Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-06-01

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and toiay the E niresi States il the richest
the most dreaded, the most widely resp..e,
Ell, and the most powerful nation on ths
faes OF the earth. sppiaase. Take III.
statistics Of that English statistieian. Mr.
Hnihail, and you will find that W. ar
richer thar England with all her colonies
/ richer than France With all her fraaaJitv
richer than Germany with all h.r bower
I richer than I'll the kussias, vel This caun.
/ Try has within lis borders. editors q,
I news papersr sbo speak of yOa. vim
made ali THIS possible, as Treasury wreck.
ffs. These men never -neilsti pos.lei
and wefe il % be snisiled again they would
shif IL from staT of IN Cansals fAbulstt..l
Eondrr IL they kaoS that this entire I'd
| millions OF dollars IL raised on the. vices oil
ms country By the internal revenue. raised
on tobacco anil intoxicating hquors: Thi,
1 may, hoseyer, be serious bar,ten on The
l1ekftbo0ks of these same light headed
/ editors. 4Laaghtsr} Bot perhaps We are
getting too near tho issues VI the ,iay which
should not bc brought mp On occasions like
thi.
FOR two and half centuries there have
been eonte-ting iH this country two adverse
" pes OF civilization. TN all sides of u-
Today We see the efforts OF man TO lift him
self ap. Each one is hoping for something
better for himself and within himself.
The speaker then referred to the diverse
Influences brought TO this country BY the
Puritans. chiefly composed Of the common
people coming here for religious motives
and the representatives of the aristocracy
"ho settled jamestown and whose influence,
spread throughout ths. South
When the Puritans founded the Massa
| ciusetts town meeting, in that town meet
ing was horn the type of civilization thai
prevails to-day The people in the Soutt
we're differently educated TO them, free
land was unknown, and their land law,
we're framed for the upbuiitling Of the pow
''r If the few.
IL was Just as natural for slavery to yrow
dp in the South and not in the cold North
~ for cotton TO grow in the warm southern
climate and not on our New England
bids. Let not the North, however. b,
iiypocritical in this matter, it il s
fact of history that some of ths
good people of the North sent ont to ifriea
Bibles AMI rum amt their vessels cam,
back freighteti with black diamonds which
they sold to their wicked southern neigh
i0rs.
The speaker then followed ont in detail
the phases of the contest between these TIVE
opposing IDEAS, the government By the many
As typitied in the Massachusetts town meet
ings, and the government by the few which
naturally grew up in the South on account
of the education of the people and then
.urroundings The Constitution itself hi
said, was tissue of compromises In il
were sources of trouble that had in time to
be- torn apart and wiped out with sponge
of blood. He showed how during all the
wears prior to the Civil War the fires OF
this contest smouidered, springing up il
1872 in threats Of disuuon made by men OF
the North on account of the burdens i'm
posed ON them by that war. The history
of the Hartford convention was never made
public, though it is believed that resolu,
tions In favor of secession were passed
There came another clash in 1920
temporarily settled by the Missouri
compromise. Again in 1882 it ap-
pcared and only was crushed out BIS the
courage and patriotism and energy of brave
Andrew Jackson. 1t, however, became cy-
ident ~ time went on that one of these two
opposing ideas must prevail in this country,
and that resort 10 armed force was inev-
table. With the election of Abraham Lin
coin another pretext was afforded around
Is hich To marshal the opposing forces for Il
struggle between these two ideas. Not n
single arch conspirator in 1859 and 1860
thought for moment that the election OF
Lincoln endangered in the slightest
their title to their slaves but they saw that
the extension of slavery was doomed. They
could read in the clouds of heaven their
coming doom. For two and half cen
turtles this war had been coming on. Did
YOU think when YOU went down South of
going there to fight to free the slaves. Of
course we realize that the broaking of the
shackles of these bondsmen was one of the
grauhest results of the war but YOUR
purpose in going into that war
was that the problem of self gov
eminent shmid not be wiped out, that
popular sovereignty should prevail. Why,
by very instinct the common people of Eu-
rope understood this. The ari>tocracy SYM
pathized with the South. but the working
men of l.ancanshlre believed in the princi-
pies for which the North was fighting and
though the cotton necessary to keep their
mills in operation was hlockaied in the
southern ports and they went home to
their children without bread TO feed them
vet their LOYALTY TO the north never falt cred.
Their instincts tahi them that on the fields
of Getty sburg. or in the brilliant charges at
Nntietain you were 6ghting their battles as
well rs your own.
In years 10 CONE A. We meet spring
after spring and bring flowers to lay
on the resting places of the dead.
need not ask the people of New
England to he true to the cause for
which these men died. God knows that the
North was immutably and unchangably
right. (Applause.) We can forget the
conspiracy, we can forgive Andersonville'
we can forget even that. we can forgive it,
hut we can never forget those men sleeping
on Wonder hill who died in a cause so just.
so righteous that in the wears to come we
shall delight 10 tell our children and they
their grandchildren of the mighty deeds on,
fathers did Of Old. (Applanse.l
The beneciction was pronounced by Rev
/ /. j. Mead,
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