The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-16


in this nation Of which Isaiah arsaa''sSs'
RIGHTEOUS NATION.
Firxs--rt must be born OF righteous,
mess That is what Isaiah had In mind
when he said: ..Open the gates. clear the
track of history. thai the righteous NATION
NAV enter in. Let those that have deai'
un~;chteously die The nation thar II
70 be born fnnst be born Of righteous
uarentage. Oar nation was born II
Righteousness. Thank Goa for Its ms.
tory. A distinguished infdel has ssaisi
that God had nothing 10 do with TINS
country. lie never told a bigger DC.
The history az this nation Is the history
of the providence Of God. and the men
who founded il were righteous men.
Whatever they may have professed 10
the world. they were men who had IN
their souls deep and abiding sense OF
reverence for the eternal God, and In
their declaration of independence, in
I their public documents, is written that
faith. for they closed with prayers to the
providence of God for guidance and di
rection and left in his hands the nation
that they were about to launch. They
rebelied against their government in the
name of God-the God of liberty and
Justice and honor.
They rebeiled against the power OF
England because she had so acted as to
give them the right primal to say: 81
will not bow TO unrighteousness. | viii
have fairness or will have war;" There
are some things worse than rebellion.
Il is peace with dishonor. 1t is the deg
radiation of Il servile race that has no
power within To say. This Is right, this
is WRONG and | stand and die for the
right" Our fathers were men who could
see the difference between right and
wrong, justice and injustice, honor and
dishonor, and though they turned against
the flag they had sworn to protect they
turned against it in the name of the God
of righteousness. Nations are born thus
This nation was born in righteousness.
The man who says the Ten Command
ments and the Mosaic law are out of date
is out of date himself
A PArfRNAL GOVERNMENT.
Sacond-A,.other element here sketch
ed by the prophet is that the ideal ma
IL
government. Men say the true theory
of government is laissez faire-the less
government the better. | know there
have been distinguished philosophers
who have taught that theory. If you
mean by government a tyranny that
FORCES chains, | agree with you, but if
you mean by government the communi-
ty issuing the DEGREES of its own right
eous attainment, then you have the true
idea of what real government is. The
government of this nation is becoming
stronger.
Our fathers built loosely constructed
federation of states, and then there came
an hour when men said, 1--WE are group
of Independent sovereignties; we make
laws for ourselves" And South Caro-
lima seeded, and Massachusetts threat
ened to. When that happened, you came
together on the battlefield, and you laid
down on the altar of your country the
lives Of 100000 heroes, and with their
blood you wrote new charter for new
nation that should know no little sover-
eighties within its borders, but that
from ocean to ocean and from frozen
north to the open seas of the south
should float but one fag-the symbol of
one people, with mighty central power
at Washington that should issue it's de-
crees and have the power supreme to en-
force them. Iaccept Appomattox. There
the nation was born again-a new ma
ton, nation of inherent, central power,
centralized at the capital of the nation.
Your old idea of local self government
went down in Appomattox never to rise
again, and nation strong and mighty is
the result.
As our nation has grown it has grown
in its necessities for that stronger gov
eminent. 1t is useless to talk about
what our ancestors had and used and
liked and disliked. What they meant
by the constitution and what we have
got to have today for a constitution are
two different things. What our fore
fathers got along with 10 years ago and
what your children must have are also
widely different things. You remem-
Der that our fathers some years ago had
to drive over a whole continent in a
stageco&ch when there was no such
thing as REORGANIZATION between
this widely scattered territory Now
the nation is knit together il a perfect
network of iron bands. and the cleo
trio telegraph and the fast express have
made the whole nation as compact in its
life as a single county was in the days of
George Washington. While we have adj
vancad and must advance in many
things the administration OF Justice is
not as it should be in all the states.
NEED OF A STRONG CENTRAL POWER.
We must have today strong govern
ment. 1t did not use to make any diff
ference what sort of laws they had in
Dakota. There was not any Dakota
when the constitution was made. But
it is question now that concerns your
home life to know what sort of divorce
laws they have in Sioux Falls. The first
thing some of you people know your
husband will be out there levying papers
on you. The first thing you know some
one in whom you have had your life
conferred will turn up out there serving
writ by process of publication in a
little country newspaper that has a cir
culation of 500. On the circulation of a
South Dakota country newspaper di-
vorces have been given, and men and wo-
men have been remarked who lived in the
great city of New York. 1t matters tire
mendously what sort of laws they have
out there. There must be a uniform sys-
tenn OF justice and administration from
end to end of this great nation.
1t matters to New York what sort of
laws Pennsylvania has, where they have
got coal mines, and where they supply
your fires through an awful winter
what sort Of rules shall regulate the
transit of coal from mines to cities-and
there should be a power somewhere
that could pat its hand ON coal combine
and strangle it to death whether it is
formed In l, 10 or 90 states. Unless you
have power like that you are abso-
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