Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-05-14

something TO put pour foot on, but some
thing 20 bow before.
Words Of Hope.
But whether members Of the national
legislature or delegates TO one Of the ma
tional conventions or private citizens, let
Us cultivate Christian patriotism. Oh, how
good God has been to US as a nationl Just
open the map Of the continent and see how
it Is shaped for immeasurable prosperities.
Nayigable rivers, more In number and
greater than OF any other land, rolling
iown all 81 les into the sea, prophesying
large manufactures and easy commerce.
Look at the great ranges Of mountains
;imbered with wealth on the top and sides
and metaled with wealth underneath. One
hundred and eighty thousand square
miles Of coall One hundred and eighty
thousand square miles of ironl The iron
to pry out the coal. The coal to forge and
smelt the iron. The land SO contoured that
extreme weather hardly ever lasts more
than three days-extreme heat or extreme
bid. Climate for the most part braoing
and favorable for Drawn and brain. All
fruits. All minerals. All harvests. Seem
cry displaying autumnal pageantry that
no land on earth pretends to rival. No
South American earthquakes. No Scotch
mists. No English fogs. No Egyptian
plaques. The people of the United States
are happier than any people on earth. 1t
Is the testimony of every man that has
travelled abroad. For the poor more SYM
pathy! For the industrious more oppor-
tunityl Oh, how good God was to our
fathers, and how good God has been to us
and our childrenl To him-blessed be his
glorious namel To him of cross and tri-
umph be oonsecrated the United States of
Americai
There are three great reasons why you
and should do our best for this country
- three great reasons: Our fathers
graves, our cradle, our ohildren's birth
right. When I say your fathers graves,
your pulses run quickly. Whether they
sleep In city cemetery or country grave
yard, their dust Is very precious to you.
I think they lived we'll and that they died
right. Never submit to have any govern
ment over their tombs other than that
government under which they lived and
died. And then this country is our cradle.
1t may have rocked us very roughly, but
1t was good cradle to be rocked in. Oh,
how much we owe to it Our boyhood and
girlhood, 1t was spent in in this blessed
country. never have any patience with g
man who talks against this country. Clio
rious place to be born in, and a glorious
place to live in. 1t has been our cradle
Ayel 1t Is to be our children's birthright
You and will soon be through. We will
perhaps see a few more spring blossoms,
and we will perhaps see few more sum
mer harvests, and we will perhaps gather
a few more autumnal fruits, but we art
to hand this government to our children
as 1t was handed to us-a free land, hap
py land, Christian land. They are not tc
be trampled by despotism. They are not tt
be lacerated by cruelties. They are not tt
be frightened by anarchies. We mus
hand this government to them over tht
ballot box, over the school desk, over thu
church altar as we have received 1t, ant
charge them solemnly to put their life be
tween it and any keen stroke that woulG
| destroy 1t.
And thou, Lord God Almighty, we put
with thousand armed prayer, into thy
protection this nation. Remember oul
fathers bleeding feet at Valley Forge; re
member Marion and Kosciusko; remembel
the cold, and the hunger, and the lont
march, and the fever hospital; remember
the fearful charge at Bunker Hill; remem
ber Lexington and Yorktown and King
Mountain and Gettysburg; remembe
Perry's battle on the lake, and Hampton
| Roads, where the Cumberland went down
| remember Washington's prayer by tn,
campfire; remember Plymouth Rock, ant
the landing amid the savages; remembe
Independence hall, and how much 1t cos
our fathers to sign their names; remembe
all the blood and tears Of three wars-1776
| 1919, 1662-and, more than all, remembe
the groan that was mightier than all othe
| groans, and the thirst that stung wors
| than all other thirsts, and the death tina
was ghastlier than all other deaths, tn
mount on which Jesus died to make al
men happy and free. For the sake Of al
this human and divine sacrifice, o God
protect this nationl And whosoever woull
blot 1t out, and whosoever would strike
down, and whosoever would turn his back
let him be accursedl
| Go home today in high hopes of the fu
ture. The Eternal God is on the side o
this nation. Our brightest days are yet t.
come.
He hath sounded forth the trumpet that vii
| never call retreat,
He is sitting out the hearts Of men before th
Judgment seat
Be swift, my soul, to answer him, be jubilan
my feeti Our God is marching on.
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