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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . ATLANTA, GA-, ???TUESDAY DECEMBER 8 1885.
TALMAGE IN THE WEST,
sermon preached in cglumbus,
OHIO, YESTERDAY.
On the Bntd??et- H Oriaw tin Lifo,- to an Overnowlog
Eoute-Some Good Advice to Young Hen-Sow
TMy mould ??tirt In Lll??. and wait to
Do Alter SUrtlna-otRer Holnta.
Columbus, O., December 5.???[Special.]???
Bev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., arrived in
this city yesterday afternoon. The news that
the celebrated Brooklyn preacher would deliv
cr a sermon in the First Congregational
church, Bev. Washington Gladden, pastor,
drew a crowd numbering seyeral thousand to
the doors this morning. Many were turned
away unable to find seats. Dr. TalmAge read and
expounded the parablo of the Prodigal Son,
and then announced the subject 6f his dis
course, ???Crises in Life,??? and the text, 11 Sam
uel, xviil, 32: ???Is the young man Absalom
safe???? Dr. Talmage, said:
Two great characteristics of Absalom were
worldly ambition and splendid hair. By the
one he was debased,by- the other hung. Ho was
a bad boy and broke his' father???s heart. He
wanted to get his father???s throne before the
decease of tlio father. Ho wanted to get it
Immediately. He got an army. He started
out in a great insurrection. David, tho father,
sits at tho palace waiting for tho new3 of tho
battle to come, not so anxious about whether
Absalom's hosts won the day, or whether hla
own hosts won the day, as he is anxious about
the safety of his boy. The father in him
mightier than the king.
While he sits there watching and waiting for
the coming of a messenger from the battle
field, he secs the dust rising in the highway,
and long before tho messenger comes up, bring*
ing the swift dispatch,.David cries out to him:
???14 Absolom alive? Is Absolcm dead/ Is the
boy wounded? Tell me quickly???is the???young
man, Alfiolom, safe???? But as tho messenger
had no-very decisive intelligence to give, bo
ctood{ aside. There David sat waiting for au-
??tlur messenger, and after n while he saw tho
dust rising ou tho highway and long before tho
tncfmiger had come up, David shouted to him
again???shouts to this oxto ns he had to tho other:
??????Have you heard anything from my boy? Is
he wounded? Is he alive? Is he dead? Is tho
young man Absolom safe????
Alas! he was not safe. Absalom, riding on
?? mule, the meanest animal in all the world
on which to ride, the hardest at the bit and
the stiffest at the neck???Absalom, riding on a
mule, had gone under a tree branch, and his
hair had caught on the tree branch: and tho
mule, true to its characteristics, had gone on,
he not able to stop it, ahd Absalom was sus*
pended, and so he died. With an awful nega*
tire the words of my text were answered: ???Is
the young man, Absalom, safe???? No. ho Was
not safe. Destroyed for this life???destroyed
for the life to come.
I Want to utter a few words this morning in
regard to tho safety of young men, indeed, of
allmen. While men may get along tolerably
well without the religion of Christ, in somo
circumstances of life, there are three or four
turning points wheroaman must have God
or perish, or if ho does not come to such a cri
sis asthat???to such an extremo as that, he
must have God or make a raistako that will
last forever. I propose this morning to speak
to you of three or four of these turning points
to you
in life.
occupation or profession. It is a very serious
time when a young man comes from the school
or the college, and has completed his educa
tion, or has received all tho education from
the school ho will_ receive, and says: ???But
ation,
rofession, am I prepared???? 1???
J spread before him a hundred d!
cupatlons. Professional life IwIU spread be
fore him soven or eight callings. Indeed, per
haps in all there may bo five hundred differ
ent callings and occupations. For qnly one
of these five hundred is he fitted and prepared.
If he docs not have divine direction. 409
chances to ono he will get in the Svrong busi
ness. In other words, the most tremendous
crisis perhaps In a man???s life, or ono of tho
most tremendous, is the time when ho chooses
his occupation or profess! ??? ??? " ???
to tell him bow to choose.
I knew a man who started in commercial
life with bright prospects. Ho crossed over
from commercial lifo into tho medical pro
fession. Ho went from tho general medical
profession into spcclfio surgery. Ho wont
from surgery into the ministry. Then ho
passed from the ministry into surgery, and so
ills life has been a complete vacillation. How
much better ii would have been tf that man
could have got the right profession or occu
pation at tho start! He was particularly
qualified for surgery, aud I bclievo if ho had
?? onc before God and asked for His direction
o would have received it, aud instead of go
ing rrom ono occupation to another, making
bis life a mistake, he would have gone on to
great usefulness and success.
You ask your father what yon liad better
do. Ho will give one kind of ad vice, he will
tioin doubt as to whether yon have physical
endurance for this, or mental acumen for that,
or tact for same other business. At such*
time one needs to go to God. God built your
body, aud he knows what is your physical en
durance. God constructed your mind, and ho
knfcws for what occupation you have particu
lar adaptation. Go to Him and ask the ques
tion: ???Lord, what wilt Thou have mo to do????
I meet many young men in this house this
morning, who have not perhaps thoroughly de
cided upon the work or occupation for which
th6 Lord has fitted thexp. Before you leave
the house to-day ask God???s direction, that yon
may moke no mistake. Blander here and you
blunder forever. You know a great many
men whe have been ruined for two worlds bc-
caure they are in tho wrong business.
Another important jiass in one???s life, a turn
ing point in one???s history, is tho time when
lie establishes his own home. When a man
builds his home he builds for eternity. Is it
not amazing that affiancing in lifo is so often
a matter of merriment and of joke, when it
depidcs so much for this world and tho world
to come. I do not put the case too strongly
when 1 say, that when a man marries he mar
ries for heaven or for hell. Oh, build not
jrour home on earth upon tho sparkle of ???
bright eye or the colur of a fair cheek. The
time will come in your history when you
will want in your homo, not a pet or a toy,
but a heroine, and you will find that life is
not a gay romance but a tremendous reality;
??nd coming homo from your store or office, or
???hop, or factory, or studio, most of all you will
need somo one in your home with a Dice
checrihl but sympathetic.
There is an aged man- who looks back to a
crisis in life when his fortune went away and
reason almost left the throne. He knew not
what to do. Ho remembers a particular even
ing when he came home from the store. He
hardly dared break the news to the wife. He
could not bear to tell he had suspended In
business, that be had stopped payment, that
bis fortune had gone. He went into the
house, he closed the door upon the world, and
In domestic peace found a foretaste of that
heaven where panics never come. Ah 1 If it
had not been for that help that you had, what
would have been the result when yon told her
of ycur financial embarrassment and mis
fortune? She was cheerftil, she was sympa
thetic, she was helpful. She helped too all
through those dark days of trial, and after the
piano went she could sing without t he accom pan-
iment jUst as well as she ever sang with the
accompaniment. There have been Christian
wcr.cn who have so had their domestic
troubles sanctified that they could get more
music cut of ??? Wheeler A Wilson sewing
machine than ever In the days of tbelr
prosperity they got out of a Chickcring grand
, or a Steinway.
A Christian minister in England called upon
a here of great destitution. There were the
hnshond, the wife and there were the children.
No comfort in the household. Everything in
dicative of want and straggle. The minister of
jtklfindBii totbii young man: ???Your
mistake was in marrying so early. Do yoa
not think that was the mistake of your life????
The mail had becu told that that had been tho
mistake of his life before. The minister said:
???Jt would have been a great deal better tor yoa
to have gone on and got something of a proper
ty .before you entered into the marrlago estate.
Don???-t you think it would have been better????
And then the young man looked around and
his eyes filled with tears as ho looked to his
poorly clad wife and said: ???No, sir; she???s been
the same to me all through!???
??? Ah, there ore some of you who would never
have known what your homes were worth if
troublo had not come. Perhaps your compan
ion in life may have been too fond of tho world
aud its gayetics; but one touch of misfortune
turned her into a Miriam shouting the triumph
en the banks of the Bed Sea. If you have
spoken of frivolity and fondness of display as
the chief characteristic of woman, you may
have to correct your mistake in some bitter
pass in life, when, all other resources having
failed, you are upheld by a wife???s hand, sud
denly armed of the Lord God Almighty for
that emergency. Oh, in this tremendous pass
of your earthly existence, cry unto God, and
gsk hto direction. Make a mistake hero and
you make it forever. Walter Scott wrote
something, half of which I do not like, for it is
sarcastic, but the other half I do like, for it is
so true:
???O woman! In our hour of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please:
When pain and anguish wrini ???
V ministering angel tin
...ing tho brow,
itcring angelthou.???
Blessed that home in which the newly mar
ried couple dedicate their souls to Christ.
Blessed the family Bible In which their names
have just been written. Blessed tho hour of
morning and evening prayer. Blessed the an
gels of God, who join wing tip to wing tip over
that home, making a canopy of light and love
and blessedness. It may be only yesterday
that they clasped hands forever. Tno orange
blossoms may fail and the fragranco may die
on the air, hut they who marry in Christ shall
walk together on tho day when tho church,
which is the Lamb's wife, shall take the hand
of her Lord and King amid the swinging of
tho golden censers.
Again, I remark: It is a tremendous pass in
life when a man comes to his first great sue-
You get in tho cars some evening.
Everybody that looks at you knows there has
something glad happened. You sit down in
the car, your face illuminated, and a lady
comes in. There is no place for her to sit, and
you get up in great cheer and insist on her
taking your place, and with great courtesy slio
says, ???Thank you,??? and aits down. You say
nothing to anybody, but it is evident from
your manner and appearance that great good
fox tune has happened uuto you. Now, that
is a crisis in your life. At such a time tho
ucstions will arise: ???In what enterprise shall
invest ? What shall bo the house I will live
in? What shall bo the library? What shall
be my ward-ro-be? What shall I do with my
money ????
At that point hundreds of men make a fatal
mistake. Some go into dissipation. Some take
on great arroganco, try to make everybody feel
how small they are; wholti caravans of camels
going through tho noedle's cyo of their mean*
ness. They walk through tho street with an
air, ns much ns to say: ???Get out of tho way!
Hero comes three hundred thousand dollars!???
That is.tho crisis in life where so many fail,
because they have no God to direct tho.
There are men who before their success, are
kind and amiable, and genial and useful, who,
after their success, aro arrogant anil unbeara
ble and unchristian. Here is a man who was
onco very useful in society, but great success
comes and ho gets in his cquipogo and he drives
i: bedashes the fiery steeds; ho goes faster
??ud faster, eight miles the hour, twenty miles
the hour, one hundred miles the hour, faster
and faster, until in his last moments ho rouses
up to find that ho is drawn by tho fiery hoofs
of eternal disaster ns they come racketting
down on tho pavement of hell. O, young man,
or man In mid-life! yon want God in your
great success, your first great success.
Another tremendous pass in our lifo is when
we get our first sorrow. It would bo foolish for
me to talk to tho young men of this day as
though their life Was going to be smooth all the
way. You might os well start a sea captain in
a vessel without a carpenter, and without any
tools, and without any cordage. That would do
very well while the sea was smooth, but when
the ship gets caught in the teeth of a north
easter, and the waves dash clear over tho hur-
icano deck, then tho
'Where???s the carpenter?
Where are the ropes ???? The young meu of this
day would understand that I misrepresented
the matter, if I told them their life was always
to bo egiooth. They know better. They know
from what they sec of tho life of others, that
life cannot always bo smooth. Many men
came home from the lato war without a scratch
or a bruise, but in the conflict of life it Is not
so; wc all get wounded???wounded in tho head,
in the hands, in the feet, in the heart, Lifo is
a conflict. Tho Bible over and over again
states that. Haul states it, and he writes h Jin-
seif ns in a war with the world, a war with tho
flesh and a war with tho dovll, and war all tho
w are you going to
That is the question.
Show me how yon nro to moot your first trou
ble, and I will show yon how you meet all tho
other troubles. It is tho first blow that sends
man to drinking to drown his troubles, that
knocks the fire out of him so he spends tho
rest of his life cowed down.
Who is that weigher In that largo commer
cial establishment? He once ojvpnd the store.
Who is that underling in a largo manufiictur-
ing establishment, getting one or two thousand
n year? Ho once owned the thetory. but mis
fortune came, the first blow brought him to the
dust and he never had the courage to rise. O,
how important is the manner in which wo re
ceive the first sorrow!
Perhaps tho first trouble is bereavement. I
suppose you know???I suppose you have recog
nized the fact, that so often tho first born is
taken. I have seven brothers and sisters. Each
one lost the first born, and I suppose that in
hundreds of coses In this house, it was tho first
born that was taken. Some peoplo give what
to me a very absurd reason for that. They
~f it is because the *
io not think that
any father or mother loved a child too
much. You cannot love your child too much.
God did not take your child because you loved
it too much. I think this is the reason why
God so often takes tho first born: It is to
transfer your affections to heaven, and make
that place more grand and beared. At tho
beginning of your lifo nuking
heaven blessed, so that you
. Igof that nlnco and no beelov ??? *
and lifted on toward
reason. Perhaps I am wrong. I am sore the
other reason is wrong, that so many people give
when they say it is because you love your child
too much.
Now suppose the first trial comes and yon
have no God. What then? Have you ever
tried to see one go through bereavement with
out God? I have witnessed that sad spectacle.
But we want grace, we want Divino grace,
when bereavement cornea into the house which
once, of which
dous crisis, when we will want God. I say
that not more to you than I do to myself. We
will want ged in that crisis, And that pass is
the last hour.
I supposes we all would like to expire at
home. Wc want our friends in tho room, somo
to recite the promise, some to sing, one to hold
the hand. We want to look up in faces that
have been familiar to us a good while, and wo
will have messages to give.. If we are parents,
we will want to tell our children how tlio'
cught to act when we are gone, what princi
pies they ought to adopt, how near thoy ough
to live to God.
And if wc have aged parents living, wo will
want to tell our children liow they ought to
act toward the old people, how they ought to
caro for them after wo aro gono. I think
when we leave this world wo will all have a
message to give to somebody. Whou. that hour
comes we will want Christ. Wo will want a
divine friend to stand by us, and to say thAt
all shall bo well in tho future. ???When thou
pnssest through the waters I will bo with thee,
and through the rivers; they shall not overflow
tliec.??? But you know very well that if wc go
out of this world, my brother, without Christ,
wc take a leap into tho dark.
Who w ould want to go out of tho world
like that when ho can go in triumph inde
scribable? Like Paul saying: ???I have fought
the good fight, I have finished my course,
1 have kept the faith; henceforth there is
laid up for mo a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, tho righteous Judge will
give me.??? Or that other battle shout: ???0
death, where is thy sting? O grave, where
is thy victory? Thanks he unto God who
piveth mo tho victory through my Lord Jesus
Christ. ???
Well, there aro a good many men in tho
house who say: ???What you have declared this
morning is the truth, but 1 am so far gono in
sin that there is no hopo for me.??? Oh, my
brothers! There you mako a great mistake.
1 stand here this morning to declare there is
hope for any man who WAnta to come to God.
???Let the wicked forsake his wav and the un
righteous man his thoughts, and lot him re
turn unto tlio Lord whopvill have mercy, and
unto cur God, who will abundantly pardon.???
Come this morning. ???O,??? ye say, ???Jf you knew
my history you wouldn???t invite ine.??? I do
not core what your history is; como to God
today. ???Whosoever will.??? That word ???who
soever??? covers all cases of wandorings, of iniq
uity. ???Whosoever will let him come,???
???But,??? soys somo one in the house, ???I havo
* in the line of iniquity, and I am going
* ~ * ??? icfi
started _ ???
on; I will risk the future; I haven???t mud
faith in Christianity; I am going to havo an
OUR COAST DEFENSES.
A REMARKABLE LETTER FROM HON,
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
in Which Ha Urges the Necessity of as Immediate
Improvement or Our Coeat Defenaes-A Re
markable Letter from the Oreat States
man of Orammevey Perk, Etc.
the door, and biases flung by little hands from
??? ??? * - - * ep.,
tho
the window as you went down the front >te|
and the doves in the nest cry because
hawk swoops, and the cheek pales, and
eyes close, and the heart stops. Oh, to put
away garments that never be worn again, to
gather up from the floor the tors
that never again will * strew tho
carpet and to go with a sense sf suffocation
through the desolated household that once
rang with childish merriment! Ob, my God!
who can stand that without Thy grime to help,
without Thy grace to smootbe, without Thy
grace to comfort? Oh, you will want Christ in
your first trouble, and so I beg of you this
morning to take Him as yours.
You say you are strong and well. So am I.
You say that life is buoyant and beautiful. So
it is to me. But sickness will come to you and
it will come to me. We shall be told we can
not go out, tho door will be closed against the
world, there will be two watches, and some
wUI order silence on the ttairs^aying: ???Hush,
buab!??? and in yonr dream you will hear the
dash of water, which you will take to be the
beating of the ware of Jordan against your
pillow, and you will hear a sound at the
which you will take to be ???
pale bone. Oh! then you
physician; we will want Christ to come iuand
tut his arm around us and say: ???Fear not; all
is well, all is well???
Bnt there is one more pass of great import-
iture.??? Oh, will you *not bo diverted from
that course? Will you not now realiao the fact
that you want God ? Oh, hew much you need
him! It may take a great struggle to bring
you back; bnt come back you may and you
will; this morning somo of you will. May
God by IDs holy spirit movo upon your
heart!
1 have sometimes heard people say it is as
easy for them to become Christians as to turn
their hands. Ob, what a misrepresentation
that is! It takes the blood. It Is tho mightiest
struggle in all tho world when a man, who kgs
been doing unong, tries to do right. It is a
mightier struggle than ItVould ask any man to
go into, unless ho lays hold of.tho strong arm
of God, who will help him, and who will de
liver him.
Eomc years ago there was an excursion
steamer somo miles nbovo Niagara Falls. There
were many on the excursion, many passengers,
and tho boat floated on down towards tho
rapids; but the captain cxpcctod to return in
time to avoid all danger, and they wore laugh
ing on tho deck, when somo ono said to
tlio captain: ???Aro yon not going too far down????
He said; ???No: I know what I am about.??? After
a while he told tho engineer to turn and go up
stream; hut Id I tho captain found thoy
were farther down towards the rapids than he
thought for. Ho cried to the enginoor: ???Put
on more steam!??? More steam was applied.
But still t^f*|(Suner with Its freight of
life kept-going on towards tho rapids.
Tlio captain . cried out to tho enginoor:
???Put on more steam.??? More steam
was applied, but still tho vessel made
no headway up stream. Tho captain cried
out: ???Put on more steam, or we are all lost!???
Tho engineer said: ???We can???t put on any more
steam, if wo do, we???ll blow tho boat to atoms.???
???rut on more steam,??? cried tho captain. Mora
steam was applied, and tho vessel floated un
and out .into'safety, and somo fainted and all
were thankful that God had rescued them
from so great,peril. Oh, are there not somo
here to-day who are floating on down towards
tho rapids, aye, they are in tho molds going on
towards tho eternal plunge? Pul hack! In
God???s namo put back, You say it takes a
greater strugglo, Lay hold tho oars with both
hands, and pull, null, If need bo until tho
blood starts. Pull for heaven. Now or qevor!
The Ilrolcrn Battalions.
BY PAUL If. ItAYNB.
The rounds of tupiult have ceased to ring
And the Hattie???s suu has set, ???
And here in the peace of the new-born spring,
Wo would faiu forgive and forget.
Forget the rage of the hostile years,
And the scars Of a wrong unshrtven,
Forgive the torture that thrilled to tears
The angels calm hi heaven.
Forgive and forget! Yea, be it aol
From the hlU* to the broad sea-wares,
But mournfol and low are the winds that blow,
By the slopes of A thousand graves!
We may scourge from the spirit all thought of 111
In the midnightof ictorn held fast,
And yet O brothers, bo loyal still
To the sacred and stainless Post.
8hc is glancing now from the vapor and cloud
From the waning mansion of Mars,
And the pride of her beauty is wanly bowed,
And her eyes are misted stars.
fispci
There Is duty still to be done,
And she points with a tremulous hand below
To the wasted and worn array
Of the heroes who strbve In the morning glow.
Of the grandeur that crowned ???the Gray."
0 Gcd, they come not as once they came,
In the magical years of yore,
For the trenchant sword and the soul of flamo
Shall quiver ard flash no moro.J
Alas! for the broken and battered hosts,
???Frail wrecks from a gory sea,
Though pale as a band^tom the realm of ghosts
Salute them! they fought with Lee.
And gloried when dauntless Rtonowall marched,
Like a giant o???er held and flood,
Where the bow of his splendid victories arched
Tlio tempest whose rain is???blood!
Fabric them! Those wlrtftxl and sunken eyes,
Flashed lightning of sacred Ire,
When the laughing bluc^of the southland's skies,
Was blasted with cloud and fire!
Falutctbcm! Their voices so fklnt today
Were once the thunders of strife,
In the rtorm of the hottest and wildest fray
That ever has mocked at life.
Not vanquished, bnt crushed by a mystic Fate,
Blind nations against them hurled,
By the selfish might and the causeless bate
Of the banded and brutal world.
Enough! All fates are the servants of God,
And they follow Ilia guiding hand,
We shall rise some day from the Chastener'a rod,
Khali waken and understand.
But hark! To the Past she murmurs ???come,
The re???s a duty rtlU to be done.
Though mu*e Is the drum and the bugle dumb,
And the battle U lost and wont???
???No palace is here for the heroes??? needs.
With Its shining portals apart
Shall they find peace of their ???Invalided???
O couth, in your grateful Heart.
A Refbge of welcome, with living walls
And Love for Its radiant dome,
Till the music of Death???s revieiie calls
The Knls of the warrior???Rome.???
Cough Hjxvpi
Posture chick; comparative hen; super!at!re
New Torn, December 4.???Hon. Samuel
Tildenhas sent the following letter to Hon,
JohnG. Carlisle:
Gbkystoke, Yonkers, N. Y., December L???Dear
Mr. Carlisle: As public opinion points to you as
speaker of tho next house of representatives, I desire
to submit a suggestion as to ono of tho public ob
jects for which on appropriation ought to be prompt
and liberal. In.considering the state and manage
ment of public revenues, tho subject 'In
volves the question, whether wo shall
tingulsh tho surplus by reducing the rov<
enuc, or whether we shall apply tho surplus
to the payments on public debts; or whether we
shall seize tho occasion to provide for ottr seacoast
defenses, which have been long neglected, lam
of the opinion that the latter is a paramount neces
sity which ought to rrccode tho reduction of reve
nue, and ought to precede excessive rapidity In tho
payment of the public debt.
The property exposed to destruction In twelvo
seaports???Portland, Portsmouth, Boston, Newport,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston,
Savannah, New Orleans, Galveston and 8an Fran
cisco???cannot be lea in value than flvo thousand
million dollars. To this must be added tho vast
amount of property dependent for its use on theso
seaports. Nor docs this statement afford a truo
measure of the damage which might l>c caused to
the property and business of tho country by failure
to protect these seaports from hostilo naval attacks.
They are centers, ifot only of foreign commerce,
but of most of the internal trade and exchanges of
domestic productions. To this stato of things tho
machinery of the transportation
whole country has become
adapted. The interruption of the currents of traffic
by the occupation of ono or more of our principal
seaports by a foreign enemy, or tho destruction of
them by bombardment, or the holding over them
the menace of destruction for the purpose of exact
ing contribution or ransom, would inflict upon
the property and business of the country Injury
which can neither bo foreseen or measured.
Elaborate and costly fortifications which were
constructed with the greatest engineering skill, aro
now practically useless. They are not capable of
resisting tho attacks of modem artillery. 8tlll tho
greater defect exists in our coast defenses. Tho
range of the best modern artillery hu
become so extended that our present fortifications
designed to protect the hariwr of Now York, where
two-thirds of the Import trade, and more than half
of the export trade of the wholo United States la
carried on, are too near the great populatlonsof Now
York city, Jersey City and Brooklyn, to be of any
value as protection. To provldo effectual defenses
would be the work of years. It would take much
time to construct permanent fortifications. A small
provision of the best modem guns would tako sev
eral years. Neither of these works !can bo extem
porized !h thc.prcscnco of emergent danger. A
million soldiers, with tho best equipments, on tho
heights surrounding tlio harbor of New York, in
ottr present stato of preparation, or rather in our
total want of preparation, (would be powerless to
resist a small squadron of war steamers.
Tills state of things is discreditable to our fore
sight and prudence. The best guarantee against
aggression, and the best assurance that our
diplomacy Will bo successful and pacific,
and that our rights and honor will be respected by
other nations, is in their knowlcdgo that wo are in
the situation to vindicate our reputation and inter
ests. While we may afford to bo deficient ixx the
means of offonse, we can???t afford to be defenaeloa.
The notoriety of the fact that wo ??? have neglected
the ordinary precautions of defense invites the
went of consideration in our diplomacy, Injustice,
arrogance and insult at tho hands of foreign na
tions.
It is no more than sixty ycoraslnco we announced
to the world that wo should resist any attempts,
from whatover quarter they might come, to mako
any new colonisation on any part of tho American
coptlncnt; that while we would respect tho status
quo, we should protect the people of different na
tions Inhabiting thlsleontlnent from every attempt
to subject them to tho domination of any foreign
power ortOixfierfere with their undJitartied.exerctso
of tlio rights or self-government. This announce
ment was formally made by President lfonroo,
after consultation with lfr. Madison and Mr. Jeffer
son. It was formulated by John Quincy Adams.
Our government has firmly adhered to the Monroo
doctrine, and-evon so late as 18G5 it warned Napol
eon out of Mexico. It Is Impoalblo to forcsoo in tho
recent scramble of European powers for acquisi
tion of colonies, bow soon occasion may arise for
our putting In practice the Monroo doctrine. It is
clear there ought to bo some relation between our
assertion of that doctrino and our preparation to
maintain it. It Is not intended to recommend any
attempt to rival the great European poworslu tho
creation of powcrftil navies. The changes which
havo rapidly occurred by tho diminu
tion of the relative resisting power of
Iron clads and by the increased efficiency of mod
cm artillery, which on tho wholo has gained in
competition, suggest that we should not at present
enter largely into the creation of armored vessels.
In questions that beset this subjs
havo reached a solution, wo can???
with adding but sparingly to our nary. But what
we do add should be the very best that science and
experience can indicate. This prudential view is
reinforced by the consideration that tho annual
charge of maintaining a war vessel bears an lm-
poxlant proportion to the original cost of construc
tion. In the constructing of permanent fortifica
tions and in providing an ample supply of the
modern artillery, the annual cost oft maintenance
Is Inconsiderable Nearly the wholo expenditure is
In the origins! outlsy for the construction.
If we don???t make the expenditure neemory to
provide for our sea coast defenses when we have a
sin plus and have no need to levy new taxes, we
certainly will not make these r **???
wc have no longer a surplus In
have our vast interests defenseless In order to re
duce the cost of wliliktfo .Its consumcrs.would be
a solecism. The present timo is peculiarly favor
able for providing for this great national necessity
too long neglected. Not only docs the surplus in
the treasury supply ample means to meet this groat
public want without laying new burdens on the
people, but the work can now bo done at a much
ower cost than lias ever before been possible. De
fensive works would consist almost entirely of
steel and iron. These materials can now be
bad at unprccedently low prices. The vast supply of
machinery and labor called Intojcxlstcnce J*y the
great vicissitude in steel andiron Industries offers
itself to our service. We should have the satisfac
tion of knowing that while we were availing our
selves of the supplies which would preraarily be
unattainable, we were setting In motion impor
tant endustrice and giving employment to labor
In a period of depression, with encouragement by
the guarantee of work, or.'perhaps by tho govom-
incut itself furnishing the plant. If the???In veil tire
genius of our people would be applied to the crea
tion of new means and improved machinery and
cftablhhments would spring Into existence capa
ble of supplying all national wants, rendering uv
completely Independent of all other countries in
respect to the means of nstf onsljrlefense,
I endeavored to Impress these ideas upon Mr.
Rsndall the lest time I had tho pleasure of seeing
him.
With my highest regards to Mrs. Carlisle and
yourself, I remain,
8. J. Tildes.
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