News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05

flag, dearer than of erst by far, float
once more over an undivided and
prosperous country. Have lived to
see sons of the blue and the gray
march and fight side by side under
that same flag, and thus you have
witnessed and aided the garnering
and enjoyment of the fruits of your
victories. l rejoice with you over the
victories of the past, but let us re-
member, they have simply cleared the
field and marshalled the forces for the
battles of the future. We must de-
fend our free school system from
every attack, from whatsoever source,
upon whatsoever preteXt. Must by
every means in our power, further the
general diffusion of intelligence, for
popular intelligence is absolutely in
dispensible to the safety of self
governed people. The educational
problem will be an unsOlved problem
and grave peril until every elector
can read his ballot and intelligently
understand the responsibilities it in
wolves, as we'll as the powers it con-
ers.
We must guard our homes and
society in general from every attack
of vice, multiform and pestiferous;
must stoutly resist the hosts of
irreligion. An irreligious people can
not long be free people. Our faith
ers would have no State religion, but
they never dreamed of an irreligious
State. A Goddess, constituencies Re-
public is a contradiction of terms. A
self-gOverning people must of neces-
sity be cOnscientiOusly moral and
sincerely religious people, or there can
be no safety for them. The church is
the only organized and efficient teach
er of morals and religion. Our Pill
grim Fathers, erected the school
house and the Westinghouse in the
midst of their dwelling-hOuses. In
the majority of cases the meeting
house served also as q town house
and court house. From the sacred
desk whence the minister of a Sab
bath day expounded Divine law the
Judge or the justice of a week day
expounded civil law and administered
civil Justice. On election day the
moderator of the town meeting Occu-
pied the same Gesk, the ballOt-bOx
was placed beneath the pulpit on the
communion table. The proceedings
were opened with prayer and the vot-
ing was done in the presence and the
reverend fear of God. This to their
minds was no dissertation of the sane
tuary, but a hallowing OF the election
franchise, indeed OF all political life.
Then, fellow citizens, you have the
four elements which properly com.
bined make possible safe, popular
government. Namely: Good homes,
good schools, spiritual church and
a clean ballot-box. Preserve that
union and you preserve the Union OF
States and guarantee the peaceful
prosperity of our beloved country.
Thirty five years ago, in the cause
of liberty the bugles OF ShilO, ADtip.
T. tam and Gettysburg sounded at the
front; to-day in that same cause, as
holy now as then, the sounds at the
front are school, college, church and
factory bells, the rumble of the wheel
the shrill whistle of the engine-al
the confused sounds of toll. Fellow
citiz4ns, one and ALL Must we nOt-ir
the same spirit of selt-devotion il
which the boys in blue answered the
bugles on Antietam and hundred
, other NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the call o
, the hour from the front? Must W.
not prove ourselves patriots in thu
common walks of life, in the field,
| of productive industry, in the con
} scientious discharge of every duty 0
l citizenship? Here is need and TIT
f largest room tor the display of tn,
virtues OF patriotism.
Let us here and now clasp hands
J and, calling God to witness our oath
! swear by the memory of the dead, by
; the tears of the Rachels now weeping
/ by the sufferihgs of the living, by tn,
: love OF the dear old fl 4g, for the peac,
| Of our beloved country, for the hop
/ Of mankind, for the honor of Heaven
eve will finish the work our broth
/ ers began. Then these to their sleep
ing and those to their weeping, anC
one flag and one faith for our fedora
: union. God of our Fathers hear GU
t prayer.
. make thou us. through centuries long,
In peace secure 10 justice strong;
Around our gift of freedom draw,
The safeguards of thy righteous law,
And, cast in some diviner mould,
Let the new cycle shame the old"
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