The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-20

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nicipal crime, having cost more than the
Capitol at Washington or the Parliament
Houses Of London, and running the city
debt from $39,0OO,0OO to $07O0O,OOO. Now
he stands high up In .millionairedom.
Country seats, terraced and arbored and
parterred to the water's brink. Horses
enough to stock Kings equerry. Grooms
and postillions in full rig. Wine cellars
enough to make whole Legislatures drunk.
New York politics and finance in his
vest pocket. He winked, and officials went
down. He lifted his little finger, and igno-
ramuses took high place. He whispered,
and at Albany and Washington people said
1t Numbered. Higher. up, and higher up,
until pandemonium seemed about to ad-
journ to this world, and there was some
prospect that in the Satanic realm there
would be change Of administration, and
that Apollyon after holding dominion so
long would have an earthly competitor.
To bring all to climax, wedding came
in the house Of that man. Diamonds as
large as hickory nuts. A pin Of sixty
diamonds representing sheaves OF wheat.
Musicians in q semicircle, half hidden by
a great harp of flowers. Ships Of flowers.
Forty silver sets, one Of them with MO
pieces. One wedding dress that cost 5000.
A famous libertine, who owned several
Long Island Sound steamboats,, and not
long before he was shot for his crimes, sent
as wedding present to that house a
frosted silver iceberg with representations
of Arctic bears walking on icicle
handles and ascending the spoons. Never
such convocation of bronzes, Of pictures,
of shawls. The highest rate Of New York
splendor rolled in upon the scene, and re-
coiled never again to rise so high. But at
the moment when all observation OF earth
and hell was concentered upon the scene,
eternal justice, impersonated in that won
der of the American Bar, Charles O'Conor
| got on the track of the offender. First
arrest; then Indictment; then sentence o.
twelve years. imprisonment on BlackwelPi
Island; then suit against him for S6,OOO,'
900; then Ludlow-street Jail; then return
under the tight grip of the constabulary arf
death from a broken heart in prison cell
Allowed to go on until all the world learn
ed as never before that the way Of tn
transgressor is hard, that dishonesty doe
not pay permanent dividends, that a maj
had better be an industrious chair make
on days wages than a fraudulent Com
missioner Of Public Works with all hi
pockets crammed with plumber.
AN HISTORICAL EXAMPLE.
How proudly in history sounded th
name of William the Conqueror, Intimi
dator Of France and Anjou and Brittany
Victor at Hastings, snatching the Englis
crown, driving people from their home
that he might have game forest, maxim
Doomsday Book by which the land wa
put under despotic espionage, to aveng
joke at his obesity; proclaiming wal
trampling harvest fields and vineyards IN
der cavalry hoof until nations were horror
, struck. But at that apex Of renown, Will
he was riding one day his horse put its fore
|, foot on hot cinder and plunged, wound
ing the rider against the pommel Of th
saddle so that he died, his son hastenin
TO England TO get the crown before h
fathers breath ceased. The In
perial corpse, cofiinless, carried
, a cart, and most of the attendan
!, !, leaving It In the street at a hr'
alarm that they might go and see u
, conhagration. The burial in the churC
built by the Conqueror interrupted
|, some one who cried: "Bishop, the ma
=, , whom thou hast praised was robber; u
,, very ground on which we are standing
: mine, and is the site where my father
: house stood. He took II from me by VII
lence TO build this church upon IL. l r
claim 1t as my right, and In the name
!, God forbid you to bury him here or GOV
Il him with my glebe." "Go up" said d
ambition Of William, the Conqueror. "(
up by way of throne. Go up by way
!, criminality. Go up by way of revenge
!. !. "Come down." says God. "Come doV
y by the way OF miserable death. Cor
' down by the way Of ignominious obs
. quies. Come down In the sight Of all n
tions. Come clear down. Come forey
;, down."
y So all around us, though on small
y scale, the wicked are allowed to live
= = that their overthrow may be the more II
;, pressiye, memorable and cliinacteric.
4 -.3- SATAN.
"a And what I say OF sin may be said
10 Satan, its author, sometimes called Aba
l. don, the dragon, the serpent, Apollyon, Z
Ia prince Of the power Of the air. That the
Il is commander n-chief Of all evil no o
In will doubt. Whatever you call him, d
ID monster is abroad, and only for destru
a tive purposes My little child Of sew
n years asked her mother: "Why does 1
/, God kill the devil at once and have do
81 with it?n In less terse phrase we have
IA asked the same question. II is promls
" that he shall be put back into the pit
m chained. Why not heave tho old m
I'd creant into the pit and into the den no
"A II would seem. that he has done enough
y close up the chapter Of infamy. His We
I'd In the last half century would make
I'd appropriate peroration. No; God Is goi
IN 10 let him get TO the tip-top OF all endeav
to and then, while all the earth and all
as solar systems and all constel
la tions and galaxios and the unive
N are watching, hurl him down W
IN violence and horror enough to tes
70 Ave hundred eterni''es that the m
,d acute and prolonged and stupendous
bellion against God and righteousn
bs shall come down into crash of everla
Nv ing ruin. God is not going to do 1t
a. piecemeal. He is not going to do II
rv small skirmish. He Is waiting till all
n. forces are massed, and some d