Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-09-26


do but to take easy possession OF the fair
est continent under the sun. The skies 80
genial. the soil so fertile, the rivers so pop
ulous with iinny life, the acreage so I'm
mcnsc, there will lie nothing TO do but cat,
drink and lie merry. No. The most pow
crful hniion. by army and navy, sounded
its protest across 5000 miles OF water.
Then came Lexington and Bunker HIN
and Monmouth and Long Island battles
and Valley Forge and Yorktown and star
walton and widow hood and orphanagc, and
the i3 colonies went through sufferings
which the historian hns attempted TO put
M on PAPER and the artist tO put upon
canvas hut all I'm vain Engravers knife
and rel oriei = skill and t0lcgraphic wire
and daily rcSs. which hnvc made us nc
quaiu;,d with the horrors Of modern bat
tlcficld. had not yet begun their vigilance,
and the story OF the American Revolution
has never been told and never will Ia told.
II did not take much Ink Ia sign the Dec
laration 81 lEdcI cEdcncc, but IL took q
terrific amount Of blood to maintain II. IL
was an awful gate ~ opposition that tho
men and womsn-and the women as much
as the mcn-Iushcd bnck. Ii was gate
Of self sacrifice IL was n gate Of blood.
II was u gate Of carhuncle.
We nrr not indebted To history for our
knowledge ~ the greatest Of national cri
scs. Mnny Of us remember II. and fathers
and mothers low living had better keep
telling that story Ia their children 50 that
instead al their cling dependent upon cold
tyre and Obliged tu say, 'On such n page
OF such book you can read that," will
they rather he able to say, My father told
me SO. My mother told me 10" Men
and women who wildly remember 1851
and 1869 and 1868 and 1864. bc yourselves
the historians. telling IL, not with pen, but
with living tongue and voice and gesture
| That Is the great use Of Memorial Deoora-
ton day, for the Gala lilies on tho grave
tops soon Icconc brcathless OF perfume,
and In week turn to dust like unto that
which lies tcneath them. But the story
OF courage and self sacrifice and patriotism
told on platforms and In households and
by the roadside and in churches and In
cemeteries. by that annual recital will he
kept fresh In the memory Of generations as
long as our American institutions arc wor-
thy Of preservation. Long after you are
dead your children will be able TO say, with
the psalmist, We have heard with our
ears. o God our fathers have told us that
work thou didst in their days. In the times
pi O'u. kDut NIHt u AiItlc u WINS
The Millions of Bcrcft.
Four years of inconsistencies. Four years
Of brothcrly and sisterly infringement
Four years Of mhrtyrdom Four years OF
massacre! Put them in n long line. tho
conflagration of cities. and scc them light
up whole continent, Put them in long
rows. the hospitals. making u vast mctrop-
oils II pain and paroxysm! Gather them
a. L., -
rcft from the II Lawrence to the gulf and
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific beaches !
Put the tears into lakes. and the blood into
rivers, and the shrieks into whirlwinds.
During those four years many good and
wise men AZ tie north and the south SAW
nothing Head hut humiliation. With
such n national debt we could never meet
Gur obligniiunsl With such mortal antip-
athics northern and southern men could
never come into amity, Representatives
~ Louisiana and Georgia and the Carroll
mas could never again sit side by side with
the let rescntatiNcs OF Maine, Massachu-
sctts and New York ut tho national cali-
tol. Lord john Russell had declared that
We wcrc ~ uht lc bursting nationality"
and IL had cone true. The nations Of Eu
rope had gathered with very resigned spirit
nj the funeral ~ our American republic.
They had tolltd the bells on parlinments
and rcichstngs and lowered their flags ut
half mast. ard even the lion on the other
side OF the zen Ind whintd for the dead
eagle on this side I lie deep grave had
hccn dug. ard lcsidc Babylon and Thebes
and Tyre ard o,!cr dead nations of the
PAST cur dead republic was to he buried.
The Epitaph.
The epitnph was all ready: Here lies
tho American republic Born at Philn-
dolphin, 4th 81 July, 1870. Killed ut Bull
Run July ~. 1861. Aged So years and IL
days. Peace TO its ashes But before the
,'bsequics Ind quite closed there WAS an in
corruption ~ the ceremonies, and our dead
notion rose from It's mortuary surround
inEs. God had mnCc Tor IL a special reSur-
rcc'iun day ard cried: Come forth, thou
rep>'l,ic ~ Washington and John Adams
and 1.,Omns jefferson and Patrick Henry
and iAbn Hancock and Daniel Webster
and : s Pr,niisS ard Henry Clay, Come
forth" And she cane forth, to- be stron-
ger thar SIC Ind ever | cen. Her mightiest
prCspCritiSP have tCn.C since that time.
Who would want To ush hack this country
To what IL WIS in 1860 or 1880 But, oh,
what u high ,:ate, what strong gate, she
had To push hhtk before she could make
nnc step in advance, Gntc Of flame See
Norfolk navy gard and Columbia and
Chamhcrsburg and Charleston on fret
Gate OF bayonetsi Sec glittering rifiss and
carbines flash from the SusquehannG and
the James To the Mississippi and the Ar
kansas, Gate 81 heavy artillery, making
the mountainso OF Tennessee and Kentucky
and Virginia trcmble as though the earth
% Ia 4.
The gate was so fiery and 80 red that can
think 81 nothing more appropriate than 10
take the suggestion of Isaiah in the text
and call IL n gate Of carbuncles.
The Pulpit and Politics.
This country hns been for the most part
Of its history PASSING through crises, and
after each crisis was better of than before
it entered it, ard now we are at another
crisis We are told on one hand that IL
gold is kept as u standard and silver is not
elevated confidence will bc restored and
this nation will rise triumphant from all
the financial misfortuncs that have been
affecting us. On the other hand we are
told that il the free coinage OF silver is al
lowed all the wheels of business will re-
volvc, the poor man will have better
chance and all our industries will begin 10
hum and roar. During the last six pres
idcniial elections have been urged To en-
ter the political arena but l never have
and never will turn the pulpit in which l
preach inton political stump. Every min
lister must do rs Lee feels chilled to do and
will not criticisc him for doing what he
considers his duty. hut all the pe litical ha-
rangues from rulpits from now until the
Sd Of Novcn. her will not in all the United
States change ore vote, but will leave
many cars stopped against anything that
such clergynicn may utter the rest Of their
lives. As general rule the laymen Of
churches understand politics letter than
the clergy. because they (thc laymen)
study politics more than the clergy and
gent on those subjects But good morals,
honesty, loyalty, Christian patriotism and
the Ten Commandments. these VIC must
preach. God says distinctly in the Bible,
80 lie silver and the gold are minc,' and
he will settle the controversy between
those two metals II ever this country
needed the divine rescue, II needs II now
Never within my memory have 81 many
people literally starved TO death rs in the
past few months. Have you noticed In
the newspapers how many men and wom-
en- here and there havc been found dead,
the post norton examination stating that
the cause Of death was hunger: There Is
not u day that we do not hear the crash Of
some great commercial establishment, and
ms n consequence many people arc thrown
out Of employment
Millions Want Work.