The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-05-05
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troops is read and patriotic speech making
arouSes the people.
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CHAPTER VII-(continued).
PATRIOTIC ENTHUSIASM-GRE AT
sPEECH-MAKING- THE OATH
OF ALLEGIANCE.
The speaking went on, only to be soon
interrupted by another dispatch:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF MISSOURI, /
JEFFERSON CITY, April l6.
TO Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War.
SIR: Your dispatch of the 18th inst, MAX
ing call on Missouri for four regiments of
men has been received. There can be, / ap-
prehend, no doubt but these men are intended
to form part of the present army to make war
upon the people of the seeded States. Ieur
requisition, in my Judgment, Is ILLEGAL, UNI
constitutional and revolutionary; in its OBJ
jeets inhuman and diabolical. and cannot he
complied with Not one man will the State
of Missouri furnish to carry on sgch an un-
holy crusade. c. F. JACKSON,
Governor of Missouri.
Once more loomed up Wentworth's
eieli Hdib PIo JViIoho.
Fellow citizens" said he, "shall not
Illinois furnish Missouri's quota, too?"
The ready response came back in
SANITY:
Yes! yesl every man; we'll all go,
if need be-"
Walter and Bronson recognized two
voices rising above the clamor.
One said:
"Im going down there to see why
them ships didn't go in.
The other:
"Put Patherriek O'Nale down to fill
anybody's quota Oh don't care who the
divil's il is"
The last speaker of the evening was
tall, angular man, with high cheek
bones and strong features His reddish
beard was like spirals of rusted iron
wire, and shock of coarse red hair was
pushed back impatiently from rugged
forehead, and the long locks hung nearly
to the collar of bis straight-cut black
coat. Fiery earnestness was stamped
on every lineament and expressed by
every gesture of the large, bony hands.
The wayfaring man, though he be a
fool, could tell that he was Methodist
preacher; that he gloried in his profes-
mon, and wrestled with the Hosts of Sin
and Death
With that stern Joy which warriors feel,
In 1oemen worthy OF their STEEL
He was type of those men of daunt-
less mettle and imprisoned zeal who
were the propagandists of Methodism in
the rude Western regions. Theirs was
no cold, intellectual assent to doctrines
as being approximately true. What
they believed they believed with an in
tensity that burned up every trace of
the dross of doubt, and what they be-
heved they tried with tameless energy
10 make the governing principle of all
mems lives. None of the attributes of
the Arch Enemy of Mankind which
have been made known to me show his
superhuman ability SO well as the stub
born resistance he has been able to
make to these Methodist Clergy. They
would have routed any ordinary fend |
In confusion long ago.
The speaker was introduced as the |
Rev. Aaron Narbrett.
Friends and brethren" said he, in a |
high-pitched, incisive monotone that |
told of long practice in camp-meeting
exhortations, "whom the Lord loveth |
be chssteneth. He hath loved this land |
as be hath no other on which His glorious
sun shines, and now, as He has chastened |
other lands with whips, so He will |
chasten ours with scorpions; as He has
beaten others with rods, so will He beat |
ours with grieyous scourges of many |
stripes
"For we have sinned above all
others; we have sinned as they who sin
against the Light; who knowingly and
studiousl y rebel against the truth, and
naliciously persecute it in themselves
and Others, from hatred of it for its OWN |
sake.
"For such sin as this there is no re-
mission except through the shedding of
blood. His great trumpet has. pro-
claimed this to all the land, and said, as |
Joel did of old: Prepare for war;
wake up the mighty men; let all the
men of war draw near Let them come
up. Beat your plow-shares into swords,
end your spears into pruning-hoo
Let the weak say, | am strong! Put ye
In the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
Come. get ye down, for the press is full.
The watts overflow, for their wickedness
Is great"
As he proceeded, the sing-song that
marked bis first utterance and curled
with sheer the lips of many who heard
him, disappeared in the burning, earnest
volubility of man pleading for the life