Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-06-01

, receive this baptism of fraternal
blood and how such crises in ma
tional life art to be averted.
We know that the laws of the
material universe, If observed, 50
govern and control matter that it
| continues to develop until it results
in perfection of form and strength,
| but if those laws are disturbed, de-
struction follows:
Sometimes men, are conscious OF
, the real nature OF the struggle in
which they are engaged. They real
lie just what forces are contending.
| They appreciate the exact issue in
volved, follow the casual sequence
of events and can foresee the nature
and effect of the result. At other
times, God moving in a mysteri
Gus way His wonders to perform"
hides from the mind and vision Of
men real apprehension of the
causes and consequences of their
most vital acts.
Man proposes, but God disposes,"
and His dispositions are controlled
by His own immutable and inexora-
BILE laws and inscrutable purposes.
1 Speaking Of Napoleon at Water
loon. Victor Hugo says:
4 "Was 1t possible that Napoleon
should win this battle? We answer
no! Why? Because Of yelling
Il ton? Because of Butcher? No! Be-
cause of God.
For Bonaparte to be conqueror
} at Waterloo was not in the law Of
tho nineteenth century. Another
series of facts were preparing, in
which Napoleon had no place. The
/ Ill will of events had long been an
nounced.
i at was time that this vast man
; should fall.
"The excessive weight of this
man in human destiny disturbed the
t equilibrium. This individual count
I ed of himself alone more than the
universe besides. These plethoras
OF all human vitality concentrated
. in single head, the world mount
ing to the brain of one man, would
J, be fatal to civilization If they
5 should endure. The moment had
come for incorruptable supreme
equity to look to It. Probably the
principles and elements upon which
3 regular gravitations in the moral
r order as we'll as the material de-
I pend. began to murmur. Reeking
blood, overcrowded cemeteries, weep
: ing mothers-these are formidable
pleaders. When the earth is suf-
y fering from a surcharge there are
9 mysterious meanings from the deeps
8 which the heavens hear.
. Napoleon had been impeached
Q before the Infinite, and his fall was
/ decreed.
i HE vexed God.
a Waterloo is not a battle; it IL
the change of front of the uni.
8 verse;"
ri And so at the battle OF Waterloo
e Napoleon on the one side in opposi
81 ton to the incorruptible and SUI
4 preme equity must go down before
K the great ethical law, which de
stroyed him because by his ambition
r and his power he was disturbing tn,
nl equilibrium of the moral world. Ma
t poleon and the despotic empire wer'
n crushed to liberalize monarchy anf
: to establish constitutional orde
= through the counter-revolutiol
! which followed Waterloo.
= Just such crisis A years ag,
! came into the life of this nation
r upon this field. and it was just a
Inevitable and necessary as Water
d loo.
It Our fOrefathers had set forth IL
ei the Declaration of Independence IL
= 1875 that:
nj "A'l men are created equal, tina
l. they are endowed by their Create
j. with certain inalienable rights, tina
= among these are life. liberty and tn
'e pursuit Of happiness"
Fighting for the establishment o
$, this principle the Revolutionist
s. were successful and the nation wa
q born.
o In 1887, forgetting this principl
10 Of universal liberty, the founder
" and the people of this nation, Will
,e they declared in the preamble t
n their Constitution that their pun
pose was to secure the blessings @
liberty to ourselves and our posteri
r. ty," recognized and permitted tn
st enslavement of human beings.
ofl The germ of disunion was in tn
organic law and the nation for thre
lie quarters OF century continued t
,s oppose and thwart the eternal la,
IN of justice, the incorruptible and su
preme equity. until Providence caui
W ed the righteous laws of freedom t
prevail, and In the crisis of this flel
,oI of hattie eternal iustica mat ovo,