Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-10-09
obspvs Of lie, and bv doing good and

change Of life, and by doing good and
useful work ''meet for repentance"
agree with my old friend, Bishop Hunt
iDadon Of New York, that Cleve and,
having risen above these past errors and
left them behind him, Ia not, II we fol-
low the principles Of the gospel Of Christ,
to be prevented from rising to any hight
Of usefulness. He has shown his repent
anoe lin the true way by doing works
meet for repentance. II is only hard
and narrow bigotry which would condemn
q man forever for q past Ill deed. But"
you may say, twill you reward man
with the Presidency who has committed
this offence against social morals 7"
No public office is not rewar but
duty. II we make him, or any other
man, our President, II ia because he Ia
we'll fitted FOR the work OF a President.
He was not rewarded by the people Of
Buffalo Tor this offense (though they knew
IL perfectly when they made him mayor.
They took MIN bsoAuss they needed him
to do q work-aud he did il honorably
aud well. The people Of the state did
not reward him when he was chosen
governor. He was taken because he wsa
the right man 10 the right place. II
elected President, # will not be as re-
ward OF merit, bu as selected TO do tho
work
BECAUSE nK HAS THR POWER.
II the nation needs him for that work,
he muat not be excused from doing IL be
cause OF any sin committed In the past.
This great people have q right 70 the best
service they can 6nd, anywhere and in
any map. The difference between Mr..
Blaine and Cleveland as candidates Ia NOT
merely that the offsnses OF one belong TO
private life, and Of the other to public
AifAirs. though that distinction Is impor-
tant, but chiefly this-thAt the cifsnHe Of
Mr.. Cleveland is not disguised nor ex
oused nor defended; but that Of Mr..
Blaine ia denied or excused or defended.
The great harm TO morality does not come
so much from, the wrong action IS from its
being defended, pRlliated, and called
morals is now being done by Mr.. Blaine's
advocAtss. They are putting evil for
good and good for evil, darkness for light
and light for darkness, bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter. No young man who
has seen what an awful burden Governor
Cleveland has had to bear in consequence
Of this one offenss, can possibly be
tempted by his example to any like
iniquity. But when . man who has de-.
voted himself to making money ont Of
office Ia defended for doing 80 by our
best men when asking to be paid
for doing justice in high ju-
dicisl position Is treated as q
mere accident, when asking 4 man to
peijuis himself by writing letter pre-
pared for him full OF falsehoods, is CON-
sidered as something not worth speaking
Of, then the morals Of society are being
cankered at their heart. Oil II grieves
me 10 see how men whom have honored,
and honor still, can allow themselves to
be thus misled by the spirit Of party. II
ia the ssddest fact In the story Of our
time, and say 80 for an hour OF Charles
Sumner, or for one burning speech from
John Andrew.
"one blast upon his bugle horn
We're worth thousand men,"
But the "knights are dust, and their
good swords rust" Instead of the up.
right soul of Sumner, we have a bronze
statue Of him In the Public Garden, prob
ably erected by the help Of the Rspubli.
cans who assisted in removing him from
l htc PAaoO 90 OhahMAh VI thc hotuhhhhtpo
on foreign affairs 10 please Gen Grant. OF
who passed
A VOTE OF cEEsURE ON HIM
in the Massachusetts, legislature because
they thought 1t would be popular
Instead of John Andrew, am glad to say
that we have a son who inhsrite his
fathers spirit, and will not become 4
slave Of party in order to 60 to Congress
And / see around me young men full o.
the energy and hope OF youth who viii
yet redeem the Republican party and Sc
1t in better way. saw its rise, aud
may live to see its fall, but,
IL fRlls, something better will tax,
its place. For this Independent
movement has come to stay. Some OF tn
Republican orators who have come from
distance to instruct I'd have been dis
posed to jser at this independent move
ment as very trifilng affair. So,
remember, they jeered at the humbl
beginnings OF the Liberty party, and tn
Free Soil party, and ~ the whole anti
slavery movement. They laughed an,
made merry as that great storm wa
coming up the sky, as the people did i
: the days OF Moab, AID knew nothing I'll
the i,od came and swept them all away