The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-09

settled our sectional difficulties by arbitra-
ton than by the thrust of the sword. Phi
lanthropy said to the north: PAY down
certain amount of money for the purchase
of the slaves, aud let all those born after
certain time be born freen Philanthropy
at the same time said TO the south: You
sell the slaves, and get rid OF this great
national contest and trouble. The north
replied: II won't pay cent" The south
replied: 81 won't SELL" War; Warl A
million dead men, and national debt
which might have ground this nation to
powder
WHY did we not let William H. Seward
of New York and Alexander II. Stephens
of Georgia go out and spend few days
under the trees on the banks of the Poto-
mac and talk the matter over, and settle it,
as settle it they could ra her than the north
pay In cost OF war "a. 200, 900, 900, and the
south pay 81, 75O. 100000 the destroying
angel leaving the first born dead in 50 many
houses all the wav from the Penobscot to
the Alabama. Ye aged men, whose so s
fell il the strife, do you not think that
would have been bet era Oh yes we have
come 10 believe, l think. in is country,
that arbitration is better than battle.
l may be mistaken, but b ope that the
last war betw esn ca istian nations is ended.
Barbarians may mix their war paint, and
Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but
] think christian nations have gradually
learned that war is disaster to victor well
a. Yanqunned, aud that almost anything
bought by blood is bought at too dear a
price | wish to God this nation might he
a model of willingness for arbitration. No
need Of killing another Indian. No need
of sacrificing any more brave Gen. Clusters
Stop exasperating the red man, and there
will be no more arrows shot OUT from
the reservation. A general of the United
State army. in high repute throughout This
land, and who, perhaps, has been in more
Indian wars than an1 other officer, and
who has been wounded again a d again in
behalf of our government in b tile against
the Indians, told me that all the wars that
had ever occurred between Indians and
white men had been provoked by white
men, and tina there was no exception to
the rule While we are abitrating with
christian nations, let us toward barbarians
carry ourselves in a manner unprovocative
of contest.
| inherit a large estate, and the waters
are rich with ifs and the woods are song
full with birds, and my cornfields are silken
and golde. Here is my sisters grave. Out
yonder, under that large tree, my father
died. An invader comes. and proposes to
drive me off and take possession of my
property He crowds me back, he crowds
me on, and crowds me into a closer corner,
and still closer corner, uutll after awhile
/ say: "Stand back; don't crowd me
any more, or pll strike What right
have you to come here I'd drive me
off of my premises l got this farm
from my father, and he got it from
his father. What right have y u to come
here and molsst mep You Olandly say:
''Oh, know more than you do. / belong
to a higher civilization. | cut my hair
shorter than you do. l could put this
ground TO a great deal better uss than you
dor And you keep crowding me back AMI
crowding me ou into a closer prner and
closer corner, until one day | look around
upon my suffering family, aud fired by their
hardShlps hew you In twain. Forthwith
all the world comes to your fune al
to pronounce eulogium, comes to
my execution to anathematiZe
me. You are the hero, | am the
culprit. Behold the United States govern
ment and the n nth American Indian. The
red man has stood more wrongs than |
would, or you. We would have STRUCK
sooner, deeper. That which is right in de-
tense of a Brooklyn home or New York
home is r ght in defense of a home on top
of the Rocky mountains. Before this
dividing red race dies completely out,
/ wish that this generation miglt
by common justice atone for the in-
humanity of its predecessors. In the day
of Gods Judgment, | would rather
there be blood ,meared MOdoc than a
swindling United States officer on an Indian
reservationl One ma was a barbarian
and a savage, and never pretended to he
anything but a barbarian and a savage.
The other man pretended to be a representa-
tive of christian nation. Notwiths and
ing all this, the general disgust with war
and the substitution of diplomatic skill for
the glittering edge of keen steel is a sign
umistakabe that 1.-THE day is at hand"
find another ray of the dawn in the
compression of the worlds distances. What
slow, snail-ike, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectihcatlon
with fourteen hundred millions OF popula-
ton and no facile means com lunica.
ton; but now, through telegrapny for the
eye and telephone intimacy for the ear,
and rough steamb atlng and railroading,
the 1000 mi eS of the worlds crcumfe.-
ence are shriveling up into insignificant
brevity Hong Kong is nearer TO New
York than few years ago New
Haven was; Bombay, Mosco ",
Madras, Melbourne within speaking dis
tance. Purchase a telegraphlc chart, and
by the blue lines see the telegraphs of tne
land, and by the red lines the cables under
the ocean. You see what opportunity this
is going TO give for the final movements of
christianity. A fortress may be months or
years in building, but after it is constructed
1t may DO all its work in twenty minutes.
Christianity has been planting its batteries
for nineteen centuries, and may 60 on in the
work through other centuries; but when
those batteries are thoroughly
planted, those fortresses are fully
built, they may all do their work in enty.
four hours. The world metimes derlde,
the church for slowness OF movement Is
science any quicker2 Did it not take science
five thousand six hundred and fifty-two
years to find out so simple thing az the
circulation of the human blood! With the
earth and the sky full of e.ectric jty, science
took five Thousand eight hu ldred years
before 1t even guessed that there was any
practical use that might be made of this
subtle d mighty element. Whoa good
men take possession OF all these ,centitic
forces, and all tlese agencies of invention.
do not know that the redemption of the
world will be more than the work Of half
day. Do we not read the queens speech
at the proroguing OF parliament the day
before in London? If tn It be so, is 1t any
thing marvellous to believe that in twenty
four hours a divine communication ca
reach tho whole earth? Suppose Cnrist
should descend on the nations
many expect that Christ will
come among the nations personally
suppose that tomorrow morning the Son of
God from a lowering cl nd shoul dssce I'd
upon these cities Wou d not that fact be-
known all the world over in twentv-four
hours? Supp lse he should present his
gospel in few words, saving: al am the
Son of God; L came to pardon all yolr sins
and to heal all yOur sorrow. ro r,ro,,o -.