The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-19
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 I mat be r1istakeiss bat hope that th'
 last war between Christian nations il lended. Barbarians may mix their war ] paint and Afghan and Zulu shurl poi.
 soned arrows, but I think Christian ma.
 tions have gradually learned that war i
 disastsr to victor hs well as vanq lfie he'd
 aud that almost any thing bought by
 blood is bought at too dear q price.
 wish to Godt1hs Nation might be a.mode
 of willingness for arbitration. No neet
 of killing another Indian. No need o
 sacrificing any more bravo General Gus.
 ters- Stop exasperating the redmen
 and thereiwill be no more arrows sho outfrofn the reservation. A General o
 the United States army, in high reputt
 thro ughout this land, aud who, perhaps,
 has been in more Indian wars than any
 officer and who has been wounded again and agajp in behalf of our Government
 Tn battle against the Indians, told me
 that all the wars that had ever occurred between the Indians and white men had I been prov oked by white men, and that
 there was no exception to the rule. 1 While WIG are aroittas...sls with Christian
 nations, let us toward barbarians carry
 ourselves in manner unprovocatiye of contest f4E99 nH
 inherit large estate, and the waters are rich with fish, and the woods are 1 sonsful with birds, and my corn-felds
 are silken and golden. Here is my sis ,tters grave. Out wonder, under that large istree, my fathcr died. An invader comes, and proposes~te drive me. off and take l possession of my property. He crowds l me back, he crowds me on, and crowds
 me into closer corner, and still closer corner until after awhile | say:
 1 stand back; don't crowd me any more, | or I'll strike. What right have you to
 come here and drive me of of my prem ises? got this farm from my father, and he got 1t from his father. What right have you to come here and modest meyn | You blandly say: ''Oh I know more than
 you do. l belong to a higher civilization. | I cut my hair shorter than you do. I
 could put this ground to great deal bet | ter use than you do."
 1 And you keep crowding me back and 1 crowding me into closer corner and closer corner, until one day look around upon my suffering family, and, fired by their hardships, 1 hew you in twain. l Forthwith all the world comes to your funeral to pronounce eulogium; comes to l my execution to anathematiza me. You
 are the hero; L am the culprit. Behold
 the United States Government aud the North, American Indianl The red man has stood more wrongs than 1 would, or you. We would have struck sooner, deeper. That which is right in defense of a Brooklyn homo or n New York home l is right ill defense of & home on top of the Rocky mountains. Before this dwin- ding red race dies completely out I
 wish that ihis generation might by common justice atone for the inhumaui- Y of its predecessors. Ia the day of Gods judgment would rather there be a blood smeared Modoc than swindling United States officer on an Indian reser- vation! One man was a barbarian and a
 savage, and never pretended to be any
 thing but barbarian and a savage.
 The other man pretended to be a repre- llsentatise of Christian nation Not
 withstanding all this. the general disgust with war, and the substitution of diplo-
 matio skill for the glittering edge of keeu
 steel is a sign unmistakable that 'the | day is at hand"
 l fnd another ray of the dawn in the compression of the worlds distances. What a slow, snail like, almost impossi- ble thing would have been the worlds rectiioation with one thousand four hun AAN4 VI IbHNAAtiRA anu hp AANAlC
 means of communication; but now, through telegraph for the eye and tele- phonic intimacy for the ear, aud through steamboating and railroading, the twen- ty-five thousand miles of the worlds cir
 cumference are shrivelins up into in- significant brevity. Hong Kong is near
 CT to New York ihan few years ago New Haven was; Bombay. Moscow, Madras Melbourne. within speaking dis
 tanoe. 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. Yoa see what opportunity this is going lo give for the final movements of Christianity. A fortress may be months or years in build- ing, but after il is constructed it may do all its work in twenty minutes. Chris tianity 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 foriresses are thoroughly built they may all do their work in twenty four hours.
 The world sometimes derides the church for slowuess of movement. Is science any quiokerf Did IL not take science five thousand six hundred and tifty-two years to find out so simple thing as the cireu- lation Of the human blood. With the earth and the sky full of electricity, science took five thousand eight hundred years before it even guessed that there was any practical use that might be made of this subtle aud mighty element When good men take possession of all these scientific forces, and all these agencies Of invention, l do not know that the redemption of the world will be more than the. work of half a day. Do we not read the Queens speech at the proroguing of Par lament the day before in Londons If that be so, is it any thing marvellous 10 believe that in twenty hours a di- vine communication can reach the whole earths Suppose Christ should descend son the naiions-many expect that Christ will come among the nations personally suppose that to-moFros morning the Son of God from .a lowering eloud should descend upon these cities Would not that fact be known the world over in twenty four heurs'
 Suppose He should present His Gospel in few words saying: T am the Son Of God; come io pardon all your sins and to heal all your sorrow; to prove that am a supernatural being. have just de- scended from he clouds. do you believe me, and dc yoa believe me nowf" Why, all the telegraph stations of the earth wnuia De crowded as none of them were ever crowded just after shipwreck. tell yca all these things to show you it Is not among the feapossi5ilifies or even the fnnprebahiliieS tbat Christ will conquer the whole earth. and do 1t in stantcr, when the time comes. There are ferctokeafngs in the air. Something great is going to happen. I do not think that Jupiter is going to run Us down or