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debauchery. And the same can be said of America, our poverty and 

 debauchery breeds pestilence, as our general corruptions multiply insect 

 enemies, in number and kinds, curse everything with blight, mildew, or rot. 

 As a nation we are robbing the poor of the goodly things of life, the earth 

 partaking of the nation's greed cuts short the yield, so that with one or 

 two exceptions our farm crops for the last 18 years have been gradually 

 growing less per acre, new lands not yielding what new lands did 20 years 

 ago — seasons varying to suit the quiet or turmoil of the nation — hence 

 the gain of the last two years, 1878-79. 



The boisterous weather of two years ago calmed with the political quiet, 

 and the two yet hold together, storms rising in fury as the political excite- 

 ment rises in passion, showing that a great excitement that sways any 

 considerable portion of the world's people gives form and character to the 

 weather, as well attested facts prove. The winter Wafshington lay at 

 Valley Forge was the coldest known to that date, and not repeated until 

 the winter Charleston was beseiged during the rebellion. And the winter 

 Charles XII invaded Russia, they had the hardest winter known there 

 up to that date, and not repeated until the invasion of Napoleon and the 

 burning of Moscow. Then again during the French revolution of 1792 

 and '93 the hardest winter occurred ever known in France to that date, 

 and not repeated until the winter Paris was beseiged by the Germans. 



And so run the historic events of the world, human quiet or commotion 

 giving form to the elements. Hence earthquakes, eruptions and great 

 tornadoes sweep over space, as great secret conclaves contemplate setting 

 their forces in motion. 



Therefore, let him that readeth understand, that when he hears of 

 great storms sweeping from the gulf northAvard, that it is the elements 

 revealing secrets. 



In America the results of the fast horse are telling in corruptions and 

 dissensions, the nation's foot has made one slip, and pour the blood of a 

 w^holesale Indian and negro slaughter on the slide, and like an avalanche 

 let go at the mountain's height, will go crashing beyond and below where 

 any ignorance or depravity of Negro or Indian could sink them. 



As a nation we are traveling the same high road the Arab went, and 

 where he has gone we are going. He to-day is the most brutal being that 

 lives— rode down there on the fast horse— and our nation with the same 

 speed is going down the descent, with whisky and tobacco, foul curses 

 unknown to the Arab, to sink us lower and curse us more lasting. 



And now, in conclusion, let me entreat one and all to scan well the 

 evils that confront us— probe for a cause and the remedy. 



For the last fifteen hundred years the so-called reformers have preached 

 peace; " Do to others as you would they should do to you; forgive your 

 enemies; do good to those that persecute you; bless them that hate you," — 

 with hands dripping in blood the while; and should a converted Indian slop 

 over a little strong, with teeth set you will hear them ejaculate: Exter- 

 minate the race; Christian civilization with them is a failure. 



