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grind exceeding small! "Wheresoever
the carcass is, there will the eagles be
gathered"
And has the law exhausted it's force?
Are there going to be no more appli-
cations Of it? Are there no European
societies at this day that in their So
cial iniquities are hurrying fast to the
condition of political carbon? Is there
not an application of this law before
our eyes at this present time?
Why are we at war with Spain?
Not because of the Maine disaster! AL
though I think God permitted the blow
ing up of our battleship that a lower
motive than the highest might move
some that would not respond to the lat
ter to act in accordance with His will.
But the Christian people of this nation
are not moved to war with Spain to
be avenged, nor even to succor the
starving! What then is our motive?
To end government that has become
carbon; a sinking carcass in the nos
trils of our people; a thing that smells
to heaven! A government, if such it
can by any grace be called, whose
whole history has been one of oppres-
sion, and whose latter course has be-
come intolerable, not only to the peo-
pie of Cuba, but to it's nearest neigh
Dor, the people of these United States!
The government, or misgovernment,
of Spain in Cuba has become a carcass!
Proved to be so in that it has wholly
failed to afford that protection to
peaceful industry which is the first
duty of government; proved to be so
by it's policy Of spoliation; proved to be
so by keeping in perpetual poverty an
island which is by nature the richest
in the world; proved to be so by foster
ing profligacy and corruption in it's
governing class, while inflicting power
ty, Indebtedness, hunger and death up
on the governed; proved to be so by Sc
curing a practical monopoly of trade to
the Spaniard and denying to the Cuban
that commercial freedom which every
mother country ought to give to its
provinces and colonies; proved to be
carrion in that it has lacked either the
will or the power to prevent repeated
instructions and an almost continuous
revolution through many years; proved
to be SO by waging a relentless war
against those Cubans who have dared
to demand freedom and fairness of
their government; proved to be so by
devastating whole provinces which it
should have protected from devastation
in the prosecution of this war; proved
to be SO by condemning innocent and
unoffending women and children to
death by slow starvation. By all these
things SPANS government in Cuba Is
proved carcass, beyond all hope or
curei
We cannot tell, but God can, when
evil has become incurable save by cut
ting it out with a knife. Sentence
against an evil work is not executed
speedily" God through the United
States has shown great patience and
consideration toward Spanish rule in
Cuba. Twice He has publicly and off,
cially warned Spain, by the lips of our
government, that if the insufferable
condition of her unhappy colony con-
tinued, honor, conscience and humanity
would compel Him, through the people
of these United States, to interfere.
Thus has God damned back as it We're,
the flow Of retributive judgment, mot
willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to the knowledge of the
truth"
But now-now God sees that all is
vain; that no longer is restoration or
recovery possible under Spanish rule
in Cuba. He has ordered them off that
island; not we! In the language of my
text, the thing has become to Him car
rion, and the eagles, this time Ameri-
can eagles, Gods scavengers, are about
to clear the sinking carcass of Spanish
rule in Cuba from off that Pearl of the
Antillesr'
Reluctantly have been compelled to
the conviction that the military and
naval forces of The United States must
be used to remove the carcass and to
establish on that fair island a stable
government, capable of maintaining
order observing it's international obli-
cations and insuring peace and tran
guilty and the security Of it's citizens
as well as those of the United States.
But, having come to this conviction re-
luctantly, hold it the more tenaciously
that the judgment of Almighty God is
coming righteously upon Spanish mis-
rule in Cuba in the august personality
of this great government!
But is not the message of Christian
ity one of peace on earth, good will
toward menu" Yes; but it must be
remembered that Jesus Christ is first
King Of Righteousness and then King
of Salem, which is King of Peace!
There is no lasting peace-nor can
there ever be-save through righteous
ness. righteousness must come first,
then peace. Nothing is ever settled
until it is settled right. And if right
cannot be accomplished peaceably, still
justice and humanity require that it be
accomplished, even by sword! This
is why we are at war with Spain!
Therefore, in the words of the immor-
tai Lincoln, with malice toward none,
with charity for all, with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see the
right, let us strive on to finish the work
we are into do all which may achieve
and cherish a just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with all nations!"
President Clark, of the New York,
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