News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-10-01

national debt we could never meet our
obligations. With such mortal an1pa-
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 u Maine, Mas
sachusetts and New York at the nation
al capital.
Lord John Russell had declared that
we were ga 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 had tolled 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 on
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, 1916. Killed at Bull Run
July 81, 1861. Aged IS 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 ration rose from it's mortuary
surroundings. God had made for it
special resurrection day, and cried:
Come forth, thou republic CT Washing.
ton, and John Adams, and Thomas JEFF
ferson, and Patrick Henry, and John
Hancock, and Daniel Webster, and S.
S. Prentiss, and Henry Clay. CONS
forth" And she came forth, to be
stronger than she had ever been. Her
mightiest 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 a strong gate, she had to push
back before she could make one step in
advanced Gate Of flame! See Norfolk
navy yard and Columbia, and Cham
bersburg and Charleston on fire! Gate
Of bayOnets See glitte1ing rifles and
carbines flash from the Susquehanna
and the James to the Mississippi and
the Arkansas! Gate Of heavy artillery,
making the nsountains of Tennessee and
Kentucky and Virginia tremble as
though the earth itself were struggling
in its last agony. The gate was so fiery
and so red that | can think Of nothing
more appropriate than to take the sug-
gestiCn Of Isaiah in the text and call it
gate Of carbuncles.
God Save the Nation.
There is rot day that we do not
hear the crash of some great commercial
establishment, and as a consequence
many people are thrown out of employ
ment. 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 at this moment at
their wits end. There are millions of
people who do not want charity, but
want work The cry has gone up to the
ears of the Lord of Sabauth, " and the
prayer will be heard and relief will
come. If we have nothing better to de-
pend on than American politics, relief
will never come. Whoever is elected to
the presidency, the wheels CT govern
ment turn so slowly, and caucus in
yonder white building on the hill may
tie the hands of any president. Now,
though we who live in the District of
Columbia cannot vote, we can pray, and
my prayer day and night shall be: 80
God, hear the cry of the souls from un-
der the altar! Thou who has brought
70 WI nd e
such magnitude of supply, give food to
man and beast Thou who hadst not
where to lay thy head, pity the shelter
less Thou who has brought to perfec-
tion the cotton Of the south and the flax
Of the north, clothe the naked. Thou
who hast filled the mine with coal, give
fuel to the shivering Bring bread to
the body, intelligence TO the mind, and
salvation to the soul of all the peoplel
God save the nation!"
But we must admit it is hard gate
to push back. Millions of thin hands
have pushed at it without making it
This country has been for the most
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
one 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
misfortunes that have been affecting
us. On the other hand, we are told that
if the free coinage of silver is allowed
all the wheels Of business will revolve,
the poor man will have better chance,
and all our industries will begin to hum
and roar. During the last six presiden-
tial elections l have been urged to enter
the political arena, but l never have
and never will turn the pulpit in which
! preach into political stump. Every
minister must do as he feels called to
do and | will not critcise him for doing
what he considers his duty, but all the
political harangues from pulpits from
now until the 3D. of November will not
in all the United States change che
vote, but will leave many ears stopped
against anything that such olergymen
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 Of being intelligent
on those subjects. But good morals,
honesty, LOYALTY, Christian patriotism