The Forrest City times., 1890-03-01

the arraignment of Aaron Burr, Edmund Burke's speech on Warren Hastings, Rob. ert Emmet's speech for his own vindica-
 ton.
 Who will In conspicuous action represcnt
 the new north as hc did tho new southi
 Who shall come forth for the new cast aad
 who for the new westi Let old political
 issues be buried. let old grudges die Let
 new theories be launched. With tho com- ing in of new nation at the gates of Castle Garden every year. and the wheat bin and corn crib of our lanG enlarged with every harvest and Q vast multitude of our population still plunged in illiteracy to be educated, and moral questions abroad involving the very existenco of our republic, let the old political platforms that arc worm eaten be dropped and platforms that shall | be made of two blanks, the one the Ten Commandments and the other the Ser mon on tho Mount lifted for all of us to stand on. But there is lot of old politicians grumbling all around the sky who don't want 8 new south, a new north, a new east or a new west They have some old war speeches that they prepared in 1881, that in all our autumnal elections they feel called upon to infiict upon the country. They growl louder and louder in proportion as they arc pushed back further and further and the
 Henry W. Gradys como to the front. But the mandate. think, has gone forth from tho throne of God that new American na- tion shall take the pace of the old and tho new has been baptized for God and lib erty and justice and peace and morality and religion.
 And now our much lamented friend has gone to give account Suddenly the facile and potent pen is laid down and the elo- quent tongue is silent. Whati Is there no safeguard against fatal oiseasel The impersonation of stout health was Mir. Grady. What compactness of musclel
 N that ruddy complexion What flashing eyel Standing with him in group of twenty or thirty persons at Piedmont lie looked the healthiest as his spirits were the brightest. Shall WIG never feel again the hearty grasp of his hand or be magnetized with his eloquencei Men of the great roll, men of the pen, men of wit, mon of power, if our friend had to go when the call came, so must you when your call comes. When God asks you what have you done with your pen UT your elo- quence or your wealth or your social posi- tion, will you Do able to give satisfactory answer! What have we been writing all these yearss If mirth, has 1t been innocent mirth, or that which tears and sings and laceratesi From our pen have there como forth pro auctions healthy or poisonousi In tho last great day when the warrior must give account of what he has done with his sword, and tho merchant what ho has done with his yard stick, and the mason what he has done with his trowel, and the artist what he has done with his pencil, We shall have to give account of what we have done with our pen. There arc gold pens and diamond pens and pens of exquisite manufacture, and every few weeks 1 see some new kind of pen, each said to be better than the other; but in the great day of our arraignment before tho Judge of quick and dead that will be the most beautiful pen, whether gold or steel or quill, which never wrote protane or nn- clean or cruel word, or which from the day it was carved, or split at the nib, dropped from it's point kindness and encouragement and help and gratitude 10 God and bene- diction for man.
 May God comfort that torn up southern homo and all the homes of tJiis country and of al the world which have been swept by this plague of influenza. which has deepen ed sometimes into pneumonia aud some- times into typhas and the victims of which arc counted by the ton thousand Sa- tan who is the Prince of tho Power of the Air has been poisoning tho aimos- phere in all aations Though Il Is tho first tinc In our rememberance, he has done the same thing before. In l69 the unwholesome mir Of Cairo. Egypt destroyed the life of ten thousand in ono n. ... hundred thousand people died of it. l am glad that by the better sanitation of our cities and wider understanding of hygleuia laws and tue greater skill oi physicians these Apollyonic assaults upon tho human race are being resisted. but pcstilenuM atmosphere is still abroad Hardly family hero but has felt It's lighter or heavier touch Some of the best of my flock fell under it's power and many homes hero represented have been crushed. The fact is Ina biggest failure in the universe is this world if there be no heaven beyond But there IS, and tho friends Fho have gone thero arc many and very dear, . fearful eyes, look up to tho hills or!msonng with eternal mora That reunion kiss will moro than make up for the parting klss, and the wei come will ohitorate tho good by. The Lamb which is in the midst of tho throno shall lead them to living fountains of water and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Till then, . departed loved ones. promise us that you will remember us, as we promise to remember you. And somo of you gone up from this city by tho sea and others from under southern skies and others from the homes of the moro rigor- ous north and some from tho cabins on great western farms, We shall meet again when our pen has written it's last word and our arm has done its last days work and our lips have spoken the last adleu.
 And now, thou great and magnificent soul of editor and oratorl un Tor brighter skies we shall meet again, From God thou earnest and to God thou hast returned. Not broken down. but aseended. Not col lapsed, but irradated. Enthronod onol Coroneted onei Sceptered one! Empara- dsed one hail and farewell