St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-09-18

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ton of modern times can show so terri
BILE record. But this last on the list
stands singular and alone, even beside
the dark crimes which twice before hor.
rihed the hearts Of men. Lincoln fell a
victim to the passions kindled by civil
war. Garfield was the object of mad re-
venge of disappointed office seeker
Mckinley has been slain by an organiza-
| ton OF human devils. whose inspiration
is naked of all law and order, whose
cry is shoot, stab, do anything, so that
you kill" whose propaganda is the de-
struction OF all government by law and
OF every life that opposes their purposes,
aliens in this commonwealth cast out of
their own countries, driven out as wild
beasts, and allowed to find refuge in
this home OF the free-flthy swine turning
round and rending the hand that has fed
and enriched them. l say this crime
stands alone in history.
The blow that has laid William
Mckinley low in death has struck US all
in the face; what wonder that wrath
boiling hot surges in millions of breasts
today, and in that there is danger. Let
us hope that all Americans will remem-
Der and drink in the spirit of the words
of the late President spoken, as he sank
back into the arms OF his friends, of the
wretched thing that had shot him, LET
no one hurt him." That word of charity
must stand as the rebuke and check OF
all hysterical passion. The way to
avenge outraged law is not lynching, is
not irresponsible violence. This empire
OF states is strong enough to make haste
slowly, quietly, with dignity, and no
mob law must be allowed to disturb the
national equanimity with its frantic
fury. But it is necessary that action
should be taken to reach the infamous
horde OF scoundrels, the real cause of our
trouble, especially those sharp clever
demons at the head, who keep out OF
sight while the poor weak thing we call
the assassin and murderer, does their in
fernal bidding. The matter bristles with
difficulties; wise, experienced men are
already shaking their heads despond-
emily as they realize how difficult it will
be to answer the almost universal cry
stamp out anarchy" by stamping it
out. Nor since the civil war has there
been time when there was such a need
to make special prayer on behalf of con-
gress as now, or when it shall next meet,
prayer that deepest wisdom may guide
both houses into the way of truth, the
true way of dealing with this fearsome
thing, this deadly pestilence, this spawn
OF hell-anarchy.
Some people are discovering in this
great calamity, this bolt from the blue,
an evidence OF the great wrath of God
against impiety, infdelity. luxury, etc.
etc. ! would rather not think so, that is
in some respects, the doctrine of an
archism though without God. To the
princely man whose untimely death we
so keenly mourn his fate came not as an
angry blow. He felt and said, ut is
Gods WILL" not as man who was
afraid, but as one who could say and
did say cheerily as though he were leav-
ing Buffalo by special train for Washing
ton, and not as one looking his last look
upon earth and speaking his last words
on earth, Good bye all good bye all !"
The spirit of that good bye" was one
spirit of perfect confidence that God
was right after all; that is, that God is
love, and love never does wrong. Let
that last word with it's sweet celestial
meaning sink into every American heart.
Let no one ever forget that with that
CHEEKY good bye" one of the greatest
men that America has ever produced
changed the chair of the President of the
United States for the golden throne of
glorified saint. God will cause the wrath
of man to praise him, and not the least
element in this triumph of God into
which this nation shall pass through the
great fight of affection which has over
taken her, will be an uplifting of the
American character on to a yet higher
plane, purging out of the old leaven,
the infusion of a diviner spirit, a march
ing forward on broader path of pure
wholesome humanizing Christianizing
progress. All this let us hope for and
pray, in word, that from the grave
side of her martyred President, America
may go forth new creation, old things
passed away, and all things become new.