Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

moral emancipation from friYolity aud
DhariSeism-its rescue from the Scarlet
Woman ADD the mailed hand-aHd its
Disqualification into national charac-
ter and pOlity, ruling by force OF brains
and not by force OF arms.
Gentlemen-Sir-I. too, have been TO
Boston. Strange ss the ADMISSION may
seem, 10 Is true; and / live TO tell the
tale l have been to Boston; aud, when
declare that l found there many
things that suggested the cavalier and
did not suggest the puritan, / shall not
say / was sorry. But, among other
things, found there civilization per-
feet in its union Of the art Of living
with the grace OF life; an Americauism
ideal 10 It's simple strength. Grady
told US, and told US truly, OF that
typical American, who, ia DR.. Tai
IMAGES minds eye. was coming,
but who, 10 Abraham LIncoln's
actually, had already come. In some
recent studies into the career OF that
great man, / have encountered many
startling combinations Of this judg-
ment; and from that rugged trunk.
drawing it's sustenance from gnarled
roots, interlocked with Cavalier sprays
and Puritan branches deep beneath the
soil. shall spring, is springing a shapely
tree-symmetric 10 all its parts-under
whose sheltering bough this nation
shall havs
THE NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM
Lincoln promised it, and mankind the
refuge which was sought by the fore
fathers When they fled from oppres-
sion. Thank God the axe, the gibbet
and the stake have had their day.
They have gone, let US hope, to keep
company With the lost arts. IL has
been demonstrated that great wrongs
may be redressed and great reforms be
achieved without the shedding OF one
drop OF human blood; that vengeance
does not purify, but brutalizes; and
that tolerance, which in private trans
actions is reckoned a virtue, becomes
In public affairs a dogma OF the most
far-seeing craftsmanship. Else how
could this noble city have been redeem
ed from bondage? 1t was held like
castle OF the Middle Ages by Roboer
Barons. Yet have the mounds and
dykes OF corruption been cSrried-from
buttreSS 20 bell-tOwer the walls OF crime
have falen-without a shot out OF
gun, and still no TRES OF Smithdeld TO
light the pathway Of the victor, no
bloody assiZes 20 vindicate the justice
OF the cause; nor need OF any.
So l appeal from the men In silken
hose who danced 10 music made by
slaves-and called il frsedom-frOm the
men 10 bell.croWnsd hats, who led Hes
ter Prynne TO her shams-and called II
religion-to that Americanism which
reaches forth its arm TO Smite wrong
with reason aud truth, secure in the
DO8or of both, l appeal from the
patrlarchs OF New England to the
POETS OF NEW England;
from Eudicott to Lowell; from Winthrop
to LongfellOw; from Norton to Holmes;
aud / appeal in the name and by the
rights OF that common citizenship-of
that common Origin-back both OF the
Puritan and CavaIier-tO which all OF
Us owe our being. Let the dead past,
cOnsecrated oy the blood Of its martyrs,
not by iLs savage hatreds-darEened
alike by kingcraft and priestcraft-let
the dead past bury It's dead. Let the
present aud the future ring with
the song Of the singers. Blessed
DO the lessons they teach, the laws they
make. Blessed DO the eve 20 see, the
light TO reveal Blessed be Tolerance,
sitting ever on the right hand OF God TO
guido the way with loving word, as
blessed be all that brings US nearer the
goal Of true religion, true RepuolIcanism
aud true patriotism, distrust Of watch
words aud labels. shams and heroes,
belief 10 our country and ourselves. 1t
was not Cotton Mather, but John Green
leaf Whittier, who cried:
Dear God and Father Of US ell,
Forgive our faith in cruel lies,
Forgive the blindness that denies.
Cast down our idols-overturn
Our bloody altars-make US see
1hyself ia Thy humanity"