The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-05

public opinion will not SOW. 1t is an
uncertain indication and is apt 10 blow
the wrong way.
Uommunitios and churches and ma.
tions sometimes arc thrown into hys-
teria, and it requires q man Of groat
equipoiso to maintain right position.
Thirty. three years ago thoro oemo a
time Of bitterness in American politics.
and tho impeachment Of q president of
tho United States was demanded. Two
or throo patriotic men, at tho risk Of
losing their senatorial position, stood
out against the domand of their politi-
cal associates and saved tho country
from that which all pooplo Of oil parties
now 500 would hayo boen calamity
and would have put every subsequent
president at tho mercy OF his opponents.
1t only required tho waiting OF fow
months, whom timo itself removed all
controversy.
slot us have war with England if
noeds DO, said tho most Of tho poople
Of our northern etatos in 1861, whom
Mason and Slidell, tho distinguished
southornors, had boon taken by our
navy from tho British steamer front
and tho Euglish government resented
tho act Of our government in stopping
ono Of thoir ships. "Givo up those
prisoners" !" said Great Britain. "No,"
said the almost unanimous opinion Of
tho mol ii. DO not give them up. L,t
us havo war with England rather than
surrender them" Thon William H.
Seward, secretary of state, facod ono Of
tho fieroest storms of public opinion
ever seen in this or any othor country.
Socing that tho retention Of those two
mon was Of no Importance to our coun.
try that their retention would put Great
Britain and tho United States into i'm
mediate conflict, ho said, "Wo giyo
them up" They wcro given up and
through tho resistance Of popular olamor
by that ono man o worldwide calamity
was advcrtod.
Some OF us rcmembor as boys huzz, !.
ing whom Kossuth, tho great Huuga,
rian, rode up Broadway, Now York.
Most Americans woro il favor of taking
somo dooided steps for Hungary. The
only result CT subj interference would
have hecn the eeerif aa Of ell good nro-
codont and war with European nations,
Then Daniel Wobstor, in his immortal
"Huls omann letter." brayod a whirl
wind of popular opinion and saved this
nation from usolcss foreign entanglo-
mcnt Webster did not observe tho
wind whom ho wrote that lotter, SO in
state and church thero have always boon
mon at tho right time ready to faoo
nation full yea, world full-ot op-
position.
How many thero arc who give too
mnoh timo to watching tho weather vano
and studying tho barometcrl Mako up
you mind what you are going to do and
thcn 60 ahoad and DO st There always
will no hindranocs. It ia moral dis
astor il you allow prudence to over.
master all the other gfaoos. Tho Biblo
makos moro of courage and faith and
perseverance, than it does of caution.
1t ia not once year that tho great
ocean steamers fail to to sail at tho ap.
pointed tins bcoauso Of tho storm sig
nai5 lat tho weather buroau prophcsy
what hurricane or CYCLONE it may, next
Wednesday, next Thursday, next Sas-
urday, tho steamers will put out from
New York and Philadelphia aud Boston
harbors and will reach Livorpool and
Southampton and @ lasgow and Bremen,
their arrivals as oortain AZ their ON
barkation. Thoy cannot afford to con
suit tho wind, nor can you in your life
voyage.
Tie grspdest and best things ever ac.
oomplishcd have boon in tho tooth OF
hostility. Consider tho grandest ontor
priso OF tho eternities-tho salvation Of
q world. Did tho Roman empire send
UP invitation to the heavens inviting
tho Lord to doscend amid vooiforations
OF woloome to como and take possession
OF the most oapaoious and ornate of tho
palaces and aail Galilee with richest i'm
porial fotilla and walk over flowers Of
Solomon's gardens. which were still ia
tho outskirts of Jerusalem? No. II
struck him with insult as soon as it
could roach him. Lot the camel drivers
in the Bethlehem oaravansary testify.
SEQ tho vilost hate pursue him to tho
borders Of the Nilol Watch his ar
raignmont as a criminal in the courts!
SEQ how thoy bolio his evory action,
misinterprot his .bost words, howl at
him with worst mobs, wear him out
With sleopless nights on cold noun
t.ainsl Bee him hoistcd into martyr.
dom at which tho MONDAY orow]od it
sclf with midnight shadows, aud tho
rocks shook into oataolyam, and tho dead
started out Of thcir sopulchor, faelinq
1t was no timo to sloop whom suoh hor.
rors wore being enacted.
The winds Of stormiost opposition
blew on his cradle, blow on his noun.
tain pulpit, blow upon the homosteads
that dared to give him shoItor, blew
upon his grave, but hc wont right on
and sowed tho Garth With sympathetic
toars and rodeoming blood and oonsola
ton and holpfulness and redemption
and victory. 1t was an awful timo to
SOW. But bohold tho harvest Of
churches, asylums, worldwide charities.
civilizations, millonniums!
just call oyor tho namos of the mon
and women who havo dono most for
our poor old world, and you will call
tho names of those who had mobs af.
ter them. They wero shunnod by tho
ollto, they woro oartooned by the
satirsts, they lived on food which you
and would not throw to o konnol.
Some of thom diod in prison, somo Of
them were burned at tho stake, somo Of
them wore buried at public expense
because Of tho laws OF sanitation.
They woro houndod through tho world
and bounded out Of it. Now We GROSS
tho ocean to SEQ tho room in which they
were born or died and look up at tho
monuments which tho church of tho
world has reared to thoir matohles5
lid lliY and nnlrnrn Aftnn 1n0 a.