Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-02


! possession Of the government and then tbt
! Hebrews bought corn from the govern
ment surrendcring themselves as slaves
BEGINNING or SLAVERY IN EGYPT
Then began 81 very in Egypt The gov
ernnient owned all the Hebrews And lei
modern lunatics who In America, propose
handing over telegraph companies ant
railroads and other things to be run by
government see the folly of letting gov
eminent get its hand on everything
would rather trust the people than any
! government the United States ever had OF
will have, Woe worth the day when leg
isator5 and congresses and administra
tions get possession of anything more thar
| it is necessary for them to have.
That would be the revival in this land oil
| that old Egyptian tyranny for which GOD
has never had anything but red hot thun
derbots. But through such unwise pro
cesses Israel was enslayed in Egypt, and
the long line Of agonies began all up and
down the Nile Heavier and sharper fell
the lash hungrier and ghastlier grew the
workmen, louder and longer went up the
prayer, until three millions of the en-.
shaved were crying: "Ya. Allahl va, AL
lahW o Godl o Godl
throne, Pharaoh sat upon that Not the
| army Pharaoh's officers commanded that.
Not surrounding nations, Pharaoh's threat
made them all tremble. Not the gods Am.
mon and Osiris or the goddess Isis, for
Pharaoh built their temples out of the
groans of this diabolical servitude. But
one hot day the princess Thonoris, the
daughter of Pharaoh while in her bathing
tlah ,r, ~ Il 4
brought her that there is baby afoat on
the river in cradle made out of big leaves
OF course there is excitement all up and
down the banks, for an ordinary baby in
an ordinary cradle attracts smiling atten.
ton, but an infant in cradle of papyrus
rocking on n river arouses not only ad.
miration but curiosity. Who made that
boat? Who made it water tight with btu,
men2 Who launched it2 Reckless of the
crocodiles, who lay basking themselves in
the sun, the maidens wade in and snatch
up the child, and first one carries him and
then another carries him, and all the way
up the bank he runs a gauntlet of caresses,
till Thonoris rushes out of the bathing
house and says Beautiful founding,
will adopt you as my own. You shall yet
wear the Egyptian crown and sit on the
Egyptian throne"
mol Mol MOI He is to be the emanci
pator of the Hebrews. Tell it in all the
brick kilns. Tell it among all those who
are writhing under the lash, tell it among
all the castles of Memphis and Heliopolis
and Zoan and Thebes. Before him u sea
will part, On a mountain top, alone, this
one will receive from the Almighty law
that is to be the foundation of all good
law while the world lasts When he is
dead God will come down on Nebo and
alone bury him. no man or woman or angel
worthy to attend the Obsequies.
Thechid grows up and goes out and stud
les the horrors of Egyptian oppression and
suppresses his Indignation, for the right
time has not come, although once for min
ute he let fly, and when he saw taskmaster
put the whip on the back of workman
who was doing his best, and heard the poor
fellow cry and saw the blood squirt, Moses
doubled up his fist aud struck him on the
temple till the cruel villain rolled over in
the sand eXanimate and never swung the
lash again. Served him right
GOD WAS ON HIS SIDE
But, Moses, are you going to undertake
the impossibilities2 You feel that you are
going to free the Hebrews from bondage
But where is your army? Where is your
navy? Not a sword have you, not spear,
not chariot not n horse. Ali God was
on his side, and he has an army of his own
The snowstorms are on Gods side witness
the snowbanks in which the French army
of invasion were buried on their way back
from Moscow. The rain is on his side:
witness the 18th of June at Waterloo, when
the tempests so saturated the road that the
attack could not be made on Wellington's
forces until eleven o'clock, and he was
strong enough to hold out until reinforce
ments arrived
Had that battle been opened at five
O'clock in the morning instead of at eleven
the destiny of Europe would have been
turned the wrong way. The heavy rain
decided everything. So alse are the winds
and the waves on Gods side. Witness the
Armada with one hundred and fifty ships
and twenty-siX hundred and fifty guns
and eight thousand sailors and twenty
thousand soldiers sent out by Philip ii of
Spain to conquer England.
What became of those men and that ship
ping2 Ask the wind and the waves ali
along the English and Irish coasts. The
men and the ships all wrecked or drowned
or scattered. So | expect that Moses will
be helped in rescuing the lsraelites by a
special weaponry. To the Egyptians the
Nile was n deity It's waters were then us
now very del cious. 1t was the finest nat
ural beverage of all the earth We have
no such love for the Hudson, and Germans
have no such love for the Rhine, and Rus
slams have no such love for the Volga as
the Egyptians have love for the Nile.
But one day, when Pharaoh comes down
to this river, Moses takes stick and whips
the waters, and they turn into the gore of
a slaughter house, and through the sluices
and tiYhponds the inCarnadned liquid
backs up into the land and the malodor
whelms everything from mud hovel to
throne room. Then came the frogs, with
horrible croak, all over everything Then
this people, clearly almost to fastidious-
ness, were infested with insects that be-
long TO the filthy and uukempt, and the
air buzzed and buZZed with flies, and then
the distemper started cows to believing
and horses to neighiug and camels to
grooming, Us they rolled over and expired
Aud then bols one of which will put
man in wretchedness, came in clusters
from the top of the head to the sole of the
foot. And then the clouds dropped hail
and lightning And then locusts came in,
swarms OF them, worse than the grass
hoppers ever were in Kansas, and then
darkness dropped for three days so that
the people could not see their hand before
their face, great surges of midnight cover.
ing them. And last of all, on the night of
the 18th of April, about eighteen hundred
years before Christ, the Destroying Angel
sweeps past; and hear it all night long,
the dapl napl hapl of his wings until
Egypt rolled on a great hearse, the eldest
child dead in every Egyptian home. The
eldest son Of PhNraoh expired that night