The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-11
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Apostrophe to Rum.

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Private Da!zeIl, who years ago felt
the curse himself, thus closed with
an address to Rum:
20. issue of He'll! red with the
fiery wrath and curse of Jehovah,
stand back and answer the indict-
ment L bring against you tonight.
1t is found on the inquest of every
pure heart under the whole Heaven,
and is signed true bill by God as
Foreman of the grand inquest. Ser
pent and adder, fiend and fury, en-
emy of God and man, move thyself
Alright in the cup and blush crimson
with shame, but answer me tonight.
What innocence and purity have you
bitten with your serpent fang? What
hearts of love and devotion have you
stung to the death witn your foul
touch, what hopes crushed under the
loathsome pressure of your hideous
and relentless coil?
"Disten to the cry of the orphan
whose father you havps murdered by
your slow, deadly poison. Listen to
the heart-broken lamentation. Visit
the happy homes which your loath-
some and polluting presence has
changed to desolation, drunkenness
and despair, and hear the cry that
rolls up through the suIphurous
flames of hell From every galIows
tree and dungeon of darkness from
every rooftree and hearthstone black.
ened and blistered by your Internal
power, Accusing voices come to brand
you as the worst enemy of the human
race.
30, listen to the cIanking chains in
the maniac's cell. the shrek of vio-
lated innocence, the dying moan of
the victim of the drunken assassin
to night, and tell me, O, tell it in the
ears OF all, what reason or apology
have you, an hour, or a minute, or a
second longer for corrupting the
world with your poisonous breath or
pOlluting presence
BLESSINGS wait upon all other crea-
lures under the shining sun but you,
while only curses follow you in this
world and the next, Good there is
in all things else but you, even in the
meanest insect that crawls upon the
earth, or the smallest island builder
of the sea, or tiniest speck that floats
in the illimitable and all embracing
azure fields of space, all the countless
worlds between, but for you. in you.
from you. by you, through you. there
is, there never was any good. Evil
and only evil-born of the devil, com
ing from the devil, leading to the
devil, damned of God, damned Of
man, an evil and a curse forever and
forevermore! / curse you, | curse
you last tonight! Murderer and as
sassin, liar and villain, thief and rob-
Der, slanderer and blasphemer, sedu-
Ger and vagabonl, flee from the earth
and resume your station in your ma
tive hell. Without you, o how hap
py this world might be, and how it
would blossom again with the beauty
and peace of the Eden of God!
"War would cease, murder be un-
known. Poverty would be only re-
membered as horrid dream of your
reign on earth, and o. how many
men now bound In your toll would
fail OF their knees and lift their faces
to God in thanksgiving for their de-
liverance! O. how many mothers,
mourning all the, weary watches of
the night, while their deluded sons
wander with you in the darkness
now, how many wives and trembling
little children in their rags and hov-
els, too. would fill the whole canopy
of heaven with their acclamations
and rejoicing if yOu-the enemy Of
their all and all they have-would
descend into hell and there remain,
spitted and roasting forever for the
objectionable wrongs you have done
the world in the long thousands of
years that you have tormented and
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