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DON'T HUY
Groceries
BEFORE EXAMINING
GLOYERtfe PERRY’S
LARGE STOCK!
—AS THEY —
WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD I
On any article in their line, but
propose to
UNDERSELL!
WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE FOR
Georgia Seed Rye !
COUNTRY MERCHANTS
Will find that they can buy ot us
Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot
and Matches! !
For less money than they can order.
GLOVER & PERRY,
ssp9tf Americus, Ga.
OLD BTJGG
COMES TO THE FRONT THIS SEASON
WITH
DRINKS,
FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR
TEN CENTS.
OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND
AT ALL TIMES.
MEALS
FIXED UP IN ANY S'IYLE AND AT
ALL TIMES-DAY AND NIGHT.
BILLIARD^
5c per game two games for 25 cts- cash.
POOL
VA CENTS PER CUE-ALL CASH.
Come one, come all, and see if you don’t get
the best—nothing charged at these rates.
Best Cigars and Tobacco Always
on Hand !
BOTTLED LIQUORS
ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM.
J. P. CHAPMAN.
AGENT FOR
KING’S ROYAL POWDER COMPANY,
Also, PARKER’S GUN AND BREECH
LOADING FIXTURES.
Americus, Ga., Sept. sth, 1882. 6.2 m
J. J. HANESLEY’S,
IffIWHFECIIEBY.
I would call the attention of farmers and
all others wishing a good meal, to the fact
that lam still running my
RESTAURANT,
Under the Barlow House, where I will serve
you up a warm meal at any hour. Oysters,
Fish and Game served in their season. I
Also keep a full line of
CONFECTIONS!!
Fruits, Cigars and Tobacco!
Americus, Ga., Sept. 20,1882. tf
DAVENPORT’S
Belle of Ameripus,
Davenport & Son
Are Sole Agents for BELLE OF AMERI
CUS. It is made of the best Havanna long
fillers, Is not flavored or doctored, and the
only 5c Cigar In the market that Is as good
as an imported cigar. oct6-5m
MULE TAKEN UP^
H. J. McFarlan, near Bottsford, took up
about the 18th of September, a medium size
BAY MARE RULE. Owner, come for
ward, p rove-prOperty, pay charges and take
(he mule. sept39otf
FALL MILLINERY !
A splendid assortment of
NEW P Alila
MILLINERY
AT THE STORE OF
Mrs. M. I. RAINES.
The Ladies and all desiring to purchase
something
New and Fashionable!
in Millinery, will find it to their advantage
to examine her stock at an early date.
STORE AT THE OLD STAND,
Jackson Street, west of the Public
Square, Americus, Ga.
octlltf
Miss KATE KING
Invites the attention of the Ladies to her
SELECT STOCK OF
Millinery anil Fancy Goods
NOTIONS, Etc.,
ALL OF THE LATEST STYLES.
Which she keeps on hand at all times,
and at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES!
TSTEW GOODS
ARRIVING DAILY.
gfDon’t fail to Call and Examine her
took before purchasing elsewhere.
Miss KATE KING,
PUBLIC SQUARE AMERICUS,
mar3ltf
THE CELEBRATED “
SEXTUPLE
SPRING BED.
To breathe, eat and sleep well is the first
requirement of physical organization.
S. FLEISCHMAN’S
SEXTUPLE BED SPRING,
[Patented Aug. 22, 1882.]
Is the first and foremost to accomplish this
end, as it facilitates the first, accelerates
the second, and perfects the last of these
grand purposes. It is a “thing of beauty and
a joy forever.” Last with life, perfect in
its adaptation forcomtort, being disconnects
ed in the center prevents sagging. Made by
S. M- LESTER, who will put them on, and
is from long experience able to guarantee
satisfaction.
AGENTS WANTED
to sell these Springs. Territory and Spring
outfit turnished and large commissions paid.
S. FLEISCHMAN,
Patentee and Manufacturer,
octll-6m Cotton Ave., Americus. Ga.
Rosser & Gunnels.
M Bar and Billiard
SALOON.
Messrs. G. S. ROSSER and P. W. GUN
NELS have opened a Bar and Billiard Sa
loon in the new building of Hamil Bros., on
Cotton Avenue, where they have a fine
stock of pure
Brandies, Wines and Whiskies !
Also the National Drink,
ANHUESER BEER,
the best in the land. The best Cigars and
Tobacco always on hand.
Our Billiard Saloon is one of the best in
the city—everything new and good. We in
vite the public generally to give us a trial.
In a few days our RESTAURANT will be
opened, and we promise that it shall com
pare with the best and be surpassed by none.
ROSSER & GUNNELS,
septßtf Americus. Ga.
FOR SALE.
A valuable farm, eight milesof Americus,
n a good neighborhood, healthy section,
Church privileges convenient, good water,
good dwelling house with six rooms, good
g(n house and press, and other necessary
out houses, six hundred and fifty acres of
g ay and mulatto land, four hundred open
nrd in good state of cultivation, two settle
ments on place, and a fish pond stocked
with German Carp. If you want a desirable
home, with good productive lands and com
fortable and convenient surroundings, ap
ply soon. J. A. ANSLEY,
septlStf Attorney at Law.
The Genuine Article.
Now Is the time for sowing RYE and
BARLEY for winter grazing. We have on
band the genuine Dooly county Seed.
sept27tf GLOVER & PERRY.
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1882.
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Darbys Fluid is Recommended by
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Rev. Chas. F. Deems, D.D., Church of the
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TUTT'S
PILLS
A DISORDERED LIVER
IS THE BANE
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SICK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, DYS
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are Developed, and the Body Bobuat.
OHIUs and Fever,
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several years I could not make half a orop on
account of bilious diseases and chills. I was
nearly discouraged when X began the use of
TUTT’S PILLS. The result was marvelous:
my laborers soon became hearty and robust,
and I have had no further trouble.
They relieve the engorged Liver, cleanse
the Blood flrbm poisonous humors, and
cause the bowels to aet naturally, with
out which no one ean feel well.
Try this remedy fblrly, and yon will gain
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Blood, Strong Nerves, and a Sound Liver.
Price, 23 Cents. Offlee, SS Murray St., N. Y.
TUTUS HAIR DYE.
Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy
Black by a single application of this Dye. It
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Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt
of One Dollar.
Office, 88 Murray Street, New York.
(Dr. TV TVS MANVAI* of
Information and Vmeful Moooipto I
will be mailed FEIE on application!
Mrs. M. T. ELAM
Announces to the public that her stock
of Fall
MILLIE? ini NOTIONS
IIAVJ'i ARRIVED,
The assortment is complete, selected by
herself in the olty of New York. As to
Style and Quality !
of goods, the taste of the most fastidious
can be suited. As to prices, she can
almost say that even chronic
grumblers will be satisfied,
She regrets that on account of the dust
being so awfully had, she has to forego the
usual opening. Still, her stock is here in
more than usual richness and variety.
Customers will he waited on by her corps of
assistants,
Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Tommey,
Miss Preston, Miss Head.
Cash buyers and prompt paying short
(fine customers aro Invited to call, examine,
prloe and buy. octlStf
THE PLACE TO TRADE
I have on hand the finest stock of
mocEiffi m conm
In the city. Ten big cases of toys, looking
like young houses, in store, and more on the
road, and by Christies the finest stock of
Toys will be In store that has ever been
Styjwn in Americus. Cigars of the finest
qualities from a nickle to ten cents—real
Havana flavor. Confectioneries the sweet
est and choicest. The fruits of the Tropics,
the most luscious and the best. A good
, stock of Chewing Tobacco—golden leaved.
ED. ANSLEY.
I Americus, Ga., Sept. 20 1882. tf
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGK
THE BED DRAGON.
Behold a great red dragon, having seven
heads and ten horns, and seven crowns up
on his heads. And his tail drew the third
part of the stars of heaven—Revelation
xii., 3, 4.
Some commentators think that this
red dragon of the text means one thing,
and other commentators think it means
something else, and there is such a
wide difference of opinion that 1 feel at
liberty to think that it may be sugges
tive of the great monster of intemper
ance, fiery and all-devouring, with at
least ten horns hooking and lacerating
society, and by taking possession of so
many governments may be said to wear
seven crowns, and by dragging down
kings and queens and orators and poets
and so many illustrious men and wo
men from their firmament of power,
that it may be said to draw the third
part of the stars of heaven after it.
Alcoholism the worst of all red dra
gons!
Last Sabbath, in my discourse, I
reprehended the degradation of the two
political parties of this day, and sug
gested that as probably they might
have fulfilled their mission, the loss of
both of them would not be a very great
loss. The Republican party was or
ganized to kill slavery. Well, slavery
is dead and damned. The Republican
party having accomplished its object,
if it should pass out of existence I could
see no very gieatloss. The Democrtic
party was formed by Thomas Jefferson
to oppose the law of primogeniture, by
which all the inheritance came to the
oldest child, and to drive out from this
country all foreign titles and to give
equal rights to all classes of people.
These things having been achieved, if
that party should pass off the face of
the earth it would not be a very great
damage. I said to you last Sabbath
there needed to be in this country some
great party with God-given, sublime
ideas. I said to you that the first
principle of that party ought to be the
recognition of the Etetnal God in the
affairs of men and governments. I
went on, also, to show that such a party
ought to be antagonistic to all national
wastefulness and the friend of all na
tional economy. This morning I take
a step further, and say that such a
party ought not only to whisper but to
thunder against the curse of curses, the
abomination of abominations, the in
fernalism of infernalisms—the intem
perance of this country—and that with
national prohibition it ought to go forth
to slay the red dragon of my text. If
you have any idea, my friends, that
the prohibition victory in Kansas and
in lowa is a fanatical paroxysm, you
have made a very great mistake. In
six years the Prohibition party will
hold the balance ot power in every State
of the American Union. It may not
have a majority of the votes, but it
will hold the balance of power; so that
no man can be Governor, or Lieuten
ant-Governor, or Secretary of State, or
hold any important position in the State
until he is a pronounced Prohibitionist,
and in twelve years it will have its
President in the White House. No
party has ever risen into power so rap
idily as the Prohibition party is rising.
The Anti-Slavery party came out from
under the mountain of scorn and con
tempt to take the Presidential chair
and both houses of Congress; but the
Prohibition party, if you will watch
the statistics, is coming with four times
the celerity. American slavery was a
pet lamb as compared with this red
dragon. All the families which have
been robbed of fathers and brothers and
sons by the rum traffic; all the States
of the union that have been despoiled
of their mightiest men; all the churches
of Jesus Christ which fiud the chief ob
stacle to the advancement of religion
in the appetite for strong drinks and all
the intelligence, and all the patriotism,
and all the enthusiasm of the land will
yet pack itself into an avalanche that
will come crushing down upon this,
the worst evil that ever afflicted a na
tion. I give fair noticeto all politicians
in America of what is coming. Better
lead off than follow in afterward as
stragglers. Many of the strongest men
in both political parties, North and
South, see the rising tide of this refor
mation, and they are preparing to fight
the red dragon. Thero may be many
defeats before we get the final victory,
but victory will come as surely as there
is a God in heaven, and that this na
tion was not intended for ono great
drunkerv. I nominate for President
and Vice-President of the United States
in 1884—caring not which is the first,
or which is the second named on the
ticket, althongh one is a Republican
and the other a Democrat, and one a
Western man and the other a Southern
man, but both pronounced Pohibition
ists—Gov. St. John, of Kansas, and
Gov. Colqnitt, of Georgia. The far
West ought to have by this time a
man in the White House, and now that
the war is over, let ns prove that it is
over, and that we realize that it is over,
by nominating to the highest or next
to the highest offlee the illustrious
Georgian. 0! my Lord andi my God,
what a country this would be with no
dramshops. No dramshops! Then no
poorhonses, no penitentiaries, fewer
broken hearts and fewer disconsolate
homes. No woman brought up in lux
ury, afterward married to a man who
sets her, with her shriveled arm, and
hollow eye, and pallid cheek, and con
suming lung, to fight back the wolf
that thrusts its nostril through the
broken window pane, snuffing for the
blood of her helpless habe. Let the
contention between the great temper
ance societies of America cease, and the
70,000 men belonging to the temper
ance societies of the State of New York
join hands with the hundreds of thou
sands of temperance men in other States
and the millions of men who belong to
no temperance society but who are anx
ious for the sobriety and the disen
thrallment of this country, and the
work will be done, and done in less
time than I tell you.
First of all, we want an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States
ratified by three-fourths of the States
—an amendment prohibiting the man
ufacture and the sale of alcholic liquors
in all the States and Territories, ex
cept for medicinal, artistic, mechanical
and scientific purposes, and a prohibi
tion of the importation of foreign alcho
holic liquors except for the same pur
poses - We want a great national con
vention this year, or next year, or the
year after, to demand an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
for national prohibition and to nomi
nate men for the higher position, and I
invite such convention to come to
Brooklyn, and as on this platform, in
this house, last winter, Gov. St. John,
of Kansas, and Gov, Colquitt, of Geor
gia, stood side by side in a temperance
meeting, I ask that national conven
tion to hold their session in this house
of God. The mere prohibition of the
manufacture and the sale of intoxica
ting liquors in a State, perhaps, may
only drive that intoxication and that
alcoholic liquor into another State; but
let us have national prohibition, and
then one-half the iniquity tumble off
into the Atlantic ocean and the other
half of the iniquity tumbles off into the
Pacific ocean—drowned in two oceans
of cold water! Let there not be from
the Canadas to the Gulf room enough
for this red dragon to put one of his
feet. That State legislatures have the
right to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors was estab
lished by the opinion of John McLean,
of the United States Supreme Court,
and by Judge Waterbury, and by Judge
Grier, and by Judge Daniel, and by
Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts,
and by Chief Justice Harington, of
Delaware, and by Chief Justice Mason,
of Nebraska, and in that memorable
case where Daniel Webster and Rufus
Choate made the argument and Judge
Taney, of the Supreme Court, support
ed by all his associate judges, declared
that there was nothing in the Federal
Constitution or the laws of Congress
to hinder any State legislature prohib
iting the manufacture and sale of in
toxicating liquors. But while it is es
tablished as a State right; we want al
so the boldness and the courage and
the aggregate force of all the good peo
ple of this country to come together
and demand that it be a national pro
hibition. We want a national move
ment, so that the stronger States in
the matter can help the weaker States,
and so that the country districts can
help the dissipated cities. We want a
national movement. “Oh!” save some
one, ‘the United States Government
gets so much tax from the liquor traffic;
the liquor traffic pays the United States
government millions of dollars a year
as tax, and -ve can’t afford to let that
tax go.” 1 tell you where the liquor
traffic pays the United States govern
ment one dollar, it steals ten in the
properity destroyed, in the criminal
trials that are necessary, in the poor
houses, the almshouses, the peniten
tiaries that a:e required to take care of
the victims. The United States gov
ernment makes as much out of the rum
traffic as you would make as a mer
chant if you sold a man a knife for one
dollar, and after he had paid yon the
one dollar for the knife he should thrust
the blade through your son’s heart—as
much as if you sold a box of matches,
and after the customer had paid you
for the matches he opened the box and
with the first match struck set fire to
your dwelling. One million drunkards
in the United States to-day, sixty thou
sand of them annually dying in the
United States, one hundred thousand
men and women thrust into prison as
a result of the liquer traffic—two hun
dred thousand children by this infamy
thrown helpless on the world or gather
ed up in the institutions of charity,
thirty thousand maniacs in the United
States asa result of the rum traffic, while
England pays annually $400,000 to
support the alcoholic insane paupers.
Twenty-eight thousand prisoners in
Canada, and twenty-one thousand of
them the victims of rum. Judge Alli
son, of Philadelphia, whom I know
very well as a man who gives honest
statistics, sayS that four-fifths of the
crime in the United States is chargea
ble to the rnra traffic. Mrs. Comstock,
the Quaker missionary, says that out
of 115,000 wore victims of strong drink.
Ninety-nine one-hnndredths ot the
children of America kept out of school,
the childreu of drunkards. A statistic
was made some time ago, when the evil
wqs not as great as it is now, that the
cost of and ruin by rum in the United
States annually is twelve hundred
millions of dollars. Oh! they talk about
crooked whiskey, by which they mean
that which escapes the tax of govern
ment, bnt I tell yon all whiskey is
crooked, because it makes a man’s path
crooked, and his disposition crooked,
| and his business crooked, and his for
[ tnne crooked, and his example crooked,
and his destiny crooked. Crooked
whiskey, crooked gin, crooked wine,
crooked cognac, crooked schnapps,
crooked everything that intoxicates. It
is all crooked. We talk against this
evil and good is done, but the work will
not be done until there is national pro
hibition. In Edwards county, Illinois,
twenty-seven years ago they resolved
they would have no rum in thatcounty.
and for twenty-five years, for a quarter
of a century, there was but one man
sent from that county to the State pris
on. and he committed his crime under
intoxication from rum he got in a neigh
boring county. The county jail for
the most part empty. Only two or
three paupers in the whole county.
Taxes 32 per cent, less than in the
neighboring counties, although the roll
of the taxes showed theie was more
valuable properity in that county than
in any other county of the same size in
the State. Good citizens of America,
I do not know how you feel, but I con
fess that 1 am tired of paying taxes to
fix up the work of these infernal grog
shops that are tossing tens of thousands
of people into crime and suffering. Out
with them from Brooklyn! Out with
them from the United States! I have
and now proclaim war for the the rest
of my life against that abomination.
State prohibition. National prohibi
tion. “Oh,” says someone, “if a law
of that kind were passed it could not
be executed.” Why, it has been exe
cuted in parts of Maine, in parts of
Massachusetts, in parts of Rhode Island
in parts of Maryland, in parts of lowa,
in parts of Kansas, and in some of those
States throughout and throughout.
Give us such a law in these Atlantic
cities, and if the authorities did not ex
ecute it we would do as the “Forty
niners” did in California, and we would
form a vigilance committee, and we
would make quick work with the of
fenders. Give us such a law of pro
hibition iu Brooklyn, and it the author
ities did not execute it, some Sabbath,
standing in this place, I would marshal
a battalion of strong-armed men, and
we would go out, and in the name of
our homes, and in the name of the Lord
God Almighty, we would shut up all
the grogshops in Brooklyn. The work
can be done and it will be done; but it
will not be done until the whole nation
wakes up. State prohibition will not
accomplish it. It must be national
prohibition, You say, “Who would
join such a party?” i will tell you. In
the the first place, hundreds of thou
sands of drunkards who, unable to en
dure the temptation, wish that these
allurements were taken out of their
sight. These poor tempted men can
not run the gauntlet of the bar-rooms
and the wine cellars. From morning
until night they cannot out of the
way of these fascinations which are be
fore them, behind them, on either side
of them, an all-encircling fire of de
moniac bombardment. For God’s sake
give these men a chance, and make it
possible for them to walk the whole
length of Fulton street, Atlantic street,
and Broadway, and Lascelle street, and
Chesnut street, and Pennsylvania ave
nue, without the inhalation of alcoholic
malodors. Let a petition to the Congress
of the United States asking for nation
al prohibition be well circulated through
this country, and you will find on that
petition the straggling signatures of
hands tremulous with dissipation,
which have fought an unsuccessful war
against these dissipations for a long
while; signatures, if it were necessary,
made with pens like those of the scotch
Covenanters dipped in the blood of
their own veins, if that would make
the signature to the petition any more
importunate. That was an exciting
scene last Tuesday when a madman
with a sharp compass rushed through
the crowd at Broadway and
Fourteenth street, striking right
and then left and stabbing men,
women and children, until the city am
bulances were filled with the wounded.
It was well done when a stout man
grasped the demoniac and threw him
to the earth and others helped disarm
him. But I have to tell you that there
is 4 a thousand-armed maniacs of alcohol
ism rushing through the streets of all
our cities, striking right and left, stab
bing many homes to the heart, stabbing
the state to the heart, stabbing the
American Union to the heart. Who
will rise up and help the United States
government throw the demoniac. Who
will pull the wounded out from under
the paw and the tooth of the red drag
on? Also belonging to a great national
prohibition party will be the physicians
of the United States. I have the name
of 123 prominent physicians of New
York and Brooklyn who petition for
State and national prohibition, the con
fining of alcoholic liquors to medici
nal, mechanical and artistic purposes,
and that petition, which was made
some years ago, carried through this
country would get nine hundred and
ninety-nine out of the thousand of all
the doctors. These gentlemen know
the ravages of this red dragon. They
have not only gone to bind up the
wounds of the sot tumbled into your
station houses, but they have in some
of the brightest and the most beautiful
and the wealthiest homes of your great
cities, gone in among masterpiece pic
tures and under gorgeous canopy, to
help hold down on an embroidered pil
low the victims of delirium tremens
into whose imagination all the jungles
of the tropics have seemed to pour their
reptiles, and all perdition to have pour
ed its de- ilB. The physicians of this
country, than whom there is no more
self-sacrificing class of men, will all be
on the side of prohibition. Yes, I have
to tell you the women will be on the
side. “Oh!” says someone,“thatmakes
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no difference, they can’t vote.” They
can end they do. Are you not willing
to acknowledge that the wives and
the mothers of America are the mighti
est power extant? The women carried
lowa and Kansas for State prohibition,
and the women will carry the United
States for national prohibition.
Every man with a wife who is not a
fooljis affected by her moral sentiment.
If a business man wants business ad
vice he goes to a business man, but if
he wants moral advice he asks liis
wife, unless he is resolved on immor
ality, and then he asks no one. Wo
man understands the ravages of this
dragon. She has seen one of its feet
in the nursery, and another foot in the
wardrobe, and another foot in the
empty bread tray, and the other foot
saturated with the tears and blood of
a desolate home. Woman knows what
rum does by its fiery wake. Charles
Dickens laughs at the punch bowl,
and poets garland the wine cup, and
many an impersonator has made audi
ences roar with mirth at the step of
the drunkard; but woman sees but lit
tle fun in that dramatization. She
looks beyond the footlights of the
comedian until she sees the blue, cold,
shoeless feet of little children, and the
daughter by destitution turned into a
life of infamy, and the gash across the
wife’s temples from the edges of a de
canter, and a wild, disheveled man
standing midfloor, uttering a halloo
that makes the children shriek and the
wife drop on her koees; looking toward
a God who for ten years has not seem
ed to care anything for her--that
maniac with one fist dashing to pieces
the mirror at which his bride once ar
ranged her tresses, while with the other
hand he throws the family Bible with
the|marriage record into the flames,and
with cracked lips curses the God who
will yet avenge the cause of His child
ren, though His judgments tarry long.
There is not much fun in all that for
woman. Oh! we shall have in this
country a million Deborahs ready to
help the Baracs in this conflict, and
who will go forth and demand of the
United States government national
prohibirion. Yes, my friends, the
churches of God will come in solidly
on the subject, The world may scoff
at Ohristain people as insignificant,
but, banded together for any great
moral movement, they can carry any
thing at the ballot box and Congress
ional assembly. The trouble is they
have never yet massed their forces.
The rum-drinking professors of relig
ion will get out of her and go clear
over to the devil who owns them from
hat to heel, and the Methodist Church,
and the Babtist Church, and the Con
gregational Church, and the Episco
palian Church, and the Presbyterian
Church led on by some Dr. Guthrie,
and the Catholic Church led on by
some Father Mathew, will come in on
this cause, and then the question will
be so thoroughly settled and the work
will be so thoroughly done that after
you and I are dead and far on the fu
ture, in a museum iu this country, there
will be standing on the same shelf the
lachrymatory of an ancient tomb and
the demijohn of a modern wine collar,
both alike curiosities, and the antiqua
rian in his lecture will explain to his
students how one of them was a recep
tacle of tears for the dead, and tie oth
er was the fountain of tears for the liv
ing. There will arise some man in the
Senate of the United States or the
House of Representatives, ordained by
the laying on of the hands of the Lord
Almighty and by the laying on of the
hands of all the righteous people of
America, who will demand that the
right arm of the American government
be raised to stop this plague, and into
his speech he will intone the plaint of
hundreds of thousands of little children,
and the groan of womanhood reaching
from ocean to ocean and from earth to
heaven. While that Senator shall
stand before the national legislators
making his plea, those legislators will
see a vision of two lakes—a lake of
tears and a lake of blood—and a vision
of two scrolls, one scroll like that which
Ezekiel saw written within and with
out with lamentation and mourning and
great woe, and the other scroll contain
ing the proclamation of emancipation
mightier than the one Abraham Lin
coln signed, freeing more slaves from
worse bondage, and declaring that un
der the swords and the bludgeons and
the heels of an indignant American na
tion shall go down this red dragon
which has so long been hooking with
the ten horns and reigning with the
seven crowns, drawing the third part
ot the stars of heaven after it. Yes,
all the patriots in both parties will
come forth, the men who are tired of
building asylums and penitentiaries
and poorhouses, the men who want
nothing themselves, but who want to
have the land saved from drunkenness
and crime, and to become a paradise for
comfort and prosperity—domestic, so
cial, national. For the church of God,
for all patriots, Republicans and Demo
crat and Greenbacker, for all good wo
men as well as all good men, let the
battle cry for the next twenty-five years
be, “Down with the rum traffic National
prohibition! No quarter for the license
system! Eternal smash lor the wine
bottles! Death to the red dragon!”
I take the sword of the Lord and of
Gideon, and I thrust the old grizzly
monster through and through, and
stamp on the execrable carcass, and I
cry with the angel that St. John saw
standing in the sun at the time the
beast was slam, saying to all the fowb
that fly iu the midst of heaven, ‘Come
and gather yourselves together to the
supper of the great God!”