Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-28

those four years many good and wise
men a+ the north and south saw nothing
ahead but humiliation. With such
national debt we could never meet our
OBLIGATIONS. With such mortal antipa-
thies northern and southern men could
never come into amity. Representatives
of Louisiana and Georgia and the Caro-
linas could never again sit side by side
with the representatives of Maine, Mas
sachusetts and New York at the nation
al capital.
Lord John Russell had declared that
we were "a bubble bursting national
ity,'' and it had come true. The ma
lions Of Europe had gathered with very
resigned spirit at the funeral Of our
American republic. They hadToIled the
bells on parliaments and reichstags and
lowered their flags at half mast, and
even the lion on the other side of the
sea had whined for the dead eagle Oh
this side. The deep grave had been dug,
and beside Babylon, and Thebes, 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 Philadel-
phia, July 4, 1875 Killed at Bull Run
July 81, 1861. Aged 50 years and II
days. Peace TO its ashes. But before
the obsequies had quite closed there was
an interruption Of the ceremonies, and
our dead nation rose from its mortuary
surroundings. God had made for it a
special resurrection day, and cried:
"Come forth, thou republic of Washing
ton, and John Adams, and Thomas JEFF
fers0n, and Patrick Henry, and John
and Daniel Webster, and S.
S. Prentiss, and Henry Clay. Come
fOrth!' And she came forth, to be
stronger than she had ever been. Her
properties have come since
that SINE. Who would want TO push
back this country to what it was in
1860 or 1850? But, oh, what a high
gate, what q strong gate, she had to push
back before she could make one step in
advanced Gate OF fame! Sec Norfolk
navy yard, and Columbia, and Cham
bersburg, and Charleston on fire! Gate
of bayOnets! See gIitte1ing rifles and
carbines fash from the Susquehanna
and the James to the Mississippi and
the Arkansas Gate Of heavy artillery,
making the mountains Of Tennessee and
Kentucky and Virginia trembIe as
though the earth itself We're struggling
in its last agony. The gate was so fiery
and SO red that I can think Of nothing
more appropriate than 10 take the sug-
gestion of Isaiah in the text and call it
q gate Of carbuncles.
God Save the Nnfion.
T1I,5cr I,,s-
part Of its history passing through
crises, and after each crisis was better
off than before it entered it, and now
we are at another crisis. We are told on
0ne hand that if gold is kept as stand
ard and silver is not elevated confidence
will be restored, and this nation will
rise triumphant from all the financial
that have been affecting
is. On the other hand, we arc told that
If the free coinage OF silver is allowed
all the wheels Of business will revoive.
the poor man viii have a better chance,
and all our industries will begin to hum
and roar. During the last six presiden-
-ial elections I have been urged to enter
he political arena, but l never have
md never will turn the pulpit i'll which
preach into political stump Every
minister must do as he feels called to
10, and I viii not critcise him for doing
what he considers his duty, but all the
political harangues from pulpits from
low until the 3D. Of November Will not
II all the United States change enc
vote, but Will leave many cars stopped
against anything that such clergymen
may utter the rest of their lives AS
general rule, the laymen of churches
understand politics better than the
clergy, because they (the laymen) study
politics more than the clergy and have
better opportunity Ct being intelligent
III those subjects. But good morals,
honesty, loyalty, Christian patriotism
and the Ten Commandments-th we
must preach. God says distinctly III the
Bible, 1.-The silver and the gold are
nine, - and he Will settle the contro-
7ersy between these two metals. If ever
his country needed the divine rescue it
needs it now. Never within my mem
Try have SO many people literally
starved to death as in the past few
months. Have you noticed in the news
papers how many men and women here
md there have been found dead, the
post morte1n examination stating that
he cause Of death was hunger?
There is not a day that we do not
near the crash of some great commercial
and as q consequence
many people are thrown out Of employ
nent Among what we considered
comfortable homes have come privation
md close calculation and an economy
hat kills. Millions of people who say
lothing about it are at this moment at
heir wits end. There are millions of
people who do not want charity, but
want work. The cry has gone up to the
airs Of the Lord of Sabaotb, . and the
)rayer will be heard and relief will |
ome. If we have nothing better to de-