Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-05-05

handkerchief OF the United States
forces was a man who had been great
in battle, but old age had come with
many in6rmities, and he had a
right to quietude. He could not
mount a horse, and he rode on the
battle field in a carriage asking the
driver not 10 jolt il too much. During
the most OF the four years OF the con-
test, on the southern side was a man
in mid-life, who had in his veins the
blood of many generations of a
riors, himself one of the heroes Of
Cherubusco and Cerro Gordo, Contre-
a and Chapultepec. As the years
passed on and the scroll OF carnage
unrolled, there came out from both
sides a heroism anda strength and a de-
termination that the world had never
seen marshaled. And what but ex-
termination could come when Philip
Sheridan and Stonewall jackson met,
and Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney
Johnston rode in from north and
south, and Grant and Lee, the two
thunderbolts of battle, clashed2 Yet,
we are a nation. and yet we are at
peace. Earthly courage did not decide
the conflict The upper forces of the
text. They tell US there was a battle
fought above the clouds on Lookout
mountain; but there was something
higher than that.
Again, the horses and chariots of
God came TO the rescue of this nation
in 1876, at the close of a presidential
election famous for devilish ferocity.
A darker cloud yet settled down upon
this nation. The result of the election
was in dispute, and revolution, not be-
tween two or three sections, but revo-
luton in every town and village and
city of the United States, seemed inn
minent. The prospect was that New
York would throttle New York. and
New Orleans would grip New Orleans,
and Boston, Boston, and Savannah,
Savannah, and Washington, Wash
ington. Some said Mr.. Tlden vas
elected; others said Mr.. Hayes was
elected; and how near we came TO
universal massacre some of us guessed,
but God only knew. | ascribe our
escape not 10 the honesty and right
eousness of Infatuated politicians, hut
l ascribe it TO the upper forces Of the
text Chariots Of mercy rolled in,
and though the wheels were not heard
and the fash was not seen, yet all
through the mountains of the north
and the south and the east and the
west, though the hoofs did not %clatter,
the cavalry of God galloped by. ]
tell you God is the friend of this
nation. In the awful excitement at
the massacre of Lincoln, when there
was a prospect that greater slaughter
would open upon this nation, God
hushed the tempest. In the awful ex-
element at the time of Garfield's as
sassination, God put his foot OH the
neck of the cyclone.
THE SPLENDID CONDITION OF THE
UNITED STATES.
To prove that God is on tho side of
this nation, l argue from the last eight
or nine great national harvests, and
from the national health of the last
quarter of a century, epidemics very
exceptional, and from the great reviv-
ais of religion, and from the spreading
of the Church of God, and from the
continent blossoming with asylums
and r~I'ormatory institutions, and from
an Edenization which promises that
this whole land is 10 be a paradise
where God shall walk in the cool of
the day.
IL in other sermon / showed you
what was the evil that threatened TO
upset and demolish American institu-
tons, l am encouraged moro than /
can tell you as / see the regiments
wheeling down the sky, and my iere-
maids turn into doxologies, and that
which was the Good Friday of the ma
TONS crucifxion becomes the Easter
morn of its resurrection. OF curse
God works through human instru-
mentalities, and this national better
ment Is 10 come among other things
through q scrutinized ballot box. BY
the law of registration il is almost inn
possible now 10 have illegal voting.
There was a time-you and | remem-
Der IL very well-when droves of vag-
abonds wandered up and down on
election day and from poll TO poll,
and voted here, and voted there, aud
voted everywhere, and there was no
challenge; or, II there were, II
amounted TO nothing, because nothing
could SO suddenly be proved upon the
vagabonds. Now, in every we'll or.
gained neighborhood, every voter is
watched with severest scrutiny. |
must tell the registrar my name. and
how old ] am, and how long | have
resided in the state, and how long |
have resided in the ward, or the town
ship, and if | misrepresent fifty wit
nesses will rise and shut me out from
the ballot box. Is not that a great
advanced And then notice the law
that prohibits q man voting il he has
bet ON the election. A step further
needs 10 be taken, and that nan for
hidden a vote who has offered or taken
a bride, whether il be in the shape Of a
free drink, or cash paid down, the sus.
picious cases Obliged TO put their hand
on the Bible and swear their vote in
II they vote at all. So through the
sacred chest Of our nations suffrage,
redemption will come.
God also will save this nation
through an aroused moral sentiment
There has never been SO much dis
cussion of morals aud immorals. Men,
whether or not they acknowledge
what is right, have 70 think what is
right. We have men who have had
their hands In the public treasury the
most OF their lifetime, stealing all they
could lay their hands on, discoursina
.eloquently about dishonesty in public
servants, and men with two or three
Families If thar NUN n.aa.l.-