Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-14
FITTING TO THE TIME.

the times last evening. SuDJect: 1uo He-
suit of the Election as Related to Afro
Americans.
The text was: Hebrews l., 1 8, "The Up
holding Power"
These verses, said the reverend gentle
man, teach that there are different times
and manners in which God speaks to man,
vs.. l, g. And that the time has come
when he speaks to us by ellis Son"-''the
efulgence of his glory and the express
image of his person."
"Jesus upholds all things by the word
of his power" Nothing falls without his
notice and permission.
First: There is universal need of an
almighty unfolding hand. The text says
| that Jesus, the son of God, s'Upho1deth all
things by the word Of his power
1. Nothing is left to chance or luck.
Jesus by the "word of his power controls
| all things. He doeth according to his
will in the army of heaven and among the
inhabitants of the earth"
Everything in this world is under d.
| vine control. There are no contingencies
with God, everything ia foreknown and
| worketh according to his withdrawing
even 'sthe wrath of man to praise him."
Empires, kingdoms and states or gov
ernments stand while he upholds them for
his own purposes, and when he go orders
they fall God is the judge, he putteth
down one and setteth up another. Bis
| marck is in retirement, not because it is
the within of the young emperor, but be-
cause it is the will of God. Salisbury is
succeeded by Gladstone, because Gcd so
willed it.
Harrison is to be followed by Cleveland,
because this is the will of God Should
| we not all be satisfied that Gods will is
donea The next morning after Blaine's
defeat in 1884 he spoke out against the
unjust suppression of the republican vote
in the south, and asked ''how long will the
white men of the north submit to souts,
ern dictation? How long will the rest OF
the country allow the south to have repre-
sentation in the electoral college and In
congress based upon population, while
none but democratic votes are to be
counteds
The questions have never been answer
ed, and Blaine led the cowardly army tina
ignored the wrongs perpetrated in The
south, and the republican party has beer
, drifting towards defeat ever since. Wei
, deserved defect has come No party O.
person deserves to triumph if they hav
not the courage of their convictions.
! What the republican party needs is tn
spirit of former days. The days of sire
soil and free speech" Liberty" 1t is ia
better for us that Harrison was nominated
r and defeated, than that Blaine had beel
: nominated and elected.
In every hour of need, from the Revo
lutionary war to the war of the Rebellion
the negro was true as steel to the govern
ment-ind ustrious, patriotic and Away
f faithful in the discharge of every duty
d but wronged, suppressed and murdered b
o the very people he gave himself to save
3 and the very party he brought into e1
a istence and nurtured into manhood, wit
! scarcely word of reproof witnessed th
wrongs that were heaped upon him; an
q while haranguing the public about sid
issues, left him at the mercy of hi
# enemies.
A But God has witnessed all this and /
a has begun the overthrow of those derelit
,. to duty, and it is no new thing that
takes his enemies to chastize his own.
He will turn and overturn until ever
n man in this broad land, of whatever rae
q, or creed, can vote as he desires and hay
y. his vote counted as he willed.
T. And with the sword of righteous indi|
I. nation sift the supreme court till there
r not left one timeserver and subservier
& tool of party or policy on the benel
righteousness exalteth nation, but 81
Is roDrOaCl TO any people,.
I hope this democratic victory
u complete, and that they shall have evel
Is line in their own hands. And hope IL
y republican party will never win anoth
81 victory until che again becomes the part
y of high moral principles, having deep CO.
~ victions of right and regardless of succe
+. or defeat will stand firmly for the truth.
u One of our republican journals strut
y. the key note on the defeat of the republ
20 can party in the following editorial:
y "We believe that the recent defeat
20 this great and honored party is due to
10 own backsliding; to its failure to ma
fully support the one fundamental pri
ciple from which it's power in the past "
derived"
ze That principle was the assertion and d
fence of American manhood and Ame1
ed can suffrage. For many years the par
ort of ''free soil, free speech and free mel
M has failed to do aught to defend t
Oh rights of the colored men of the sout
nd and when some two years, since it h
ne control of the law-making and t
.ce executive departments of the governme1
ny, and had the opportunity and the power
ca enact legislation that would do this,
nj. cowardly yielded to senseless clamor al
he failed to avail itself of power and oppe
IS; tunity.
N Had the so called Lodge bill been
las acted President Harrison would have
't5 forced it, and if that or some similar i
had been in existence and honestly enforce
at least seven southern states would ha
T. given their votes to Harrison and Reid.
ill., Harrison and all the leaders knew
' o,o about the terrible wrongs against {
people throughout the south, where
ven they were deprived of life and liberty, a
w. the entire field of southern states W.
fraudulently counted for Cleveland.
I'd. But for fear of offending cold-blood
Use. murderers they refused to make the
on n preme subject of civil rights a leadi
avs issue in the campaign, and lost the bat,
me. AS General Clarkson puts it, ga repl
va" vas lican reverse in a field where it put as
all the noble issues and staked everythi
on the economic and mercensry ISSUE"
for When the republican party recov
from its crushing defeat it will gradua
Jew return to its former noble character, q
Co. the divine subject of "equal rights"
all will be snatched from the realm of
0 pediency and made the supreme issue
the fore the country, and On that moral Isl
- it will win.
s. ao The party that, without equivocati
ows fearlessly and definitely takes the side
those deprived of "civil rights"-the Fl
w. and fundamental principle of all COVE
the ment-will win in the next election.
apy, OF all the parties now before the put
GneT6 Is uOG one OF Lneu tlaI can Do pom
to as party of moral principls-tl
II. are all "trimmsrs for votes" Even
NV prohibition party-the party of minist
uoi and sancti6ed laymen-is dominated
day the selfish principle of political expedien
on While the democratic party, led on
Mr. the New York Sun, set up a howl
"Negro domination" And the republic
was party remanded the subject of sc
tied rights to the rear, and President Harri
in the face of the great wrongs against
n1v race supinely proposed ''commission
49, mitigate the evil" as sensible as it wo
, inn be to stand in the presence of burn
non e orphan asylum and propose at some fut
ool. time to call a meeting to appoint conn
t .;a tee to put out the fire.
e cru The prohibition party for fear of offe
,L nie ing their friends in the south, had moth
'neh to say about civil rights, but that "No
'yee izen should be deprived of the riah
vote on account of SEX"
" Thus they were all afraid to do RICH
and the party nearest to the dsvil is
9 top.
% God still lives and upholds all thir
The temporary triumph of the wicked
lice no indication that the Almighty God
abdicated his control of affairs.
ONE Wickedness triumphed when Jos
day was sold into Egypt, but God was pres
ped and Joseph marched from the prisol
70 the throne, and was the savior of his !
and family.