The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-10-10

inc adjustments. AGeneral Of the United
ntates Armyln high repute throughout this
nsnn, anu who, perhaps, had been in more
ih'ilan wars than any other officer. and who
hisu Deen wounded again and again in behalf
Oi our Government III battle against the H.
dams, told me that all the wars TINT had
ever occurred between Indians and white
, men had been provoked by white men. and
mat there was no exception to the rule.
"hlle We arc arb;trating with Christian Ma
| 'lons let us toward barbarians carry our
selves IN manner unproYocatiye Of con-
tc>t. -
Let me put myself in their place: I in
hcr't large estate, aud the waters arc rich
"'th 1lsh. aud the woods arc sonyful with
pros, and my corn1lelds are slker and
golden. Here is my sisters grave. Out
yohder, under the large trae, my father died.
An invader comes, anu proposes to drive me
OIL and take possession Of my property. f.
crowds mo back. he crowds mo on. aud
crowds me into closer corner, until, after
q while, say: "Stand back, don't crowd
me any more, or I'll strike. What right have:
you to como here and drive mo of nv prem
lsest got this farm from my father and he
got it from his father. What right have YOU
10 come here and modest me?" You bland
" shy: "Oh, know more than you do. I
belong to a higher civilization. l cut my
hair shorter than you do. could put
this ground to great deal better use
than you do." And you keep crowding me
back and crowding me on into the closer
corner and closer corner, until one day
look around upon my suffering family, and
fired by their hardships hew you in twain.
Forthwith all tho world comes to your fu-
neral to pronounce eulogium. comes to nv
| n ono ySn, }s,y,,
hero, an the culprt. Behold the United
Indian. Tho red man has stood more
wrongs than 1 wou!d. or you. We would
have struck sooner, deeper. That which
is right in defence Of Washington home
1s right IN defence of home on top
OF the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwin,ilin,
req race dies completely out, wish that
this generation might by common justice
atone for tho iuhuman;ty uf it's predecessors.
In the day Of Cots judgment. I would
rather be- Il blood-smeured Modoc than a
swindling United States officer on an Indian
| reservation! One was barbarian and a
savage, and never pretended to be anything
but barbarian and u savage. The other
pre-; to BE- a representative of 4 Chris
tian Nation. withstanding all this, the
general disgust with war and the substitu-
| ton Of diplomatic skill for the glitterins
edge OF keen steel is sign unmlstakable
| that "tho day is at hand"
lind another ray of dawn in the COM
| preston of the worlds distances. What Il
slow, snail-ike, almost impossible thing
| would have been the worlds rectitlcation
with fourteen hundred millions OF popua-
ton and no facial means Of communication;
but now. through telegraphy for the eye and
taInnhnni1 intim fo 70 on1k r,l,
! stcamboating and rAilroadinS, the twenty
| five thousand miles Of the worlds circunl-
ference are shriveling up into insignifaut
brevity! Hong Kong is nearer New York
| Than few years ago New Haven was; Bonn
bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, within
speaking distance. Purchase Geographic
chart, and by the blue lines SEQ tho 1eIe
graphs OF the land, and by the red lines the
cables under the ocean. You SEQ what op-
portunity this is going to give for the final
movements Of Christianity. A fortress may
Do months or years In building, but after it
Is constructed it may do al its work in twen-
~ minutes. Christianity has been Planting
Its batteries for nineteen centuries, and may
80 on IN the work through other centuries;
but when those batteries are thoroughly
planted, those fortresses are fully built, they
may all do their work in twenty-tour hours.
Suppose Christ should descend on the
Nations-muny expect that Christ will come
among the Nations oualy-suppose that
tomorrow morning the Son OF God from a
lowering cloud should descend upon these
cities. Should not thatfact be known all the
world over in twenty-four hours7 Suppose
Hoshould present His Gospel in few ds,
saying: II am the Son OF God; came to
pardon all your sins and to heal all your sor-
row; to prove that am a supernatural
being, have just descended from the Clouds
Do you believe Me, and do you believe No
now?' Why. all the telegraph stations Of
tho earth would be crowded as none Of them
| we're ever crowded just after shipwreck. I
tell you all these things to show you it is not
among the impossibiIities or even the i'm
probabilities that Christ will conquer tho
whole earth, and Go it instanter, when the
, time comes.
There are foretokenings In the air. Some
thing great is going to happen. do not
think that Jupiter is going to run US down,
or that the axle OF the world Is going to
break; but mean something great for the
worlds blessing and not for the worlds
damage is going to happen. I think tho
world has had 1t hard enough. Enough, the
famines and plaques. Enough. the Asiatic
choleras. Enough, the wars. Enough, the
shipwrecks. Enough, the con1agratioEs. l
think our world could stand right we'll a
procession of properties and triumphs.
Better be on the lookout. Better have your
oLsarvatories open toward the heavens, and
the lenses or your most powerful telescopes
we'll polished. Better have all your Leylen
jars ready for some new pulsation Of mighty
influence. Better have new fonts of type in
your printing Offices to set up some astounL-
ing good news. Better have some new ban
ner, that has never been carried, ready for
sudden professions. Better have the bells
III your church tower we'll hung, and rope
within reach, that you may ring out the
marriage of the Kings Son. Cleanse all
your court houses, for the Judge OF all the
earth may appear. Let all your legislative
halls be gilded, for the great Lawgiver may
be about to come. Drive off the thrones OF
dopotism all the occupants, for the King of
heaven aud earth may be about to reign.
The darkness of tho night is blooming and
whitening into the lilies of morning clouds,
and the lilies rediening into the roses of
stronger day-At garlands, whether white
or red, for Him on whose head are many
crowns. 1.-THE day is at hand"
Gao more ray Of the dawn I see in facts
chronological aud mathematical. Come,
now, do not let us 10 another stroke of work
until We have settled one matter. What is
going to DO tho 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