Show 1 I TUB THE SAD SIDE OF THE CASK CASH ignorance and bigotry the canso canse of 0 conflicts to take a popular history of the united states and glance over the names ot of the various col colonies and the date of their first arst settlement is a simple simpie act to investigate the character of those ealy settlers to study the motives that thai prompted them to leave leave their native lauda lands and seek a home an asylum in ia the wilds of the western continent la is another and much more important study and yet no one can be said ead to be fully fitted for the duties of an american statesman who has bas not so studied the history of our country it is not enough to know that the puritans came to tale land because of their religious opinions that is known to the schoolboy the impartial student will seek to know something so of the cliar character acter ol 01 other colonists of roger reger and the motives that actuated him in the colonization of klode island something of who settled linas of the pious catholics who came to maryland as exiles from protestant persecutions of the patient swedes WL who 10 fleeing from papal antol intolerance rance in europe sought a ref refuge age in new jersey and the plain quakers who dwelt 0 on n the banks of the schuylkill kill even the poor outcasts of early georgia history were rich in faith and hope far beyond the haughty landlords who had 0 oppressed them and have left behind them efiem a history both interesting and instructive tive to one who will take the palas to investigate who will dig down clown through tile the dry crust of facts faala and dates to such an enquirer will be unfolded one of the richest mines of moral philosophy it has been said that the reason reabon why other warriors ord were not considered so great as those of froy was because there was no homer to sing their th sir praise the words of mrs remans commencing the heavy clouds hung dark the woods and waters oer when a band of exiles moored their bark i 10 lo 0 the wild new england shore have immortalized the memory of the pilgrim fathers and the tate fate of the tb acadians Acad ians lans will be bb remembered so long as human betris hear sarc are touched with the sad sweet song of evangeline 0 that some one had bad woven around the other colonists a similar halo of rom romance nce and pathos of poetry and will there not come a time when a groat great american poet shall arise and write att an american laithe the greatest epic of any land or any ape age t america is thie the land of religions the soli soil on which has flourished the me grandest moral ideas in this peculiarity y she is without a parallel and he be who would understand american history aright must take cognizance of that fact in america wt w find the sequel of those fiery struggles that have convulsed europe from the times of the reformation to the present day nay more comet of the forces that have been be enand and still are at work in oar american civilization are the very ones that to ta robbed in the hearts of the early reform reformers ern in the morning of modern times that bat actuated such men as a william wallace aud and winkle rid ald frederick of italy and jerome of prague A thousand croakers have told us at every crisis of our nations hi history that destruction and destruction only awaited us if we dared to cast aside the ignes batutis lights of the past and receive the glorious sunlight of truth which inspiration through the ibe mightiest geniuses of the age is pouring lug like a mod flood upon us but a all four la in vain As jell well might they warn the athlete stripping p D ug for his exercise of tile the necessity of clothing A freach epoch of americas history she has laid at abide ide the garb of a former period only to deck i ersek in garments still more beautiful because they were appropriate to the new position she assumed when the oppressions oppress ions of a shortsighted king and a haughty court compelled the colonists to seek a closer union for defensive purposes there were not wanting those who denounced the changed chan geM roey could not understand how the quaker and cavalier the catholic and puritan could peacefully mingle to together Lether in one legislative assembly how laws could be framed giving at once unity and freedom to those various religions and varied peoples living under different speaking olf different ferent tongues and inherit ive the customs and prejudices of various european nations even after war had commenced with england ait it took more than a dozen years to unite these colonies under a constitution the provisions of which may he summed up in one abort phort phrase in essentials unity unity in non essentials I 1 liberty ui in all things charity it was the bitterness and rancor of party strife that gave washington su so much much concern ta in the later years of his ministration administration he perceived that many of our would he be statesmen failed to comprehend the spirit of our american institutions so far along in our national history as the administration tritt ion of thomas Jeffer jefferson sou the pious bigots of new england were hiding their bibles for fole fear the new president ident would cause them to be burned even at the time af abe admission of louisiana there were those who predicted all kinds of evil because that state consisted of pari cheb instead of counties count les radical protestants professed to believe that the ie Cat catholic hoble clergy would control the legislature and ultimately rule rul and ruin not flot only louisiana but bur 1 likewise tae entire union but bat no such calamity has occurred scarcely a quarter of a century has ha elapsed since our oar nation passed through one of the most terrible conflicts of modern time the flames oi of civil war that at first illumined only the southern horizon soon cast then their lurid glare overt ov erthe be whole country and la in ten thousand places by alela field and flood on mountain and rao raci erland many of ane t a e flower of american manhood lay jay down in their last long sleep and why was this simply because a generation had arisen who were un acquainted with the writings of adams jefferson franklin and AleX alexander auder hamilton A young vigorous and patriotic race they were but only a a portion realized la what a afire tire and in ia w what 9 at a heat were forged the anchors of the sh ship of state they scarcely conceived t the h grandi grandeur jur and depth of mean mea laing ioe in those immor immortal tai documents the declaration of independence and the federal constitution IU aey had bad that conflict would have beK be voided asail as all parties now agree f taw ff slavery was a curse to the nation at the present time there are other topics agitating the public mind perhaps a century hence bence the person who will sell intoxicating drinks or deny an intelligent woman the elective franchise will be considered a monster of iniquity and yet what a struggle society will pass through before that goal is reached how ho w many victims of intemperance will have hav e passed to dishonored and untimely time Y graves and brokenhearted broken hearted women have bewailed their ruined lives among other topics Is attractive attract lne considerable attention nat that there is anything in it antagonistic to american institutions institution nay rather it is the only religion indigenous to america and consistent with the progressive spirit of the aw age yet the mild ferment of healthy agitation aei si tation has been formed into a white heat of pas gas slon sion and the fiercest roest hate bate engendered in whole communities and all in fact because the ithe mormon formon people have bave believed that the civil code relating to marriage was wah defective that tha in many respects paganism dominated in our social institutions and that the liberal ideas of the nineteenth century should prevail over those of ancient pagan rome many of the profoundest prof th bakers and most logical writers of the ago age admit that has bas passed Us ito re preB sible stage even emerson recognizes izes that it is the only religion of power and vitally that has made its appearance for the past twelve hundred years and yet so flo little is the spirit of this religion understood that the bitterest opposition has been arrayed against it in whole communities united action on important objects has been impracticable schools and institutions of learning have languished for needful the commonest 0 st civilities of life have been neglected and worse thin than all aill in the tender minds of childhood i have been sown the seeds of hatred J H W |