The Monitor., 1888-06-15
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our arrnf.
| never ez~stsd 70 speak with pride Of
the solid soa.l as SUCH, bat surely may
do this now tb4t # Is becoming solid for
| the dry ticket. md yea who daell there
may be glad that the Northern heart l.
| fired one more. this time with the same
war-cry as that which fires the Southern,
and It is protection for ouf homes" That
| is tie "spell 10 conjare by. That is the
rallyiug cali Of North and South, Protestant
and Catholic. Of 3 hiie and black, OF men
aud women equally. bourbon Democrat
and radical Republican viii seek in
vain to stine this swift.Fwelling ch0rns,
that "Chorus Of the Union for which
| great Lincoln yainly prayed ia his first in
angural. Do you not recall his marvel
| Ions concluding sentence Il quote from
| memory: "Tbe mystic chords Of mem
| ory, stretching from many sacred hearth
and PATRIOTS grave, ali over this broad
| land, sliali once more swell the chorus OF
| the unon when again touched, as surely
they will be. By tie better angel Of our
| nature" That angel is the temperance
| reform, and the fuifilImeDt Of that proph-
ecy VIC have lived to see.
The greatest party stands for national
ism as against sectionalism; it stands for
the noblest aims and aspirations of the
wage orker as against monopolies that
dare to profane that holy word, trust"
it stands for the future in politics as against
| the past, the home vote with an educated
test AZ against the saloon vote with beer
breath as its credentials, and best Of all it
stands for the everlasting and absolute pro-
hbition Of ain as against any alliance be-
tween sin and the government For while
the greatest party will never hesitate to
call itself the champion OF theee causes
good and great, so closely linked with its
own central purposes, neither must 1t fail
to pnt prohibition by law and prohibition
by politics so far in the lead that no can
did man can for moment question the
august supremacy Of these oyermastering
issues; fo- we are firmly persuaded that
the separation Of the people into two dis
finct armies, one voting for men who will
outlaw the poison curse, and tho other for
men who will legalize it, must oomc and
that such separation cannot come too soon.
We are not here TO speak harsh words OF
armies rallied under other cnsgns, but
simply to declare that in this great
emergency We cannot depend upon them
Party machinery and the ambition Of party
leaders to-day stand between the people
and their opportunity. We would clear
the track for prohibition. We are bound
that came we into this world.
When | think of Lexington and Paul
Revere; when think Of Bunker Hill and
the dark redoubt where General Warren
died, when | think Of Washington, that
greatest of Southerncfs. upon his knees in
prayer at Valley Forge; when think Of
Stoncwall Jackson praying before he
fought; of Robert Lees and Sidney John
sons stainless shields; when | remember
Sheridans ride (Alas that the hero Of
Winchester hears the stealing steps Of the
Pale Horse whose unrelenting Rider comes
to bear him away from 4 great and admir-
ing people into the Silent Land, y and
Shcrman'e march to the sea with the boys
in blue behind him, and Grant fighting the
battle ont and on to the glorious triumph
Of our Northern arms, then my heart pro-
phecies with all a PATRIOTS gratitude,
"Amerca will win as against the awful
tyranny nf King Alcohol and King Cam
brinus, and proud am | to have a part in
it, for thank God, IL, too am an Amer
ican.'
Bound together by one mutual faith in
Mary 7 Lathrap of Michigan, and Sallie
j.. Chapin, of South Carolina cemented
by the martyr blood oC Iosa's George b.
liaddoek and AIississippi's Roderlck Dhu
Gambrcll; made one by the pride we feel
for these grand old pioneers, John Russell,
the father of our party; James Black, its
earliest Presidential candidate; Gideon T.
Stewart and ii. w. Thompson; St. John
and Daniel, the heroes OF later day and
moro dreadful crisis; Green Clay Smith
and Samuel Dickio, Hopkins and Brooks,
Clinton 3. Fisk and George w. Balm, and
glorions Neal Dow, The father of prohibi-
ton for the world. Surely temperance
people Of the north and south may we'll
say each to the other: "Where thou
goest will go; where thon lodgest | will
lodge; thy people shall be my people, and
thy God my God. The Lord do so TO me
and more, also, If aught but death part
thee and me
Here, upon Indiana's genial soil, mid
way between the sections that shall ere
long DO ''ecctions" no more, but parts Of
the greatest party's family circle, gracious
and great, let us unitedly say to the fire.
eaters of the south on the one side and the
chasm- -diggcrs of the north on the other:
''Oh mcancr folks OF narrower souls,
Heirs Of ignobe thought,
stir not the eatnp-ilres blarkened coaia,
Flood d-dfenehcd by thoae who fought,
Loot out OF heaven u fire shall yet
Bear God'A own vengeance forth
ON those who once again would set
Discnfd 'tWixt South and NORTH
In the spring Cf 'G3 two great armies
were cncamped on either side Of the Rap
pahannock river, ono dressed in blue and
one in gray. AS twilight fell the bands Of
music on the Union side began 10 play the
martial Al rain HTha Star EpauOlpd Ram