The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-10-02

land, and who, perhaps, had been In more
Indian wars than any other officer, and who
had been wounded AGAIN aud again in behalf
Of our Government Ia battle against the In.
dians told me that all the wars that had
ever occurred between Indians and white
men had been provoked by white men, and
that there was no exception to the rule.
| While we are arbitratinG with Christian Ma
tions let us toward barbarians carry our
selves in manner unprovoca tive of con.
test.
Let me put myself in their place: in
horit large estate, and the waters arc rich
| with fish, and tho woods are songful with
birds, and my cornfields are silker and
golden. Here Is my sisters grave. Out
yonder, under the large tree, my father died.
An invader comes, and proposes to drive me
of and take possession OF my property. Hn
crowds mo back. he crowds mo on, and
n while, 1 say: "Stand back. don't crowd
mo any more, or I'll strike. What right have
you to como here and drive me Off my prem
ises! | got this farm from my father and he
got it from his father. What right have you
| to come here and nolest me?" You bland
" say: "Oh, l know moro than you do. 1
belong to higher civilization. l cut my
hair shorter than you do. l could put
this ground to great deal better use
than you d." And you keep crowdinS me
back and crowding me on into the closer
corner and closer corner, until ono day
look around upon my suffering family. and
fired by their hardships how you in twain.
Forthwith all the world comes to your fu-
neral to pronounce eulogium. comes to my
execution to mathematics me. You are tho
horo, am the culprit. Behold the United
States Government and the North American
Indian. Tho red man kus stood moro
wrongs than 1 would, or YOU. We would
have struck sooner, deeper. That which
Is right in defence OF n Washington homo
is right in defence of home on top
of the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwindling
red racn dies completely out, 1 wish that
this generation might by common Justice
atone for tho inhuman;ty Of its predecessors.
In tho day OF Gol's Judgment, L would
rather be a blooI-smeared Modoc than a
swintlinS United States officer on IN Indian
reservation. Ono was u barbarian aud n
savage, and never pretended to be anything
but II barbarian and savage. The other
tian Nation. Notwithstanding all this. tho
general disgust with war and the substitu-
ton OF diplomatic skill for the rlittering
edge OF keen steel Is Sign unmistakable
that 1.-THE day Is at hand"
find another ray of dawn In tho COM
preston of tho worlds distances. What a
slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rcctiflcation
with fourteen hundred millions Of popu!a-
tion and no facial means OF communication;
but now. through teegraphy for the eye and
telephone intimacy for the car. and through
steamboatinS and railroadinS, tho twenty
five thousand miles of the worlds circum-
ference are shriveling up into insignlfant
Drevity! Hong Kong is nearer New York
than q few years ago New Haven was; Bonn
bay. Moscow. Madras, Melbourne, within
speaking distance. Purchase n telegraphic
chart, and by the blue lines soc tho tele
graphs OF the land, and by the red lines the
cables under tho ocean. You sec what op-
portunity this is going to give for the final
movements of Christianity A fortress may
be months or years in building, bu. after it
Is constructed it may do all its work in twen-
ty minutes. Christianity has been planting
its batteries for nineteen centuries, and may
so on IN tho work through other centuries:
but when those batteries are thoroughly
planted, those fortresses are fully built, they
may all do their work in twenty-four hours.
Suppose Christ should descend on tho
Nations-many expect thut Christ will come
among tho Nations personally-supposn that
tomorrow morning the Son of God from q
hoverinS cloud should descend upon these
cities. Should not thut,fact bo known all the
world ovcr in twenty-four hours? Suppose
He should present His Gospel in a few ords,
saying: Il am tho Son Of God; came to
pardon all your sins and to heal all your sor-
row; to prove that l am supernatural
bcinS, have just descended from the clouds
Do you believe Me, and do you believe NJ,
now?' Why. ali the telegraph stations OF
tho earth would br crowded rs none of them
were ever crowded just after II shipwrcck. l
tell you all these things to show you it is not
among the impossibiiitics or even the inn
probabilities that Cnrist Will conquer the
whole earth. and do it inStantcr, when the
timo comes.
There are ioretoEenings in the air. Some
thing great is going to happen. do not
think that Jupiter is going to run US down,
or that tho axle OF the world is going to
break; but l mean something gre,u for tho
worlds blessing and not for the worlds
damage is going to happen. / think the
4 nCh nryI bn
lamines and plaques. Enough. the Asiatic
choleras. Enough. the wnis. Enough, the
shipwrecks. Enough. tho conflasrntiors. 1
think our world could stand right we'll a
procession Of prosperties and triumphs.
Ee:tcr be on tho lookout. Better have Your
observatories open toward tho heavens, and
the lenses or your most powerful telescopcs
we'll polished. Battcr have all your Leyden
jars ready for some new pulsation Of mighty
influence Better have new fonts of typs in
Your printing ofhceS TO set up Somo astOunG-
ing good news. Better have somo new BAN
ner, that has never been carried, ready for
sudden professions. Better have the bells
in your church tower well hung, and rope
marriage of tho Kings Son. Cleanse all
your court houses, for the Judge OF all the
earth may appear. Lot all your legislative
halls be Sildcd, for tho great Lawgiver may
DO about to come. Drive off the thrones Of
depotism all rho occupants. for the King Of
heaven and earth may be about to reign
Tho darkness Of the night Is blooming and
whitening into tho lilies Of morning clouds,
and tho lilies reddeniny into the roses of
stronger 'iny-!lt garands, whether white
oc fHd. f)- Him on whose head arc many
rr'was. The day is ut hand"
o." more ray of the dawn I sec in facts
carono oS.crI and mathematical. Come.
now. do not let uS 10 another stroke OF work
until we have settled ono matter What is
going to be th3 final issue of this great con-
test between sin and righteousness? Which
is going to prove himself the stronger, God
or Diabolusi Is this world going to be all
garden or all dcscri2 Now let us have that
matter settled. II we believe Isaiah, and
EZrkiel, and Hosea, and Micah, and Malnchi.