The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-14

this Nation might be a model of willing
ness 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
reservations.
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
Indians, 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 ba BARI
ans carry ourselves in a manner unpro-
vocative of contest. / inherit a large es-
tate and the waters are rich with fish and
the woods are songful with birds and my
cornfields are silken and golden. Here is
my sisters grave. Out yonder. under the
large tree, my father lies. 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 until after
awhile l say: "Stand back, don't crowd
iHS any hOIe VI III vi lhos hdO iiShN
have you to come here and drive me off
my premises? 1 got this farm from my
father, and he got it from his father.
What right have you to come here
and modest me?" You blind
ly say: 10, l know more than
you do. lifelong to n higher civilization. l
cut my hair shorter than you do. Icould
put this ground to a great deal better use
han you do" And you keep crowdlng
me back, and crowding me on into a
closer corner and closer corner, until one
day l look around upon my suffering
family, and, fired by their hardships, 1
hew you in twain. Forthwith all the
world comes to your funeral to pronounce
~eulogium, comes to my execution to
anathematize me. You are the hero, l am
the culprit. Behold the United States
Government and the North American In
dian. The red man has stood more wrongs
than / would, or you. We would nave
struck sooner, deeper. That which is
right In defense of n Brooklyn home or n
New York home is right in defense of a
home on top of the Rocky mountains. Be-
fore this dwindling red race dies COM
pletely out / wish that this generation
might by common justice atone for the in
humanity of its predecessors. In the day
of Gods Judgment 1 would rather be a
blood-smeared Modoc than n swindling
United States offic n on an Indian reser-
walton. One man was a barbarian and a
savage and never pretended 10 be any
thing but a barbarian and n savage. Tho
other man pretended TO be a representa-
tive OF a Christian Nation.
l find another ray of the dawn in the
compression If the worl rs distances.
What a slow, snail-like, almost impossible
thing would nave been the worlds recti-
~fication with fourteen hundred millions of
population and no facile means of commu-
nication? But now, through ~telegraphy
for the eye and telephone intimacy for
the ear, and through steamboating and
r~ailroading, the %, 900 miles of the worlds
circumference are shriveling up into in
significant brevity. Hong Kong is nearer
to New York than a few years q New
Haven was; Bombay, Moscow. Madras,
Melbourne within speaking distance.
Purchase a Geographic chart, and by the
blue lines see the t~elegraphs of the 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 con-
structed it may do all its work in twenty
minutes. Christianity has been planting
its batteries for nineteen centuries, and
NAV go on in the work throu III other CEN
turtles; but when those batteries are
thoroughly planted, those fortresses
are fully built. they may do
their work in twenty-four hours.
1 tell you all these things to show you il
is not among the impossibilities. or even
improbalities, that Christ will conquer the
whole earth, and do it instanter when the
time comes. There are foretokenings In
the air. Something great is going to hap
pen. l do not think hat Jupiter is going
to run us down or that the axle of the
world is going to break; but l mean some-
thing great for the worlds blessing and
not for the worlds damage is going to
happen. l think the world has had it hard
enough. Enough, the London plaques.
Enough, the Asiatic cholera. Enough,
the wars. Enough, the shipwrecks.
Enough, the conflIgrations. l think oul
world could stand right we'll a procession
of properties and triumphs. Better be
on the lookout Better have your obser-
v~atories open toward the heavens, and
the lenses Of your most powerful tele-
scopes well polished. Better have all
you Leyden jars ready for some Q
pulsation of mighty influence. Better
have some new fonts OF type in YOU
printing offices to set up some astonishinn
good news. Better have some new banner
that has never been carried, ready for
sudden professions. Better have the bells
IN your churcn towers well hung and rope
within reach that you may ring out the
marriage of the Kings Son. Cleanse all
your court houses, for the Judge of all the
earth may appear. Let all your legislative
halls be gilded, for the great Lawgiver
may be tb nut to come. Drive off the
thrones of despoiism all the occupants,
for the King of Heaven and earth may be
about to reign. The darkness of the night
Is blooming and whitening into the lilies
of morning clouds, and the lilies REDEEM
ing into the roses of stronger day-ft
%garlands, whether white or red, for Him
on whose head are many crowns. 'The
day is at hand."
One more ray of { @ dawn / see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come
now, do not let us do another stroke OF
work until we have settled one matter.
What is going to he the final issue of this
great contest between sin and righteous
ness? Which is going to prove himself
the stronger, Zoe or DiaLolus? Is this
world going to be ali garden or all desert!
Now let us have that matter settled. II
VIC DcllcNo lsdlEh LIT EZshl6l anu I1OSed,
and Micah and Malachi. and John and
Peter, and Paul and Christ, we believe
that 1t Is going to be all garden. But lei
us have it settled. Let us know whether
we are working on toward a dead failure
If there is a child in your house sick and
you are sure he is going to get we'll you
sympathize with present pains, but all the
foreboding is gone. Ii you are In q
cyclone Off the Florida coast and the cap
tain assures you the vessel Is staunct
and the winds are changing for a better
quarter, and he Is sure he will bring yor
safe into the harbor, you patiently submit
to present distress with the thought o.
safe arrival. Now Iwant to know whether
we are coming on toward dismay, dark.
ness and defeat, or on toward light anC
blessedness. You and / believe the lat
ter, and il so. every year we spend is ont
year subtracted from the worlds woe
and every event that passes, whether
bright or dark, brings us one event nearer
a happy contamination, and by all that II
inexorable in chronology and mathemat'
les / commend you to good cheer anC
courage. If there is any thing in arith'
metic, If you subtract two from five ant
leave three, then by every rolling sun W.
are coming on toward a magnificent ter
minus. Then every winter passed is on
severity less for our poor world. Their
every summer passed by brings us nearer
unfading arborescence. Put your algebra
down on the top of your Bible and rejoice
II it is nearer morning at three o'clocl
than it is at two, il it is nearer morning a
four O'Clock han it is at three, then WI
are nearer the worlds deliverance. God'i
clock seems to go very slowly, but thu
pendulum swings and the hands move
and it will yet strike noon. The sun ant