Untitled article by J. H. Waggoner

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 21, 1868

INIQUITY ABOUNDING.

By J. H. Waggoner

It was a misstatement in the Review of Jan. 7, saying that Mr. Hamilton, Member of Congress from Ohio, was killed by a railroad accident. He was killed by his son, a young man of twenty years, who is now a maniac.

While the papers are filled almost with the reports of Fenian outrages, especially the blowing up of “Clerkenwell prison,” an outrage far more fiendish in its nature, was lately attempted in Kentucky. A colored man kept a school for colored children, in Hardinsburg, and at its close held an “exhibition,” as is common in other schools. The house was filled with children and their fond parents, and it is said the exhibition was highly pleasing to them, as well it might be, to see their little ones gathered together for acquiring education; a privilege so long denied by law to the poor slaves and their children. Fortunately the exercises closed early, and soon after its close an explosion was heard, and the house was in ruins. On examination it was found that a keg of powder had been concealed in a hole under the desk, to which a slow match must have been attached with the intention of destroying both children and parents at the exhibition, which was only prevented by the early closing.

This is but a single manifestation of the feeling existing toward the unfortunate race, by those who cannot longer enslave them; while a certain class of politicians are complaining constantly that the negroes are about to inaugurate “a war of races;” and as an interesting sign of the times, the present position of the country looks strongly to the restoration of that class to political power.

Thank the Lord there is a better foundation to rest our hope upon than political victories. The time is drawing near when the oppressor will be overthrown, and a King shall reign in righteousness; when truth and right, so often crushed beneath the heels of majorities, shall gain an everlasting triumph.

J. H. WAGGONER.

Lake Co., O., Jan., 1868.