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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: "Let Us Have Peace" - Remarks of Logan H. Roots on the Assassination of Hon. - James Hinds, Delivered in the House of Representatives, - Washington, D. C., on Friday, January 22, 1869. - -Author: Logan H. Roots - -Release Date: June 29, 2020 [EBook #62526] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "LET US HAVE PEACE" *** - - - - -Produced by WebRover, Charlene Taylor, David E. Brown, and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Archive/American -Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - “LET US HAVE PEACE!” - - - REMARKS - OF - LOGAN H. ROOTS, - ON THE - Assassination of Hon. James Hinds, - DELIVERED IN THE - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, - WASHINGTON, D. C., - On Friday, January 22, 1869. - - - WASHINGTON: - 1869. - - - - - REMARKS - BY - HON. LOGAN H. ROOTS. - - -MR. SPEAKER-- - -The sad subject occupying the attention of this honorable body is -one that bears upon my mind with peculiar force. I was personally -acquainted with JAMES HINDS during a busy portion of his eventful life, -and it was in the district that I have the honor to represent in which -he met his terrible death by political assassination. - -His life, though short, was long enough for many hundreds to have -become so endeared as to have wished it longer. His life, though -short, was long enough to afford a wonderfully instructive lesson of -encouragement to all those in this crowded world struggling against the -barriers of poverty. Its history is an account of the child of poverty, -developed into the honored man by its own exertions. Its history -recounts what mighty results may be accomplished on no other capital -than a clear intellect under the impetus of an indomitable will. -Generally, when one falls so young the exclamation is, “Oh! what might -have been.” In this instance imagination might feast itself on such a -theme _ad libitum_; but that is not necessary, it is grand enough to -say, “See what was!” - -Only twenty years ago JAMES HINDS was a fatherless, penniless lad. But -so determined was he to acquire knowledge that he attended school -when he only did so by hiring a room, doing his own housekeeping, -and working enough beside outside of school hours to earn the means -of paying for his school expenses and daily living. Such earnest -perseverance created success even under the most lowering clouds of -adversity. - -Traveling by such rugged steps he did not come upon the stage of -manhood a mere hot-house production of opulence, but an earnest, -laborious youth, gradually developed into a self-made, self-reliant -man. Experience taught him to never wait for the coming of success -or friends, but first make success, and then friends would come. His -nature and training alike rendered it equally impossible for him to -play sycophant to the rich or oppressor to the poor. His warm sympathy -with the oppressed and downtrodden touched a responsive chord in men’s -hearts that returned him in a remarkable degree the affection of the -masses. The humblest and most friendless loved him without fear of -being repulsed, and learned to regard him as their especial champion. - -When the great struggle came between human oppression and the nation’s -life, he was at once found positively on the side of his country, and -he went forth to do battle upon the side of loyalty, of freedom, and -justice to humanity. - -It is now, though, nearly four years since the happy moment arrived -when he considered the struggle ended. We all proudly felt that -henceforth free speech and free men were to be as universal south -of Mason and Dixon’s line as they long had been north. It was at -that happy period that Mr. HINDS was allured by the genial clime and -inviting features of the Southwest to make his home in Arkansas, and -engaged in the practice of his profession with an assiduity that -received merited success. - -Alas! it was not long until the fact was developed that the fierce -fires built on human oppression to destroy and keep destroyed the -relations of the State to the nation were not extinguished, but only -smoldering; compressed and changed, but not abated. When this fact was -developed, and the question arose as to whether or not Arkansas should -make an effort to regain her lost sisterhood in the great family of -States, notwithstanding the odium and dangers with which those who -had severed the State from her proper relations cast about such a -course, JAMES HINDS became an earnest advocate of her return to the -loyal household. Elected to the Constitutional Convention by one of -the largest majorities in the State, he soon became recognized as one -of the prominent leaders, and to him the humble, toiling citizen of -that State owes a debt of gratitude he can never repay; for in the -construction of the fundamental law of the State he was most active -in the introduction and riveting of those points which are barriers -of protection for the many weak against the few strong, and for the -securing to the humblest all the rights of citizenship granted to the -proudest. - -After the adjournment of the convention and the submittal of its -work to the people, he was elected by a remarkably large vote to -a seat in this body, and even in the brief period of his presence -here he exhibited a lively interest in the welfare of the State and -indefatigable efforts to promote her good without failing to strive for -the greatest weal of the whole nation. - -Immediately upon the closing of the summer session he went to his -home and entered vigorously into the canvass for freedom, peace, and -prosperity against caste, oppression, revolution, and murder. I know, -sirs, many of you may think that the party which Mr. HINDS opposed was -equally anxious for peace with the party whose principles he espoused. -That might have been the case in other places, but in Arkansas, at -least, their acts showed that the Republican party advocated peace with -a desire that the beloved white-winged spirit of peace might settle and -abide in the land. But when the Democracy did for a moment advocate -peace, their desire seemed to be for pieces of Radical skulls. To -advocate real peace was not entering upon a holiday pleasure excursion, -but was to brave death and tread on the very verge of eternity. All -this JAMES HINDS knew, yet faltered not. A few days before his death he -wrote to a friend: - - “We must win the election, stand a fight, or leave the State, and it - is sad to think that many of our number, perhaps myself included, - must be murdered before seeing the ides of November, to know whether - we win, fight, or leave.” - -On the day of his murder he was in a county which he considered less -dangerous than some through which he had traversed, and he so expressed -himself, but added: - - “With men all over the country bound by terrible oaths to take - Radical lives, we do not know where there is any safety. Oh! it is - terrible. But it may be that it is all for the best, for they say the - ‘blood of the martyr is the seed of the church,’ and it may be that - the loyal blood now drenching this land will arouse those criminally - timid men who had the power and withheld the grant of arms to our - State authorities, and arouse the patriotic masses to realize it is - the nation’s duty to protect the nation’s citizens.” - -Oh! little did he think at that moment that ere the sunlight of that -beautiful October day should give way to the cold dew of night his own -soul would be driven from his body by the cold damp of death. He was -traveling with Hon. Joseph Brooks, another tried and valiant soldier -in the great cause of freedom and equal rights. They were to speak -that day about six miles from the village of Indian Bay. They had been -refused passage on a steamboat because they were Radicals, and so were -belated. Some hundreds of eager, expectant Republicans were awaiting -their arrival. To this meeting the officers of the Democratic club -had gone as advocates of the adoption of “joint peace resolutions.” -The Republicans said that several Radicals had then recently been -killed in the county and no Democrats; and therefore they thought if -the Democracy had suddenly acquired a desire for peace no resolutions -were necessary; but although some of them thought it merely a cloak -for Democratic villany, they were willing to bind themselves in -resolutions to do what they intended doing anyhow, and they therefore -unanimously adopted the resolutions. One of the principle signers and -most apparently earnest advocates was George W. Clark, secretary of -the Democratic club. But as soon as he had signed them he returned to -his home, arriving there before Messrs Brooks and HINDS had reached -that far, and himself gave the fated ones direction as to the road. -When they had ridden on he got his gun, saddled his horse, and rode -after them. The intended victims were riding along with their greatest -solicitude at the moment, being anxious though to reach the waiting -crowd. The horses being differently gaited, Mr. Brooks was at the -moment some fifty yards ahead. The man with grayish suit on rode up -near, but a very little in the rear of Mr. HINDS, smiling as Judas may -have smiled when he kissed his Lord and Master, he engaged in pleasant -conversation. For a second the three thus rode on, the victims wholly -unsuspecting, and the smiling murderer, with cold-blooded calculation, -waiting for a better opportunity to make sure of both. An illustration -of the meaning of Democratic peace resolutions is about to be made. The -same hand which a few hours before signed peace resolutions now grasps -the assassin’s weapon, within a very few feet of Mr. HINDS’ back, -the gun is suddenly raised. Click, click, hear the triggers! Oh! the -terrible instant! bang, bang, goes the gun. Mr. Brooks’s horse, stung -with buck-shot, bounds ahead with a wounded rider, while the second -horse madly leaps forward riderless, and JAMES HINDS lies on the ground -motionless, dying. Another order of the Ku-Klux-Klan has been executed; -smiling with a fiend’s smile upon his features stands the Democratic -assassin; the soul of another martyr is sent unshriven before the -arbitrator of eternity; dying, shot in the back, lies the Radical -Congressman. Would to God the curtain of oblivion might drop over the -scene forever! - -JAMES HINDS’ spirit has passed from earth, but his life, deeds, and -death will not soon pass from memory, so well he lived, so hard he -toiled, so young was he gathered into the unseen fold, that when we -think of him we cannot avoid to lament that: - - “The hand of the reaper - Takes the ears that are hoary, - But the voice of the weeper - Wails manhood in glory.” - -He had so many noble qualities and won so many strong friends we can -very easily drop the veil of charity over his faults, whatever they may -have been. Had he been faultless he could not have been human. It is -said a death-bed is a detector of human hearts. If so, it is pleasing -to know that in his expiring moments, lying with no more friendly touch -than the breast of mother earth, his few words were not concerning his -own death tortures, but were expressions of solicitude for his wife -and two sweet daughters whom he loved so dearly. Could you, sirs, have -seen the hundreds of compressed lips and wet eyes which spoke in an -eloquence and intensity of grief words could not be framed to utter -when his remains passed through the City of Little Rock. You would have -exclaimed, “Behold, how they loved him,” and certainly he who has thus -won the love of man must have a strong claim on the mercy of God. - -But ceremonies in honor of the dead can only be beneficial in so far as -they affect the actions of the living. Could the spirit of JAMES HINDS -speak to us to-day it would not be with an effort to induce fulsome -eulogies upon those who are beyond mortal aid, but from the portals of -the dead he would say protect the living. - -The nation has the power to obey such a request, and when the people -arose in their might and majesty on the 3d day of November, it was -to declare in unmistakable terms their heartfelt approbation of the -promise of him whom they felt had the power to execute the promise -that freedom and protection should be guarantied as well on the warm -gulf coast as on the cold lake shores. That was the key-note of the -entire canvass. The mighty leader of the loyal hosts was a popular -man, remarkably, deservedly popular for his glorious services to -his country. But he was most popular from the full confidence that -the people had in him that he had the will and the power to speak -into peace and tranquility the angry waves of prejudice and passion -that were raging in the South, crimsoned with human gore. It was -the embodiment of that will and power for which the nation in such -overwhelming numbers spoke its preference, and the present is an -auspicious moment to inaugurate obedience to the people’s behests. Many -good men who have always wanted peace, but could not tear themselves -loose from political thraldom in the heat of political excitement, now -express their earnest, anxious longing for protection of life and the -restoration of peace to the country. - -The very leaders of the political assassinations themselves seem now -to be partially revolting from the horrible atrocities of the execution -of their own schemes and orders, which feeling, added to the wholesome -belief they have that the authorities will be sustained, lives will -be protected, and peace will be maintained, is making even them for -the time converts to the great loyal heart’s desire for restoration of -peace and protection. - -It is not indemnification for the past that is asked, it is only -security for the future. The murdered cannot be brought to life, but -the murderers can be made to spare the living. Honeyed words alone -cannot accomplish this, but men must be made to feel that protection -will prove more profitable than assassination; kind words may do the -work if it is positively known that the nation supports the State -authorities, so that there is a reserve of sterner power which can be -brought to the support of kindness on any instant of emergency. Let -party lines be obliterated in this desire for the maintainance of peace -and protection. Let partisans now be absorbed in patriots, so that all -men, Republicans and Democrats alike, will feel an inspiration of such -God-given patriotism as found utterance from the steps of this building -when nearly four years ago he who spake as one with less in him of -earth than heaven, said: “With malice toward none, with charity for -all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let -us strive to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting -peace.” His words fell with magic effect, because, while he extended -the olive-branch with the left, in his right hand he wielded the great -American Army, the most potential power on the face of the earth. The -olive-branch should still be extended, but it will only be to loose the -hand that offers it unless it is demonstrated that the strong arm of -power will be used whenever necessary to overwhelm the crushing tyranny -of lawlessness and oppression. - -Ages gone the great Omnipotent who snatched time from eternity and -spoke system from chaos, said “Let there be light,” and the sacred -chronicler informs us “there was light.” To-day the mighty people who -have saved the nation’s life in the sanguinary struggle and declared -freedom in the kingdom of slavery, have said “let us have peace.” Shall -not the historian who records the doings of this year be allowed to say -“there was peace!” - -Oh, shall it not be so! The spirit of JAMES HINDS unites with hundreds -(you know not how many) of other spirits of treacherously murdered -men in beseechingly asking the question. Their suffering widows and -orphans, without even the little comforting crumb of a Government -pension, are weepingly asking the question. The hundreds of thousands -of maimed and crippled loyal men who fought and suffered beside -comrades who, fighting, fell to establish peace and protection, are -earnestly asking the question. Thirty-eight million inhabitants in -these United States whose prosperity can only be commensurate with the -maintenance of peace and protection, all join in prayerfully asking the -question. The countless lovers of freedom throughout the whole world -with one accord are looking to this nation and anxiously asking the -question. 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Roots - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: "Let Us Have Peace" - Remarks of Logan H. Roots on the Assassination of Hon. - James Hinds, Delivered in the House of Representatives, - Washington, D. C., on Friday, January 22, 1869. - -Author: Logan H. Roots - -Release Date: June 29, 2020 [EBook #62526] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "LET US HAVE PEACE" *** - - - - -Produced by WebRover, Charlene Taylor, David E. Brown, and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Archive/American -Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/titlepage.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>“LET US HAVE PEACE!”</h1> - - -<p><span class="xlarge">REMARKS</span><br /> - -OF<br /> - -<span class="xxlarge">LOGAN H. ROOTS,</span><br /> - -ON THE<br /> - -<span class="large">Assassination of Hon. James Hinds,</span><br /> - -DELIVERED IN THE<br /> - -<span class="xlarge">HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,</span><br /> - -<span class="large">WASHINGTON, D. C.,</span><br /> - -On Friday, January 22, 1869.</p> - - -<p>WASHINGTON:<br /> -1869.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> - - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/image002.jpg" alt="" /></div> - - - - -<h2 class="nobreak">REMARKS<br /> - -BY<br /> - -HON. LOGAN H. ROOTS.</h2></div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Mr. Speaker</span>—</p> - -<p>The sad subject occupying the attention of this -honorable body is one that bears upon my mind with -peculiar force. I was personally acquainted with -<span class="smcap">James Hinds</span> during a busy portion of his eventful life, -and it was in the district that I have the honor to -represent in which he met his terrible death by -political assassination.</p> - -<p>His life, though short, was long enough for many -hundreds to have become so endeared as to have wished -it longer. His life, though short, was long enough to -afford a wonderfully instructive lesson of encouragement -to all those in this crowded world struggling -against the barriers of poverty. Its history is an account -of the child of poverty, developed into the honored -man by its own exertions. Its history recounts -what mighty results may be accomplished on no -other capital than a clear intellect under the impetus -of an indomitable will. Generally, when one falls so -young the exclamation is, “Oh! what might have -been.” In this instance imagination might feast itself -on such a theme <i>ad libitum</i>; but that is not necessary, -it is grand enough to say, “See what was!”</p> - -<p>Only twenty years ago <span class="smcap">James Hinds</span> was a fatherless, -penniless lad. But so determined was he to acquire<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> -knowledge that he attended school when he only did -so by hiring a room, doing his own housekeeping, and -working enough beside outside of school hours to earn -the means of paying for his school expenses and daily -living. Such earnest perseverance created success even -under the most lowering clouds of adversity.</p> - -<p>Traveling by such rugged steps he did not come -upon the stage of manhood a mere hot-house production -of opulence, but an earnest, laborious youth, gradually -developed into a self-made, self-reliant man. Experience -taught him to never wait for the coming of success -or friends, but first make success, and then friends -would come. His nature and training alike rendered -it equally impossible for him to play sycophant to the -rich or oppressor to the poor. His warm sympathy -with the oppressed and downtrodden touched a responsive -chord in men’s hearts that returned him in a -remarkable degree the affection of the masses. The -humblest and most friendless loved him without fear -of being repulsed, and learned to regard him as their -especial champion.</p> - -<p>When the great struggle came between human oppression -and the nation’s life, he was at once found -positively on the side of his country, and he went forth -to do battle upon the side of loyalty, of freedom, and -justice to humanity.</p> - -<p>It is now, though, nearly four years since the happy -moment arrived when he considered the struggle ended. -We all proudly felt that henceforth free speech and -free men were to be as universal south of Mason and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> -Dixon’s line as they long had been north. It was at -that happy period that Mr. <span class="smcap">Hinds</span> was allured by the -genial clime and inviting features of the Southwest to -make his home in Arkansas, and engaged in the -practice of his profession with an assiduity that received -merited success.</p> - -<p>Alas! it was not long until the fact was developed -that the fierce fires built on human oppression to destroy -and keep destroyed the relations of the State to -the nation were not extinguished, but only smoldering; -compressed and changed, but not abated. When this -fact was developed, and the question arose as to -whether or not Arkansas should make an effort to regain -her lost sisterhood in the great family of States, notwithstanding -the odium and dangers with which those who -had severed the State from her proper relations cast -about such a course, <span class="smcap">James Hinds</span> became an earnest -advocate of her return to the loyal household. Elected -to the Constitutional Convention by one of the largest -majorities in the State, he soon became recognized as -one of the prominent leaders, and to him the humble, -toiling citizen of that State owes a debt of gratitude -he can never repay; for in the construction of the -fundamental law of the State he was most active in the -introduction and riveting of those points which are -barriers of protection for the many weak against the -few strong, and for the securing to the humblest all -the rights of citizenship granted to the proudest.</p> - -<p>After the adjournment of the convention and the -submittal of its work to the people, he was elected by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> -a remarkably large vote to a seat in this body, and -even in the brief period of his presence here he exhibited -a lively interest in the welfare of the State and -indefatigable efforts to promote her good without failing -to strive for the greatest weal of the whole nation.</p> - -<p>Immediately upon the closing of the summer session -he went to his home and entered vigorously into the -canvass for freedom, peace, and prosperity against -caste, oppression, revolution, and murder. I know, -sirs, many of you may think that the party which Mr. -<span class="smcap">Hinds</span> opposed was equally anxious for peace with the -party whose principles he espoused. That might have -been the case in other places, but in Arkansas, at least, -their acts showed that the Republican party advocated -peace with a desire that the beloved white-winged -spirit of peace might settle and abide in the land. But -when the Democracy did for a moment advocate peace, -their desire seemed to be for pieces of Radical skulls. -To advocate real peace was not entering upon a holiday -pleasure excursion, but was to brave death and -tread on the very verge of eternity. All this <span class="smcap">James -Hinds</span> knew, yet faltered not. A few days before his -death he wrote to a friend:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>“We must win the election, stand a fight, or leave the State, and it is -sad to think that many of our number, perhaps myself included, must be -murdered before seeing the ides of November, to know whether we win, -fight, or leave.”</p></blockquote> - -<p>On the day of his murder he was in a county which -he considered less dangerous than some through which -he had traversed, and he so expressed himself, but -added:</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>“With men all over the country bound by terrible oaths to take Radical -lives, we do not know where there is any safety. Oh! it is terrible. -But it may be that it is all for the best, for they say the ‘blood of the martyr -is the seed of the church,’ and it may be that the loyal blood now -drenching this land will arouse those criminally timid men who had the -power and withheld the grant of arms to our State authorities, and arouse -the patriotic masses to realize it is the nation’s duty to protect the nation’s -citizens.”</p></blockquote> - -<p>Oh! little did he think at that moment that ere the -sunlight of that beautiful October day should give way -to the cold dew of night his own soul would be driven -from his body by the cold damp of death. He was -traveling with Hon. Joseph Brooks, another tried and -valiant soldier in the great cause of freedom and equal -rights. They were to speak that day about six miles -from the village of Indian Bay. They had been refused -passage on a steamboat because they were Radicals, -and so were belated. Some hundreds of eager, -expectant Republicans were awaiting their arrival. -To this meeting the officers of the Democratic club -had gone as advocates of the adoption of “joint peace -resolutions.” The Republicans said that several Radicals -had then recently been killed in the county and -no Democrats; and therefore they thought if the Democracy -had suddenly acquired a desire for peace no -resolutions were necessary; but although some of them -thought it merely a cloak for Democratic villany, they -were willing to bind themselves in resolutions to do -what they intended doing anyhow, and they therefore -unanimously adopted the resolutions. One of the -principle signers and most apparently earnest advocates -was George W. Clark, secretary of the Democratic -club. But as soon as he had signed them he returned<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> -to his home, arriving there before Messrs Brooks and -<span class="smcap">Hinds</span> had reached that far, and himself gave the fated -ones direction as to the road. When they had ridden -on he got his gun, saddled his horse, and rode after -them. The intended victims were riding along with -their greatest solicitude at the moment, being anxious -though to reach the waiting crowd. The horses -being differently gaited, Mr. Brooks was at the moment -some fifty yards ahead. The man with grayish -suit on rode up near, but a very little in the rear of -Mr. <span class="smcap">Hinds</span>, smiling as Judas may have smiled when -he kissed his Lord and Master, he engaged in pleasant -conversation. For a second the three thus rode on, -the victims wholly unsuspecting, and the smiling murderer, -with cold-blooded calculation, waiting for a better -opportunity to make sure of both. An illustration -of the meaning of Democratic peace resolutions is -about to be made. The same hand which a few hours -before signed peace resolutions now grasps the assassin’s -weapon, within a very few feet of Mr. <span class="smcap">Hinds’</span> -back, the gun is suddenly raised. Click, click, hear -the triggers! Oh! the terrible instant! bang, bang, -goes the gun. Mr. Brooks’s horse, stung with buck-shot, -bounds ahead with a wounded rider, while the -second horse madly leaps forward riderless, and <span class="smcap">James -Hinds</span> lies on the ground motionless, dying. Another -order of the Ku-Klux-Klan has been executed; smiling -with a fiend’s smile upon his features stands the -Democratic assassin; the soul of another martyr is sent -unshriven before the arbitrator of eternity; dying, shot<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> -in the back, lies the Radical Congressman. Would to -God the curtain of oblivion might drop over the scene -forever!</p> - - - -<p><span class="smcap">James Hinds’</span> spirit has passed from earth, but his -life, deeds, and death will not soon pass from memory, -so well he lived, so hard he toiled, so young was he -gathered into the unseen fold, that when we think of -him we cannot avoid to lament that:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="first">“The hand of the reaper</div> -<div class="indent">Takes the ears that are hoary,</div> -<div class="verse">But the voice of the weeper</div> -<div class="indent">Wails manhood in glory.”</div> -</div></div> - -<p>He had so many noble qualities and won so many -strong friends we can very easily drop the veil of charity -over his faults, whatever they may have been. Had -he been faultless he could not have been human. It -is said a death-bed is a detector of human hearts. If -so, it is pleasing to know that in his expiring moments, -lying with no more friendly touch than the breast of -mother earth, his few words were not concerning his -own death tortures, but were expressions of solicitude -for his wife and two sweet daughters whom he loved -so dearly. Could you, sirs, have seen the hundreds of -compressed lips and wet eyes which spoke in an eloquence -and intensity of grief words could not be framed -to utter when his remains passed through the City of -Little Rock. You would have exclaimed, “Behold, -how they loved him,” and certainly he who has thus -won the love of man must have a strong claim on the -mercy of God.</p> - -<p>But ceremonies in honor of the dead can only be -beneficial in so far as they affect the actions of the living.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> -Could the spirit of <span class="smcap">James Hinds</span> speak to us to-day -it would not be with an effort to induce fulsome -eulogies upon those who are beyond mortal aid, but -from the portals of the dead he would say protect the -living.</p> - -<p>The nation has the power to obey such a request, -and when the people arose in their might and majesty -on the 3d day of November, it was to declare in unmistakable -terms their heartfelt approbation of the -promise of him whom they felt had the power to execute -the promise that freedom and protection should be -guarantied as well on the warm gulf coast as on the -cold lake shores. That was the key-note of the entire -canvass. The mighty leader of the loyal hosts was a -popular man, remarkably, deservedly popular for his -glorious services to his country. But he was most -popular from the full confidence that the people had -in him that he had the will and the power to speak -into peace and tranquility the angry waves of prejudice -and passion that were raging in the South, crimsoned -with human gore. It was the embodiment of that will -and power for which the nation in such overwhelming -numbers spoke its preference, and the present is an -auspicious moment to inaugurate obedience to the people’s -behests. Many good men who have always -wanted peace, but could not tear themselves loose from -political thraldom in the heat of political excitement, -now express their earnest, anxious longing for protection -of life and the restoration of peace to the country.</p> - -<p>The very leaders of the political assassinations themselves<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> -seem now to be partially revolting from the -horrible atrocities of the execution of their own schemes -and orders, which feeling, added to the wholesome belief -they have that the authorities will be sustained, -lives will be protected, and peace will be maintained, -is making even them for the time converts to the great -loyal heart’s desire for restoration of peace and protection.</p> - -<p>It is not indemnification for the past that is asked, it -is only security for the future. The murdered cannot -be brought to life, but the murderers can be made to -spare the living. Honeyed words alone cannot accomplish -this, but men must be made to feel that protection -will prove more profitable than assassination; kind -words may do the work if it is positively known that -the nation supports the State authorities, so that there -is a reserve of sterner power which can be brought to -the support of kindness on any instant of emergency. -Let party lines be obliterated in this desire for the -maintainance of peace and protection. Let partisans -now be absorbed in patriots, so that all men, Republicans -and Democrats alike, will feel an inspiration of -such God-given patriotism as found utterance from the -steps of this building when nearly four years ago he -who spake as one with less in him of earth than -heaven, said: “With malice toward none, with charity -for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to -see the right, let us strive to do all which may achieve -and cherish a just and lasting peace.” His words fell -with magic effect, because, while he extended the olive-branch -with the left, in his right hand he wielded the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> -great American Army, the most potential power on the -face of the earth. The olive-branch should still be extended, -but it will only be to loose the hand that offers -it unless it is demonstrated that the strong arm of -power will be used whenever necessary to overwhelm -the crushing tyranny of lawlessness and oppression.</p> - -<p>Ages gone the great Omnipotent who snatched time -from eternity and spoke system from chaos, said “Let -there be light,” and the sacred chronicler informs us -“there was light.” To-day the mighty people who -have saved the nation’s life in the sanguinary struggle -and declared freedom in the kingdom of slavery, have -said “let us have peace.” Shall not the historian -who records the doings of this year be allowed to say -“there was peace!”</p> - -<p>Oh, shall it not be so! The spirit of <span class="smcap">James Hinds</span> -unites with hundreds (you know not how many) of -other spirits of treacherously murdered men in beseechingly -asking the question. Their suffering -widows and orphans, without even the little comforting -crumb of a Government pension, are weepingly asking -the question. The hundreds of thousands of maimed -and crippled loyal men who fought and suffered beside -comrades who, fighting, fell to establish peace and protection, -are earnestly asking the question. Thirty-eight -million inhabitants in these United States whose prosperity -can only be commensurate with the maintenance -of peace and protection, all join in prayerfully asking -the question. The countless lovers of freedom -throughout the whole world with one accord are looking -to this nation and anxiously asking the question. -And, sirs, remember the Representatives of the people -and the Government must be responsible for the answer.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="transnote"> -<p class="ph1">TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:</p> - - -<p>Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.</p> - -<p>Archaic or alternate spelling has been retained from the original.</p> - -<p>The cover image for this eBook was created by the transcriber and is entered into the public domain.</p> -</div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of "Let Us Have Peace", by Logan H. 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