The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-09-25

8ottloQ our 6eCtlOnAl 0lmCuItioo ny oTultru-
ton than by the thrust Of the sword.
Philanthrophy said to the North: "Pay
down q certain amount Of money Tor the
purchase Of the slaves, and let all those
born after certain time be born free"
Philanthropy at the same said to the South:
"You sell the slaves, and get rid OF
this great national contest and trouble"
The North replied: ~ wont pay cent"
The South replied: II wont SELL" War!
War! A million dead men, and a national
debt which might have ground this nation
to powder.
Why did we not let William II. Seward, Of
New York, and Alexander Il. Stephens, OF
Georgia, go out and spend few days under
the trees on the banks of the Potomac and
talk the matter over, and settle it, as settle
it they could, rather than the North pay in
cost OF war, four billion seven hundred mil
lion dollars and the South pay four billion
seven hundred and fifty million dollars, the
destroying angel leaving the first born dead
in SO many houses all the way from the
Penobscot to the Alabama. Ye aged men,
whose sons fell in the strife, do you not
think that would have been betterl Dyes!
we have come to believe, think, in this
country atarbitration 10 better than battle.
may be mistaken, but / hope that the
last war between Christian 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 as
well as vanquisbed, and that almost any
thing bought by blood is bought at too dear
price. wish to God this nation might be
model of willingness for arbitration. No
need of killing another Indian. No need of
sacrificing any more brave General Clusters.
Stop exasperating the red man; and there
will be no more arrows shot out from the
reservation. A General of the United States
Army, in high repute throughout this land,
and who, perhaps, has been in more Indian
wars than any other officer, and who has
been wounded again and again in behalf of
our Government in battle against the In
dams, told me that all the wars that had
ever occurred between Indians and white
men had been provoked by white men, and
that there was no exception to the rule.
While we are arbitrating with Christian
nations, let us toward barbarians carry our
selves in manner unprovocative Of con-
test.
inherit large estate, and the waters
are rich with fish, and the woods are song
full with birds, and my corn fields are silken
and golden. Here is my sisters grave. Out
yonder, under that large tree, my father
died. An invader comes, and proposes to
drive me of and take possession Of my prop
erty. He crowds me back, he crowds me
on, and crowds me into closer corner, and
still closer corner, until after while I say |:
"Stand back, don't crowd me any more or
I'll strike. What right have you to come
here and drive me of my premisesl got
this farm from my father. What right
have you to come here and molestme2" You
blandly say: 20, know more than you
do. belong to higher civilization. l cut
my hair shorter than you do. could put
this ground to great deal better use than
you do" And you keep crowding me back
and crowding me on intoa closer corner and
closer corner, until one day look around
upon my suffering family, and fired by their
hardships l hew you in twain. Forthwith
all the world comes to your funeral to pro
nounce eulogium, comes to my execution to
anathematize me. You arp the hero, Y am
the culprit. Behold the United DS&Sel
Government and the North American
Indian. The red man has stood more wrongs
than would, or you. Wewould have struck
sooner, deeper. That which is right in de-
tense of Brooklyn home or New Yorh
home is right in defense of home on top Of
the Rocky Mountains. Before this dwind
ling red face dies completely out wish
that this generation might by common jus
tice atone for the inhumanity of its prede
cessors. In the day Of Gods judgment
would rather there be blood-smearet
Modoc than a swindling United States Of
ticer on an Indian reservation. One mar
was barbarian and a savage, and never
pretended to be ANYTHING but barbarian
and a savage. The other man pretended t.
be a representative Of Christian nation
Notwithstanding all this, the general dis
gust with war and the substitution of diplo
matte skill for the glittering edge of keel
steel is sign unmistakable that 1.-THE da,
is at hand"
find another ray Of the dawn in the com
preston of the worlds distances. What
slow, snail-like, almost impossible thinl
would have been the worlds rectifcatiol
with fourteen hundred millions of popula
ton and no facile means of communication
but now, through telegraphy for the ey
and telephone intimacy for the ear, an,
through steamboating and railroading, tn
twenty five thousand miles of the world
circumference are shriveling up into insig
nificant brevity. Hong Kong is nearer T.
New York than few years ago, New
Haven was; Bombay, Moscow, Madras Mel
bourn within speaking distance. Purchas
a telegraphic chart, and by the blue line
see the telegraphs of the land, and by tn
red lines the cables under the ocean
You see what opportunity this i
going to give for the final movements O
Christianity. A fortress may be onths O
years in building, but after it is constructe
it may do all its work in twenty minute.
Christianity has been planting its batterie
J for nineteen centuries, and may 60 on in tn
work through other centuries; but whe
; those batteries are thoroughly planted
those fortresses are fully built, they may a
do their work in twenty four hours. Tn
world sometimes derides the church fc
slowness of movement. Is science an
quickerl Did it not take science 5,652 year
, to find out so simple thing as the circuls
ton of the human blood! With the cart
and sky full Of electricity, science took 5, 81
J years before 1t even guessed that there wa
/ any practical use that might be made of thi
subtle aid mighty element. When goo
men take possession of all these scientif
forces, and all these agencies Of inveI
| ton, l do not know that the redemptio
} of the world will be more than the wor
Of half day. Do we not read the queen
: speech at the proroguing of Parliament tn
day before in London! If that be so, is
{ any thing marvellous to believe that in twel
ty.four hours divine communication ca
reach the whole earthi Suppose Chri
should descend on the nations-many expe,