Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-10-16

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the thirteen colonies went through sufierings
which the historian has attempted 20 put
upon paper. and the artist 10 put upon can
vas, but all In vain. Engrayer's knife, anu
reporters skill, and telegraphio wire, ana
daily press, which have made Us acquainted
with the horrors OF modern battlefield, had
not yet begun their vigilance, and the sioIy
OF he American Revolution has never oesu
told, and never will De told. IL did not taAo
much ink to sign the Declaration Of Ihue,,
pendenee, but IL took a terrific amount OF
blood TO maintain it. II was an awful gate
Of opposition that the men and WonSh
and the women As much as the men
pushed back. II was gate OF self-sacnaoa.
1t was gate Of blood. II was a gate OF
carhulcle.
We ara not indebted to history Tor our
knowledge OF the greatest OF National
crises. Many OF Us remember il, and fathers
and mothers now living had better Keep tell
inc that story to their children, so that w
stead Of their being dependent upon cold
type and obliged to say, "On such page OF
such g book you can read that, will they
rather ba able TO saw, my father told me
SOL" "My mother toll me So" Men and
women who wildly remember lsblr ana
1862, and 1868. and 1864, be yourselves the
historians, telling il, not with pen, but with
living tongue and voice and gesture. Ihat
for the Gala lilies on the grave tops sovse-se-
come brea,lless OF perfume; and in week
turn 10 dust unto that which lies beneath II.
But the story OF courage and selt'sacrit!ee
anu patriotism told on platforms AMI IN
households aud by the roadside and In
churches and in GENE. cries by that annual
recital will be kept fresh in the memory OF
generations as long rs our American lnstitu-
tons are worthy of preservation. Long
O.. 1 4 Hz..F, IFaa
to say, with the Psalmist: "We have heard
with our ears, o God, our fathers have
told us, what work Thou didst in their
days. In the times OF DID," But what
time it was! Four years Of home
sickness -Four years OF brotherly
ana sisterly arrangement! Four years Of
martyrdomi -Four years OF massacre Put
them in a long line, the confagration OF
cities, and see them light up a whole cont-
nent! Put them in long rows, the hospitals,
making a vast metropolis Of pain and
paroxyisml Gather them in one vast assem-
blage, the millions OF bereft from the St.
Lawrence TO the Gulf. and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific beaches! Put the tears into
lakes, and the blood into rivers, and the
shrieks into whirlwindsi During those four
years many good and wise men az the North
and South saw nothing ahead but annihila-
ton. With such a National debt We
such moral antipathies Northern and South
ern men could never come into amity! Rep
reSentatIyes OF Louisiana and Georgia, and
the Carolinas could never again sit side by
side with the Representatives OF Maine,
Massachusetts, and New York at the NG-
tional capital. Lord John Russell had de-
cIared that we We're "a bubble-bursting Ma
tionality." and it had come true. The Ma
tons OF Europe had gathered with very re-
signed spirit at the funeral Of our American
Republic. They had toled the bells on
Parliaments and Reichstags aud lowered
their flags at half mast, and even the lion
on the other side OF the sea had whiued for
the dead eagle on this side The deep grave
had been dug, and beside Babylon, and
Thehes and Tyre, and other dead Nations OF
the past our dead Republic was TO be
buried. The epitaph was all ready: "Here
lies the American Republic. Born at Phila-
delphia, 4th Of July, 1916. Killed at Bull
Run, July p, 1861 Aged eightv-hve years
and seventeen days. Peace 10 its ashes. ~
But before the obsequies had quite closed
there wGs an Interruption Of the ceremon-
les, and our dead Nation rose from its
mOrtuarv surroundings. God had made for
1t a special Resurrection Day, and cried,
"COmc forth, thou Republic Of Washing
ton, and John Adams, aud Thomas JefTer-
son. and Patrick Henry, and John Hancock,
and Daniel Webster andS $. S. Prentiss, and
Henry Clay Come forth" And she cam6
forth 10 be stronger than she had ever been.
Her mightiest properties have come since
that time. Who would want 10 push back
this country TO what ii was in 1860 or 1850?
But, oh, what high gate, what strong
gate she had to push back before she could
make one step in advance. Gate OF flannel
See Norfolk Navy Yard, AMI Columbia, and
Chambersburg, dnd Charleston on frel
Gate Of bayonets. See glittering rifles and
Caroiues flash from the Susluehanna, and
tho James to the Mississippi, and the Ar
kansas. Gate Of heavy artillery. making
The mountains Of Tennessee and Kentucky
and Virginia tremble as though the earth
itself were struggling In its last agony. The
gate was 80 fiery and so red that can think
OF nothing more appropriate than to take
the suggestion of Isaiah in the text and call
it a gate OF carbunoles.
This country has been for the most part
OF its history passing through crises, and
after each crisis was better of than before
1t entered it, and now We are at another
crisis. We are told on one hand that if gold
is kept as a standard and silver is not ele-
waited, confidence will be restored and this
Nation will rise triumphant from all the
financial misfOrtunes that have been afliict-
ing US. On the other hand we are told that
II the free coinage of silver Is allowed, all
the wheels OF business will revolve, the poor
man will have a better chance, and all our
industries will begin to hum and roar.
During the last six Presidential election
have been urged 10 enter the political arena,
but | never have and never will turn tho
pulpit in which | preach into q political
stump. Every minister must do as he feels
called to do. and / will not criticise him for
doing what he considers his duty; but all
the political harangues from pulpits from
now until the 81 Of November will not in all
the United States change one vote, but will
leave many ears stopped against ANYTHING
that such clerSymen may utter the rest OF
their lives. As a general rule the laymen
OF churches understand politics better than
the clergy, because they (the lRymenO study
politics more than the clergy, and have bet
ter opportunity Of being intelligent on these
subjects. But good morals. honesty, loyal
ty, Christian patriotism and the Ten Com
mandments-these we must preach. God
says distinctly in the Bible, "Tha silver and
the gold are Mine, and He will settle tho
controversy between those two metals. II
ever this country needed the divine rescue il
needs 1t now. Never within my memory
nave so many people literally starved to
death az in the past few months. Have YOU
noticed IN the newspapers how many men
| ana woLen here and there have been found
dead, the post-mortem examination STATING
that the cause of death was hunger? There
is not d day that we do not hear the crash OF
some great commercial establishment, and,
as a consequence, many people are
thrown out OF employment. AMONG
what we considered comfortable homes
have come,privation and close calculation and
an economy that kills. Millions OF
people who say nothing about it are az
this moment at their wits end. There arc
millions OF people who do not want charity
nut want work. The cry has gone up to the
ears OF the Lord Of SabaOth and the nravar
will be heard and relief will come. If we
have nothing better to depend or than Ameri-
can politics, relief will never come. Who.
ever is elected to the Presidency, the wheels
of Government turn so slowly, and a caucus
] in wonder white building on the hill NAV