The advocate., 1895-06-05

Sence or NaCnanlel Stone.
"Loyalty" and religion possess a strange power
over the natural affections of man, and have led
to more cruelty and been productive of more
misery than any other causes whatever; yet, by an
unaccOuntsble perversity, they are almost uniVer-
sally regarded the most sacred sentiments known
to mankind "Loyalty' does not mean love of ones
country, else William Tell was loyal. 1t means de-
VotiOn to fiction-tO the state-to politicians and
in order to be loyal it may be necessary to forget
ones country. The Tories were loyal, and in the
eyes of patriots that loyalty was crime. Patrick
Henry, Jefferson, Washington, were dsloyal. Kos
suth and KosciuskO were disloyal. Spartacus and
John Brown were dislOyal. And to be orthodox in
religion, one must often refuse to be lover of his
race. Wycliffe and Luther were heretics Christ
was heretiC The early Christians were atheists
to Pagan Rome. The loyal and the orthodox have
been the conservatives Of histOry-the enemies of
liberty and of thought. All the progress of society
has come through the efforts of the rebel and the
hereto. sometimes wonder how long it will be
until the soldiers of the North who fought in our
civil war will claim the honor that is their DUE 1t
should be their glory that they were engaged in a
holy rebellion against the rule of the shareholders
of the South. Slavery ruled the land. 1t was pro-
tected by the Constitution and it dominated every
department of the government, just capitalism is
protected by the Constitution and dominates the
government now. Those opposed to slavery elected
a president as those opposed to capitalism may do;
and that election was deemed rebellion against the
established order of things the election of peo
plies president would be regarded to-day Was the
Northern army loyal to slaVeryP The armies OF the
South were defending the sacred right Of property
In man, just as much protected by the Constitution
then as property in railroads is protected now The
North rebeled and put an end to the slaVeholding
oigarchy, and in that consisted the Norths glory
Nathaniel Stone was loyal to his oppressors and
diSloyal to his son. Was his conduct worthy of
lCommendatOnp
TO the sympathie that God hath set within our spirits
Our country claims our fealty; we grant it so
Before made citizens great Nature made us men,
During Sydneys absence, remarkable change
had begun in his country; change the coming and
! the consummation of which the people seemed
poWerless to prevent. convention had assembled
at Philadelphia, sat in secret during the summer,
land finished its work. The new Constitution had
been submitted to the states for ratification and the
General Court of Massachusetts had ordered the cleo
ton of delegates too convention to take action upon
q the proposal to set up new central government.
In the Northern and Eastern states the Constitution
was bitterly denounced. The Federal and the anti
Federal parties, or, as they were often called the
Monarchicsl and the Republican parties, were en-
!, gagged in the first campaign of the political war
which has never ceased to this day; and it was to
take part in the conflict that Sydney had returned
Isaac Stilwell was standing as Federalist csndi-
date, and so was Dobbins RskestrsW. Sydney's eo-
It quence was doing great damage to the Federslist
cause and the Federsists wished to get him out OF
the way The Indictment for treason was the chosen
r instrument for sencing him; but as he was always
Q surrounded by his followers whenever he went
abroad and no one seemed to know where he lodged,
it had been impossible to arrest him. One after
noon, however, Alexander Hotchiss, Stilwells law
YER visited the rich man and revealed plot. Sitting
in her room Gertrude heard what was said.
''I think we shall be rid of him, now, - said the
lawyer. at seems that he frequently visits at the