l will help answer the |
question by conscientious vote, bv earnest |
prayer, by upright life, by Inducing our famil- |
les INTO the duties Of good citizenship, by sup
port Of bene1cent institutions, by mainten-
ance OF churches, by putting all or energies |
OF mind and soul on the right side OF every |
religious. social and national movement < |
little further on and it will make no differ |
ence 10 us personally what becomes Of this |
country so Iar as our earthly comfort is con-
more of this land than the space Of seven feet |
by three, and that will be room enough and
to spare. But we cannot now be Indifferent |
TO the happiness and welfare of the genera
tOns that shall come after, and when we rise
at the trumpet call of the last day it will be |
well II we ind that our sepulchre like that !
which Joseph of Arimathea provided for |
Christ, Is In the midst of a garden Rv that |
time this continent from sea to sea and from |
Arctic to Antarctic will be all paradise or ali
Dry TOrtugas. Eternal Godl TO Thee. with |
inexpressible longing, we commit the destiny |
Of this peoplel
Blaine and the Hooking Valley.
The following is the report of Brad
streets Mercantile Agency Aug. Z, 1882,
on the Standard Coal and Iron COMPANY:
BOsToN, MASS,
OFFICE, ROOM 49, SEARS BUILDING.
- otandard Coal and Iron Company, Samuel |
Thomas, President; George Chapman w n |
Lee, William Henry Brooks, Vice Presidents:
OlVer Ames, Treasurer; William Henry |
BROOKS, Secretary; Directors Of same with s |