The morning times., 1896-09-28
ice. 1t was gate of blood. 1t was a

rice 1t was a gate of blood. 1t was a
gate OF carbuncle.
I'VE are not indebted to history for our
knowledge of the greatest national crises.
Many Of us remember 1t, and Fathers ana
mothers now living had better keep tell
ing that story to their children, so that
instead of their being dependent upon cold
tyne and obliged to say, On such page OF
such a book you can read that VIII tneS
rather be able to say, My father told ME
sol Men and women who wildly remem-
Der 1856 l, and 1862, and 1868. and 1864,
be yourselves the historians, telling 1t,
not with pen, but with living tongue and
voice and gesture.
THE CIVIL WAR.
During those four years many good and
wise men at the North and the South sa "
nothing ahead but annihilation. With
such Il national debt we could never meet
our obligations! With such mortal an'ipa-
thies Northern and Southern men could
never come into aInity! Representatives
of Louisiana and Georgia, and the Caro-
linas could never again sit side by side
with the Representatives OF Maine, Massa-
chusetts, and New York at the National
CAPITAL Lord John Russell had declared
that we were "a bubble bursting national
ity,' and 1t had come true. The NATIONS
or Europe had gathered with very re-
signed spirit at the funeral of our American
Republic They had tolicd the bells on
ParIiaments and Reichstags aud 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 ma
tons of the past our dead Republic was
to be buried. The epitaph was all ready:
".Herc liesthe American Republic. Born
at Philadelphia, 4th OF July, 1915. hliied
at Bull Run. July 81, 1861. Aged eighty
five years and seventeen days. Peace 10
its ashes
but before the obsequies had quite closed
there was an interruption of the cere-
monies, and our dead nation rose from
its mortuary surroundings. God had made
for 1t special Resurrection Day. and
cried: Come forth, thou kepubiic or Wash
| ington, and John Adams, and Thomas
jefferson, and Patrick Henry, and John
Hancock, and Daniel Webster. and s. 6.
| Prentiss, and Henry Clay. Come forth!
| And she care forth, to be stronger than
| she had ever been. Her n.ishtiest pros
| perities have cone since that time. Who
| would want to push back this country to
what 1t was in 1850 or 1880? But uh!
| what a high gate, what a strong gate she
| had to push back before she could make
| one step in advanced Gate of flare! See
Norfolk Navy Yard, and Columbia and
| Chambersburg, and Charleston on fret
Gate Of bayonets! See rifles and carbines
| flash fro IN the Susquehanna and the
| James, to the Mississippi and the Arkan-
sas! Gate of heavy artillery, making
| the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky
| and Virginia trelnbc as though the earth
itself were struggling In its last agony.
| The gate was SO fiery and Ed red that I
| can think of nothing III ore appropriate
! than to take the suggestion or Isaiah IN the
text and CALI gate OF oarbuncles.
| A GREAT CRISIS.
| This country has baen TO- the most part
/ OF its history passing through crises. and
after each crisis was better off than be-
| fore 1t entered it, and now we are at an
other crisis. We are told on one hand that
II gold is kept az standard and silver Il