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BESLEY, West McHenry, j Illinois, ....DEALER IN.. .. <DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINS, OILS, TOILET ARTICLES. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. Also, Bottled Ale and Porter tor Medical Use. ĝ gT° The best brands of Cigars and Smoking and Chewing To­ bacco always on hand. Physicians' Prescriptions Carefully compounded Give me call. , ' l " GEO. W. BESLEY. West McHenry, Jan, 1,1896. ^ Thel20th anniversary of the 4th of y u'y> which is the occasion of our com­ ing together, and the subject you have invited me to address you upon, "Our Country, Its Mission," are sufficient to enlist the highest, aspirations of the most exalted- mind. The imagination becomes exhausted when one considers how the world has moved forward and' upward since the first 4th of July- was celebrated. When one contemplates the future of our country, even if 1 only draw conclusions from the past, I would have to call upon the Divine Architect for in­ spiration ,to even faintly describe the great possible future results of the work of the Fathers of the Revolution. Looking down the panorama of ages the miud s eye can readily see those prominent periods in man's pilgrimage, which standout like the Alpine heights that have caught the morning light, while darkness reigns below. Important periods, that, like brilliant sons, fiash from the horizon of history and indelibly mark in the tablets of time when man made stalwart strides toward a higher and better civilization. One of the most remarkable events in the history of man, an event which over­ tops all other national incidents as the mountain towers Over the valley, was the Declaration of Independence in 17TG, and the results that have flowed there­ from Man is an egotistical, self-opin­ ionated creature. As he groped each step forward on his long march from his bumble surroundings of ancient to mod­ ern conditions, with obsequious adula- lation he cried "Eureka" at each snail's pace in his progress., having at each step as he supposed, reached the end of in­ quiry in the solution of God's laws. Hence it would seem that man but par­ tially understood his mission, indeed with all the light of the past and the op­ portunities of to-day in our egotism we often af-sume to be the beginning and the end, when, in fact, with all our boasted light and learning we are only touching the outer circle of the truths of nature, and we cannot hope to discover those truths, in all their beauty, until we sup­ press our selfishness to the harmony of truth. The man who seeks truth with a selfish motive will never find it, for his desires will pervert his judgment and befog his reason. Nations are but en­ larged families and must obey this law as well as individuals. The establish­ ment of this government was the devel­ opment of a truth, hence its citizens must walk in the path that leads to the har­ mony of truthful results if we would hope to reach the climax of its mission. To me the discovery of this continent and thefounding of this Republic was the unfoldmeut of a truth which form a focal center from which intelligence, liberty and happiness will broaden and expand like a search light, as results reach out into the invisible future. This being true, and it only remains for the Ameri­ can people to exemplefy the truth, I can only hope to faintly portray, as I see it, the sublime conception of a loving Father who developed the men whose in­ spired genius brought this nation with its wonderful mission into existence. Nations are the granaries of history, the stage upon which races play their parts of youth, manhood, old age and death as they obey or disobey the higher law. If human life is not a passing fun- irus, without a past or a future, then so 3ure has the American Republic a mission that goes far beyond the present and en­ ters into the realms of devine problems which has within its future the question of higher life, and to this higher life 1 would wish jo direct the thinking minds of this nation,that they may feel in their inmost, souls that the American race and nation are not the result of accidents, and, knowing that important fact, that they may develop conditions to cooper­ ate with a loving Father who designed happiness for His children thro' obe­ dience to law. This nation was cast in a colossal mold that foreordaiued it to be the theatre ot' sublime events in the march of man from a primitive to a higher civili­ zation. Its expansive prairies, its ma- jectic rivers, its imperial mountaius, its great lakes and its vast area, from ocean to ocean, with its untold natural resour­ ces, make it a promised land, with a future and possibility limited only by man's capi city to make himself wise and happy. That this sunlit land laid over here un­ discovered for thousands of years, ac­ cumulating natural wealth, awaiting the coming of this civilization, makes its record one of God's mysterious finger marks. Then, the period of its discovery when man was groaning under the tyranny of mau's inhumanity, and need­ ed physical and mental elbow room; when he was about to stretch the thews and muscles of his mind, when he was on the eve of making a servant of the ele­ ments that would aid him in the voyage of the, then, undreamed freedom of the day, but adds to the mystery. Look at any large map of the world. At the time of the discovery of this con­ tinent you could cover with one hand that part of Europe, which, with a small strip down the west coast of Africa, con­ stituted the civilized nations of the world. Men were mentally and physi­ cally cramped by the ignorauce of the conditions that surrounded them. The eopemicon system had not yet been pub­ lished. The compass was yet imperfect. The art of printing had only just come into use in a limited form. Man was slowly crawling out of his Shell of seclu­ sion and mingling with other nations in arts, letters and commerce. The Azores, Maderia, Canary and Cape Verdi Islands were the wes.ern outposts of geographi­ cal knowledge. "The foolishness of hav­ ing people on the other side of the world walking with their heads down and feet up and that a ship would have to sail up hill if the world was round," were some of the obstacles which Columbus met in his efforts to succeed, but he over­ come all those barriers, for God opened a path for the coming progress that overcome all the superstitious fears of the age, and America was discovered. The discovery of,this countuy was the opening of a gateway to new conditions, which attracted the freedom loving, ro­ mantic, brave and adventurous spirits of eramped and circumscribed Europe. This human wave brought the Puritan lo New England, the Dutch to New York, the Catholic to Maryland, the Huguenot to the Carolinas, the French to < anada and the West, the Spaniard to Florida ^nd Louisiana. Some of them, perhaps, impelled by a firey fanaticism,' but all equipped with an individual enthusiasm that made them magnificent pio conquer a virgin continent, with a riety of character that promised mental and physical capacity to bring forth new race, who would give the world new form of liberty, by learning man to control himself. Here again we see the hand of God visible in creating condi­ tions that brought some of the best ma­ terial of all races. The dissatisfied mi­ nority who move the world along into a new and virgin continent to befgrad ually merged into a new race with a mis­ sion to better mankind. It required 300 years in this workshop of nature, for even those children of freedom to develop strength enough to plant,the first seed in this garden of liberty by declaring "all men free and equal." Those three hun­ dred years were a scholastic period in the practical school of life, under condi­ tions wherein the new face was learning that self confidence and self support, so aptly put by Capt. John Smith, "he who would uot work might not eat," a spirit directly opposite to the rule, governing effete«nd adventurous idlers of Europe. At the same time the country was serv­ ing as natnre's lhbratory, wherein the best elements of all that dissatisfied mi­ gration were being moulded into a high­ er man and receiving the impress of that wonderful individuality, that is the re­ markable trait of the American people. Thus did God school the early settlers in a combat with virgin nature, preparing a new r ice to be filled with the spirit of liberty and independence, who were des­ tined to be led by such men as Washing­ ton, Putnam, Ward, Warren, Allen, Montgomery, Morgan, Lee, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Sherman,. Livingston, Carroll,Sullivan, Moultrie, Barry,Jasper and others, all equipped for a successful battle with that selfishly inflated doc­ trine, ifie_Diyinej ,ight oiKings. , The seven years war of the Revolution, in which the patriots of that day endured incredible hardships and bore and suffer­ ed almost beyond the measure of human endurance, was the travail before the birth of new conditions. The results up­ on-civilization fhat followed the birth of this nation, make it a subject worthy of the profound consideration of the think­ ing minds of to-day, particularly the people ofjthis .nation upon whose shoul­ ders rest the responsibility of carrying forward the work now so firmly estab­ lished. Compare the condition of the people of the world to-day with that of their condition at the opening of the eighteenth century when man seemed to have run mad in his passions and hatred; drunkenness, duelling and a savage code of honor controlled society. The classes ruled the masses, and the masses were relegated to a serfdom as odious as slavery. Extreme antagonism prevailed that caused each to feel it a religious duty to punish the other for having a different belief or interest. The beauti­ ful precepts of the lowly Nazarene seem­ ed to have been forgotten iu the selfish­ ness and fanaticism of that day ; in fact, civilization would seem to have been poisoned and ran to a high fever. The republic of the West was the first dawn of light that gave hope to humanity The French revolution was the crisis of thp fever that punished man and purified the atmosphere. Look down over the past hundred years, few men will contra diet the statement that the world is bet ter to-day; and one hundred years of this republic has made it better; the fevers of fanaticism are crumbling to the dust, humanity is abroad; man looks in to the eyes of his fellow man with mon confidence; to live, be educated, be happy and pi ogress to a higher civilization abandon of the South, they went from one step to another until as brave and social a race as ever adorned the hospi tality of a nation stood on the verge of destruction. Each step they took and each action done fertilized the field of liberty in the north and added to the number of the sons of freedom who de­ manded the abolition of slavery. Just" as the slave power was develop­ ing into stalwart manhood, in 1815,• in the village of St. Clairsville, Ohio, across the river from Wheeling,. Ya , Benjamin Luridy, a poor deformed hunchbacked harness maker, started an anti-slavery society. Before it had five hundred mem­ bers the southern people called on the authorities of the north to suppress the "hydra headed monster." The remon­ strance of one party irritated the other; the violence of the slave holders brought numbers to their opponents; thus both grew in power and numbers, The con trol of the new territories were eagerly sought for by both parties, which were now designated .North andSouth. Texas was united to the south to enlarge the field and increase the adherents of slav­ ery. California becanwf a battle ground and finally Swung in on "the sidg of free­ dom. The Mexican war was declared to aid slavery. Finally Kansas decided the limits of the slave power and secession, a spirit of the thirties, was revived, and in the madness of the hour the slaveholders fired on the star- aud stripes. Slavery was abolished as a result, and the crime of slavery was attoned for in the five years of the bloody Gethsemane from Sumpter to Appomattox. In the final atonement I can see the unerring hand of Providence in our day as it is revealed to us in God's words in the history oi the past. The people of this country sinned and suffered as did the childrenjif Israel. For nigh on to four hundred years did we keep the black man in bond­ age. Our Lincoln, like Moses, sprang from the people, freed about 4,000,000 slaves, and, like Moses, died in sight of the promised land. Fellow citizens, I have pointed out to ou some of the mountain tops of event*, that illume my vision, as I see the hand of God bringing this race and nation in­ to existence. I have but touched the beyboard of history. In this beautiful drama of God's providence, working through man, to better man's condition, each step in the long march from dark­ ness to light rises up before ray vision like a series of table lands, each rising one above the other until we stand on the present advanced and high altitude of light, liberty and humanity. Other nations grew, like Topsy this nation sprang into life by Divine command and its existence was made possible when a the inheritence of every citizen; the masses rule, the law places tbe ballot in every honest man's hand. Christianity by reason of this liberty has been eleva­ ted to a higher plane aud the aroma of our light, liberty and happiness is pene trat ing every corner of t he earth, and rustling the shackles of darkuess. But with'all the suffering endured by the fathers of the revolution and the prospective blessings that dawned on man as the result of their heroic work, the new race had not yet compensated nature for the violations ot the higher law by their forefathers. In this garden of liberty, the young Republic of the westi fertilized by the best blood of its people, one black flower, human slavery,, remained and proclaimed that man was but partially free from past errors, hence another calvary had to be marched to and another crucifixion fake place to compensate for the evils of the past. The growth of the slave power and the planting of the true seed of liberty besitie thateoloHsal power after the revolution and by differentclass of men, men in very humble walks of life, and the final eman­ cipation from that evil, is, to my mind, a lesson that points to a higher intelli­ gence than that of man in guarding the destiny of the nation which elevates the people into the exalted position of a chosen race, who have a mission from a higher power to execute, and that mis­ sion is to teach all mankind that happi­ ness comes thro' justice aud obedience to law. It is not generally known that pre­ vious to and for many years after the revolution, a majority of the people north and south felt that slavery was an evil and hoped that time would remove it. Jefferson, iu the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, condemned it, which section was left out at the re­ quest only of South Carolina and Geor­ gia. In 1800 the question of prohibiting slavery was voted for by Marylaud, Vir­ ginia and South Carolina, and in 1820 aud '30 the subject was considered by the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia. During the first forty years of the exis­ tence of this nation cotton growing was greatly encouraged by the government, hence "the South became the great cotton growing country of the world; then it became aggressively pro-slavery. From cotton growing came wealth and from wealth came arrogance. On that ques­ tion the people of the south became irri­ table and suspicious, like a jealous man --they were displeased if you noticed it and displeased if you did not, and like Richard III awakening from his dream they slashed with unusual energy at every object of opposition, real and imaginary. Education was restricted, the word freedom was looked npon with disfavor. Metaphorically speaking Uncle Sam dare not look with favor on the God­ dess of Liberty, fearing it may be consid­ ered that Blavery was not his most favored wftrd. Having espoused a sys­ tem of labor that warred with our civilization, they floundered about in their efforts to give life to an institution which was national death. They struck a blow at conscience by proclaiming slavery was a divine institution. Each step weakened and maddened theaealots; like a drowning man clutching tighter to his gold, they clasped hands still closer around their evil genius. Thus under the maddening influence of this loving Father, through His beloved Son, sent forth that wonderful proclamation, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." The fathers of the American revolution gave the first legal recognition to that beautiful law when they declared that "all men were born free aud equal." I have made the lightuiug sweep across the keyboard of time hopiugthat I may have thrown out a thought that will be caught up by some citizen, some St. Francis, ot Asia some Joan of Arc, some Wendell Phillips who will speak in the voice of angels and impress the people of the day with the full significance of the mission of this re public, which, I believe, was designed to plant in man's heart the harmony of God's love, instead of the greed of earth ly life. I have swept across this birds eye view of events, praying that my humble words might inspire you to greater zeal in the patriotic work intrust­ ed to us by the Fathers of the Revolution and that you might feel, as citizens of this republic, that you are commissioned from on High to carry to the farther­ most part of the earth the government of love, harmony, good will and happi uess. To stand still is decay. Shall we progress in the work of humanity ? It is well then, that we look in on ourselves and see what danger threatens us from within. It is the disease of the heart that destroys more of the kingly oaks of the forest than the storm that sweep across the plain. We need not fear danger from without. Having a higher mission to carry out we must be, to ourselves, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion. We must be above selfish ambition when perform- ng our duty as citizens. We must con­ form to the harmony of the higher law. I do not mean by this that every citizen must put on a sanctimonious face aud sing psalms all day long. No! I mean that we, the citizens of a government de­ signed to give light to mankind, should do our duty with that high sense of manly honor that alwSys governed the chivalry of past ages, performing our duty from the standpoint of honesty and, if needs be, sacrificing our personal interest. It was by stern honesty and self-sacrifice that this nation was estab­ lished and preserved. If we are suffering from any adverse conditions to-day it is because we were not controlled by that intelligent sense of the greatest good to the greatest number. To be as near a perfect citizen of this republic as circum­ stances will permit is most important to the future of mankind, for if this republic lives it must live through the purity, honesty and honor of its citizens. To have the Republic cease to exist would be a great calamity to mankind. From this standpoint it is evident that the Re­ public has a mission beyond the present, beyond man's little selfish ambitions and temporal results, a mission in which all mankind are interested, a mission to bet­ ter mankind, which will require "eternal igilance as the price of liberty." The Loudon Times once said: "The»e is au immense power in facts; whenever there is public opinion, whenever there are common sense and common feeling, a fact is sure to have its weight. So we say if there be a great and distressing body of facts with somegreat mystery of iniquity, or error or misfortune connect­ ed with it, telj it, and tell it, and tell it again. Tell it in a thousand forms, tell it with perpetual variety of circumstance and novelty ot view; tell it of this local­ ity, tell it of that; tell it to the mass and tell it to the individual. Before a gener­ ation's passed the fact will speak for itself and find a cure." A nation cannot overlook, with im­ punity, the results of the omissions or commissions of its citizens on the na­ tion's tomorrow. What then are some of tbe evils, errors, or misfortunes that confront us +o-day, which, if not eradi­ cated, will sap and perhaps destroy the Republic? In moments of great danger the people of this country rise to the climax of patriotism and self sacrifice, but in the absence ofgreat danger we fail to fully appreciative evil of our individ­ ual acts and the necessity of considering the results of our personal acts upon the future of the nation. One of the great evils and sins of the day is the crimes of the ballot box ban- dits, before whose brutal greed the rights of the majority are swept aside with as much indifference as the tiger, crushes its victims. The ballot box should be as sacred as the altars we dedicate to God. It is moreopotent than war in the hands of a,n intelligent people. It settles and arbitrates all differences, hence it should be as sacred as life. It is the cornerstone' of our freedom. All the lives sacrificed aiid all the money expended in behalf of ' the stars and stripes from the first gun fired at Lexington to the present mo­ ment was for the purpose of guarantee-, ing and honest ballot, that we might be- a free people, the majority to rule. When the people lose fe'that right this nation will melt away like-an uacemented heap of sand. ' " And if we would avoid the rocks and shoals of the future we must avoid the errors and evils' of to-day. That these evils I have enumerated threaten the life of the republic, few, thinking men will contradict. Here, then, are great dis­ tressing facts which threaten the future of this nation. And in what nobler work can the citizen of to-day round up the evening of h is earthly life than in cutting out, these political cancers? All these evils arise from a want of respect for law, each individual wishing to turn the pow­ er of the law, right or wrong, to his own advantage. That was not the rule with the men who established this govern­ ment and whose heroic deeds we to-day celebrate. To remove those evils we must make the agent of the re­ public, the citizen, a better man. We must build up in the individual that same spirit of self-sacrificing patriotism that made the fathers of -the revolution persevere unto the death at Bunker Hill and Valley Forge. We must arouse that individual patriotism, in times of peace/ which caused the boys in blue to sing we are coming Father Abraham, 300,000 more, and buoyed up their hopes through the hell of war from Donalsonville to Ap- pomatox. Down thro' the ages whereyer virtde prevailed, wherevei! and whenever a high standard of patriotism moulded and ele­ vated mankind, you will find that age and that people influenced andguided by those three beautiful inspirators, love of home, love of country and love of God. Golden shackles that lead men through affection from the nearest circle of do- • mestic duty, love and interests, out into the broader sphere of national love, pa­ triotism and self-sacrifice. Let us prac­ tice these triple virtues, let each citizen " understand that he is the guardian of the home and the protector of the Re­ public, and that a dishonest citizen vio­ lates the sanctity of the home and dis­ honors the nation. Then individual pa- triotism will develope until to be an American will be the proudest title on earth, and every act of the people will be a murmuring prayer to* the God of love that enabled us to have the best homes and government on earth. Fellow citisens, ladies and gentlemen, when Cromwell landed in Ireland he took his soldiers up into a mountain; pointing to the beautiful landscape before them, he said, "Here is a country worth dying for, I now ask you in spirit to come with me and look over this country of ours, a country worth living for. Look at it, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf; look over its broad prairies, its majestic moun­ tains, its mighty rivers, its inland seas, and its happy homes. It is a land worthy of the handiwork of God. Over this land of liberty float the stars and stripes and beneath that flag live seventy millions of freemen. Not one a slave, not one a serf, and this condition came to us by reason of the mission bravely performed by the men who died that the nation might live. And now let your mind's eye roam beneath the soil we tread upou; conceive if you can the un­ measured wealth that Godi'or thousands of years has been forgiug, devel­ oping and creating. For what, I ask you? Think you the God of love and mercy placed all this wealth beneath this 'soil--all this well watered and fertile sur­ face, with diversified mountain and vale, without an object and having an object, think you He will have his designs inter- ferred with by man and give happiness to man, think He will have presumptions man tear his omnipotent and perfect law to tatters, to gratify a selfishness within which is death, wheD God that holds all this immeasurable universe in the hollow of His hand proclaims life! life! life! No, fellow citizens, God calls upon us from every created atom. " Obey My law and live!" For this mission I believe this republic was called into existence. Let us then, as the citizens of this republic and the agents of a loving Father, open our hearts for inspiring guidance, and He will be our helm* our compass, and our ship of state that will round out into the second century of our existence like a new creation and make this republic the New Jerusalem of earth, the aroma of its peaceful and happy homes because of the universal obedience to just law will be - wafted to other nations and rest on the down-trodden like the morning dew on the brow of lever, inspiring them to do as our forefathers done--establish a gov­ ernment of the people, by the people, for the people, and thus help forward the mission of this republic. Lake Bluff Camp Meeting. The North-Western Line will, from June 29 to September 1, 1896, sell ex­ cursion tickets to Lake Bluff and re­ turn at very low rates, tickets limited to return to 50 days from date of sale. For tickets and full information apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y. 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