Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1888 — PROF WILKINSON’S PLATFORM. [ARTICLE]

PROF WILKINSON’S PLATFORM.

The following, although perhaps rather impracticable, under the present existing order oi things, I tender as a peace offering, as a something to approximate as nearly as possible in the future: “Let us unroll the endless scroll or everlasting time. Let us listen to the voice* of the distant, the great and the mighty dead. They speak to us in leaping, living, rolling thunder tones of the millions of dear, sad, slandered, wronged and broken human hearts of the departing ages of the old and the mighty ’ ast Let us abolish slander, persecution, wrong, injustice, intolerance and unkindness from American politics, and have peace on earth and good will to men. Let us, if you pleas?, dear friends, drop all religious, political, national, sectional, social or domestic differences and be in reality and in truth what our name indicates—a universal band of brothers, affirm as the Rock of Ages, or the grand, everlasting gra • old mountain to 1 s —brightly shining away, away, look away in the gollen light of the rising or setting sun or the sweet silver li«ht of the moon for ever and ever.”

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