Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-30

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liberty that inspired them. Human
life is of little value to the great ere
ator, when compared with the divine
principles that he has sent into the
world to lead man back to the GOO,
that man had deserted, but who had
not deserted him. The United States
is u nation whose code and cornei
stone are human hearts and Il nation
that rests now upon q million graves
of those who shall henceforth and
forever be the guardian angels of the
great ana only republic.
ITO the good and true of all the world
Memorial day tells the story of a new
era in the history of the human race;
the time when humanity turned Its
back en- the past and set it's face for
ward toward the rising sun OF a re-
deemed humanity. All men and women
were created equal; at first the Gre
ature communed with the creator; all
things were in harmony, the splash OF
the water fall and the murmur of the
zephyr, with the songs Of the BIRDS
made sweet music for man and his
helpmate in state of innocence and
purity Then the world was selected
between right and wrong; the spirit of
evil came and the wrath of God was
seen in the lightning and heard in the
thunder: the human race wandered
out on pathway of life. torn by hu
man passion and desolated by human
selfishness. Tyranny and slavery over
came liberty. The Assyrian and Bah
ylonian crushed with q relentless power
the Egyptian. and the Persian shat
tered and scattered the Chaldeans as
the mist goes before the morn, the
rising Greek civilization conquered
and enslaved the Persian and conquer
ing Greece and the rest of the world
sank into helpless slavery before the
seeming omnipotent power of Rome
The barbarian from the north and the
Arabian from the east despoiled and
divided the mistress, who had en-
shaved the world. Over the ruins of
Rome, the Saracen with the crescent
and the barbarian with the cross
struggled for the mastery of the
race, until Europe fell to Christ and
Asia and Africa to Mahomet. Europe
was then torn asunder and made a
charnel house by the contending creeds
face of the earth was there civil or re-
ligious liberty; nothing to repay the
race for the countless millions slain in
The warfare of three thousand years.
God had for ages been hiding a vast
continent, preserving it from the blood
stained despots of the old world. AT
last the new world opened to the gaze
Of humanity and the despots fastened
thither in search of gold and to make
Gods last and best gift to man their
own. 1t was not so willed by the Great
Architect of the universe. In the full
ress of time a new song was put into
the mouth Of humanity on the Atlantic
coast of North America: all the wisdom
and philosophy Of Greece, the glory Of
Rome and the splendor of France.
Spain, England and Germany paled
before the simple declaration that
government of. from and by the people
should arise on the face of the earth.
The stars and stripes f1oated between
the heavens and the earth as the en-
hodiment of the thought of the father
hood of God above and the brotherhood
OF man. The United States of America
entered upon its mission of leading the
human race back to the estate that had
been lost by sin and selfshness. While
the Mayfiower was crossing the ocean
q SLAYER was bringing slaves to the new
world to renew on the North American
continent the conflict of all the ages.
The pioneers of freedom went out into
y continent lonely but beautiful; they
planted the school. the church. the fac
tory, the city; they made the desert
blossom as the rose: they crossed the
continent until the laughing waves of
the golden Pacific echoed back the
song of the pilgrims; twenty millions OF
free people stretched across two thou
sand miles of the first truly free civili-
zation that the world has ever seen.
The founders Of the republic thought
that slavery would fade and melt away |
in the glorious sunlight of free institu-
tons. They underestimate the power |
OF avarice over the human heart even
in Christian civilization. Slavery be-
came immensely profitable In the rails
ing Of cotton, and as a result in large
part of the United States it became
as divinely ordained insti-
tuition; there was a slavery Bible and a
slavery God; a slavery that ruled in the |
state. court and the church: across the
american continent stretched two civil
zations: the one faced toward progress
and manhood. the other rejecting the |
Institutions of ancient Egypt. Liberty
and slavery can not exist In any coun-
try. They may mingle as light and |
darkness do for time In the evening
and morning twilight, but soon it will |
be all one or the other. The slave own
ers saw that they could never NATIONAL
re slavery in the United States; they |
then determined on the creation of a |
great slave empire: the north half of |
South America, Central America. Mex
co, the south half of North America:
the cotton lands the sugar lands, the |
coffee lands. to reproduce here on the
western hemisphere Assyria, Babylon
Rome and Carthage. One obstacle
stood in their way, the United States of |
These they resolved to destroy. They |
the white people of the south
INTO a devotion to slavery that made /
them resolve to die for it, They used |
states rights as a means to create en- |
thusiasm for slavery. They spent long
years in preparation. They were ten
millions of people, three millions OF /
hem slaves. They had g. coast and |
and boundary of five thousand miles;
hey counted on the sympathy and sup
port of the monarchies and despotisms
III the old world; finally, when all
Kings We're ready, a gun in Charleston
rarbor announced that the Shareholders
lad made their attack upon the only
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