Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-11-14
Patriotic Words From Talmnge.
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the election, and the possible effect OF a
contest, DR.. Talmage, of Brooklyn, sent
the Cincinnati Enquirer the following:
BRooKLYN. Nov. 8 1884
This week closes one of the most intense
chapters ot American history. Never In
this country has there been such tempta.
ton of fraud as this week in consequence
OF the tact that, after the violent altersa-
ton of political parties for four months,
the vote has been SO near n lie. But nine.
ty-nine men out of u hundred have for the
last two days been saying: "Let the man
elected DO crowned, whether we voted for
him or against him. We want the ballots
accurately counted aud honestly reported.
We want no doubt tor the next four years
ns to whether the occupant of the Presi-
dental chair is rightfully seated" he
lieve that all will be made 40 plain that
the next 4th of March will he rs calm rs
was the Inauguration day OF James Mad.
son or John Adams or George Washington.
At present the agitation is intense, and il
will be some days yet before the State
Board OF Canvassers formally announce
their decision. But I haze faith in God
and the good sense OF the American people.
All righteous citizens will counsel order.
Let every one control himself, and he will
thereby do much 10 discourage public dis.
tnrbance. Let tile victors say no aggrava-
ting things and the defeated bow grace
fully.
Ii free Government ia 10 continue in this
country the majority must rule and the
minority must yield, and one of the 6rst
dutic. we have 10 learn in nll matters of
Church and State is to WELD when we are
lnv lpln ned hv I,a -, -
member that this system of elections was
established by the two greatest statesmen
that this country ever produced, Alexander
Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. The AVS
TEN was the harmonization of their differ-
ent ideas, and let lesser men beware how
they put violent hands upon system
which has done so admirable for the last
ninety seven Years. II ship be struck nv
tempest until every fiber is strained and
every yard arm twisted, is that any reason
why the captain should throw overheard
the laws OF navigation? believe that our
safe issue as a nation from the present ex.
citement will he added to the long list OF
illustrations Of the fact that the founders
OF this United States Government were
inspired Of God to launch a great nstion
for voyage OF many centuries.
When you and are dead, and this en-
tire generation has ceased to exrcisc the
right OF suffrage, in TIE Decembers of far
distant years the Electors of New Yorl
and Alabama, of Maine and California.
will march side by side through Pennsyl
vania avenue at Washington for the dis
charge of the great duie. OF the Electora
College. Hands off compass which ha.
guided MS through the cyclones Of CEN
tury, through two wars, the death OF foui
Presidents, two of them by massacre. nine
financial panics, and the quadrupling oI
the acres of our National domain until
the original thirteen States, trembling al
the bowling of foreign hordes, have become
n nation that has taken possession Of the
continent from ocean to ocean. 20 that the
Atlantic in the morning wake. up the
the nation with the laughter of its waves
and the Pacific in the evening hushed il Ia
sleep with the lullaby of ils billows. In
Onr most aarnest prayers let us commend
this nation to God. There is such n thing
as healthful aggitation, but the present ex.
citement has risen into the feverish. Yet
God will protect us ii az nation we trust
him. In 1861 and 1862 and 1864 every
body prayed for the United States govern
ment. II pastor neglected to pray for
the government people in Indignation clos.
ed their psalm hooks and went out Of
| church, not TO come back again.
But this nation needs prayer as mnch in
1884 a. in 1864. Do not talk about blind
destiny. Napoleon I del ded on that
theory, and lie perislied at St. Helena.
Napoleon III. depended on that theory,
and his light went out at Chiselhurst. 1t
is God that lifieth up one and pulleth down
another, carries are nation on high ca