Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-22
VOL. XVI. NO. 847


Z No that end, as to all other good ends,
tho moderation OF public sentiment must
ovcr DO our chief reliance. for when mon
are forced by the general desire for truth,
and tho LIGHT which our modern vehicles
OF information throw npon truth, to dis
cuss public questions for truths sake,
when II becomes tho plain interest OF pub
lie men, as IL Is their plain duty 70 do this,
and when, above all, friends and neigh
hors cease 70 lovo ono another less because
OF indlyidal differences OF opinion about
public Affairs, tho struggle for unfair adj
vantage viii be relcgated TO those who
have either no character to lose, or none
TO sock.
II Is admitted on all sides that the cur
rent presidential campaign is frecr from
excitement and tumult than was ever
known before, and It is argued from this
circumstance that we are traverslnR the
epoch OF tho commonplace. II this DO SO,
thank God for III We have bad full enough
OF tho dramatic and sensational and need
season OF modioority and repose. But
may we no. ascribe the rational way In
which tho people are going about their
business 10 larger knowledge aud erper-
ieuce, and fairer spirit than have hithor-
10 marked our party contentlonsi
Parties are rs essential TO free govern
mont AS oxygen TO the atnos pherc, or sun
shine to vegetation. And party spirit Is
iuSeparahle from party organism. To tho
extent that 1t Is tempered by good sense
and good feeling, by love Of country and
integrity OF purpose, II Is asupreme virtues
and there should be no gag short OF de-
cent regard fer the seusiblites Of others
put upon Its freedom and plainuess OF ut
torrance Otherwise, the limpid pool OF
Democracy would stngnate, aud we should
have Republic only in name But We
should mover cease 10 be admonished by
the warning words Of the Father OF his
Country against the excess Of party spirit,
rc-cnforcod as they are by tho experience
al n century Of party warfare; warfare
happily eliminating In tho complete
triumph OF American principles, but
brought many times dangerously near 70
tho humiliation OF all that was great and
noble in the national life.
iirr uP YOUR HEARTS.
SuTsum Corda. Wo have in our own
time soon the republic survive In irrepres-
sible conflict, sown In tho blood and mar.
row Of the social order. We have seen
| the Federal union not too strongly put to-
| geth0r In tho FIRST place come out OF great
| war OF sections stronger than when II went
into II, It's faith renewed, its credit reha.
| bilitatod, md It's flag saluted with logo and
homage by sixty millions Of od.foaring
monland women, thoroughly roconclled aud
| HOMOGENEOUS. We have seen the Federal
! constitution outlsst the strain, not
merely OF q reconatructory ordeal
| ana pftAlueptlM lhpoVohihNnN
but disputed count OF tho
electoral vote, a congressional deadlock,
and an extra constitutional tribunal, yet
standing firm ugainsV the assaults OF It's
enemies, whilst yielding itsolt with admir-
| nhlo ilcNibility 10 the needs Of tho country
| md tho time. And, finally, We saw tho
| gigantlc fabric of tho Federal government
| transferred from hands that had nold II q
qunrtcr OF q century TO other banda, with
out protest, although 80 close was the
poll In tho final count that ningle blanket
| might have covered both CONTESTANTS for
tho chief magisterlal oillco, with such q
record behind US, who shall BIO AFRAID OF
me young manhood OF the country may
| take this lesson from those OF us who lived
through times that did, indeed, try mems
souls-when, pressed down from day 70
day by awful responsibilities and susponse,
each night brought terror with every
thought OF tho morrow and, whom. look
where we would, there were light and hope
nowhoro-thnt God rolgns and wills, and
that this fair land Ia, and has always been,
In His own keeping.
Thn curso OF slavery is gone IL was a
Joint heritage OF woo, 10 be wiped out aud
cxpntad 10 blood and flame. The mirage OF
the C0nfederaoy has vanished. IL was es'
sontially bucolic, q vision OF Arcade, the
dream OF most attractive economic fallncy.
| The constitution Is no longer rope Of sand.
Tho exact rotation OF tho states 70 the Fed
eral government, left open TO double CON
| Btruction by the authors Of our organic DO.
ing, because they could not agree among
themselves, and union was tho paramount
object, has been clearly and definitely fixed
| by the three last amendments 70 the origi'
| nal chart, which constitute tho real treaty
OF peace between tho North and tho Sonth,
and seal our bonds as anation forever
The republic represents at least the let
ter aud tho spirit Of tho sublime declare
r. a kass IA N.a
Garth are burst nsunder The rags that do
graded hor beauty arc cast aside. Like tue
enchanted princess In the legend, clad In
apotloas ralmcnL and wearing crown OF
living light, she siops IN the perfection Of
her maturity upon the scene OF this, the la'
test aud pfoudcst OF her victories 70 bid q
welcome 10 tho world
THE MEAsNd orr
Need pursue the themei This vast as.
scmblage speaks with resonance and
meaning which words can never reach. II
speaks from the fields that are blessed by
the novor falling waters Of the kennebee
and from tho farms that sprinkle tho val
ley Of the Connecticut with mimic princi
palitios more potent and LISTING than Tho
real II speaks In tho whirr OF the mills q
Pennsylvania and Ia the ring OF
the wo0d-cuttors ax from the
forests of the lake poninsulns; "
speaks from the great plantations of
the South and the West, teening with
stnplo8 that Insure us wealth and power
and stability, yea, and from the mines and
forests aud quarries Of Michigan aud Wa
consln, Of Alabama and Georgia, OF Ten'
nessoe aud Kentucky, far away 10 the 70.
glona Of silver and gold that hnvo linked
the Colorado and tho ltioGrando In close en-
brace, and unnihtiatnd time and space be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific II speaks IN
one word from the henrth-sione In Iowa
and lilinoiS, from the home IN Mississippi
and Arkansas, from the hearts Of seventy
millions o. fearless, froo-born men and
women, and that one word Is "Unionip
There IS no geography Ia American man.
hood There arc no sections 70 American
fraternity. 10 needs but six weeks 70
change a Vormontcr Into Texan. and
there mover has been time when upon tho
battlefield or tho frontier puritan and
| cavalier worc not convertible terms, nav
ing IN the beginning common origin and
so dlnused and diluted on American soil
as no longer TO possess local habitation
or nativity except In the national unit.
The men who planted tho signals OF
American civilization upon that sacred
rock by Plymouth bay were Englhhmen,
ana 80 were tho men who struck tho coast
little lower down, calling their
haven OF rest attor the great ke-
publican commoncr, and founding by
Hampton Ronds race OF heroes and states
mon, the mention OF whose names brings
thrift 70 every hoart Tho south claina