The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-20

less it acknowledges that God who |
built this continent, and revealed 1t
at the right time to the discoSerer, |
and who has Feared here n prosperity |
which has been given to no other peo' |
ple. .Ohl" saws some one, ''tbere are
people In this country who do not be,
lisve in God, and it would be an Ina
suit to them. "WeIl there are people
in this country who do not believe in
common decency, or common honesty,
or any kind of government, preferring
anarchy. Your very platform Is an In.
suit to them. You ought not to re-
gard a man who does not believe in
God any more than you should regard
a man who refuses to believe
in common decency. Your pocket'
book is not safe moment In the pres
ence of an atheist. God is the only
source of good government. Why
not, then; soy so. and let the chairman
of the committee Oh resolutions Id
YOUR national conventions take pen
full of ink and with bold hand head
the document with one significant
Whereas" acknowledging the good.
ness of God in the past. and begging
His kindness and protection for the
future Why, my friends this country
belongs 10 God, and we ought In every
possible way to acknowledge IT.
From the moment that, on an October
morning in 1892, Columbus looked
over the side of the ship and saw the
carved staff which made him thiuk he
was near an inhabited country, and
saw also thorn and a cluster of ber-
ries type of our history ever since,
the piercing sorrows and cluster OF ma
tional joys), until this hour our coun-
try has been bounded on the north,
south, east and west by the goodness
of God. The Huguenots took posses
sion of the Carolinas, in the name OF
God. William Penn settled Philadel-
phia in the name of God. The Hol-
landers took possession of New York
] in the name of God. The Pilgrim
Fathers settled in New England, In
the name Of God. Preceding the first
GUN of Bunker Hill, at the voice OF
prayer all heads uncovered. In the
war of 1912, an officer came to Gen.
Andrew Jackson and said: There Is
an unusual noise in the camp; it ought
to be stopped" Gen. jackson said.
"What is the noise?" The officer said,
ut is the voice of prayer and praise. y
Then the general said, God
forbid that prayer and praise
should be an unusual noise IN
the encampment. You had better go
and Join them" Prayer at Valley
Forge. Prayer at Monmouth. Prayer
at Atlanta. Prayer at South Mountain
Prayer at Gettysburg. oh" says
some infldel, "the northern people
PRAYED on one side and the southern
people prayed on the other side, ant
so it did not amount to anything.
And l have heard good Christian
people confoundcd with the in
fdel statement, when 1t Is a
plain to me as my right hand. Yes
the northern people prayed in one way
and the southern people prayed In an
other way, and God answered in Hi
own way, giving to the north the re
establishment Of the government, ant
giving to the south larger opportunl
ties, larger than she had ever anticl
pated, the Harvesting of her rivers Il
great manufacturing interests, un
til the Mobile and the Talls
, poosa and the Chattahoochee ar
southern Merrimacs, and tn
, unrolling of great southern mines c
, coal and iron, of which the world kne'
nothing, and opening before her Of
portunities of wealth which will Civ
I, 90 per cent, more of affluence than sh
ever possessed; and instead OF tn
: black hands of American slaves, theI
are the more industrious black hano
of the coal and iron mines of the soutl
+ which are achieving for her fabulo'
y and unimagined wealth.
e And there are domes of white blossoms whe
q spread the white tents.
And there are plows In the tracks where &
q wagons went.
}. And there are songs where they ntted up N
D chael's lament.
i There are three great reasons WI
= You and 1 should do out best for tn
. country-three great reasons; U
u fathers graves, our cradle, our CHI
Is dren's birthright. When l say yo
y fathers graves, your pulses run quic
. ly. Whether they sleep in city cen
. terry or country graveyard, their du
&c is very precious to you. l thiI
70 they lived well and that tn
N died right. Never submit
III have any government over thu
70 tombs other than that governme
r under which they lived and died. A
81 then this country is our cradle.
IN NAV have rocked us very roughly, b
a. 1t was a good cradle to be rocked
ne Oh. how much we owe to It'll Our bt
a. hood and girlhood, it was spent in t
nc blessed country. l never have q
'ie patience with man who talks agaiI
ca this country. Glorious place to
Ut born in, and a glorious place to live
re 1t has been our cradle. Ayel it is to
~ our children's birthright. You ant
er will soon be through. We will, p
'r haps, see few more spring blossoi
"a and we will, perhaps, see few M
We summer harvests, and we will, perha
lu gather a few more autumnal fru
an but we are to hand this governm
'ai to our children as it was han'
or to us-a free land, happy land
III Christian land. They are not to
aa trampled by despotism. They are
~ ~ to be lacerated by cruelties. They
ne not to be frightened by anarchies
u must hand this government to tn
A over the ballot-box, over the sch
me desk, over the church altar, as we h
suc erH cho rrre than snleu1