The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-08
cess. There has been many a man who
has not had house On earth who will
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cess. There has been many man who
has not had house On earth who will
have a mansion in heaven.
There are many who through accidents
of fortune have come to great success
while they are profound in their stu
pidity, as profound in their stupidity as
man of large fortune with whom was
crossing the ocean, who told me he was
going to see the dykes of Scotland! When
a member Of my family asked a lady on
her return from Europe if she had seen
Mont Blanc, she replied: ''Well, really, /
don t know: is that in Europea" Ignor-
ance by the square foot. Property quail
cation will not do. The only way these
evils will be eradicated will be by more
thorough legal defense of the ballot box
and a more thorough moralization and
Christianization Of the people. That ark
of the covenant was carried into cap
tivity to Kirjath- -jearim. but one day
the people hooked oxen to- a cart, and
they put this arl. on the cart, and the
cart was taken to Jerusalem-the ark of
the covenant coming with the shouting
and thanksgiving Of the people. And
though the American ballot box, the ark
of the American covenant, our sacred
chest, has been carried again and again
into captivity by fraud and iniqnity, and
spurious voting, / believe it will be
brought back yet by prayer and by
Christian conservation, and will be set
down in the midst of the temple of
Christian patriotism. Whose resspon-
sibility? Yours and mine. "
a poor soldier went to a hair dresser
in London. He wanted to get back to
the army. He had overrun his furlough,
and he wanted some help to get back in
quick transit. The money was given to
the poor soldier, who said to the man
who had offered the kindness: 81 have
nothing to give you in return but this
little worn out receipt for making black
ing" He gave it not thinking there was
any value in it especially, and the man
who took it did not suppose there was
any special value in it, but it yielded the
man who took it So, 800, 600, and was
the foundation of one of the greatest es-
tates in England. And that little vote,
that insignificant vote which you take
out of your pocket-insignificant in your
| sight and insignificant III the sight of
others-may start an influence that
will last all through the progress of this
government.
| SOME CONCLUSIONS IN REGARD TO VOTING.
1 charge you then as American citizens
to remember your responsibility on the
first Tuesday of November 1t will
begin early, the snow storm of suf-
| frages. 1t will snow all day-snow on
until noon, snow on until night. The
flakes will fall in every town and village
and neighborhood, the white fakes. The
octogenarian will come up, his hand
| trembling, and with spectacled eye he
will scrutinize the vote and drop it and
pass on. The young man who has been
waiting for his time viii come up and
proudly and blushingly deposit his first
vote and pass on. The capitalist viii
come up with bediamonded finger and
the laborer with hard fist, and the
one vote will be as good as the
other. Snow storm of suffrages, and
then these white flakes will be gathered
together and compacted into an ava
lanche that will slide down in expression
of the will of the people. Stand out Of
the way of it! In the awful sweep OF
this white avalanche let political fraud
go down thousand feet under
You have not only vote, you have a
prayer. The prayer may be mightiei
than the vote. Oh, as citizens of this
beautiful city, and of this state, and Of
this nation, let us do our whole duty.
We cannot live under any other form oi
government than that which God has
given us in this country. The stars or
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night, but the stars sprinkled amid
the bars of morning cloud We
are going to have one govern
ment on this entire continent
Let the despotisms of Asia keep theii
feet off the Pacific coast, and let the ty-
rannies of Europe keep their feet off the
Atlantic coast. We are going to have
one government. Mexico will follow
Texas into the Union, and Christianity
and civilization will stand side by side ir
the halls of the Montezumas And il
not in our day, then in the day of oul
children, Yucatan and Central America
will come in dom 'nion, while on the
north Canada will be ours, not by con
quest-oh, no, American and Englisl
swords may never clash blades-but we
will WOO our fair neighbor of the north
and then England will say to Canada
'.You are old enough for the marriage
day." and then, turning, will say
s'Giant of the West, g take your bride:
And then from Baffin's bay to the Carib
bean there will be one government undel
one flag, with one destiny-a free, Til
disputed. Christianized American CONT
nent. God save the city of Brooklyn
God save the commonwealth of New
York! God save the Uaionl