The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-12
THE owBoY
Major Wham's Speech at the VandaIia
Soldiers Reunion.
(Marion County Democrat.)

Marion County Democracy
The only things that live are princi-
ples-God-giyen principles. They come
to Us through the ages: over dead ma
dust by the hand of Time-Babylon.
Ninevah, Athens. Rome. In the very
dawn of history two men were born.
One placed the foundation stones of the
Tigris-Euphrates civilization. The
other was an old Sheik of the desert, a
lender of herds. a grazier of camels. a
man close in touch with nature, who
looked into the jeweled heavens by
night and across the wastes of Asia
by day, and saw the ~snow-capped
peaks Of the Himalayes glistening in
b sunshine 10000 feet above the sea,
and broke the silence of ages and ages
with jehovah" The principles thus
enunciated slowly revOlutioniZed
thought, lives, grows brighter and
stronger as time goes on. The name
Of the man who enunciated the Drinci-
pie is green in the hearts and memo
ries Of all men-Jew. Christian. Mo
hOmmedan-and ever will be; but |
confess to some humiliation when | ad-
nit that | have forgotten the name OF
fhe builder of the empire.
The methods of the Eternal are in
deed strange. When he determined to
redeem the children of this same Shiek
from Egyptian bondage, that the germs
of u present civilization might not be
lost, he called a waif of the Nile, q fu-
gitive from Egyptian justice, a tender
Of Jethro's f1Ocks and herds, but as a
knowledge, and gave to him the hon
or Of conducting the march across the
Red Sea and the glory of receiving the
commands of God midst the thunders
of Sinai. When He determined to
proclaim a standard of ethics, morality,
religion, that would last until the end
of time, He did it through a NaZa-
rean carpenter of GOd-like mentality,
mien and action. When He determin-
ed to break the bondage in which all
Europe had been enslaved for more
han 1000 years, He did it through a
Corsican boy, a flotsam of the sea, who
led the armies of France-veterans of
Lafayette and MISUNDERSTANDING ev.
cry capital of Europe, except Eng
lands where they sang the "Marseill-
o4o dlIo CoIo 1O oboly VI ~ III
erty on the other side of the world,
with the result that the soul of the Cor
sican boy had scarcely taken it's fight
from his prison home in st. Helena,
before every nat.on in Europe save
Russia, had a parliament elected by
the people. When He determined to
establish a government based III the
divine rights of men, instead of the
divine rights of Kings, He employed
the strong head, great heart, and pow
erful arm of a Virginia surveyor.
When He determined to proclaim uni
versal freedom, He employed a stall
wart rail-splitter. an unlettered, but
virile, product of the great West
brOnZed by the sun and hardened by
honest and honorable toll, to issue the
proclamation, and a quiet little, self
poised, locanic tanner, to knock the
shackles off with thunderbolts Of war.
And now, right now, by this same to-
ken the olive branch is majestically
extended in the name of Calvary and
the standard of the worlds civiliza-
ton is superbly borne by another Ora
zier, whose soul was thrilled by gleam-
ing stars; by the impressive silence
of the boundless, billowy plains; the
distant horizon; the extended land
scapes; the beautiful, thread-like
streams: the mirage: the slowly length
ening shadows of the Big Horn: the
ice-clad peaks; the guided domes, and
the gorgeous glory of the Rocky Noun
tain sunsets, that the ages might again
tell a story of destiny and the onward
march of the human race.
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