Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-06-04

ther and farther from the possibility Of
sectional strife.
No possibility Of civil war. But about
foreign invasion am not so certain. When
I spoke against war said nothing against
self defense. An inventor told me that he
had invented a style Of weapon which
could be used in self defense, but not in
aggressive warfare. I said, when you
get the nations to adopt that weapon, you
have introduced the millennium. have
30 right to go on my neighbor's premises
Ind assault him, but If some ruffian break
into my house for the assassination Of my
family, and I can borrow a gun and load
1t In time and aim it straight enough l
will shoot him.
There Is no room on this continent for
my other nation-except Canada, and a
better neighbor no one ever had. II you
don't think so, go to Montreal and Toron-
to and see how we'll they will treat you.
Other than that there is absolutely no
room for any other nation. T have been
across the continent again and again, and
Snow that we have not half inch Of
ground for the gouty foot of foreign des-
potism to stand on. But am not so sure
that some of the arrogant nations of Europe
may not some day challenge US. do not
know that those forts around New York
bay are to sleep all through the next GEN.
tury. do not know that Barnegat light.
house will not yet look off upon hostile
navy. do not know but that half dozen
nations, envious Of our prosperity, may
want to give US a wrestle. During our
civil war there were two or three nations
that could hardly keep their hands off Us.
1t is very easy to pick national quarrels,
and if our nation escapes much longer it
will be the exception.
If foreign foe should come, we want men
like those Of 1919 and like those Of 1862 to
meet them. We want them all up and
down the coast, Pulaski and Fort Sumter
in the same chorus of thunder as Fort La
fayette and Fort Hamilton. Men who will
not oEly know how to fight but how to
die. When such a time comes. If 1t ever
does come, the generation on the stage of
action will say: my country will care for
my family as they did In the soldiers asy-
lum for the orphans in the civil war, and
my country will honor my dust as it hon.
ored those who preceded me in patriotic
sacrifice, and once a year at any rate, on
the remembrance of those for whom died.
Here go for God and my country! HUI
za!"
If foreign foe should come, the old Sec
tional animosities would have no power.
Here go our regiments into the battlefield:
Fifteenth New York volunteers, Tenth
Alabama cavalry, Fourteenth Pennsyl-
vania ri1emen, Tenth Massachusetts ar
tillery, Seventh South Carolina sharp
shooters. do not know but it may re-
quire the attack of some foreign foe to
make US forget our absurd sectional wran-
Cling. 1 have no faith in the cry "No
north, no south, no east, no west" Let
all four sections keep their peculiarities
and their preferences, each doing its own
work and not interfering with each other,
each of the four carrying its part in the
great harmony-the bass, the alto, the
tenor, the soprano-in the grand march Of
Union.
just One Flower.
Once more, this sreat national ceremony
means the Identification Of the tombs,
whether of those who fell In battle or acci-
dent, or who have expired In their beds or
in our arms or on our laps. l suppose you
have noticed that many Of the families
take this season as the time for the adorn-
ment Of their family plots. This national
| observance has secured the arbOriculture
and Horticulture of the cemeteries, the
Strengthening up of many slab planted
| 80 or 40 years ago, and has swung the
scythe through the long grass and has
| brought the stonecutter to call out the halt
Inhl itnr.n tod NyNifo hir RI tt,f fhn hnTo
diction of the resting place of father,
mother, son, daughter, brother, sister.
1t is all that we can do for them now.
Make their resting places attractive, not
absurd with costly outlay, but in quiet re-
membrance. You know how. Ifyou can
afford only one flower, that will do. 1t
shows what you would do If you could One
blossom from you may mean more than the
Duke of Wellington's catafalque. Oh, we
cannot afford to forget them. They were
so lovely to US. We miss them so much.
We will never get over it. Blessed Lord
Jesus, comfort our broken hearts. From
every bank of flowers breathes promise OF
resurrection.
! In olden times the Hebrews, returning
from their burial place, used to pluck the
| SEuSS lEOlll UIo lG1u lLIGG VI lUur
then throw it eyer their heads, suggestive
of the resurrection. We pick not the grass,
but the flowers, and instead of throwing
them over our heads we place them before
our eyes, right down over the silent heart
that once beat with warmest love toward
US, or over the still feet that ran to service,
or over the lips from which we took the
kiss at the anguish of the last parting
But stop We are not inf1dels. Our
bodies will soon join the bodies of our de-
parted in the tomb, and our spirits shall
join their spirits in the land of the rising
sun. We cannot long be separated. Instead
of crying with Jacob for Joseph, Il will
go down into the grave unto my son,
mourning" let US cry with David, II
shall go to him."
On one of the gates of Greenwood is the
quaint inscription, "A nights lodging on
the way to the city Of the New Jerusalem. "
Comfort one another with these words.
May the hand of him who shall wipe away
all tears from all eyes wipe your cheek
with its softest tenderness. The Christ of
Mark and Martha and Lazarus will infold
you in his arms. The white robcd angels
who sat at the tomb Of Jesus will yet roll
the stone from the door of your dead in
radiant resurrection. The Lord himself
shall descend from heaven with q shout
Snd the voice Of the archangel. So the
Dead March" in saul" shall become the
'Halleluiah Chorus
Willing to Oblige.
Ex-senator Sawyer was quoted in
Washington as saying: "When they ask
ME if l want to be delegate, I tell
them No, don care anything about
it, that I have been to good many
conventions; that am pretty near so
years old, and that if any of the boys
want to 60 in my place I am perfectly