Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-04-15

are at their WIS emu 70 Know NDdt W uot
when for some places there are ten appli-
cants and for others a hundredl Perplexi-
ties arise from the fact that citizens sign
petitions without reference to the qualifca-
tions Of the applicant for the places applied
for. You sign the application because the
applicant is your friend. People some
times want that for which they have no
qualification. as we hear people sing 81
want to be an angel" when they offer the
poorest material possible for angelhood-
Doors waiting to be sent to foreign palaces
as ambassadors, and men without any
business qualification wanting to be con-
suls TO foreign ports, and illiterates, capa-
BILE in ono letter of wrecking all the laws
of photography and syntax, desiring to be
put into positions where most Of the work
is dono by correspondence, II divine help
Is needed in any place in tbs world, 1t is in
those places where patronage is distributed
In years gone by awful mistakes have been
made. Only God, who made the world out
of chaos, could, out of the crowded pigeon
holes of public men, develop symmetrical
results. For this reason pray Almighty
God for all those in authority.
| God to the Rescue.
Then there are the vaster perplexities of
our relations with foreign governments.
For directions in such affairs the God of
nations should be implored. The demand
of tho people is sometimes so heated, so
unwise, that it must not be needed. Hark
to the boom of that gun which sends from
| tho American steamer San Jacinto a shot
across the bow of the British merchant
steamer Trent Nov. 8, 1861. Two distin-
| guished southerners, with their secretaries
and families, are on the way to England
and France to officially enlist them for the
southern Confederacy. After much protest
the commissioners, who had embarked for
England and France, surrendered and
were taken to Fort Warren, near Boston.
| The capture was a plain invasion Of the
laws Of nations and antagonistic to q
principle for the establishment of which
the United States government had fought
in other days. However, so great was the
excitement that the secretary of the United
States navy wrote an applauditory letter
to Captain Wilkes, commander Of the San
Jacinto, for his prompt and decisive ac-
tion," and the house Of representatives
passed resolution of thanks for "brave,
adroit and patriotic conduct" and the
millions of the north went wild with en-
thusiasm, and all the newpsapers and
churches joined in the huzza. England
and France protested, the former demand
ing that unless the distinguished prisoners
should be surrendered and apology made
for insult to the British flag within ten
days Lord Lyons must return to London,
taking all the archives of the British lega-
ton. War with England and France
seemed inevitable, and war with England
and France at that time would have made
a restored American nation impossible for
long while, if not forever. Then God
came to the rescue and helped the president
and his secretary of state. Against the al
most unanimous sentiment of the people
of the north the distinguished Confederates
were surrendered, the law of nations was
kept inviolate, the lions paw was not lift
ed to strike the eagles beak, and perhaps
the worst disaster of centuries was avoided.
There came another crisis within the
last two yearS when millions of people de-
manded that American war vessels sail in
to Turkish waters and stop the atrocities
against the Armenians. The people at
large have no idea of the pressure brought
upon our government to do this rash thing.
Missionaries and other prominent Ameri-
|
bled at the Office of the American legation
and demanded that our minister plenipo-
tentiary cable to Washington for United
States ships Of war, and they suggested
the words of the cablegram. Had our ships
gone into those waters the guns of foreign
nations, everlastingly jealous of US, would
,, have been turned against our shipping,
and our navy, within a few years become
respectable in power, would have crawled
! backward in disgrace. The proposition to
do what could not be done was mcrcifully
withdrawn.
The Right Thing.
, There will not be year between now
and the next 20 years when those who are
|, in authority will not need the guidance OF
the God Of nations. God only can tell the
right time for nations to do the right
thing. To do the right thing at the wrong
time 10 as bad as to do the wrong thing at
, any time. Cuba will one day be free, but
1t will be after she has shown herself capa.
BILE of free government. To acknowledge
, Cuban independence now would be to ac
, knowledge what does not exist. The time
, may come when the Hawaiian islands may
, be part Of our government. But it will
! be when they have decidedly expressed the
desire for annexation. In all national
affairs there is clock. The hands of that
clock are not always seen by human eyes
p But God sees them, not only the hour
! hand, but the minute hand, and when the
, hands announce that the right hour has
, como the clock will strike, and we ought
. to be in listening attitude. "The Lore
, reigneth. Let the earth rejoice; let the
! multitudes of the isles be glad thereof"
You see there are always in places Of au
: thority unbalanced men who want war
because they do not realize what war is
or they are designing men, who want wal
r for the same reason that wreckers like
, hurricanes and laundering ships, because
of what may float ashore from the ruins
You see that men who start wars nevel
themselves get hurt. They make tht
speeches and others make the self sacri
r fees Notice that all those who instigatet
o our civil war never as consequence go
t so much as splinter under the thumb
Q nail, and they all died peacefully in theil
s beds. I had two friends-as thorough
j. friends as old men can be to young mar
? Wendell Phillips and Robert Toombs
3 They were not among those who expected
d anything advantageous from the strife,
: but took their positions consoientiously
t They both had as much to do with tn,
j starting of the war between the north ant
r the south as any other two men. A mil
!, lion brave northern and southern deaf
d were put in the grave trenches, but tn,
1 two illustrious and honest men I havt
8 mentioned were in good health long afte
: the ending of things at Appomattox, anG
d if those who advocated measures recentl,
: that would have brought on war between
# our country and Spain or England or Tur
% key had been successful in bringing OF