Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-05

61Icrinl0htlOnF
At the opening OF the war the com
mander in chief Of the United States forces |
was a man who had been great In BATTLE |
but old age had come, with many infirmi- /
ties, and he had right TO quietude. He |
could not mount a horse and he rode on |
the battlefield In O carriage, asking the |
river not to Jolt 1t too. munh.. During |
fhe most Of the four years Of the contest
on the southern side was man In midlife,
who had in his veins the blood Of many
generations of warriors, himself one of the
heroes of Churubusoo and Cerro Gordo,
Contreras and Chapultepec. As the years
passed on and the scroll Of carnage unrolled
there came out from both sides heroism,
and a strength, and determination that
the world had never seen marshaled. And
what but determination could come when
Philip Sheridan and Stonewall jackson
met, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney
Johnston rode in from north and south,
and Grant and Lee, the two thunderbolts
of battle, clashed? Yet we are nation,
and yet we are at peace. Earthly courage
did not decide the conflict. The upper
forces of the text-they tell Us there was
battle fought above the clouds on Look
out mountain, but there was something
higher than that.
Again. the horses and ehariots of God
came to the rescue of this nation in 1875,
at the close of a presidential election fa-
mons for ferocity. A darker cloud vet set
tied down upon this nation. The result
of the election was in dispute, and reyolu-
tion. not bytween two or three sections,
but revolution in every town and village
and city of the United States, seemed i'm
minent. The prospect was that New York
would throttle New York, and New Or
leans would grip New Orleans, and Boston
Boston. aud Savannah Savannah, and
Washington Washington. Some said Mr..
Tilden was elected, others said Mr. Hayes
was elected. and how near we came to
universal massacre some of us guessed,
but God only knew. ascribe our escape
not to the honesty and righteousness of
infuriated politicians but I ascribe 1t to
the upper forces of the text.
| God the Friend of the Nation.
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;stratio,, ~ ;s almost imnossible now to
have illeoal voting There was a time
YOU and remember it very well-when
droyes of yagabonds wandered up and
down on election day, and from poll to
poll, and voted here and voted there and
voted everywhere and there was no ohal-
lenge, or, If there were, it amounted to
nothing because nothing could so sudden.
ly be proved upon the vagabonds. Now
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voter Is watched with severest scrutiny.
If am in IL region where l am allowed
vote, must tell the registrar my name,
) and how old am, and how long l have
resided in the state, and how long have
resided in the ward or the township, and
if misrepresent so witnesses will rise and
shut me out from the ballot box. Is not
that great advancef And then notice
, the law that prohibits man voting If he
has bet on the election. A step farther
needs to be taken, and that man forbidden
a vote who has offered or taken bribe
! whether it be in the shape OF free drinE
or cash paid down, the suspicious cases
obliged to put their hand on the Bible anC
! swear their vote in If they vote at all. SO
through the sacred chest of our nation!
suffrage, redemption will come.
Wash Out Your Eyes.
Cod will save this nation through al
aroused moral sentiment. There has neye
+ hoen so mnch discussion of morals ant
: numerals Men. whether or not they ac
y knowledpe what is right have to thinl
/ What is right We have men who hay,
r bad their hands in the public treasury th,
8 most of their lifetime stealing all the,
q couId Law their hands on. discoursing elo
| onentlv about dishonesty in public sery
: onts and men with two or three familie
: of their own. nreachinp eloouently abou
4 tho hoauties of the seventh commandment
/ The question of sobriety and drunkenness
o is tbrnst in the face of tbis nation AS neye