The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-22

has an interest in all its parts but most to tho
community Immediately involved, whtth
must actually drink Of the cup that has con-
tained tho poison and cannot escape its In
lection.
A Season of Peace.
1t is admitted on all sides that the current
presidential campaign is freer from excite
mept and tumult than was ever known before,
and II is argued from this circumstance that
we are traversing the epoch OF the common
place. If this bo so, thank God for 1t. We
have had full enough Of the dramatic and SEN
sational, and need q season of mediocrity and
repose. But may we not ascrlbe the rational
way In which the people are going about their
business to larger knowledge and experiences,
and fairer spirit than have hitherto marked
our party contentions2
Sursom Corda We have in our own time
seen the republic survive an irrcpressible con-
flict, sown in the blood aud marrow of lhe
sOciel order. We have seen the Federal union,
not too strongly put together in the first place,
come out of u great war of sections, stronger
than when 1t went into 1t. We have seen the
Federal constitution outlast the strain, not
merely of a reconstructory ordeal and presi-
dental Impeachment, but disputed count OF
the electoral vote, a congressional deadlock
and an extra constitutional tribunal yet stand
ing firm against the assaults of its enemies,
whilst yielding itself with admirable fiexibil-
ity to the needs of the country and the time.
And, finally, we saw the gigantic fabric of
the federal government transferred from
hands that mad held it u quarter of century
TO other hands. witho2t protest, although SO
close was the poll in the final count that
single blanket might have covered both con-
testants for the chief magist0rial office. With
such a record behind us, shall we be afraid of
tho future.
A United Country.
The republic represents at last the letter and
the spirit of the sublime declaration. The
fctters that bound her to the earth are burnt
asunder. The rags that degraded her beauty
are cast aside, like the enchanted princess in
the legend, clad in spotless raiment and wear
ing crown of living light, she steps in the
perfection of her maturity upon the scene OF
this, the latest and proudest of her victories,
to bid a welcome to the world
Need pursue the theme? This vast assem-
bage speaks with a resonance and meaning
which words can never reach. 1t speaks from
the fields that are blessed by the never failing
waters of the Kennebec and from the farms
that sprinkle the valley of the Connecticut
with principalities; 1t speaks In the whrr of
the mills of Pennsylvania and IN the ring {
the wood cutters AK from the forests of the
lake pennsuas; it speaks from the great plan
tatiOns of the south and west; yea, and from
the mines and forests and quarries of Michi-
gan and Wise lnsin, of Alabama and Georgia,
of Tennessee and Kentucky, far away to the
regions of silver and gold, that have linked the
Colorado and the Rio Grand in close embrace;
il speaks one word from the hearthstone in
Iowa and Illinois, from the home In Misss-
sipp and Arkansas; from the hearts of sew
enty millions of fearless, free born men and
women, and that one word is Union"
The Hope of the Future.
At this moment, In every part of tho Amer
lean Union, the children are taking up the
wonderous tale of the discovery, and from
Boston and Galveston, from the little log
school house in the wilderness 20 the towering
academy in the city and the town may be
witnessed the unprecedented spectacle of a
powerful nation captured by an army of
lilliputians, of embryo men and women, of
| topling boys and girls, and tiny elvtj scarce
| big enough to lisp the numbers of the ma
| tonal anthem, scarce strong enough to lift
| the miniature flags that make of arid street
and autumn wood emblematic garden, to
gladden. the sight and to gloFfy the red, white
| and blue. See
| "Our young barbarians all at play"
For better than these we havo nothing to
| exhibit. They, indeed are our crown jewels;
| the truest, though the inevitable, offsprings
| of our civilization and development; the rep
resentHtivcs of n manhood vltalized and in-
| vigorated by toll and care; of u womanhood
| elevated and inspired by liberty and educa-
| tion. God bless the children and their mothers.
| God bless our country's flag, and God be with
| us now and ever. God in the roof trees shade
and God on the highway, God in tho winds
and waves, and God in all our hearts.