The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
THE EXAMPLE OF DANIEL
DEy. ID. l.. MACKENZIE REFERS CAM
DIDATE BRYAN TO 1T.
A Minister Talks to His Old War Com-
radcs mt S0und-Money Headquar-
ters-other Meetings.

Rev d. L. Mackenzie, who addressed his
ole comrades at sound-money headquarters
last evening at their urgent request enlisted
as a private in the One-hundred- and-thirty-
eighth Pennsylvania Regiment when a
student in Pennsylvania College at Gettys-
burg, Pa. lie was one of the boys who heard
Abraham Lincoln call for 100000 men and
was one Of those that answered, We are
coming Father Abraham 100000 strong.
Mr.. Mackenzie was promoted to the rank
of sergeant and later commissioned
by Governor A. G. Curtin first lieutenant
and quartermaster of his regiment, in
which capacity he served until the closing
of the war. His regiment was member
of the Third Division of the Sixth Army
Corps that covered itself over with glory.
His regiment participated in the last i'm
portant battle of the war, at Sailors creek.
General Phil Sheridan and General Wight
were present at this finishing stroke of the
civil war.
Said he last night:
Comrades and my CONFERENCE.-THE
malice toward none, with charity for all
with undying love for my country and my
countrymen, speak a citizen and a
soldier of a country whose welfare / have
from boyhood held more sacred than my
own NE. nave consented 10 SpSsih "
you few minutes this evening, because
thirty-four years ago / promised never to
desert my comrades, my country or my
country's flag. [ have not one unkind word
to utter against any of my countrymen per-
sonally. We contend for great principles
and for men only as they embody those
principles.
Standing few days ago at the Capitol
of the State of Tennessee, under the
shadow of great equestrian statue of Cen
eral jackson and within gunshot OF the
Hermitage where this great patriot lived
when not engaged In the service th OF BIS MS
public. / thought of all the prayers and
tears, of the blood and treasure, of the
hopes and fears that had been the means
employed for the rearing up of this splendid
structure of civilization. ! looked out over
the battlefield around Nashville where in
the sixties the blue and the gray were in
deadly conflict principles that once
divided Us, but thank God divide us no
more.
1T seemed to me that from those heights
| could hear Generals Jackson and Thomas
saying: BY the Eternal this Nation shall
never be dismembered; it's flag and its laws
shall be supreme. There shall be no North,
no South. no East, no West. no enemys
country within the bounds Of this Republic
LESSON OF THIRTY YEARS AGO.
"Then it occurred to me that over thirty
years ago men of the East came West and
with men of the North, South and West
opened their veins and baptized Western
soil. Then men of the West went East and
with men of the North, South and East
opened their veins and baptized Eastern
soil; then men of the South came North
and at Gettysburg opened their veins with
the men of the West, North and East and
baptized Northern soil and then the North.
East and West went South and at Spott
sylvania, Nashville, Vieksburg and Atlanta
opened their veins again with men of the
South and their blood flowed like a red
river in a mingled tide upon Southern soil
Men of the North, East, West and South
fell across the line of battle in those days
and locked arms in death, and in a lasting
peace, and at Appomattox the blue and
the gray lifted up the flag Of the United
States over the bloody chasm and sWore
allegiance forever to the stars and stripes
that shall ever be created and of the blood
baptized territory from Maine to California,
This is a nation forever. Let none ever try
to array section against section for the
land against those who attempt 1T.
1.-THE next time we go TO war 1T won't be
blue against gray, but we will march shout
der to shoulder against tho enemies of the
Republic, whether domestic or foreign, and
be to them who feel the onslaught
of these united hosts in modern warfare
in this great political contest been offensive
to me, but the attempt TO array man
farm against the city,. all savors Of the
same evil spirit The. farm and the city,
the railroad and the factory, the bank and
the business house, employer and employe.
capital and labor, law and obedience to its
precepts must flourish together or else all
must perish together in the consuming
flame of passion and widespread anarchy
The attempt that has been made to induce
the honest sons of toll to play the hypocrite
deserves only Reproduction and is plainly in
violation of the Decalogue. The first COM
mandment forbids any man to bow down
to or worship anything that is wrong.
THE EXAMPLE OF DANIEL.
Daniel when in Babylon, was directed
by one of the most powerful monarchs of
1,f- hi ,xxy;y,A
praying to Jehovah with his face turned
toward Jerusalem. and that when he heard
the sound of the cornet, flute, harp sacbut,
psaltery and dulcimer. and all kinds of
music he with all the subjects of this great
monarch should bow down to the golden
image which ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS had set UP in
the plain of Drra. But Daniel hoisted his
window and prayed regularly as a man.
even under the threat of coercion and that
he would be cast into the lions den, and
absolutely refused either to bow down to
the image or to play the hypocrite, and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS discharged those who had
been the means of getting Daniel into
trouble.
but now in the closing years of the nine
teen century of the Christian era, the mod
ern politician is heard saying, o Daniel
I say unto you, that you may bow down
and pretend to worship the image, and
when you get into your booth shut your
window and pun down the blind so no one
in this way you can hold on to your job
in Babylon This advice is so immoral
that / would despise myself as a man If I
did not appeal to all honorable men to
spurn it.
1--WE may honestly differ in politics and
as 10 governmental policies. but as to sound
morals we should not differ This ] have
said with only fraternal feelings for all
worthy citizens of this country. irrespec-
tive of political affiliations. With this |
wish you health and long life fair weather
on Nov. and bid you good night
BIG SUBURBAN PARADE.