HOLCOMB & Tit/CY, Publishers. `VOL. VII. -THE---- Bradford Republican; • ebllehe i,every Mursaay at Towanda, Pa:, IioLCuM P. & TlaecY. Proptietora. •rea.,+. i psi," irradvance, $l.OO per annum ; pa , d • dvance $1.25. To subscribers out county, 11,25, invarLsbly Irt advaittco, the ~tattiou bot•ig notede to cover prepamert of 4t:.ge. • ' .I,lv.ertiKin Rates:-B` . z cents a linelor first: 1.-;rtion, ant five 'cents per line for all sub...N. ttrtit inset tuns. Beading notice advertit•ing tt ante : pc r line. - Etght lines constitute a .roam, amt twelve lines an inch, Auditor's :maces $2.50. Administrator's and Executor's yearly advertiiing $150.00 per c..lllllin. 1 : F1F. ItEruBLICAS is published in - the iracy, .10 . ,ire and Nobles Block, at the corner of Mau :s:M Pine streets, over .1. F. Corser's Boot and shoe store. Its circulation is over 2000, As an vertisingnnedidm it is nnexeelled- in its im mediate tie - Our I tubbing Terms. ' We will furnish all paying subscribers for IiEPULICAN within the county with any the following • Pnblications, . until further -maice, at the rates given below. ' Tue Itsrunucas $l.OO in addition. Stoscribers residing out of •the county will e charged 25 cents additional. , New York Weekly Times, - Semi-Weekly Times • New York Daily Tribune, %Weekly 14 SCHti..Weekl e Y tiew York Daily:Evening Post, •• " Weekly " " 7:cmi-Weekly " • " New York Weekly World, ' - Semi -Weekly " ;liiladeunda Daily Times, . ..... : Pinitidc!pins Weekly Times, Philadelphia Daily,Press, Niladelphia Weekly Press, . Harper's Magazine,. ........ Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazay, Serilmer'‘i Monthly;.... tit. Nicholas, Nicholas, ..... Appleton's/ournal, - with steel - engraving of-Dickens l'opular.Science Monthly, " Supplement,!... 2 50 . Magazine of American History 4 00' North American Review, • ' 400 New York Medical Journal, 3 25 American Agriculturist, 1 .10 Countr% Gentlemen, - 2 10 Rural New Yorker,.... - 1 85 Toledo Blade, • 1 60 Living Age,: 7 00 Atlantic Monthly, • • 1 65 BahYland, 60 Lippincott, 3 25 Dernori2st, 1 - 65 Godev;- 1 65. Scientific American,.... 2 Is, terson's ..... ... 1 60 .The Nursery, •t I'2o Farmer's Review • • .40 Burlington Hawkeye, 1 50 New England Journal of Education.. 2 00. liendail's Treatise on the Horne 25 rrival and Departure of Mails. 'Sails arrive and depart at the Towanda Post ts.live as follows: Phil.. N. I'. and Fastern States ... 4.00 A. M liceliore, Laporte, kc........ ..... e. 30 L. T. w ay :nail from the North . .... 10.00 sui,shequin .1,:c11:00 N4a• Era. kc.. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday ...... ..... su . .1.i..1um. kc.. Monday. Wednesday 0 fi Friday - ' Trpy, Burlington. kc 1:00 P. M I.4.ayaville. Rome, kc - 1.00 ClOaed pouch from Erie and NCIt Rs 2:30 L.V.i.i way mall from the South . -4:35 C-uuton, fr.c. : 5:00 Belay - - 6;30 Closed pouch from Elmlra and g., R B 10:40 =I Canton, llonroeton„ /tc Lehigh Valley way mail South closed pouch Elmira, Erie and-North ,. ern Cetitral Railroads.... Troy. Sarni:lß-ton, /to Barclay • • New Era, Tnesda,yThursday and Sat. urday 1:00 Asylum, - Monday, WedLesday and Friday " 1:00 Legaysville, Rome, ttc 1:00 lioNhore, tte•—• •. 2:45 Lehigh Valley way mail North - . 3:45 New Y irk Phila. and Eastern States. 7:45 •,:nc., open iron 7:00 A. 11. to 7:45 P. M. Money irkirr office open from 8:00 A. K. to 7:00 P. M. otilet. open on Sunday from 9:00 to 10:00 A. M. P. PowELL, P. M. I EHIGH VALLEY & PENNA. AND " , NEW YORK RAILROADS: ' AItitANGEMENT OF PASMGEE TEAFNB . TO TAKE EFFECT MAY 15, 1880. . EASTWARD. ..r ATATioNs. ]la .9. 7 3 •IP.M. A.M.A.11. .M. Niagara Falls 1 . 2 05 7 20' . 7.16 thiffalo "2.50 8.25 9.20 Rochester • -.., 5.15110.301 . .• •• • Lyons , 6,4011.30 ..... ..... tionerli 6.54 11.55 ..... ..... Ithaca.... 8.35 1.18 8.30. ... 5.10 8.05, Auburn trwego 8:0010.60 ..••• Elmira 9.10 1.45 9.00 3.45 ' Wa'ierly 9.45 2.10 9.40 1 4 15 Sayre 10.10 2.30 10.00 ' 4.30 Athens - 10.15 2.34 1 10.05 4.41 110.15 ]plan.... Mater 10.25 Ideantla 1040 3.001.043 505 I I 1 %I - planking 10.54 5.13 1 I 1 11• 03 •• •-• i ta u d 1 n g Stone 1.....11.19 6.26 It uuunerfield Fronchtown . 1 .... 11.18 wyalusing ..... 1 s 36'11.30 5.45 Laceyville .." .......... •• • • 1 11.44' 3.54;11.49 6 03 111.63 G. 07 skinner's Eddy Area hoppen 4.1012.10 6.23 I 12.16 6.28 . Af,...hoopany - i'-u tik hannock 42.25! 4.35 1.00 7.10 ' 1 • 1.10'7.20 Palle'‘' Wirantte i . I 1.25 7.35 . , , A; 11 Junction •• ••• •• • ~ I 1 • 05 5.10 lAS 8.05 W 5 25. 4 .20 8 .55 Ifauc‘ci Chunk .it..e.-11arre t 1. 35 1 • ' ' 3.45 7.30: 4.5011.00 Allentown ! 4.44, 8.211 5.3312.00 Bethlehem ; 5.00 8.35; 6.05 12.15 Elaton 5.30 9.00' 6.40112.55 Philadelphia , 6.55 10.351 8.25 2.20 i_s;ew York I 8.05' I 9.15 3.35 • A.M. P.M. P.M . P.M. WESTW STATIONS 'l'.ld.'A..ld .A.11. , P.31. ' New York • 6.301 .... 7.40 3.40 Philadelphia 8.001.... 9.00 4.15 Easton ' 9.20' .... 10.15 5.50 - Bethlehem 9.50 .... 10.45 6.15 Allentown.l o . 4s ... 1 10.54 C. 24 Mauch Chunk - 111.05 . .....11.55 7;25 tWilkes•liarrel : , 1.08 6.00 1 - 2.03 9.45 SI. 11 Junction 1,35 6.35 2.25 10.10 Falls . LaGrange 1.20,..t. 10.42. Tunkhannock • 2.18 7.331 3:op 11.13 10.52 11ehoopanY.... ........... .. .... 7.57 -.1 M 1 eshoppeti . 8.04 3.2811.19 'Skinner's Eddy - ! .... 8.19 ; -.11.33 Laceyvillel 3.03! 8.231 3.46 11.36 Wyaltising 1 8.43! 4.0311.55 rrenehtown ' 1. 1 855'112011 Runtruerfluld 1 ... - I 9.011 .. .112.17 Standing Stone :.. .l • ....I 9.10 .... 112.24 Wysauking , 1 9.19 .1 12.34 re uand• • ••• ' i 400.! 9.30; 4 43 . 12.45 Lis te r 9.431 4.55 12 - 17 Milan ..... ' - . 1 9.52' 1.06 Athena ............ ...'..... 4.30,10.001 5.10 1.15 Sayre i 4.40110.10. 5.20 1.23 Waverly ... 1 4.45110 . 20: 5.30 1.30 Elmira 6.25111.1& 6.15 ,2.15 Owego , ! - 5.391 ..-.. 6.25 ...ti Auburn ‘ IthaeA - 6.10 2.10 1 6.40 .... Geneva 1 -7.41 5.00 8.14. I.y.aut, 8.40 8.60 twelles ter • ° „. 9.50 7.40 9.40 1 .... I Buffalo , .1...e....111.40, -12.05 i 8.00 Niagara Falls r:ct..,..1 1.031 .. , _: . 1.081 9.40 P.K.P.31. A.N. A.M. ‘t6:oo, A. M., French , Standing Stone 6.31 6.153. Mater 1 7.06, Sayre 7:40, Waver. No. 32 leaves Wyslating Gown 6.14, iinnsmerfleid 6.23, IVcsauktng 6.40. Towanda Milan 7:16, Athens 7:25, 13s, / is 7:5.5, arriving at Elmira 8:50. 3i - leaves 545 P. N. Waverly 6:35, Sayre 8:45, Athens 6:50. Milan 6:59, ulster 7:08, Towanda 7:23, Wysanking 7:35.• Standing Stone 7.44, itummerteld 7:52, Frenchtown 8:02. arriv- Irg at Syslasing at 8:15. lrattas 8 and 15 ran daily. Sleeping cars on trains 8 and 15 between Niagara Falls and Phila delphia and hetween Lyons and New York with.. Oct changes. Parlor cars on Trains 2 and. 9 between Niagara Falls and Philadelphia with. out change, and through coach to and from Rochester via Lyons. • - WM. STEVENSON. Supt. N.Panz, Ps., May 15, 1881.. Pa. & N.Y. U. R. . .• GEORGE OTT, laisaW larile i &mite Irak Trice.ehearor than the ebes m3e..4f. WIDIOL PA . . . . . : . . • • . . ' -,.:.,J?!--. •::. '. I- iv . .. . . - _ . ~ • - .1 o. 4 . . A . ~ . . _ , • _ . _ ... .. . . - . . ~.... ~. F ICH Towanda. Business Direcin. Qittrrn Attorneys-at-Lsw; OMo 0 over Powell & Co. . CALIFP. N.. 01lice in Wood's Block. south Pint National Bank. up stairs. Julie IsiB WIABREE Lk WA (PTC Eisbree and Z Elsbree) Ja Office in Bier Cur Block, Park SC may 14.78 PECK & OVERTON (Beal .11 Peek and D d Oerr teal. oMce over Mira Market 49-19 rIVERTON & SANDERSON at Overton And John "Sanderson.) OffWein Adstas Bloakt,jujjslB MAXWELL, WM. OMco over Dayton's Store aprlll4:l6 WILT, J. ANDREW.- °Mee in Idesn'n Block. ape 14,76 r‘AVIES, CARNOCHAN & HALL, (W T Davies. W H (anso:Ana, L M HaU.) Office in rear CT Ward House. Entrance on Poplar St. (Je12,75 ivrERCIJE. RODNEY A. BoUcitor of Patents. Ai& Particular ett•ntion paid to business in Orphans' Court and to the settlement of estates. Office in Montanye's Block 4949 la o Pan/30N & YOUNG, (1. NePhersols and AXA. W. 1. Young.) Office eolith elde oniercar'n Block. " • . tab 1.74 iurADILL & KINNEY. Office corner Haul and JAL Pine it. Noble's block. second floor front. Oollectiens promptly attended to. fob 1;8. TrrILLIA.IIIB, AI4GLB ft BUFFINGTON. (H N Williams, & J Angle and B D Buffington). Office west side of Main street, two doors north of Argns office. AU business entrusted to their care will receive proinpt attention. oct 26,77 25 00 60 00 IkkASON & T11031P802.1. ( G. P. Alarm. B. A. J.L TAomprii.) Attorneys-at-Law. Special at tention to conveyancing, examination of title and all matter rotating to real estate. Collec tions promptly remitted. .011lbe over Patch k Tracy's store. marlo-81. 25 00 90 65 TAMFA H. AND JOHN W. CODDTNG, Attor t) neys sud Counsellors-at-taw. Orrice to the Bercur Block, over C. T. Kirby's Drug Store. july3, U. IirEENEY, .1. P. Attorney-st•Liw. Office in +a. Montanye's Block, Wain Street. , t -Sept. 15, 'Bl-tr. • THOMPSON, W. H. and k. A..; Attorneys-at Law, Towanda, Pa. officw in klerctir Block, over 0. T. Ilirby's Drug Store, entrance on Hain street, first stairway north of Post-office. All business promptly attended to. . Special atten tion given to claims against thi, United Stated for Pensim.s. Bounties, Patent*, etc., and to collections and settlement of decedent's es Wes. April 21. ly JOHNSON. T. 8., M.D. 011teei over Dr. H. C Porters's Drug Store. feb 12;78 MEViTON,Drs. D. N. dc F. G. • Moe at Dwelling h.l on River Street, corner Weston St. feb 12,77 LADD, 0.. K., M.D. Office Ist door glove :old bank building, on Main street. Special at tention given to diseases, of the throat and lungs. • ' ju1y19,78 WOODBURN, 8. M.. M.D. Office and resi deuce. Main street, north ot M.E.Chur:ll Siedico Examiner for Pension fh partment. • tab 22,78 DATNE.. E. D.. lif .D. Office over 11 , intanye'a Store. Office hours from 10 to 12 A. u. and from 2 to 4 v. M. Special attention given to Diaeaaea of the Eye, and Diaraaos of tho Ear. oct 20 77 =MEW HOUSE Main •t., next corner south of Bridge street. New house and new furniture throughout. . The proprietor has spared neither pains or expense_ in making his 'hotel first-class and respectfully aolleits a share of public patronage. Meals at alt hdurs. Terms 'reasonable. Large Stable attached. mar 8 77 WM. REMY. MEI WATKINS POST. NO. 68, G. A. R. Meets every Saturday evening. at Military Hall. GEO. V. MYER, Coinniander. .1. R. Rrrrnmax, Adjutant. • feb 7, 79 nth-STAL LODGE, NO. 67. Meets at K. of P Hall every Monday evening at 7:30. in durance $2,000. Benefits $3.00 per week. Aver age annual coat. 5 years experience, $ll. J. 11: ICITTEIDGE. Reporter. J . X.SBZ Ja., Dictator. feb 22.78 BRADFORD LODGE, N 0.167, I. O. O. F. Meet in Odd Fellow'► Hall, every Monday evening ►t 7 o'clock. WASS= arts., Noble Grand. June 12,75 9:00 A. it 9:15 .. 10:00 10:00 12:00 N. 1:00 p . N. PT:. F. E. No. $2 Second street All orders ill receive prcimpt attention. June 12,15 10 TAN, G, W., county Einperintendent. bffice Jap days last Saturday of each mouth. over Turner k. Gordon's Drug Store, Towanda Pa. July 19.78 QIISQUEHANNA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. The Pall Term of twenty-eight year' Com mences onVonday, October 31st, 1881. Forests logne or other iiitormation, addregs or call on the Principal. uly 19,78 WILLIAMS, EDWARD. Practical. Plumber and Gas Fitter. Place of business in Her oin Block next door to JoUrnal office opposite Public' Square. Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Repair ng Pumps of all kinds, and all kinds of Gearing promptly Attended to. AU wanting work in his ne should give him call. July 27,77 DtifiSELL. 0. El, - General Insurance Agency. LW Towanda, Ps. Office in 'Whitcomb's Book Store. s' July ILIA DELEVAN HOUSE, KLMIRA , N. Y. C. T. Smith. formerly of the Ward House, Towanda, Pro- prietor. This Hotel is located immedistly opposite the railroad depot, Every pains taken for the comfort of guests, July 5,77 TOWNER. H. L.. ld._ .D. HOMNAPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SITHOZON. Resident° and office just north of Dr. Corbon's Main 'treat. Athena. Pa. NEW FIRM ! NEW STORE! NEW ROODS 1 Ed. Moillesseaux RD Jewelry Store \3O L 12 IN PATTON'S . BLOCK, Gold Silver Watches CLOCKS, - JEWELRY Sr Hls Stock is all NEW and of the FINEST QUALITY. Call and see for yonrseU . REPAIRING DONE, PROMPTLY I - 46016- sENDALLs SPAVIN CURE Is sure in its effects, mild in its action as it does . not blister, yet is penetrating and powerful to reach every deep seated pain or to remove any bony growth or other enlargements, sack Y swine, splints curbs, callous, sprains. swell. ings and any lameness and d, all enlargements of the joists or limbs. or for, rheumatism in man and for any purpose Or which a liniment is used for man or beast. It is now known to be the best liniment for man overused. acting mild and yet certain in its effects. fiend address toe Illustrated Circular which we think Wes positive proof of its virtue,. No remedy bas ever met with such unqualified m ons to our knowledge, for beast as well a man. Price $1 per bottle. or al: bottles for ss.'. AU Druggists have it or pan get it for rm, or it will be sent to any address on reoeipt of price by the Proprietors. annuls. t. Co.. gnat burgh Falls, Vt.; - Sold by all 'Dragglota. 4TTOJM EYS-AT,LAW. PHYSICANS AND SURGEONS. 110? LS SECRET SOCIETIES HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING EDUCATIONAL' EDWIN E. QUINLAN, A. M. Towanda. Pa. PLUMBER AND GAS FITTER INSURANCE MISCELLANEOUS (Formerly with Hetll4:lelmanj HAS OPENED A OF HIS OWN With Swarts & Gorden's Store, Main Street, Towanda, Pa., Where he keeps* FIIIJsASSOIkatENT or SWISS AND AMERICAN; SPECTACLES, ETC. ENGRAVING A Mil CURES DISPEPSI LITER COMPUUII IBIE CURE tff e(s4B1 :ejelligiJieuma lltilk47:f !ism, Divvy, earl Visease, BBL. tousness - Nervous debility, etc. rho soot lIZMZDY ENOWN to Mari! 11,000,000 'Soule. This Syrup possesses Varied Properties. It Stimulates the Ptyalin la the Saliva, which converts the Starch and Sager of the Jibed into glucose. A dell. cieney in Ptyalin* causes Wind and Souring of the !bad in the stomach. II the medicine is taken Immediately after eating the fermentation of Apis pre vented. aets*poss the Veer. It net: sofion the Kidneys. It Regas. the Dowels. It Purifies the Blood. It Qu lets the. Nervous Optimps. : It Proinotes Digestion. It Nourishes. "iterengthessa and It carries Vette Old Blood an ds Zt opens the pores of the skin and indsum Healthy Perspiration. . It neutralizes the hereditary Lint, s polsor in the blood, which generates emWula. Erp sipelas c and all manner of skin diseases and internal humors. . There are no spirits employed in its mann. facture. and it can be taken by the most deli, cute babe, or by the agedand feeble, envies:l being regssitts affinities to directions. • • DRUGGISTS SELL, IT. 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Turtle Point, McKean co., Pa F. F. BISHOP. UrnT 0. 13ne8os A Valuable Medicine. Berns, Somerset Co., Ps Hirrtekanaliain Liver Complaint. Berlin. Somerset CO., pa EDWARD Zola Groias M. B.Lucrr pJrT): } t For Costiveness. = Jmi. A. Baowar For DUHotlines& Philadeiptds. Pa Fami T. GOEXCAT Faaanass Best Family Medicine. - ushkill. Pike Co.. Ps. Remedy for Worms; Commtous; ',Never Falls to Con. Baehkfii. Pike Co.. Pa atRAX, VAX • man enzusrw emzE.zr. By NON. ALBION W. TOURONEIL —mown .TlON .0P INTIZEN-.-OF LATION OF CHRISTIANITY TO 'POLITICAL DUTY-THE PROBLEM OF SELF GOYIM' =MP—ROW' TO BEAT BOSEES—NO CITY FOB moms WIIO ARE RIMED BY BOSSES —POLITICS IN THE SOUTH—PARTIES A NECESSITY—MOOD MEN MUST RULE THE PARTIES. A lecture delivered in tha Ampithe atre; at Chautauqua,' August 11, 1881. Words arelnch stubborn things that one can . neVer • be entirely °edam that these wican he addresses will ap prehend theni in the same sense that he intends then) .f.co be received. This fact mast be my eXcuse -.for defining words ito frequently I need, and - apparently so well understood, before an audience of each intelligence as this. The term•"oitizen" as it will be used by me to-dey, is purely an American word. It may seem a strange dfola- ration to make that a term which is as 4d as the civic is, Roman itself iu its radical signiftmom, yet in ita mostgen- orally accepted significance rlo-day is clearly a product of our American civilization. ''Citizen," as defining some sort.of relatiou between the iudi- vidnal or claw, and the elate or a city, ie a ,word too old to talk about its origin; but as meaning the relation of the American citizen - to the American nation, or as mea ning ning the relation of an individual who is 4 component part of a • self-governing coramanity, it is jest as old as the American nation and no older. We are accustomed to talk loose- ly Omit the republics of Roine and Greece as ancient 'self•governing--eora• munities. Whenever we use the word "republic," whenever we speak of self- government in connection with the peo ple of any nation existing previous to the birth of the American 'Republic, we utter a falsehood; we speak of what does not exist and never did elist. I wish to call attention toil& because of the analogies that are so often sought to be drawn between those so-called re- publics and - the real self governiugloom munitiea of to-day. Greece aud'Rozue in there beat estate were simplfaristoc ratios, , ori perhap.l more_ properly, pliumracies. They were oligarchies who chose temporary rulers. The piesent idea of . a self-governing community— that which now exists throughout , the civilized - world-Lis not that of a peoplt who choose men to rule over them. out of men who are' chosen to be the agents of a people in their :own self-govurnment. (A.pplanse*.) So",that I shall defiue 'citiz - zln,' for use today, to be one of the coordinate elements of a self-governing community. Now. I must attempt the more diffi cult task of defining the word 'Chris tian.' I doubt not it seems as simple a thing to the merest child here . present ae falling off a log to a turtle, but there could not be a greater mistake.' The term 'Christian,' if made too' broad, embraces many a man that has no Nisi new under its tegis; if made too narrow it shuts out many a man: who f would reach with my thought to=day. I doubt not the definition which I shall adopt will meet the criticism-of many, especi ally of our ministerial brethren who are present. They must remember that in dealing with this term they are think ing chiefly of the world to come. Citi-I zenabip, however. happens to be bound by the river of time; Christianity as it iiirepts citizenship stops at the hither side of the Charm° ferry. I propose to regard 'Christian,' then. as including every man who believes in the teaching . of Jesus of 15szeretb, or who, not be; ,lieving in theirs, is imbued with hi's spirit, 9r thinks he ought to- be. Why do I mike it so broad P Because I pro pose only to consider it in iconnection with citizenship; not the ) • rights or pri reileges of the citizen at all, but simply his duties and the relation of Christian ity to the petformance . or non-perfor mance of those ities. In this nous:sec tion, Ido not mean, be it understood, by the term Christian, or Christianity, to refer at all to the Church. lido not mean any inchoate or indefinite. 'or any defined or organized body of men hav ing boundaries and elements' difierent and distinct from the State. Ido not mean 'to consider the relations of the citizen to the State as . affected by Christianity. In other words, I desire to suggest for your thought what is the injunction of Christianity to the indivi dual Christian as regards his personal duties as a self-directing integer2f a self governing community. A- republics, a self-governing community, casts an equal, burden upon your shoulders and upon 'mine. It is' no unreal figure of speech that refers to the citizen of our -republic as an uncrowned king. Not only does sovereignty come back to him in its last resort,' but the attribute of power and government rests , con stantly upon him. Every one of the fifty millions that compose" ur nation, who has attained to man's estate, has upon himself the responsibility of good government for the whole. It is a res ponsibility that he . can no more shirk or surrender than he can shirk the res ponsibility 91 his own sours salvation upon another. There are no deserters or bounty-jumpers in the army of free dom any more than intim army of the Lord. (Applause.) The man who seeks by any means to avoid any portion of his responsitility brands himself by that very act not onily as a moral sneak but as a thief, who 'takes that which him enriches not, and leaves; mepoor in deed.' It is not my good !name which be has stolen, butit is myright to good government. Between you and me there Is an unwritten contract. We , never looked into each other's _ hoes be fore; we never heard eaoh other's,ioioes until this hour; but as an. American citizen you are bound to me by the tact of my American citizenship to 44,idi in your power without injury to yourself; to give me every right. privilege, , im munity and blessing that good govern meat can bring. tapplause.) Now, what is the rogation of ohristi anity to this duty P That is lhe our D. M. BALL. 6, OOVEBIaIEff OP ISE PEOPLE BY TEE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE." =EMI lion that I shaW call a t icia yot to ewer. The great aharaoteristic of the OtWietiso religion ts that it is doingre- ligion. There is not an atom of sloth fulness in it: The dreamy creeds of the droWay east implanted in man's heartlhe anchoritio idea that by exclu sion from the world, by contemplation simply of God. be might sneak out of responsibility to his fellows, and climb up the iTabobian ladder into heaven without - leave (laughter and apPlanse), without having done anything to en title him to its blessings or enjoyments. The Christian religion has no. passive voice. It 'is an Olive, transitive idea-- it always means something—and the Christian is shot oat into the weal like a bomb from a mortar to hit somebody. If it does not, it is not the fault of the powder that lay bebiod him—the aphit of the Gond-doer, Jeans of Nazareth— it is the. fault of the so-ealled Christian hiniself. It is because he has not weight enough, and consistency enough to hurt anything when be comes against it. asaughter.) - I say this, is the great distinctive idea of Christianity, and if any learned man who listens to me Will glance his eye over the history of relig ions, he will find that there never, pre- vions to the day of Jesus of Nazareth, was a religion proclaimed that had a human aide. A mail ander those an cient creeds, under any other system of philosophy, if saved at all, was _saved for his oat sake. He simply by a sort Of special favor was allowed to tack him self to, some so-called divi i ne influence, and share its apotheosis. The thought and spirit of Christianity is radically different from this. Look at those Urea wonderful years of its Great Mas ter's ministry, as it is calleil—servica would have been a better name-what aid he do ? Did he spend his time in prayer ? You may write down upon your open palm in big letters all the prayers of his that are recorded. Did he establish forms and ceremonies? He left the question of church orgabization so in distinct- that Fecta to-day are founded on a question of Greek inflection, (Laughter.) Did he spend his time in retailing to his followers the glories of paradise like ltohamet ? You may write almost upon a thumb-nail all. that he said to us Shout the world to come Ile lived in the present. and that glor ious record is illled.to the overflowing ; wiiCone fact—he went up and down the world doing good to all men. (Applause.) . It is this which makes Christianity the mother and nurse of the republican 1 idea. (Applause.) The 'declaration of the great unde4ing tenets of deme cracy came from the Master's lips; were echoed next by grind old Peter when he hail seen the vision of Joppa. and rushed hissing-hot iron the month of Paul when be stood amid the seething masses of Boman life and. said, that in Christ—that is, in the -Christian idea, the Christian world, the Christian na tion—there was 'neither Greek nor Jew, Barbarian, Beythilin, bond nor free.' (Applause.) For the first time, the right of man to co-equality With his fellow man, and the correla.ive duty that rests on him, because he is a man, was declared by the founder of Christi anity. lam afraid some learned man may take issue with me there. I had the folly to make that statement a, few months ago, and , a man a aid in derision, the next day, that the idea of Christian religion—'Do unto others as you would that they should do unto yon'—bad fal len from the lips of Confucius centuries before the birth of Christ. My dear friends,. there is all the difference between the Confucian doctrine and that of the Magnin.) that there is between holiness and trade. (Ap plause?) Confucius . -said to his pi:lpda: 1 'lf you want to succeed in this world treat everybody that you meet well; serve others as you Would like to be served, because you may need to have your own . back rubbed some day.' (Laughter.' Thit was the doctrine of Confucius. The doctrine of Jesus Christ is: 'Do unto all men as you would that they should do tmto you, because they are men with with you; -arid my children," (Applause.) Now, what are the' relations between this fundamental idea of Christianity, its characteristic essence, and the duty which you and Ipire to ourselves, our neighbors and our children as citizens of this great republic ? That is the question which I wish you to consider fora little while. There are some septa —thank God they are tolerably insig nificant—like Dunkards, and the Mora vians, and the . Mennonites, : and other odd people scattered up and deirn the Christian world who refuse ,to take up this duty , of self-government which God' lays upon us. They sit down and fold their hands and twiddle their fingers; and leave the Lora and the Devil to fight that matter out alone. accepting th4i result without grumbling, no matter which comes out on top. (Laughter.) Oar friends the Quakers sometimes an notince a similar, doctrine and oc can -1 idnally they try to practice it; but they always take a hand , in when they see the Lord can not well get along , without them (Laughter.) 'lt is not td those secis, - ,or to any particdlar parts of the Christian Church that I desire to refer to-day; but it is to, that 'spirit which prevails to a considerable extent in nearly ad denominations, that the nearer a Christian would get to God the farther he must keep away from poli tica—the good government of a great People=is the big human end of relig ion.axld (Applause.) On us repose the us nsibility of the future character of our government and our people. 'A n • nis not merely good by accident, or training of its individual mem but it is made good Ind kept good by heforce of good law and good 'ad ministration. It is good by the force of those who govern, and by the princi pled that control and dominate their action. I presume there is not ; one in this aseesibly who has orniatkited that Impression which is so frequently heard In the world ondde of Obantauqui, to the effect—generally spoken with *good desl of self-complacency of tone: 'Well, dr, I mean, todo my duty; I; go and illiptyst'..blit *flake . - pa pines al interest in polities; I think too much of myself for that; I don't propose to risk_ my religions character by going into the struggles of a campaign.' My no- tion is, my friends, that a man whose religion will not stand tbe jostle and wear and tear of political life has not enough of it to be worth saving. (Ap plause.) Not only is the Christian re ligion an active,religion, and an active idea, bat, thank God;.it is not a band- box idea. It is not ono 'of those pre cious gifts which must be folded up and wrapped and tried ' and locked away for fear the Devil will put his contaminating clutch upon it. It is its great glory thafit . ie an every day garment; and tho particular beauty of the material is that the more it is worn, apd the dirtier 'the places where it is worn, the better it will look andthe better it is. (Applause.) It is an ada mantine shield that courts the conflict, because every blow of battle-axe, every thrust of spear, or impinging of the ar row butlremoves the grime and shows its brightness. If we are charged with a duty to our fellows we must do it if we are Christians, or if we mean to be Christians. Ab, I suppose the cry comes hp in the hearts ofta great majority of you: •Polities is such a dirty mess I Would you have a Christian man go down into its filth ? Wonld you have a man take his good nuns into the political arena, with its fraud and corruption, its rings and ' its bosaes,and the 141 knows what of inignity ? What chance has-a good man or an honest man in that seething maelstroim of infamy.' My friends, Ido not mean to admit your premises. lam not one of those who believe thatthe political life of our na tion is worse than that of other nations, or that our political life of to-day is worse than - that of other days. (Ap plause.) I believe that there never was an hour When the political ethics of our people were is high; when the moral Character of our political leaders of all parties were as pure as , they are to day. We have, unfortunately—no, ter tunately, let me say—among us a class of good men and women who believe that the highest duty of the Christian citizen is to praise Clod and find faull (Laughter.) The latter part of it they do with,zeal; The first I hope they do equally well; Bat when these' kople utter anathemas in regard to the politi- cal thought and life of to-day they fig get one thing. They . do not pause to consider the Lot if we could turn this flood of light, which this reporters' table typifies, upon the lives of even the bust generation of our public men, they would turn away with blushes of shame and disgust. Suppose that a really truthful life of any one of the thousand names we revere-in the politi cal world could be of a generation or two written, and that types could be found to print it. Is there a' man or a woman here whO would let it lie upon the center-table, or put it in the hands of a son, much less a daughter ? There isa side difference in the light that -is focused upon the lives of . yesterday and to-day. At night the morn is aliays bright in comparison With the earth, because we see the the bright side of it. So wealways see the bright side of the past that is distant from 'us, and the dark side of the present that is under our feet. Why, only a score of years or Bongo, a tale of shame or infamy died of old'age before it got across the borders of z a single state. Now, three continents'read of to-day's misdeeds at to-morrow's,breakfast-table. „The blood on the murderer's knife has not time to dry before Europe hears the cry.. And before the officer of the law can move a block to lay his hand upon the criminal Asia knows of his offence. Your day is a wonderfel day.. Your standard of man is a wonderful standard,. and your fault-finding is largely the result of the fact that you see the standard of to day, and the men of to-day, and forget that I,hose of yesterday were measured by another. But, granting all that the most lugu brious complainer could wish, or as Byron els, that everybody and every thing in Politics 'is as bad as the Devil could wish,' whose fault it'? Whose fault is it ? Ido not ask this for the purpose of blaming you, my friends. I would not presume it to lie your fault, but let one tell you if there has ever been misgovernment in. America; if there hag ever been wrong or oppression in Lmerica; if there is row iniquity in high places, or in low, it is because the Christians in America have not done theirdrity. (Applause.) You cannot do ion= duty to the State by simply praying for it, paying your taxes and voting once a year. Your cannot pray pOlitical evil out of existence, my politi cal good into existence. You have to work, and work hard, to accomplish such a result. The work must be done if the good is to be achieved, and, be cause you are the governori, the, equal and c&ordinate kings, of the land, it is laid on your shoulders to do it. Another thing, you cannot cure a po litical evil by finding fault with it. You might just as well undertake to batter down Gibralter with green peas. I have sometimes thought that the Christian citizens of the United States read Josh Billings. YOu remember the descrip tion that laughing Soloman of our day and land gives of milking a kickll4 cow: 'Stand off about twenty feet and holler so !blast you I' (Applause and laughter.) It is not an infrequent thing to find a man of exalted piety who wants the po• litical world to go just right. ,He wants everylg s y to have all his rights and privil and immunities guaranteed and mimed to him, but he considers himself as having performed his duty when he stands off and says: 'So, blast you Somebody else is not doing right; somebody else is neglecting what ought to be done. Fellow citizens, this is an excellent ezikimisb for certain powers o the body and mind. My christian friends, it. is a' good way to advertise yaw' Xellgion when it begins to run low, , but'.wben you come torn up the re-. salts achieved 'for otherd they are not worth considering. 'Well; what will pm have no do? Do you mlan to say,' comes the inquiti, 'that it is my duty to leave my farm and My store. and my oxen, and my newly married wife, and go out and take part in every: political campaign ?"Well, that depends entirely upon bow much you have at stake. The Lord by his providence . has laid this duty.on; you, and' the question is whether you can afford to shirk it, that ball. The quell- Hon is whether you can afford to have he ills of fifty millions of people laid at your door, or .the sufferings and sins of heir children and their children's ohil- dren heaped upon your soul in the day of Judgment. , If you can, star at home and scold politicians and shun politics. L . (Applause.) ' The problem of self-goveroment; as I halo' before intimated, is a new one. It came to our American people along with a new continent that was rich and boun tiful and free,—a continent that for the touch of the hoe; and gave for the rippling of its soil golden measures at harvest time. It camel° us-hi con nection with a new life—the life of a man living for himself end through him self without the dictation or control ol any other, Saud with it came also this correlated, duty to our fellows, requiring every man to do his part as a 00-ordinate king in the government of this fair•land This duty has been neglected, ead& neg ected. Ido not blame the fathers, be cause it is useless to do so; I do no blame the present, because it began bet- ore we were; but I do blame that min of today, who, seeing the evils that have resulted from neglect, simply stands up and scolds about them instead of taking off his coat and working to cure them. (Applause.) But' you say, vote.' 'Oh! yes, you throw a paper wad at what yon do not like, and thilik that by so doing yon are performing your whole duty? No, you do not—not one of • you think 67. The man. who buttons the cloak of his own righteous ness so close about him that he feels that it would be an infringement of his dignity if he, should step to his neigh bor whom - he believes is thinking wrongly, and is consequently prone to rule wrongly, and try and persuade him to do right toward himself and his felbwe and - the future; or that man-who stands au' high on the pinnacle of his own purity that he can not afford to do anything to enoonrage - another in polit ical welldoing, that man is not doing his political duty, and he knows it :, "but what stall I do?" lam not here to tell you; but I do know that Prot estant Christianity from the very birth of this country has !heed the power be hind year myriad-headed king. If you will look through the statistics of each ceucus:decade you will:find that the in telligence, the wealth, the intellect, the power; the heart, the brain of our na tion, its vastpotential majority is Prot estant Christianity. [Applause.] Its spirit came from the same source as oar free institutions; and through the same channel. Wherever the spirit 'of the one is found the other has gone before, or comes hand in hand with it, so that I do know that if the Christians of this land have done their duty to the coup try, and to each other, there has been no misgovernment Oh! but you say: "There has been misgovernment, for we have smarted forit.". Of course you have, and ought to smart for your own neglect. It is simply the immutable law of God' that you should. Whoever has tbe duty laid upon him to cure an evil and Ws, L must suffer for it. I never see 'a monumental :display of stupidity that is made , in one of our great cities, with'out rejoicing in it I like to see a man smart when he smarts for his own fault, if it does not touch his life. It is like a blister—it Shows life—at least you can not raise a blister on a corpse.' never see the grand reservoir that they have in that 'city without being 'glad. It is beautifully sloped and sodded, of splendid mason ry, exquisite and perfect, though yet unfinished, costing I do not know how many millions—if there is a Philadel phian here be can tell yon—a magrtift cent reservoir except that it will not hold water. Ia every other respect it is a magnificent work. And v(hose fault is it that there ilthis one defect? It is the fault of that brain and culture that we call Christianity, that sat still year after year and let the, dregs of society do the work which God's provi deucekad imposed' on them. • It is the fault of men who tried to put substitutes in the political army, ' and, of 'course, got bounty-jumpers iysteadl, Ab, but tou ask me, what can be doue? I, was alking with w friend from New, York abput it the other day, and- be said: 'My dear sir you are crazy.' .Said I, 'You may call me a fool, but you ,shall not.call me crazy.t [Laughter.] 'Why,' said he, 'what would you do if you were in the city of New York?' Said I: 'lf I had Moral pluck, if I had even a substantial gizzard, I would walk up and try to do my Auty."Well,' said he,•!what could you do? You are a Republican. There are fifty '_thousand Republicans ia the city of NOW York, and yet,' (he says, ,and ho itket man who knows these things,_ that) about sixty fir hundred Republicans organized lute) so-called Republican associations there, a sort of political Masouhi oigaui iations, which vote men in and out at Will, 'these siity-five hundred hold and exercise, in the party organization, the power of the whole fifty thousand.' 'Well,' said 1,. 'you live in New York?' 'Oh, yes; I stiffer from this.' Said 'Don't you think you ought to suffer ? Are you willing to admit that any one of these men is a better man than you ?' 'Oh, no.' Is any one of the remaining forty odd thousand willing to admit that those are better-men than they—strong er, braver, wiser ?"oh, no.' 'Yet you allow them to lead you by the nose be cause you 'dare not do your duty.' [Ap .platutel • It is not !bosses,' my friend, it is not 'election machines.' it is not 'rings' that are to be blamed for misgoverument or to be feared as the cause of future evil. It is you and me, and all of its who -bear the brand of personal neglect upon our foreheads. : [Applause.] There is at this present time -a vast deal of surplus Carlyleism floating 'around this world—and by the way, let me .tell you a story about Cailyle. About the time he died, an_ apparently ignorant man, a day laborer, was talking with me about him, • and said, 'Carlyle - is gone, then? What do you think they will do with • bin' in the next world?' 'Why,' said I, 'I .dont kaaw; what makes you. inquire?' 'Sure, the ,Lord will have to find somebody for bun to scold, or he wont be easy a, minute.' Laughter.] I say there is a vast amount of loose Ctirlyleiam floating around the world at this time in reference to soli- tics, parties, and the like. We are told that we mast go back to the good old imes when a man was eluted because of his porsonal qualities, and not; be cause he belonged to any party; that we must kill. break, smash the election machines. . Smash just as many as- you choose, my . Monde, but do the. smash- ing your - selves. Deal put a substitute, nor hire a boy. [Applause and Lattgh: ter.] If our country has attained any eminence at all among the nations of the earth, it is because of our political idea which we call a party—l do not care what party=but it is that fact which bands the people together in the support of one great idea, to the presett abeyance of all other ideas. A great man who has now passed away, when I stood up before him, having just heard that the bill in regard to reconstruction, which I believed would bring peril and evil to the land, bad become, so far as the party was concerned, a law, and said: 'Mr. Stevens, I will not endare it, I will go home," I will throw the weight of my influence, I will throw the power of my journal against it, and I; will defeat it in my State,' said to me: 'Young man, you do it- at your peril. Remember sir, that ft party in a repub lic is simply a ratchet-wheel that per mits and i regulates = plogress. Now it pushes us ahead; and then it keeps, us from going too far.' And be was right. A party is merely the universal form of common thought, an idea in the minds of a great portion of our people. A man springs up whose very name comes to represent that thought, like that the rugged rail-splitter of the Sanga mon. [Appliinse. J That is a party, and he is a party leader. He is not the bead of the party. Its head is in your hearts; yon • are its - head, and he is only its obedient arm. Parties si rout from - 4deas: They are not created by great men. A friend told me this morning as I was• coming here, that the revered President Woolsey, of Yale College, was out in a pper.laying the basis of a ew party. He might just as well try to fly a lute in the Cave of he Winds. Parties do not start at the top of Ole bill, they come up from the bottom; and, as I told my friend, three negroes with linsey-woolsey shirts, put ting their heads together in a cotton' field, are more likely to start a party than a thousand such men as President Woolsey. It was Peter the Hermit who started the Crusades that swept over the world, and for five hundred years ruled its very thought. For five centuries men were born for nothing else on earth, it would seem, but to feed the jackaise Palestine. _There could not have beef a more contemptible source for s great idea than the beggar monk whom we call Peter. the Hermit. Parties must come up from below like a volcanic eruption, because yon are the governing power, end you must be moved from beneath. _ But we'are told that the questions still remain unanswered—'What shall be done? How shall it be done ?' di) not propose to answer thoseiquestions for you. For fifty years and more. this Country'S heart and brain asked the question, 'How shall slavery be abolish ed ?' One said it could not be done in this way; another said it could not be in that way, and the rest said it should not be 'at all. The Church, in the main, stood, up stoutly in favor of doing noth ing. The Christian heart of the coun try cried out against the evil, but the great query was, 'How shall it be cured ?' We did not know; we could not tell; we even fought two years against _ a government builded upon slavery, and carefully 'refrained from touching it. I remember that as late as September, 1862, I was myself put un der arrest in the army of the United States; for refusing to surrender a col ored man, who had saved my company. [Applause.] We were •• told _ that it could not, must not, and should not be done. But when we got' .squarely to the edge of the last- ditch, and found that' there was no bridge across, with God's help we built one. .. [Applause.] When the Christian heart of to-day feels that it must do its whole "political duty, when it realizes that the , crowning.bless ing which God's grace has put upon our heads is the invisible crown of co-equal kingship, then we will find a way to our duty.We shall not do it by seeking to avoid it,nor by telling to our sons and our fellows that a Christian is some= thing too good to engage in the task .of government. ' We - shall not do it by shutting out of consideration at any proper time, any. of the great questisns affecting the good government of the nation. 11. sometimes believe that I sympathize right smartly with that old prophet in the Scripture, who could not find•forcible words enough to curse his people, when I look upon this wonderful land and still more marvelous people of the' North; when Lthink that they have shut their eyes, turd sealed their bearta, in a great measure. to the performance of duty; when I see them following a dollar as if it was bigger than a cart wheel; when I see them anxious merely, it would seem, to coin every golden day into a golden dollar, or some decimal fraction thereof. Even ea I .speak you there goes through the country the declaration of one of our great periodi cals, that the American people have reached that stage of growth when they can not attend to the work of govern ment themselves; that they have reached that period of development when, the cares of business, and of life are so great that some way must be devised to &Twat the Devil and keep him 11.00 a Year, la Advance. out of our politiCal Eden without our standing guard on the walls and at - the gate. .Itpr.n not - be done. If we are, not to govern ourselves, we an never Tuck out a man to govern for us. There is no patent right for relf-government, except the right of every man to .pnah in and take hold, like a poor _Man at a frolic, wherever he gets a chance. If a Man believes he is right, let him cause his influence to be felt. Let "it be known.- Let bim'stan t d for it -with his fellows, and let him never bold his peace while he has need -to speak. There have been many times in the history . of this country, and in the history of dif ferent states When, it the Chiistian pub- lie of those states bad followed the dio- tates of - their own consciences. and .had used their 'affiance. their brain .and their power, the evils of which we now complain windd never have been heard of never have beed dreamed of. So, while I do not propose to point out - to any (Me of you a specific line of con- _ duct, Ido mean to say that any man ' who leaves a KAitical question to be decided in the country, in his state, 'in his county, in his township, in his school district, withmit his help, that man has failed to do his dt(ty. I do not mean by his help just a dead lubbei- lift of a vote, I mean that he 'should be awake, and give so much time as he reasonably may, to make the power of his brain and conclusion felt. [Ap plause.] When that is done, :" we will not be troubled with "rings" 'or "boss es." I-do not speak from any spmpa thy for "ring" or a "4osa" either, and I have not a particle of sympathy for a fallen "boss," [Applause and - laughter.] I believe that a man who can not ride, had better not -get into the saddla; and-I have the most uncon querablihatred for rising "boss." The man who does or would- umight eously sway the power of any land .or nation, that man is my enemy. I can not help it. It is not my fault, either. it is what I got from you and your an cestors. It is what I drew. in with my mother's milk, and what I must - display. whether I would or not. [APplaup.] Now, my friends, lam afraid I have detained yon longer than the courtesy - of the occasion would justify. I only desire to say one thing more to yon as voters—and I do not 'mean to exclude from the consideration of these guess: tiona those who may hereafter be voters, nor' those whose influence so often con-. trolls votes. We may well, we ,of the North, take a -lesson in this 'matter' from our friends of the &nth. Ido not say -that they govern better than we —you all know that I do not believe that—but they beat us in goierning. For three-quarters...l a century, being then greatly in the minority, as they are to-day, they ruled with a rod of iron and we deserved to be ruled, too: They did it becaude every man, woman ilind • child of them has time to attend to politics. You can not run amiss on that line. Yon may strike a car on any Southern railroad, and if there are five men in it, you will hear more politics in half an hour than you can start in going from Boston to Ban Francisco. They mean business, that is all. IC -is apart of the business, and la that they Ws their Christian duty. They count for more thin you do, because. they work harder than you do. •They count for more; man for man, because they give more brain to it, man for man. Yon might well learn a lesson at their hands. lam the last man to say that the South is not entitled to thd power that she wields, because she bas attained it by a virtual usurpation. So far as - the nation is concerned (I mean leaving out of consideration the wrong done- to disfranchised individuals , and classes) she has stepped upon the - platform of self-government, and declared that she bad right to do her level best in moulding the present and the future of onr nation, - and she has done it.. If she hie - not moulded it to snit you'', it is your fault: [Applause.] There is no getting, around that, and she will continue to do it. Twenty-fonr per dent of her white. voters can not read. She - stands with a compacted. power composed of a majority of her intelligence, leading -or mieleadOig„as the case may be, this mass of igndiance and-compelling it to add strength to het. And sue has a - right to do so. She has a right to mould her own national destiny as far as she can, do it . fairly. She stands today bodily defying our national idea, and facing with dogged stubbornness the tide of American thought. She has a right to use the weapon which we have put in her hands, so long as she uses it fairly; to sustain -her own ideas, no matter who is hurt thereby. If our heads are bruised, it is our own fault because we neglect onr duty and squan der onr polder. The South has a. per .fect legal right to - use the ballotorial power of h t er ignorant masses to uphold her suprethacy and advance the -ideas Which underlie her . civilization. Yon must not blame her for that. That forty-five per cent. of ignorant voters 'in sixteen states, is already a . tremend ously potent factor in our own national destiny: A vote cast or surpresed in Florida affects your interests or impairs your right of co-ordinate contioll of government just as much as if Mel act were done in your own precinct. That mass of ignorance is fast becoming very plummet of fate, on whose vibra tions your destiny and mine must de pend. As the South relies upon igno ranee in this struggle, so must you de pend upon light.- What shall come out of the darkness, in a problem for the North to-day as well as the-South. - It is of far more importanoe than ad* other political idea of the pedant. Yoh must enlighten this mass of igno rance or be destroyed by it. The struggle can not be put off any kluge. You must decide which shall prevail upon this continent--self government, the unbiassed will of intelligent millions or the power of ignorant majorities wielded by a few, Not onl3 this, but you must meet in every one of our voting precincts to-day the question how the party to which you may belong (conciarnzo Ox rovirrn II MN NO. 31
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