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MIX. No. 198.
fB IS JECLARED.
PERNORS NOTIFIED OF
THHR QUOTA OF TROOPS.
Sampson’s Fleet Fired on from
Moro Castle -Secretary
Sherman Resigns,
Washington, April 25—President
McKinley today sent « meioafe to
congress asking that body to declare
war existing between this country and
Spain. He closed hie message with
the following words:
“I will reoomrhend to your honora
ble consideration the adoption 9? a
joint resolution declaring that a state
of war exists between the United
States of America and the Kingdom
of Spilpi and I urge speedy
thereon to the end that the definition
of the national status o! the United
States as a belligerent power may A»
known, and the assertion of slruA
rights apd the maintenance of all its
duties io the conduct of a public war
may be assured.”
Acting upon the recommendation of
the president, the following bill, re
ported by the foreign relations com
mittee in the lower house of congress,
was passed immediately, and without
division:
41 A bill declaring that war exists be
tween the United Slates of America
«ad the Kingdom of Spain. .
•'Be it enacted, etc. .*
"First —That u*r be aud the same is
hereby declared to exist and that war
has existed since the 21st day of April,
A. D., 1898, including said day, be
tween the United States of America
, and the Kingdom of Spain.
“Second —Thqt the president of the
United Blates be, and he hereby is di
rected and empowered to use the en
tire land and naval forces of the
United Stales and to call into actual
service of the United States the militia
of the several states, to such extent as
may be necessary to carry this act into
effeoi.”
The foreign affaire committee in the
senate has not yet reported a bill, but
Senators Morgan and Turpie have
agreed to the report of the house war
declaration ; they reserve the right to
amend in the senate. They want a
recognition of the belligerent rights of
the Cubans.
The war department has prepared
and Secretary Alger has signed notifi
cations to the governors of the several
states io accordance with the presi
dent’s call for 125,000 volunteers.
Identical telegrams will be sent to
each governor, eave that there will be,
of course, differences as to the details,
each state's quota., of troops being
named, together with the points of as
x semblage.
When the call to governors is issued
the following provisions for comhoand
ing officers will be made:
Five brigadier generals, command
ing army corps.
Fifteen major generals, commanding
divisions.
Forty-eight brigadier generals, com
manding brigades, with inspector and
adjutant general engineers and sur
veyors.
Os the commanders of army corps
only one is known, General John C.
Breckinridge, and possibly Joe Wheel
er.
General Lee will be made a briga
dier general, though it is thought
there will be sufficient strength to
have him made a major general.
About ten sbftts were fired Saturday
night from Moro oastle\at the Ameri
can fleet which is now blockading
Havana, but no damage was done and
the fire was not returned.
Oapt. Sampson’s fleet continues to
capture a Spanish fieigbtier every
Secretary of State, Mr. Jobfi Sher
man, handed in his resignation to the
president today at a special meeting
of the cabinet, assigning as his reason
for to doing that hili’ impaired health
wouldjmt permit him to attend to the
•idu6ueiMhQrs of the office. The res
ignation wasbqcepled and the presi
dent appointed Judge William R.
Bay, the assistant secretary of state,
<0 succeed Mr. Sherman. .
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AN IMPRESSIVE SERMON.
THE GRIFFIN RIFLES ADDRESS
ED BY THEIR CHAPLAIN.
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Headed The Rifles Band They At
tendetlhvine Services At the
Prensterian Church Sunday.
The Gfciffin Rifles, uwder command
es Oapt.B I- Burr, attended services
at the Hesbyteriari church Sunday
morninrand listened to a sermon by
their cbaksin, Re/. VV. G Wood
bridge, that was replete with words of
patriotisrit/ifer their country and love
for whose soldiers shall
never kt*w defeat. . '
The Rifles were beaded by their
band which played beautiful marches
to an<Ffrom the church.
It was a solemn spectacle and many I
mothers and sisters who witnessed it
were moved_ <0 tears. All realized
tbdt the RiMe might soon beeailed to
the deleosetfbf their contftry when
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their ranks aaotfld be jggifgiUed by
sickness anflKbe deattedea&tog ma
9hiaery of r
I We regret bur limited will not per
mit our givingTtbe full text of Mr.
Woodbridge’s flfermon, but the follow
ing isa brief synopsis, using as hie
tejrt’fs&ftns 2Q: s—"ln the honor of
of o ur-God we will set up our ban
ners.”
Tennyson says: “Nature red in
tooth and claw.” Wherever on earth
peace prevails, there has been war.
Peace is always a conquest. Out of
chaos came order in the primeval
world Peace with God is at the price
of blood—the cross is red, its back
ground is white. To be£r a cross is to
fight—the cross, then the crown In
the;. Gospel perfected salvation is
parallelism of wills that aforetime;
crossed
Life must be developed towards
peace All development is towards an
ideal and away from an existing con
dition. What every individual unit
passes through is the experience of tlw
whole. 'Every individual who attains
to glory, honor, immortality, bas thus
attained in the face of opposing forces.
Be we believers or not, a study of
the life of the man of Naz
areth,” who to me is the son of God, the
divine Captain of human salvation, is
summarized in tbe words “For the joy
that was set before him be endured tbe
cross, despising the shame.” His last
word was a cry of triumph, of victory,
ere he entered the dead portals of the
grave, where greater victories awaited
him. In tbe moment of supreme
triumph when tbe victory was in his
grasp, that victory was well worth the
agony of the via dolorosa, the torment
of tbe cross, tbe ignominy of a seeming
defeat.
All national peace, prosperity, glory
is a conquest—a victory gained over
opposing forces. America was born in
an agony of blood, was nurtured amid
struggles for existence, fought her way
to the forefront of nations while as yet
the dew of youth was on her brow.
America today, the wonder of the
nations, has far 50 years shown to tbe
world her strength only, in a struggle
of section against section ; each section
fighting for a principle as for life.
Appomattox that to the South imeant
submission to the inevitable; became
but the point of departure for tbe na
tion’s greater glory; and tbe countless
dead that are sleeping their last sleep
on tbe "martyr patriot’s bed,” betoken
to the world that ont of tbe grave of
the past bas come forth a people, one
people, who loving peace fought be
cause they must, fought because tbe
cause was just.
To the arbitriment of battle bad all
issues been left, to the decree of battle,
as to tbe decree of God, all have yield
ed submission—out of diversity bas
come
Not tbe defeat of the south nor tbe
victory of tbe north, but the blood of
Americans, almost sacramental, bas
made of this country a nation, an in
dissoluble union of sovereign states. s
Her intensity of purpose, her adher
ence to principle, her willingness to
suffer and to die, hence her devotion
to her idea of right emphasized by the
rbar of battle, and underscored in
blood, is the more apparent to tbe
world in that after only 30 years, tbe
shafts that mark the spots where
southrons fell are erected close be
side tbe monoliths on which are
graved the names and deeds of north
ern men. The flag that was furled al
Appomattox is a draped memory of
glory, while the flag that 70 years be-
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fore waved over Yorktown is the old I
Glory of the South, is the banner of a
renewed nation—the banner which
consecrated by prayer, and baptize*! I
by martyr blood, was followed byj
Puritan and Caviller, Covenanter, an<l
Huguenot, through the valley of suffer*]
ing, up the mountains of sorrojr.iil.
the s.nnke of battle.
Tbe flag of our country stands for
God, and right and freeman liberty.
When that flag comes to stand for
aught else than God and right, it bse
comes an insult to tradition, and a
flaunting lie.
’Tin not for one listed under the
banner of the Prince of Peace, stand
ing in such a place as thia, to urge o»r '
men to red war, to call to n
but at such a time aa thia, when the ’
next breeze may bring to our ear tbe t
clash of resounding feel it to 1
be my duty to speak a word in refer* <
ence to this war, whose foregleams I
have already come. t
I am not of the number who cry,' I
“My country, if right; if right or I
wrong, my country.” If my' country <
be wrong, if to m j conscience the j
wrong appear, it becomes my duly to j
be true to my conscience, and turn my «<
back on my country ; even 4f I • die ’
with my back to my ooutMry, I shall 4
die with my face towards my Gbd,who J
is always right.
Were this a matter of commercial or 1
financial expediency—were it a ques- '
tion of territorial aggrandizement—l 1
could sit by a protestant on principle; 1
an opponent of war, but I say that our J
country goes into this war its banner 1
standing for God and right aud hu* J
man liberty. If the principles which !
moved our forefathers were righteous, 1
then the very genius of America com* 4
mits us to war.
Our country is territorially self suffi- I
eisnt—so peculiarly situated that we ’
eould live separate from the rest of tbe '
world, and still grow stronger. As to 1
this we need tbe outside world less <
than the world needs us; in a word, J
we are practically/ independent of the
whole world But this is a Christian,
YrttlOT,mllgiaUtflfSllon. Tft STtUo?
we believe in God—we accept tbe Bible
as His word.
Just as tbe moral influence of Amer
ica is felt throughout tbe world, so is
tbe influence of Christianity felt
in America. Ac open Bible and per
petually preached gospel have made
of us—unconsciously, perhaps, to our
selves—a .people whose thinking is
dominated by tbe gospel. The first
principles of gospel ethics is unsel
fishness. Nono hveth to himself.
Whenever a cry of anguish goes up
from another people, America is re
sponsive with a gift. Whether it be
Ireland, or China, or India, or Russia,
America sends a gift that tells of her
sympathy with tbe suffering.
Now, just off our shores, on Ameri
can soil, almost within reach of our
ears, has gone up one long, low wail of
anguish. When we cast our eyes
whence the sound comes we see hud
dled together, Tike sheep, helpless hu
man beings. Have you beard of the
reconcentradoes? Cubans, they—
born on tbe soil of the new world.
Brothers, they are dying; helpless,
they are starving; wan faces, bony
fingers, lustreless eyes, bodies all ema
ciated ; old tpen, helpless women, lit
tle children, dying, dying, being slow
ly murdered by what is called a gov
ernment. Driven from their homes
to starve, and they call it war. War?
War against women, children, de
fenseless men, decrepit age. Warl
No war, that; it’s barbarism— aye,
worse. ’Tie tbe spirit of tbe inquisia
tion. Tbe ghosts of Pizarro and Cor*
tez are abroad. Under crosses uplift
ed in tbe name of the King, they are
digging graves as they’ve ever dug
them to bury tbe victims of their
malevolent greed in,
Soldiers, hear it, a cry for help I
Americans, listen, on American soil,
wailing women, weeping babes, starv
ing men, crying for a deliverer from
tyranny I lam told ’tie no matter of
ours—’tie Spain’s war. No, friends,
it’s God’s war. It’s every one’s war
who loves righteousness, Who is the
friend of the friendless; who believes
in liberty; who bates tyranny; who
knows it is wrong not to be in the
right l)
He wTio died on Calvary came to
deliver the lost—he was rich, knew no
want, bad all things—but the world cry
for a savior, a deliverer went up, and
be came, leaving glory, even the sov
ereignty of bis father’s broad domain,
and on a little island in tbe ocean
of immensity, he found people etarv*
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ing, dying, and for them be gave him
self. He died to eave Let it be tbe
glory of our land that she has been
called to war by tbe cry of tbe op*
pressed, that she is awaking in her
Strength only to.give liberty to the
Captive, to give bread to the starving,
find to bid go, a tyrant, pitiless, mer
ciless, whose ears have long ago grown
-accustomed to tbe groans of the
Weak and tbe helpless This war
means unselfishness,’ means human
tove, human help, means right, means
liberty, means death to tyranny. In it
all nothing to gain save the appro
val of conscience, and the smile of tbe
God of our fathers. Never I seem in
the history of tbe world bas a nation
risen in its might in a cause that
seems so much like God’s—to seek
and to save fbe lost. The whole ma
terial strength of the nation pledged
to resist tyrany—our -fathers cried
“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to
God.” That word that is being sig
nalled from ship to ship "Remember
the Maine” is a call to revenge; in tbe
vocabulary of my Master thfre is no
such word as revenge. ’ I love my
Idunlry today as I’ve never loved her
Before for that she bas drawn her
■word, her reluctant sword, ii» honor
if God, for what, as I see it, God ap-
To you who are listed neatb your
country’s flag, whose livery is that of
your government, the wearing of
which betokens your immolation of
yourself in behalf of others, go to
where your country calls you looking
to tbe God of battles, whose Son is the
Prince of Peace, saying to Him, “we
will triumph in thy victory, in the
honor of our God will we set up our
banner.”. Your call is to highest duty
—to consecration—l want tbe God of
our fathers to be ever near you, and I
want you to get close to God. I serve
a King who died for men, who died to
deliver yon and me, and as one com
missioned by my King, I beseech as
through Christ did speak through me,
be reconciled with God.
The hand that is extendid to you is
a wounded hand, wounded in a wgr
for human deliverance. My King
died for men, pierced with many a
wound—after the war be entered into
glory eternal, where he ever liveth to
make intercession for us. He is King
eternal, invisible. Take the Christ
hand that will lift you into fellowship
with the Divine—believe on him, trust
in him, make him yours and be will
make you God’s. And now as a final
word: Take Christ as your savior,
His word as your guide, his Father as
your sovereign, and know that going
forth in his name you will triumph in
his victory—Then even amid the roar
of battle no harm oan come to you.
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