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'TIS GOOD TO FORGET. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON RIGHT EOUS LAPSES OF MEMORY. ForgetfuIlile8s in Curiini, VIasoi Is Dc. clarcd to 1Ie On of the Siibllimeat At tributon of the Doit.y---An Eloquent Plea for Charity and Mercy. I3RooK IN, June 5.-The cnorious audience which thronged the Taberna cle this morning had fresh evidence of Dr. Talmage's originality. The value of a retenti,ive nictliory every one knew by experience anId had heard extolled from their schoolday- up, but they lentned fiom D)r. Talnage's sermon that the art o[ lorg,etting is worth culti vating, and that there is the highest pos sible examplo for its exercise. His text was Hebrews viii, 12, "Their sins and their inmquities will 1 remember no niore."1 The national flower of the Egyptians is the heliotrope, e' the Assyrians is the water lily, of' the Itinldoos is the Imlarigolt, ol tle (iinese is the chrysan themiun. We have no national flower, but there is hardly any flower more sug ;estive 0 many of us than the orgetlme not. We all like to be remembered, andl(] one of our tiisfortunes iS that there lire so many things we cannot remem ber. Mnemnonics, or tle art of assist.ing Ielmory, Is an imiportant art. It was lirst siugested by siionides of Cos live hundred years before Christ. Persons who had blut little power to recall vvent.s, or Put facts and natmes and dates ill proper processions, have through this art had their memory re enforced to an almost incredible extent. A good memory is an invaluable posse-. sion. By V all Imeans cul tivate it. I had tin aged friend who. detaied all night at a iiserable tICdpot inl waiting for Ia nil train iast i tihie snowhaiks, enter Wiaied a group of boene ten or fifteen cleigyruen likewise detained on their way homiie Iroi a lleetinlg of presby tery, first, with a piece of chalk, draw itg out on the bhIck andi sooty walls of the dupol.f. the c1.11Wtraci of Walter Scott's; "Ma1 inalln," '' ni then recitini. it,m nicmor:; the whole of that peoln :, ono eighty Mae ilIne pIn11. My ol Ifeld throllgll [.rcat a.e 14,st his Iuemory, lvfhen I asked hii if hm story o the railu.ul i"ot was Litic, he said. "I <bi Ut. rc:nwher now, Ibi it was list hike nw." "I.et me see.'' h lide () l,'hei L (Ver 'weln ol b)elore" "\N s," I said, "you were Iny guest la4;t nihh, and I was with you a hiour aL.'' W hiat IIa awful 111-as inll thalt. man lt ween the greatest nieln.r . ever ,knew and. no0 mntoiury at a.i. dt i st a >ll'. 1wit this -t 1, recol, letioin, which I umoi, too liIhly ul). "izu, I: nlie ilte as 1liportal't, ai yeI I icver hearI il applulailA. I iliai tIh art of orgctne,. Thr i , spleni aculty ill that lirektioil that we all nwet to cuiltivilt. ve mi;!Ilt tihronl-,i tha lrocess be tin tilnt ha11111r mald mol useful than we now are. W o have beei told 1that forgetlluhIc is is a weaknweS Ilu( oug it to be avoide'l by all sibl Iluans. ) fir Ilolli a weakless, m) tLI,t acribes it to Go(Id. . is the ver top of otlilijOteice that (1d is able I oilittrate a part C 1is ow Min Iemol y. I we repent of sin and ri-iht1ly seek the Id v ine for''iven ess, the ret oal Iof the inhi behar ior Ii nit oniily Crilssed I l offLh books, but G~od actually lets it plass oW o miemnory. "'Their sins5 andt their iniquities illf rememiber 110 mlore."' T'> reiniembher ni more1( is to for'get, aili you cannot mlak( imiythfug else (lut o: it. Godf's piowe ot forget tmIl is so great that if two tme1 aplpeaul to himii, and1( the~ one mani, after; fife all right, ircts the sins of his heat pardon;Ied, and the other matn, after: lIfe of abomination gets pardoned, (i rememubers no1 tiuore against one thai ains1iIt tihe other. 'Thle entIre past, ( bo0th the~ moiurahst , with his imiperie I ions, and tlhe prill igate, wvit Lis dhe halulcherles, is as muchl oblfiterated ini thi one1 case aii ill the other. Foirgotte, io' ever antd forever. "T'1hieir sinis anii thieit inli(uities will I rememb er ni mnore.~ This sublimne aittribute of forget fulnes on the part of Glod you aitalil i needl, i our finite way, to imitate. You will dli wvell to cast ouit of' your recollection al of one's lifelie is sure to be mnisrepre sentedi, to be lied about, to lie injulred There are those who keep these thing fresh by frequent rehlearsal. If thing have afppearedl in prln t, they keep then in their straphiook, for they cuit theso~ precious5 paral )~i irahs 0ou1 of ne wtSpapen)~l or books, and at,leisure times look then over, orI they have~' themi tied til in bun dIles, or thirust in pigeonhioles, andl thiey freqiientl y regale tflhmselves and then friends bly an inlspetctionl of these ings, these~ sarcasms, these fialsehioods. LIhese cruel.1ties. Iml~itaite the I iLrd ini my text itndl f'or .t, at 1uall y 1(11get , subi~llily forget. 'lhereC is no hialpiniess foir youi1 in any arotmdi~ you, ini the courehcf anid out (of thie chur1h, disMo.sitjins a(eirb, mial!gni, c)mn cal, pess ii e. 1): yu in io w how ti? It wais biy the embl:Jllnnent of Iave slpt i11 ifh of hejr ime ill eilligi.r the roil (of al the rats thatl~u hav iiibll i att their trelputatin. TJhiir soul is~ nga li1 vultures. E.verythimig m lieu is ooi (Ir imibittered. The tullkt litunai kind-l hiels has1 bctrn eturdled. Th'fey ilo liii belIeve il anlvhedfy or ivtlinle, if they tec two peColeI t whieIn!, the v tink it is about theimselves. IfI t hey see to 11eopl1 lauitheliy tinnk is a aboiii t heiinsclv~es. Where thiere is one sweet lIIippi inl t heir orchard, there are fifty irah al ies, 'l'hey have neverC bteen ibthioLi forget. Thiey doi not w.anit to forget. Tlhey nleveir wdul tore eL. TIhiir w retc hiedness is su. Iremne, for no one cani lbe hiappfy if het carries peretuathly fn m1ind( thie men things that hauve beeni done h i. Oni the other hand, yon enni find here aiid there a mami or woman (for there ire not many of' them) whose disposition is gen ial and summery. WVhi? Have the.y always beeni treated well? Oh, -no. Hard thincs have beeni said against them. They have been charged with efilciousness; and their generosities have been set dlown to a desire for ia display, and they' have many a time 'aeeni the subject of tittle-tattle, and they have had enough email assaults like gnats and cnoughi great attacks lhke 1pons to have mTadle them perpetually miserable, it they would have consentIed to be miser able, But they hlave hlad enough divine philosophy to cast off the aunnoyances, and they have kepL themselves in the sunlight of God's favor and have real. ized that these oppositions and hlndran ces are a part of a mighty discIpline, by which they are to be prepared for use finess and heaven. The sacret of it all is, they have by the help of the Eter nal God learned how to forget. Another practical thought: When our faults are repented of let them go out ofi mind. If God forgets them, we have a right to forget them. IlavinL once re peuted of our inelicities and misdemean trs, there is no need of our repenting of them again. Suppose I ow-j you a large buin ofi money, and you are persuaded I am incapacitated to pay, and you give me acquittal from that obligetion. You say: "I cancel that debt. All is right now. Start again." And the next day I come in aad say: "You know about that big debt I owed you. I have come in to get you to let me off. I fell so bad about it I cannot rest. -Do let me oll'." You reply with a little Impatience: "I did let you oil'. Don't bother yourself and bother me with any more of that discuissikn." 'l'he following day I come in and say: "My dear sir, about that debt. I can never get over the fact that I owed you that money. It is something that weighs on my mind like a millstone. Do for give ie that debt." This time you clear lose your patience and say: "You are a nuisance. What do you mean by this reiteration of' that affair? I am almost sorry I forgave you that debt. Do you doubt, my veracity or do you not umiler stand the plain language in which I told you that debt was canceled?" Well, my friends, there are many Christians guilty of worse folly than ti-it. While it is right that they repent of new sins and of recent sins, what is the use of bothering yoursell and insult mr God by asking him to forgive sins that long ago were forgiven God has forgotten them. Why do you not for get them? No; you drag ihe load on with iou and 365 times a ycar, if you pi a3 every day, you ask God to recall o<currenccs which he has not only for g'ven but torgotten. Quit this folly. I do not ask you less to realize the turpi tide of sin, but I ask you to a higher ftidi in the promise of God andL the full :leliverance of his mercy. IIe does not give, a receipt for part payment or so much received on account, but receipt, !n full, God having for Christ's sake de creed, "your sins anld your inui(tiiLies will 1 remember no more." As far as possible let the disagree ables of lite drop. We have einoiigh Odhig m thIe plrcseint, and(] ther- vilt b>e (w1CILh11 in il to r'! to distirb ut s, with. out rut mng 1 *peeia trm iin into the great t.le-by to fetch us as special freight thmilgs left behind. Some ton years ago, wlein there was a grea, railroad strike, I reniniber seeing all along the route Irom OmAha to Chiicago, and froni (ii. ng) to New York, hundreds and thous. anids of reight cars witched oil the silde Iri'teks, thosv ear loaded with all kinds Ol pri!ihle material, decaying id neim1. A fter the strike was over did the railr-oad comlpalietd bring aill tIat p-rlidhed liatesrial doyil to the markets? No, they threw it off wher,e it was des rsled~, aid loaded up with smnelhing e.t the 11vng tra in of your thoturgh.t.s tin oll, the worse than useless treight 4)1 a1 -.rr ilad d eWtoyed past, and l,111 op with gratitude and tait,h and hilly e terlina ll!lt)il. ve dio not, pletise GAod by the cult,ivation fthie iseram.11ble. lIe would rat.her see us flappy than to 1see us depressed. ou wIuld rather s-c y hui chiliren laugh;1 thanl to see thieni crY, and your heavenly Father has no to10.dns forIS 0 hysterics. Not olyi forget your pardloned tranis e .remoins, but allow others to forget I iem. TIhe chief stock on hand of maniy Peole~ is to recounit in prayer m)eet,ings aind111 fulits what, big scoundrels they onc:e were. They not only will not for get their f'rgivein deficits, but, they seem tbe decteininedl that, tile cnurch and 1the worldI shall not forget them. If you waniIt to declare that you have heel)'tile chief of sinners and extol the graice thait coiuldl save such a wretch as you were, do( so, b)ut, do not go into part,iculars. D)o not tell how many times you got h-ua~ok or to what, bad p)lcesy'ou went,, or how many free rides you had il the ilr'54)n van before you were converted. I .3u P it, brother; give to us in bulk. .It maiy be aLlpropriate ini a meeting of reomd dunkards or r'eformledI debau hesto qjuote for' those not, reformed how tdesplerate andI nasty you once weire, bult dto 110t drnive a scavenger's cart iato asemlges of poe,the motof whom have always been deccat, and r spIectable. Uut I have beeni somietimies fin great evaigelist.ie meet,ing where peo ple V. t't 1into particulars abiout, tihe sins that they (once committed so) mucli 80 ..hat I felt like pu1ttinig miy hand on my pocketbo'ok or calling for the pcohee lesL these reformed mn miighit fail fi'om grace 1(1nt goI at their oldl business of' theft 01' tdIrnlkennieMs or cultthiroatery. If v'our sinsifhave been forgiven and yomii lif'e prle,forget the waywardness of the 1past, mtal ahiow others to foirget it. Buit whait I most, want in the light of this text to impress upon my hearers and't reatders is that we have a im forget tinmg G;od. SuppJose thlat on the last <ty- cailletd the last (lay because the sunO ill n iever iagain I ise upjoni our earth, utie eli th itsel hibe flhng inito liery de to"ht on-suluios:cig thait oni that, last da a '(roup of inifernal spirt'! tsho1uld 1.m ilIny get near' enouIlgh the cate of bt a eni , a111nd Ihaleng;e our enitranice, andI Ibotc-e c-tits into) the relm~!i of supern'ial l.cd'em: Why3 they said a grealt inny IliI4 tIley neverC1 (ighft, to ha:mve saidl, a.1,d they idt a grea,t manuiy tin.lls they IIn t n1evr to haviiLe dione . a ers areI I t' ; sil.ners all.'' siter, h.e miiight. 'ay: "Y ~es, buit did not(I nli only Son die for their ranismIly 1) id bet not, pay tile price? Not 0114 tdrop t 4 i enervei~' oft his tha t was not v,.; in l tile tortuire. lie took in his own botdy moiil soull all the suffer-ing thait t.hose siln litrl- tdeserve. Th'ley pleaded tha t salci.. tihit tok the ii ul:liadoni thalt I prionul sed to aul whois, through.~i my)~ Son, earne1s:.t ly illd tha i lt Lhe were'II''t offendersi'~. I ftoi got al11 about it. Yes(1, 1 forgo)t ailh 1about,1 G od! Thait is clear heyond( and fat' above a sill pard'(oninig God. Many ',ears ago a family, consiating of tile husbandl and4 wife and little girl ot two years, lived far out in a cabin on au western pirairie. The husbaind took a few cattle to mai ket. Before lie stalrtedf his litt,le child asked hIm to buy for lher a doll, and lhe plromised. le could, af ter the sale of the cat,tle, Ihmchase hiousehohld necessities, alnd certidn lly wvould not forget the (loll lhe had p)romis ed1. In the viilage to whIch 1he went lie sold the catt,le and obtained the groceries for hia househould ad the (doll f'or huis litt,le darling. IIe started home along tihe dismal road at nightfall. As lhe went along on hiorseb)ack a thunderstorm broke, and in tile most lonely p)art of the road and in the heav ies part of tile storm lhe heard a chld cry. Robbers had been known to do some bad work along that road, and It was known that this herdsman had inoney with him, the price of the cattle I iold. The herdsman first thought it vas a stratagem to have him halt and )e despoIled of his treasures, but liOe Aild's cry became more keen and rend ng, and so he dismounted and felt wound in the dairk,ess and all in vain, nitil lie thoulit of a hollow that he re ienbered near the road where the child night be and for that lie start,ed, and sure mough found a little one fagged out ind drenched of the storm and almost dend. lie wrapped it up as well as ie could, and mounted his icrse und resumied his journey honic. CoiIIg iIn shit o1 his cabin, he saw it all lighted up and supposed lit wifle had kindled all these lights so as to guide her husband through the darkness. But, no. The house was Full of excitement and the neighbors were gathered and stood around the wife of the house, who was insensible as from some great cal niity. On inquiry the returned hus band found that Lfie little child of that cabin was gone. She had wandered out to meet her fither and get the present he had promised, and the child was lost. Then the father unrollUd from the blank et the child he had found in the fieds, and lo! it was his own child and the lost one of the praire home, and the cabin quaked with the shout over the lost one found. How suggestive of the fact that, once we were lost in the open fields, or among the mountain crags, God's wandering children, andl he found us, dying in .he1 tempest, and wrapped us in the mantle of his love and fetched us home, glad ness and congratulation bidding us wel conic. The fact is that the world does not know God, or they would all flock to him. Through their own blindness, or the lault of some rongh p 3reachin that has got abroad in the centu riesi many men and woien have an i(ea that God is tyrant and olppressor, an autocrat. a .Nian Sahtib, an Omniil)ot cut Herod Antipas. It is a libel aganst tie Almight,y; it is a sland,-r against. the heavens; it is a detamation o1 the intini ties. I Couiinted il 1113 lible 304 times the word "tinciy," single or compounded with other words. I counted in ily lBible 473 fimnes the word "love," single or compounded with other werdN. Thenl I ',W, tired coititiLiM,. Perhaps you iigit count imore, belti better at fi ures. lIut the li-brew and the English, and the Greek languages have heeni taxed till they cAnnot lay aIIy more tribute to the love and mercy and kinidneS and grace and charity and teiderness and frienship anld btnevvolence and syipathly ani boun teouliesi and lathelfiliess and Iotherli ness anid 1paience iod pardon ol' our Gu.l. There ai. c.taill name1ic, So m11anictie that their prn)unchttiein thr'illS ail wl' ICar it. Such is the name of the Italian zuldier and liberator, Garibaldi. March iii with his troops L me1Ct I 1h,efIlierd who was ill reat <ituss because he hiat, s8 a lanmbh. Garibaldi said to i:s ioo*ps, "ot us help this poor shenerd find his lamb." And so, with lanterns :id torchtes4. they explored the mon tanlis, hut <11 not find ti, lamihl), an([ a, te-r an linsuccessil s:arh late at uight, they wint, t.o their encampuent. The necxt moiring G aribaldi w as lound asleep01 far on into the day, andf they wakened fiin for some puirpose arnd found that he had not given upI the search when the soldiers dlid, but, had kept, on itila farther into the night, and had foundi~ it, andi lie jiulled down the blankets from his couch andi( theire laiy tihe 11amb, wich1 Gal~oali oideredl immnediatel y takeni to its owner'. So the C2ominan'ier of all the hosts of hemaven turned asidle from his glorious anid Victorious march t.brough the ccen turies of heven and said, "I will go aind recover that lost world, and that, rae of wom Adami was the priogemnitor, and( let all who will accompaniy me.'' And trough the niighit they canme, but I do not see that, the angelic escort camiie any father thaii the clouds, burt t,heir miost, ilustrious leader cai ne all the w ay3 down, and by the irme his erraiiid Is done our little world, our wandlering and( lost worldl, our wvoild fleecy with the hiirht, w ill be founid in the biosom of the Great Shepherd, and then all heaven ilil take up t,be canitata and sinig, "Thfe 1o- t shee p) toLmd."' .So I set openi the witfe gate of muy text, inviting you all to conie into tie inercy and1( pairden of God; yea, stidl further, imnto thle ruins of the place where once was kept, the knowledge of yotur iniqui tiels. The placs has been torn down and the records destroyed, and you will flid the ruins inore dielapidat ed andu bmrokeni and prostrate than the iruins of Melrose or Kenilwort,h, lor from thiesei last ruins you cani pick up sonic frag menit of a sculptured stonec OF 30ou canl se'e the curve of' some broken arch, but alter your repenitanice ail your forgive ness youi canniot Iin liin all the memory of' God a fragmieint of' all your p)ardoned Sas so large as a ineedlie's poinmt. "Thecir sins and theair i niquitie's will II remermber 1n0 incre.' And mioie of that wilIf surprise von if youi Will cliimbI to t hei top) ofa luff back oft .JQerusalem (it took 11s only five or ten li mites1 to e'limbii it). amih see what went onl wheni thle plateau of liestonei was shi ak en b y ai parioxy sinm that set the rocks, i wichI ha l een u mi ipright , mc-lantt, andE on thle I ieb mbhg er'osspieces oi the ( spl)1it 11umb er hun g the (iive1'r in g form of him whose life was thrust out by meitaflie pointis of' 'ruelt y that sickenied the n)oiidty siin till it fainted and11 fell back 0on e bhik lou1nge~ oft the .* udean mnidnighit. Six differenit kinids ofI sounlds wiere he1'rdl oin tha luL iahit wichI was inter. jected into the dayilight of C hrist's I issasxsinat ion: Ift i neigh,ingi of' thle wva r hors'es, foir tomeui of theIl sioldiers wire inl hie saddlie, waIs one( SounlIi; th e ibang ofj he fii hauners was a s9econd( sound;l the et r o)f mlu:hgnants wvas a third sounid; he weeping of I iriends and( ('oadl jltors. was a fourlthi soundI; thie splas. iof bloomf in thle rocks was a flfth sound; tihe niroan of the expiri ng J iord wvas a sixthi ioun d. And thiey all comm inlinliig inito mle sadniiess. Ov) er a ph111in mt olssiau bvhiire wvolve iMwere prisuiing a laid of' 1 uravelers and to save themt a si rvant o Iyranlg fr'om the sle.f into the months 'l )f the wiki beast anld was dtevoulred, ti md1( thereby the other lives were saved, Il ire inscribed t he word(: "Greatter love ath nio man thlan this t hat, a mani lay l, Iown his life for his friends." I Many a surgeon in our owni timue has ti ni trachiiotomny with hIs own lips , .irawn from the wVidpipe of a diph11 theritic patient that wichlo cired the ~ patient and shewi thte surgeon, and al1l - halve honored t,he self sacrifIce. Btt all athier scenes of sacriice Pass before Lthis most illustrions martyr of all timie ind all eternity. Afler thiat agonizing a spectacle in behalf or our fahien racet nothing about the sin forgetting God h is too stupendous f or muy faith, and I d aecept ,the promise, a ..1 will you hot b mall accept it '"heir sins and their a infonitima winl I remmbe no -o-. f BLAINE'S SENSATION. -E RESIGNS A8 SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE HARRISON CABINET. :1o Democrats Delighted and the Repub licant Blue Otr the lAction of the 111uned Kuiaht--Exciting Scen i When the News Was Received. \VASHINUTON, June 4. --The follow. i, correspondence explahns itself: DEPArMENT OF STATE, \VASHINGTON, June 4, 1892. ,'o the President: I respectfully beg leave to submit my esiguation of the office of Secretary of state of the United States to which I Nas appointed by you on March 5, 1889. rhe cohdition of public business in the Department of State justifies me in re 'luestiag that my resignation may be ac epted immediately. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient Servant, JAMES G. BLAINE. EXECUTIVE MANSION. WASH[INUTON, June 4, 1892. To the Secretary of State: Your letter of this date tendering your resignation o the ofiice of Secretary of State of the United States has been re ceived. The ternis'in which you state your desites are such its to leave me no choice but to accede to your wishes at once. Your resignation is therefore ac. cepted. Very respectfully yours, BENJAMIN HARRISON. The news of the resignation of Blaine created a profound sensation at the Cap itol. The Senate was not In session, but the House was in the throes of 1Iii bustering agfainst the anti-option bill. The effect of the reception of the Asso ciated Press bulletin atnnouucing the event was magical. The telegram was read by the Speaker and by Represen tative Dingly and almost instantly the news spread over the hall like a wave of sound. Within two minutes the space in front of the desk was filled by a thrtng of ReIpresentatives struggling to get a glimpse of the bit of yellow paper which was snatched from one hand to another. The Speaker left the chair temporari lV, dele--aliug his duties to Representa Live Johnson (l South Carolina, and the latter soon found that lie had assumed an almost impossible task in endeavor ing to keep oider in the House, while it labored tunder the storm of excitement. The clerks were calling the roll on sine motion to take a recess until some unreasonitble hour ini the evening, but their voices could searcely be' heard over aid above the hum of consultation and the tones of' e.iacuhtlon. The effect was discouragitwl to liei pendiig busi ness. Then canie a comparison of views, Democrats andI Republicans qathering in knots in the rear of the seats and putting their heads together Im consultation. "What does it, mnean?" was the ques tion in every mouth. It did not take the Democrats long to decide what view to take of the mlatter -As to the initial stage. It means that Blaine is stand i4h for nominatioln, said one and all. Nearly all of the Democrats were of one mind on another point and that was exp:essed by a speaker who said that the re6ignation meant war to the knife between the adminif3tration and anti adiniiistration fiactions. 'rhe newe set, the Republicans think ing hard and1( they did not manifest any thing like the exhilaration that was ex hibited by the Democrats. D)ockery of Missouri said: "Fate is with us. 11, means that Blaine is the uimnlilee and1( Blaine cait never be elect cd." Sayers of Texas: "Set it dIown that Bhuane will be the nomimee and will be beaten.'" saidl McKinney. represening the New England Democracy, his face fairly in diant: "We have got thenm. B3laine will be nominated and, of course, we will nominate Cleveland. Hie beat Blame once and1( can (1o it,again.'' Wih-on of WVest, Virgzinia remarked: "'It mecans a rup)ture in the RtepublIcan party, andl that, means a D)emocratic victory."' .O'Ferrall of Virginia is confident that it mneta Blame's nomination and that nomination makes doub)ly sure the nomn iniation of Cleveland at, Chi'rago-a nom. imition of which lie never had the slight e-st doubt. Watson, the Farmers' Alliancemnan from Georgia, saidl that its the Syracuse Convention hlad split the Democratic pairt,y Into thet,ions so would Blaine's ac t,ion result, in a division of the Republi catns. Then would ie the opplortunity of the third party; and it would take adl vantage of it, and a wedge would be mn serted. Eniloe of TIennessee thought it meant Biaine's nomination. But Bllaine, aic cordling to Enloe, '"is carri ing diplomlacy to at I omt, which in cur section of' the counltry w~ ould be called i-quare lyilig." It, was d1 isplomnacy like that, Practicedl by Mimuter I'a&rin. IPieceu of Tennessee was of the opin ion that Bjlaine was sha~rp) enough to see .he hands of' his opp)onents before lie tende r( dI h is resigniation. Fellows of New York could see no0 reason lor' Blainie's r( signationi other Ibamn that he~ wanted the nomination. The action of Bhlane, Fellows thought, wvouldl weauken himt in some quarters. li s cceneral observatiou w as that, Blaine 'oul be willing to fake the nomination ftendered him. .1 mst as Colonel Fellows finished pea~ikintg, a New York liep ublicani Rep esentat,ive Curtis caine up and Fellows aid to him : "'Whaimt do .you Jiepubli ans me.lli'" ( urtis , resp)oded: "'It, will tiake the (lta matton onit of indhm.i bt, iBlaine ill not get, it.' 8oatne~r of' Lou1isianai said it meant, Ihiine is a str'aichlt(t, canididat,e for t,he 101 ionnation. It is the best ti ng that oub1( happen ifor the Demnocrat ic party. J lamd of' Mdissouri sid lie sulpposed it icans war' between Unrrison and Blaine nid others, it may recsui t In the dlelent, I both and in the selection of' some thuer :mdidate. It seems to he goodh olicy for the Republecans to name some1 ther pmersoni than Bllaine or IIarrison. 'lie resignation p uts IBlaine in the at,ti 1(de of' opposition to the nomination of .arrison. Rockwell of' New York said that the rogrammo for the last, ten days had ~en that, flaine should be kept out of me race tup to this p)oint, andl the pro camme had1( been made(1 with his aissent 1(d assistance. lie did not think that t,ber Blaine or Tlarison could be nom ted. It had to be a light, l,etween aii'son and( anti-Haimrrison pe ple, and haine, he lhon It, wou)ld lend his as. st ar'ce to Qua3 td Paatt, in the effort '(defeast ilaurri sn. Bllaine felt that he Id not, been tated rhth y the Presm snt, and besides there was known to S a sor,ial feud between Mrs. IIarrison nd Mrs. Blane that must have its of. iet on the Secretary. Wilcox of Connecticut said he thought Blaine had intended to be a candidate for some time. The contest between Harrison and Blaine would be very'close but Blaine was now convinced that he would be nominated, otherwise he would hardly have resigned. Bran of Nebraska, thought the Blaine und Harrison forces would fight it out in the convention, and whichever was nominated his chances of election would have been weakened. Cummings of New York: "It settles the question. It means Blaine's nomina tion at Minneapolis and the livest kind of a campaign." THE PARDONING POWER. h1r. Brooker Protests Against Condemna tion of the Executives. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 6.-Editor Register: Much has been said of late comdemning what is purported to be a too free exercise of the pardoning power by Governor Tillman. I beg to sai that in my judgment it would be better for the press of the State to abandon that subject as a weapon of warfare in this hot political contest, becaue: First, I (0 not think an Executive ought to be interfered with in the exer cise of this right, wisely given him by the Constitution of the State, in any do srce whatever, unless it is shown that such power is being indiscreetl$ used. It is a question which involves the lives and the liberties of human beings, and hence is too important as affecting hu man liberty to be trifled with. Seco'd, The Executive of a State is made re sponsible, and only he occupies the pro per position to know when, by the pro per investigation, such power should be exerc;sed, and where it is done it should be presumed. without proof to the con trary. that there exists good reasons why it should be done, more especially when there can be discovered no under lying base motive in so doing, which in this case Is Impossible to be se imagined. Third, In the peculiar condition of our convict system, the nature and the com plexion of the prison population, the uncertainty and ambiguity which in volves the correctness of many of the convictions in our State, and in some cases the severity of the ,untences on account of political feeling and prejudice, and which may sometimes be inflicted by a peevish. impatient Judge, may be in a moment of passion. It demands, on the part of the Executive, the most riiid, careful and labored investigation ot each Individual case, and becomes the grave duty of the Governor of a State to look well to the matter; and in the discharge of this sacred obligation lie should be free from bias or fear of any person or persons, or of conse quence or consequences. And he should be upheld and not condemned where it is seen that he is fearlessly moving in the discharge of this sacred duty. I am willing to hear oonplaints and condemnat,ions against Governor Till man or any other Governor when the proofs are submitted tha., he has acted indiscreetly, but until such proofs are submitted, in the name of liberty and justice, of mercy and Christianity, I beg to enter my most solemn protest against wreckless charges in this regard. Let the Iight be made upon some other line or submit the proof and don't let iiui bers be taken as proof. Governor Richardson w.is condemned for the liberal use of the pardoning power, I defended him, for I knew whereof I spoke. I was chairman o1 the board of directors of' the Penit.en tiary andI committee on pardons during his administration, and recommended much that lie did, and I never knew a case in which he acted1 unwisely in my judgment. Upon this same p)rinciple I uphold the present administration and will continue to uphold it until it is shown to be wr.ong. I remember to have saidl to Governor T!lIman upon my retirement from the work, that [t.hought there were at least a hundred convict.s in the p'rison that de eerved clemency, and 1 feel today that if lie has pardoned as many and the pro per subjects, the number is not too large. I am equally sure that be has not acted upon my suggestion, but upon his own judigment, for soon after his in auguration I submitted in person an ap plication for clemency in a case which I had fully investigated and was satis fied as to it.s merits and which was high ly endorsed, which lie flatly refused. I could1 not make him see it as I saw it and knew it to be. And that convict is now serving out an unjust se'itence in the Penitentiary. This is not a politi cal letter, but written in the name of justice andl humaity. God save the liberties and the lives of t.he innocent human be.ies w'ho arc made to suff'er and die in our State prisons. Very resp)ectfully, N. WV. BRooKER. 'They Buy Siave. N nw Yoni(. ,June 2.-The bark Libe ri a, Capt. Itogers, which arrived today from Monrovia, and Sierra Leone, com pletedl the round trip in the unparallel ed time of seventy-five days. This in cludes the time of discharging and taking oni cargo at two West African ports. Among the Liberia's passen gers wvere the Rev. A. McCullough, of the International Missionary Society, and his wife, whose ill-health Induced him to return to MAnrica. He spent titlteen mionths In Sierra Leone. He has not aicquiredl a high opinion of either the American nearo or the -educated African there. Several of the Liberia's colored steerage p)assengers are native Africans coming here to be edt'cated, anid four are returning Americans. Mr. McCullough says that muich rum is im ported into Sierra Leone, and that, as the natives absorb It with the doctrines of the missionaries, the results of the conversions are not always agreeable to conftemplate. Many of the colored Americans who si.ay in Sierra Leone called t hemselvyes Europeans, andi when t-hey get prosperous buy slaves to in crease their wvealth. The P'ortuiguese alnd the colored Americans treat their sla ves with greater harshness than any oilier slave owners. Thle natives At rican ii salmly spoiled b)y a European eiduciition,. Tihe 1Lberia brought sev eral boxes of pyt hons and monkeys. The Chiet Villain. PowT .JERiVzs, N. Y., .June 3.-P. J Foley, a young Irishman suspected of complicity in the outrage for which a negro was lynchd yesterday, was arrest ed to-day and it took all the force the authorities could muster to save him f rom lynching long enough to smuggle tiim on the train for a transfer to [loshen jil. It is charged that he in ~ited the negro to the act and invited ,he girl to take a walk and left her at a place agreed upon with the negro. He vas seen in her company only a few ninutes before the out.rage at the spot wvhere the deed was commnitte&d. Swept by a Tornado. PilILADELPHIIA June 4.-i a. m.--A report, has reache thiscy thta tr mado swept over Reading, P'a, tonagt dillng several peratons and destroyin a vast amount of property. Tehegra wires are down and details are as yet anobtainable. - * E6yahoed I New York. FORT JERVIS, N. Y., June 2.-A negro named Bob Jackson outraged a Young white girl named Lena Mc. Mahon on the outskirts of this village to-day in the presence of a number of young girls and of two )oung negroes, who were kept at bay by Jaokson's re volver. The girl's injuries will probably kill her. Jackson fled, but was pursued and captured nine miles from Port Jarvis and brought back. Jackson con fessed the crime and implicated Wil. Ham Foley, a white man, who he claimed was in a conspiracy to ruin Miss McMahon. Foley had been pay ing attentions to the girl contrary to the wishes of her parents. Jackson was placed in the village lockup and a large crowd gathered outside. Some person raised a cry "inch him," and it was promptly done. The village police were powerless to protect him. The noose was adjusted about his neck and he was strung to a neighboring tree in the presence of a howling mob of over a thousand people. For over an hour the body hung suspended from the tree, where it was viewed by crowds of eo. ple. Jackson was about 22 years of age and had resided in Port Jervis about a . His parents live in Paterson, small PoX Rage. PAUKEWSBUDG, W.Va., June 3 -The reports of the smallpox in a violent form in Pomeroy, Mason City and Setart, have abundant foundation. It was reported yesterday that there were twenty-six cases at l'omerov with four deaths, and dozen cases at Mason City, with several deaths. The disease is spreading rapidly down the river. Business is at a stand still on account of the prevalence of the disp se in the Ohio Valley between the Bil .nd Little Kanawah rivers. 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