Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-12

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pei has-and Lad ct my hack family
| for whom I wished to achieve liveli-
| heed. there is 10 employer whose serv-
ice / vould sooner seek than city, state
OF United States government. These
governments a1e the promptost in their
| payments, paying just as well III hard
Zines as il good times and during
summer vacation as during winter
work Besides that, many Of US have
! feen paying taxes TO city and state and
nation for years, and while we are in
llebted for the protection Of government
the government IS indebted to US for
the honest support we have rendered it.
So I wish success TO all earnest and
competent men who appeal to city or
state or nation for place to work.
But how many men in high place in
city and state and nation are at their
wits end to know what to do, when for
some places there are ten applicants
and for others hundred. PerpleXities
arise from the fact that citizens sign pc
titions without reference to the qualif-
cations Of the applicant for the places
applied for. You sign the application
because the applicant is your friend.
People sometimes want that for which
they have 10 qualification, as we hear
people sing Il want to be an angel
when they offer the poorest material
possible for angelhood. Doors waiting
to be sent to foreign palaces as embas-
sailors, and men without any business
qualification wanting to be consuls to
foreign ports, and illiterates, capable
in one letter of wrecking all the laws
of photography and syntaX, desiring to
be put into positions where most Of the
work is done by correspondence. If di-
vine help is needed III any place i'll the
world, it is in those places where pat
ronage 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 pigeonholes
Of public men develop symmetrical re-
suits Fer this reason pray Almighty
God for all those in authority.
The Demand of the People.
Then there are the vaster perplexities
of our relations with foreign govern
ments. For directions in such affairs
the God of nations should be ilnplored.
The demand Cf the people is sometimes
SO heated, SO unwise, that it must not
be needed. Hank to the boom of that
gun which sends from the American
steamer San Jacinto a shot across the
bow of the British merchant steamer
Trent Nov. S, 1861. Two distinguished
southerners, with their secretaries and
families, are ca the way to England
and France to officially enlist them for
the southern Confederacy After much
protest the commissioners, who had en-
1or, -1-ol
dered and were taken to Fort Warren,
near Boston. The capture was a plain
invasion Of the laws of nations and an
tagonistic to principle for the estab-
lishment Of which the United States
government had fought i'll 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
action and the house Of representa-
tives passed q resolution Of thanks for
"brave, adroit and patriotic conduct, -"
and the millions of the north went wild
with enthusiasm, and all the newspa-
pers and churches joined i'll the huzza.
England and France protested, the for
mer demanding that unless the distin-
guished prisoners should be surrendered
and apology made for insult to the
British flag within ten days Lord Ly-
obs must return to London, taking all
the archives Of the British legation.
War with England and France seemed
inevitable, and war with England and
France at that time would have made
restored American nation impossible
for long while, il not forever. Then
God came to the rescue and helped the
president and his secretary Of state.
Against the almost unan mous senti-
ment Of the people Of the north the dis
tineuished CCnfederates were surren-
dered, the law Of nations was kept in
violate, the liens paw was net lifted
to strike the eagles beak, and perhaps
the worst disaster of centuries was
avoided.
Gods Guidance Needed.
There came another crisis within the
last two years when millions Of people
demanded that American war vessels
sail into Turkish waters and stop the
atrocities against the Armenians. The
people at large have no idea Of the pres
sure brought upon cur government to do
this rash thing Missionaries and other
prominent Americans in and around
CCnstantinople assembled at the office
OF the American legation and demanded
that our minister plenipOtentiary cable
to Washington for United States ships
of war, and they suggested the words Of
the cablegranl Had our ships gene into
those waters the guns of foreign ma
tions, everlastingly jealous of Us, would
have been turned against our shipping,
and our navy, within a few years be
come respectable in power, would have
crawled backward in disgrace The