The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-09-11

down certain amount Of money for the
purchase Of the slaves, anil let all those
born after q 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 ~ won't pay cent"
Warl A million dead men, and national
debt which might have ground this nation
TO powder.
Why did we not let William II. Seward, Of
New York, and Alexander II. 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 II, as settle
1t 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 0yesl
we have come 10 believe, think, In this
country naturalization Is better than battle.
may be mistaken, but hope that the
last war between Christian nations Is ended.
Barbarians may mix their war paint, and
/ 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. I wish to God this nation mlghtbe
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
dians, 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 sillKen
and golden. Here Is my sisters grave. Out
yonder, under that large tree, my father
died. An invader comes, and proposes 10
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 say:
''Stand back, don't crowd me any more or
I'll strike. What right have you 10 come
here and drive me of my premisesl got
this farm from my father. What right
have you TO come here and molestmep You
blandly say: 10, know more than you
do. belong TO higher civilization. cut
my hair shorter than you do. could put
this ground To q great deal better use than
you do" And you keep crowding me back
and crowding me on into a closer corner and
closer corner, until one day / look around
upon my suffering family. and fred by their
hardships l hew you in twain. Forthwith
all the world comes 10 your funeral 10 pro-
nounce eulogium, comes TO my execution to
anathematize me. You are the hero, am
the culprit Behold the United States
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. York
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 q blood -smeared
Modoc than a swindling United States Of
ficer on an Indian reservation. One man
was a barbarian and a savage, and never
pretended TO be ANYTHING but barbarian
and a savage. The other man pretended TO
be a representative OF Christian nation.
! Notwithstanding all this, the general dis
l gust with war and the substitution Of diplo-
matte skill for the glittering edge Of keen
steel is sign unmistakable that "the day
Is at hand"
find another ray Of the dawn in the COM
preston OF the worlds distances. What q
slow, snaillilke, almost impossible thing
would hBve been the worlds rectihcation
with fourteen hundred millions Of popula-
tion and no facile means Of communication
but now, through telegraphy for the eye
and telephonic intimacy for the ear, and
through steamboating and railroading, Tho
twenty Ave thousand miles Of the worldj
| circumference are shriveling up into insig
nificant breyity. Hong Kong 10 nearer 70
New York than a few years ago, New
| Haven was; Bombay, Moscow, Madras Mel
bourn within speaking distance. Purchase
a telegraphic chart, and by the blue lines
see the telegraphs OF the land, and by the
red lines the cables under the ocean.
You see what opportunity this Is
going 70 give for tho final movements Of
| Christianity. A fortress may be onths OF
years in building, but after II is constructed
| II may do all It's work In twenty minutes.
Christianity has been planting its batteries
for nineteen centuries, and may go on in the
| work through other centuries; but when
those batteries are thoroughly planted,
those fortresses arc fully built, they may all
do their work In twenty-four hours The
world sometimes derides the church for
slowness Of movement. II science any
| quickeri Didit not take science 5,652 years
| 10 find out 80 simple thing as the circula-
| tion Of the human blood With the earth
and sky full Of electricity, science took ., 800
years before IL even guessed that there was
any practical use that might be made Of this
subtle and mighty element When good
men take possession Of all these scientific
forces, and all these agencies Of inven-
ton, / do not know that tho redemption
OF the world win be more than the work
Of half aday. Do we not read the queens
speech at the proroguing Of Parliament the
day before In Londoni II that be So Is II
] any thing marvellous TO believe that In TWEEN
| " y.four hours q divine communication can
reach the whole earthi Suppose Christ
should descend on the nations many expect
that Christ will como among the nations
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