Nilytrund guntrito. TITAI!IKSGIVING 'SERYON, BY REV. J. 'EMERY WORTH BUTLER, D. D., z 4Br it OF , WALNUT STREET CHURCH, PHILADELTI'HiA. 0 4)1 0 14 - .;PIEntsirtosE AND pitovtrimick' 'O R' ki4Eber, OF PERPETUITY. T bath not dealt so ,with any nqtirm." -147th PSALM, 20th verse. • • = The' special review of the peat year ii closes, substantially the same occasions[ of thankfulness as, those, which „so: „signally elaracterized the preceding twelvemonth. Health in its largest, measure has been Vouph safed to our citizens in their honies, to our armies in , the field, to our fleets Upon the' seas. Industry in all its, forms:. of, trade; reamifacture, commerce, and culture of the soil, his been abundantly prospered and re-' Warded. The vast material resources of 'the country have been still more widely ditclosed• and developed. The public quiet has been; undisturbed. The orderly ; administration,,of, aUthMity and law in our severalgraded' spheres of governmental and judicial'jurAdic tion, has had no, check or hindrance'. Out institutions of. learning, our churches and charitable organizations, have accomplished , their wonted Ministries of blessing. In a word, in all that pertains to personal colefort, to the peace of our. homes, to success in our varied callings, to material prosperity,and to the enjoyment .f c high educational, and religious privileges, a,§* individuals and as a people, we have been aniPly blessed by the good hand of Go'd. And this in the midst of a civil conflict of gigantic proportions. In reviewing, too, the military results of another year of 'strije " with the enemy who is of our own household," we find additional peculiar occasion for grateful recognition of continued Divine interposition in our behalf:, We repeat the thanks which we have been called, again and again by the nation's head render unto God for great, effective, and fruit ful sUccesges in the field—for the illustrious capaigniof our Western army, in which, by conttnuous battles, the hostile force was &riven back more than a hundred miles, ex-, pelled from a succession of strongholds counted as impregnable, until at length one of the two great centres of the rebellion was laptnred, and one, of its. two greap armies well-nigh broken . ; for the Campaign of even gieitter proportions in which, as the final result ,of the most terrible and continuous fighting, our victorious Eastern army has sealed • . up and surrounded the chief force of the enemy under their ablest leader, within the defences of their only remaining stronghold;',as well as for the lesser 'but still brilliant and effective achievenients of' our navy in, the harbor, of Mobile, and Of the thrice-victorious army of the Shenandoah. We rejoice in the hopeful conclusion inspired by a retrospect of past progress and a survey of the present_ situation, the conclusion that the end 'of this war, the end of its protracted course' of 'carnage and suffering, is near at hand. We give thanks that such a re trospect and survey, while disclosing a war of oontineAal proportions, sustained on the natiOn'S'part by artnieS and fleets the greatest that 'have been'gathered in 'modern times,' raised, and supported by the spontaneons' consecration of a free patriotic people, shows the.area of,zebellion shorn of three-fourths of its proportions, its immensely extending coasts out off at every point save one from communi cation with the world, its interior terri tory severed in twain and severed again mpermanent lines of conquest; that, in the ultitude of contests such a retrospect shows the loyal cause f l or the most part to have triumphed, or its reverses to haire.,sula served an advance . toward final complete victory ; that it shows the forces of insurrec tion reduced hYbattle and captures,:by deser tion and disease, to 'two widely , sepaidated armies, either• incapable of sUpporting the' other, and both midi exhausted. resources of. reinforcement; the one a migratory band with out-a fortifiectbase, and may it not he added, now hopelessly broken by defeat;' the other, helplessly enclosed in -its base, held in the grasp and threatened With".tleprivation of supplies and ultimate annihilation, by a supe rior and daily augmenting Ave. Fer such subatantiel'reaults Of sileces,4 in , the great eon filet, =with hopeful hearts we- gratefully ae knowledge the merciful. interposition of. GOd in behalf ef the nations life. Aiid as cro wning these, as all-essential togiv,e perrnariencY'ancl full effect to these 'successes, we give thanks today forlhe peaceful victOry, in its promise the most-bleased ever vouchsafed to the.interests of humanity i achieY,Pdthrough out the land 0n . ...tthat,t t , day,. which - history will iignalize`as the brightest In the nation's, annals. On that Memorable day", by the' solemn: &delve act of -£l , united. people, after the ,f,,nllespo . most , intelligent . „ consideration of Paß 4 vital before theca, .in the, very stress and ; Silain ( 6f a civil convulsion wherein loyalty had to:doiltelid with a r 'mighty 'armed: array-, without;' and in its own midst, with extreme differences of; sentiment„ and even an atrocious conspiracy delibexate.ly fementing seditibh and disoffkion,_ tinder these, Stupen dous exigencies, subjecting to severer test than any nation had ever borne, the eleinental institutions of people's on that ever meMoablejfk,,v, l'ithout a trace of commotion or disordBtWong the millions scattered over a territory 'so vast, by the decisive act of a united people, mot only through the voice of ; ,ovepthelming •majorities ,in.levery loyal. section , of Aim land, and from our ; arrayed aritiie.i: and fleets; but also,• as we believe, by the 'judgment of well nigh the entire mmority 4 the nation's will, its 'Unshaken pier - p ose , 4 3 ,:ww,vable resolve, hold fast forever its 'integrity and life ,was solemnly, 164- 9nisialaiblfr Spoken to the world. On that .day, and bY ) that. voice,' the Whole resources of the people ' ,its men in numbers' , all inidepleted, and iks,trensures.uneithausted-andinexhausti ble, were ,sacredly. Pledgqd t4the,continuanoe, of conflict until the nation's iiiitegrity, its full, healthful,' beneficent life be restored. And on that dttsr;lT that voice, thegest hone' of an armed rebellion was eitinguishal; its avowed corner-stone and chief' , cause, with the entire skeleton fabric upon which full eighty 'years of secret subtile toil, have been expended, Was 'doomed to final uter ileriiiili gen,. These- facts of the 'year's history, together with the continued spirit of .devout recognition of God's favor and the sustained inanffestation of'Willing toil, contribution; and' sacrifice on the part of all, authorize the oheerful.convictiom and call for - the grateful aoknpvfledgement that the Lord of Hosts is us. But 'there In* other more comprehensive facts to 'be gathered from a *rider review of OUT history,: which the present 'juncture - of our , A ff t iirs, calls - upon us with emphasis to oonaider now, while the mind of the, nation and . the world is thoughtfully pondering the problem of our past and future mission AS a distinct- nationality. There are facts 'and truths,- of vast magnitude and practical bear ing,, wilich, have been clexclOpedi,and ~..nressed upon 'our - notice afresh, -- and with practiO force; by 'this war - of rebellion,; facts . and truths,, which from. this;cause are becoming now more clearlyi apprehended„ and , =Lore widely,estabWiad as.conActi,ongoit4 the in tellfgent thasseS or 'our own . people, anct,.with AheNtliccughtfal •andr -Unprejudiced among all enlightened nations. Aksuccidot;ttafilmerif, THE AMERICANfPRA4M TIT AN - .17 28DAY - ''' - jANITAIIV AG' I:4' of these„ N revealing manifold `,` great ~ t hings thatPod,itkaolie fo'n us' as a people,*ill serve to' evoke a - yet deeper, more heartfelt, and effective spirit-of-thankfulness. For th,e,oleareApereoption And impression of my, porpole, the!, outset- 1. ) conelmise).sin these three 'propositlinia r the '-several whiblildeSign,-in substance, though`brieflY, to -illustrate and ;establish, - Atte, mat ? -purpose! of , God' concerning, t the i indi vikial man's elevation and happiness, plainly Writtga on the rages nationalliis,toty t ; ; the,. Manifold proVicleitces 'df`Voir' toiard' :this nation in! fittikkit , rnore :than aiiy tither 'to' accomplish this .tpurpOie t , !and ithi mods ; which: `by ) . His andiadepslng,this.,,nation, far, ,more than any ether has already achieved. toward itatilfilment, jdstify uwjn'eherighifig' !the grateful conviction' that 'lre has ordained our:national, integrity. - earl:perpetuity: , •. Next,- that the conflict, in witigh. are -engaged ; is one of ideas'and principles," that those ideas ;and Pritieiplei, irn Whose -dad' tire .nation. stands Arrayed, havelheir origin antivitalit§' in thepsame great purpose, of God; they are the „ideas, anikprinciples of ; n just., humanity 'midi Christian civilization, whose innste force has 'been' the causei'and whose - gradual gress the result, Of all the great wars Of earth,' ,of ;man's ceaseless struggle throughthe atges4-=, - the ideas and principles which Jehovah, the ruling Redeemer,, designs ultiniatelY te,estab lish among all nations. And lag; thhe, like as in all the previous conflicts of earth, the ? sacrifice And the blood . here , and now.being 'Rowed forth is all vicarious, for ,the life, the purer,. stronger:, ,More beneficent life, of the nation, as well is ' for the extension of the" same life, by direct influence and through the force. of •example, unto other nations. In expanding .these points of thought, I call you to note, the grand comprehensive truth that gives unity to all the diverse pie metitS and conflicting events which charae teriie the'enacting drama of human' existente, the truth that, all these elements and: -events, by divine -ordering, are moving on in accord. with, .and fulfilment Of, , a divigie purpose .to elevate everywhere, and - equally, the i,ndividUctl man to the highest measure of knowledge, fred dom, purity, =el .happiness of which,,.he.-is ccWale, _so ,thett the ; race, may be ultimately prepared for the .service and glory of:, abd- The particular diselogure of history is that this universal eldvtion, 'of' the inelevieldal&in is the end of God's providence in Bit govern ment and, disposdisposition Of ,raCeS MK ,nattiOnS , In the Achievement of this end, history shows that le has need; as Elis 'Chief instrii merit and means; the truths and principles of the gospel:;! those4ruths and principles -by whose energy alene the intellect is enlight ened, the social state, advanced and pUrified, and the spiritiial nature renewed'and refined. History further Shows that essentiallY; regard ing only fundamental causes, there' has been but one conflict on. he face of the _earth, and that between the pure elevating principles of Christianity, and the - irreligious, selfish ' aims of iinronewed men : that in course of Sue- ' cessive generations; the , foroe of the foriiiiir has been gradually overcoming-the latter; ad- , vancing its banner step by step, imposirigitsbe7, nign rule, and, infusing its blessed spirit, slowly indeed and' imPerfeetlY, but yet'efficiently among the nations.' By its 'silent extension and partial domination, in some portions of i the earth, ignorance' has beenlessencd, t irn9w, ledge align:tented, unneifect systems of 'social order and - government have been substituted . for Absolute anarchy; and:tyranny: Srals& it has: been that barbarism has' given Wayto:A partial civilization,,and this increasing with the increasing ,diffntion, through God"sprov idential working, of the vitalizing, principles of the gospel. ' • - Still, far as this civilizing .nrcicess had gone, up to the period ,6f.oUr owit!•national OfiSt moot, onejof the cardinal conditions of God!A grand fulfilling purpose, .one -of the, chiefest, principles of' Christianity, and theiefor6 one, ' of the most futidareerital elements of= a per- feet iChristiati.leivilization, had been lindiej covered o on,4 unadopted, bythe most enlightened anct.Christianized, peoples Of_ the Wend. This most cardinal of all prinmilei 'a f fecting man's present condition, _plainly terrible from the whole scope and spirit 'Oft& ?.9"-the ' essential equality. :of personal rights, not ony.cinpng races, §atOsp awns, class6s and individuals principle .of 'equal liberty, enlightened by intelligenee and regulated by righteoffslaw, sileh , e4utit hoeriij the birthright of 'evFry,man.,:ai'inan, had not been . prornt.llgated Any national, : charteror, - deblaration Of rights, .had not been embodied in, taitnet been realized under; any fain' of na ! tiorial•governmenAkup to the d'a74hen - the Anzericam declaration was: announcediuthe , ; world,by, the prophetioally j inseribod With (he diiine,prONmation of liberty. !Sheer. barbarism, Monica:trig a universal = servitude, was'inedifted by the indirect; force of Christi anity the.; feudal„: sysitem, andyfor this again, ,under: the.. influence of the satn,edivinei succeeded 'the preßent constitlitiomi monarchies of Civilized' Europe. IllitthyoUgn all- 'Webb' various .modifieatiOnle idea was retained ink"-fait; of propri &," intelligence, and..,govemmeAt, as, limited-zta - fs riln-Oge4 ` class ., :Christianity, on the „other, an emphatically rejecting the spp,erior - iight 'of class iir.ca§tetkrkirSivledge,iiiiipertk or rule, kept all the while inculcating its ori.o. Pos* 9,f vlyiver4,..CqualOY in - all Privilege, extending' ideanyen,to equal participa-: tfonin civil goVerinneit.' 'So Through long Centuries 'these cippokeillileas; one;:tlie anti Christian, having the milliner vantage 3 cif wrou g ht into a system and actually ingthe-greund„.have.beett oontendingm high - all national' ' and in all civil conflicts,, the Christian tenet Witt an - omnipotent - purpose bearing it-on,'butt yet not fully estabhshulg,itself land. - England, indeed, generations ago,. nd _France, in recent i times, under4or: to abolish ~class put`into fore: the `'gospel idea:of. equality: of rights arid privileges,' alid -to establishset-goyernment bythe ,people; _ , . England failed.beeause the, people mere not `eduCated i sufficiently ' in ' the 'Vinci - oes '9f the Christian: systeiri.' - = The French republicans' ..because the liberty.; equality, and. fraternity : they, sought yere based! avowedly on an in fidel Philosophy, and not on 'the gospel. It, was reserved for this people, under, Cod, to, ' , Make the fi rst successful l 'atteMpt iv, the world's history to establish a nation and ;government which should foster .the rights ,and interests • ,of indandued trati whicA, should assert.tp' Mankind' "the grand prin ciPles of freedoM, 'equity, and' :universal equality-of prwilege, as these are expressly laid doom in, or d,edueible from, God' own : word. . • And - as preparing the way for; and ensuring the success of, this attempt, the--successive links in the chain of God'sproiidenee toward us derhand our wondering study as theY excite our adoringtpraise.l DisOlO§ing, aatheee events of our historydO, a series of proofs of His directly intervening hand so nikany and stu pendone, Shey cannot bat.,.produee an aver unpreasion of the peculiar sacredriesaand Value of mir•national 4fp..,- As we review them; with the deepest l lPTPenee and,; gratitude are me constrained, to exClaim, "He hitli not dealt so with an y, nation • The inheritance itself, a4sontifient'liiiiinded :only .by the seas given us of .God with/ its) innties i surable suamioriV over ,the heritAges assigned. to Other .nations in all: the essential, T gonditib r ns of PriodUctivenesi and 'habithbilitiif' litoludittg the-entire' 'range IheJtgitip• - gr^ate climates,and: therefore _capable of iii . rodueing` all te ita r ,pfcearioontainiggo..n,a, area a larger, thartAeivtitileitild world, and therefore cepa- Me of supporting a nation' of` 'nations'; char acterized, with all its variety , of suifice, by a' grand unity , whlckutterly forhidsAhe idea of partition / with:innumerable, navigable rivers, l whose nourses ,tra'verse well. nigli its entire, extent, and whiell' its' mighty' lakes; plentifully irrigatelthe whole; 'and :SuprilYther amplest means of-intererimxnuiiication)hetWeen. all its,sec,,tions r ligifkag. vast reach f f sea-coast, indented' with bays and inlets, 'furnishing harbors for -corntherce-,with—the worlds on either side its., bounding oceans, with i moim-, tains of inexhanstible mineral and metal trea ,sures : this continental inheritance upon which God has so lavished all Efig - material gifts, itself Beads _to indicate. theigreatness of ...the people Ile designed' as its.ocenpardst seems,,, in ,its'variety, its unity, and itg.,Ppipliptiye-, mess,, its breadth and' massiveness, fn fore: shado*ltlin bleridingi bfrall raen.x:ari4 nation-' 'elides; in its :Possession, the unity DP their national life, their, expansion of jiitpileot And soul Under the inspiration of ;free principles arid - , i'n'stitutions; and the largeness ,Of their contributions to'hurrian elevation and:blessing. brought The discovery, too,' of this mighty continent, n about: through ,the force: pta-religiqus. sgirit and, / purpose, acting o w 4lte',...,heart of Spain's`' powerful qiieen,itS'sne4essibe . deli= verancei: front the , powef.l'Of Spain and , Erance by Christian England,tits 'Ultimate effectiv.,pktszting by the best , eifted , seed of the 'most ,Christian kingdorns,Kturope i the self-exiled for trail and feligisOuiVeedern; and" finally its separation from: th r4Pilter4cind, the birth of free nation,l as (the alsult of a protracted but successful,.conflict expressly tipon the basis af. the divineyrinciples enun ciated in the opening sentence of the immer tal Declaration of Independence, that' "all men are Created equal; and are2end6*ed - hy the Creator with inalienable ; rights of life', liberty, and the , pursnit ,happiness ; ? all these. are Successive links in the , chain Of, procifs , thatiGotthas *landed the' nation established it fOr perpetuity upon these prin ciples. Then, too, the wise, beneficent dee&of,the ndtion 'born, so • fahy conforming'these. divine'. princ i ples Which kale' it birth,' 'embody ing them'into its great charter of organiza tion, inplace, of theAffete ideas gradually Wearing themselves out inahalf Christianized .urope, incorPoratinglthese vitalizing prin ciples into the texture of 'all its institutions, Of government; of edilcationoif ItiStice and religion, making them thehasi,s i tiff alCdele gated, executive ,and ; judicial' pithority k ithe foondatiori of jiiriskudence andlegishition, the inspiration and guide' in constructing a sysiem.of iriferior , and higher schoble',. above all, putting them , to their, highest use:iri the very sphere whence they came, grafting them into' 'the outward orginiiitions of ,{ God's . spiritual body, the Church; and ensuring that the conscience oft her inerriberis 'shonlit• be untouched by law of State or statute>ofinaii,• in a word, the ordering of the entire, , sosis4. economy in :State and Charch, so as to thrOW Open freely to all the . cheice of Alters, the places of power; ithe 'means alticatinn, the .acqnisition and Possession: of property,. and . the privileges of worship, gyps to .dignify; labor , and elevate the laborer, ias to sub serve' the. equal rights and advan ages of all in every-conclicion and Sphere of tietiiiin ;•thaie original clear of the ,nation born new 30 the' world, the ,opposite of Absolutism with or without a, Constitution,-„add confirmation 'strong of 'God's design to stablish and main tain the nation. Add, now the further proofs of this design evinced b a the cdrsadyd.eveloped results of a social system.so organized and established. Look at the c/w.racter, of ihe Anterican.man ae forined by these grind Christian institu :tions2 Comi'ng mainly from the Teutofi'stock in allitavarietie - 4, , thez.noblest, most opUlent, and efficient of all, yet s represent.ed by the, most enterprising Of all cultilited nations,„, TuSed and'inotilded'thibugli a procesacifYears," .;by the force- of these free , institutions, he stands„before .the world:.;to,day'the type , of 'the -loftiest capacities, the .representative.of 'the 1240:i'd'st :manhood yet 'dev,eloped,on. earth, , `with -a 'Mind Characterized' ,byinipl isitiveness ;and forecast, 'by sagSkify and'. fertility , of - by,tact and energy, by-flexibility, largeness; and, strength, and a soul overflow ing With, kindliness, pessessing, with delicacy and deetli susceptibility; wondions pOwer of - . personal- -Magnetism and a keen-'senselof' an active, sympatlaY siffering_ and miOng.i Ilow,,effectiVe in, ,thought,,,how,intepse persistent' action, let his many, us, ventions ' his innumerable schemes and or 'igardzi-tionS; socialtand Voinmercial, religious, and. philarithrtipic, lestify.f , : , , Look,-,too, at :the,.zeiuit.a . ..Of :the American; otan!l_enooy . .n.nd tindOod_4prospering favor. To' his useful - creations I need only referthe - 'canal,' the Steafti Ws4el;' the rail road; , the ': - -telegraphi' -the ,chines yin aid of agriculture v manufactures, and. tending to faciliiate.prg dudtiOn, transportation,,' > travel, ' home u icomfort---alraiding'tb everofe and 'cultivate adder breadthaef—soili-tow.multiply-the appli cances.of, -trade, ;to ,extend the courses of conk merce to-open 'broader - avenues industry in every direction, andliti4the increasing mul litudes of, a vast popuration. As the result ..ofiliiSi'adtitii,Y; the beint6las become` not ,pnlY.,the,glanary of the wbrld,- but theicentre ot.,theAcrhyft.. ! attraation: and line, froin every part of the earth eurrents,ekiwmi-., 1 / 2 graiiron Are setting' thither in mighty volume. Ankbe it well noted, IN ALL THESE PROOFS, oF - tGOIPS DESIGN AND, WORKING TdwARD . US, EINITHE.ESTABLISHMENTT , OVILIE NATION` UPON ~THESE nkt.cop PRINCIPLES' OPEQUAL. LIBERTY, Alp. ; PRIVILEGE, AND IN TELE,, ALTI DEVELOPED RESULTS OF THESE ESTAB LISHED PRINCIPLES, WE FIND BOTH' THE ; CAUSE OF THIS.WAB OF REBELLION,' ANDITIELE REASONS. AS WELL AS TELE :MEANS AND 'AGENCIES BY WHICH, IT WILL SERBIA - BE. OVEETDBOWN ,OF GOD. This` onfliof began in truth with,the nation s :birth, theparties tbeing an ttrisioera4'. , 4et l scendants , of the - 4.royalists of fhb= reitlinidif and inheritors of ; their spirit, , an aristocracy "based partly, upon,,birth, and .partly; upon IMAM. pdsseSlint's, iznd the p4le.* The PF,ltYoit'iights and Plivilbges of a class; Or' the gq , a xights and , priVileges ailito griverb.- ment, education , and property; was and is the simple matter of issue in the strife. ~Tko revo futiori which adtualiie'd'..ind wrought into a living force-the d6Cliratioti which preceded it; , was the)furst step to victory , on'the pbople's side. As its ripest fruit. came the Republic 'with its incomparable Constitution, to.borllo which thearistocratic' "element, though cora-.; 'pelled to yield allegiance; `wad ever fbrsworn :and diskiyal at heart. In the exercise 'of a Subtile policy r disguising its chagrin at itlefeat so ominous to its future, that, element suc ceeded in intrenching itself in tlie Very cita dels of power, in the 'Presidential chair, the ,Supreme Court, :the hallsuf Congress and in a powerful—the dominant—politica-149.TV7. and for forty years tritimPlaed over the, people. But still severer struggles'folloWe:d, longed through another 'forty years, iii which the_ people, through the expanding, invigo rating energy.,of their-God : given amitestab lisheofprinolplesAY the aid of a free ballot and a free; press,- free speech and' 'free 'labbr, and , a' , generally , diffused education and elli-' ; once, having gradually accuthulated , hal mense preponderance .of ,numbers,. and tenal rresources,the people advanced' i i tepy4 a bl ang yantage„ aftOr vantage,. Until' they , ;Stood forthi , manifestly the superior force: = `„ 1 , , 1.•,. ~ , ,TherativiasAhat the Clais-powerbf the Sonth.blitatk detePlinettto holt*fastto theit tract sentiments and practices, relying partlyl on the 11upo in..erent partizan syni-. pathy, and of an imagined conservatism in the North, and partly •upon -the 'moral vend •material support of their abettors of the same. class over • the sea - , aftei ensuring, through infamous means, what seemed to be con:lnletsl. preparatiOns hY,Nvhich they were, supplied and, weAvere stripped Of the prime means of war n arid after ptitting . fOrth . for ' redsinis; , •terfuge'of 'bitselesfittheory of superior Stati3: sovereignty/ and ;the , flise assertion, that, they, were seeking delilieraide froth Northern ep-2, pieSsion - 'and'iriblieiiheri it Was thial party pf aristocmcy in , the , Routh, with the; boom Of the, first, gun at Charleston harbor, boldly threw diArlilhe 'gage, nnd'in the 'face of the world, declared open war ,against the principles and the :progress of free institutions, ppt4•, ot ,governnkent,and society :•£ w,ar, against principles ordained. by: God in gm word f and against progreis'wrdiiklit - ' but bY 'God' in'itriV providence. • And thenthe: ,peoPle took:up the gage - ,:and, - ,inireliance i - upon ; the, Lordof HoStS, - , accePted, the .issue of - 61664. for 'het preservation of 'the. prihci )es Z njion { which th.OY believo&itheirinational , life , and, theJseelfare of invAinkwere staked. Cali ing into'use rtheVast. resources prosperity, broil - 01,4M) beiii - gc and) Salaam lated,aa,-the. result of, thesei gr,sati , Prinoiples wrought into their national, fife , with these resOnreei' - 'stPWrepared-'for thuzi? hy' God's . own- provicteneepthey haire. steadfastly,prosail CIAO tie conlyet, on 'a seale.whish _d!alfs all previous wars, with Unbroken success unto thiS glut ekvtliii is not - inily:the Sire . presage. of,ftnal victory,; liat will not: only settle for the world's advantage the ;experi ni4idcot nain v ii 4 libiliq :for self-gofeininetit, - but, which amply , sustain s 'the conviction Most cheering, ofiall ' that,t,he, Lordt liosts is , with' Amin, that their 'battle is, the Lord's grandisi tiiiilieviVorld's broad theatre for' he welfaie .of the -race - • _ • Andi l koW,`,lM -sends, :in ',concluding. ti, theme so wide reaching and ipomentous, f its 'diSolos*e of Gbd'hVii*Ofiltoiidenee and' its bearing , : uponthel:ftitntelofitinnkind; let me sumaß : bAiefly,some - of the great: truths_ and "facts revealed` by this conflict to ,Oe nationr and the world.' ' " ' It has brought out- into the light; it has , written in such broad characters of blood and suffering that the nation and the world must read, thelgrandliiily endiiiingillea„s of right, Justice, tang freedom; „as ~; t he <divine birth right, of Aien. Realizing ; as never before, the fulfillment of Christ's "declaration;'" 'Sin` come not to send peace, but a sword," prov that that ass by.the cross„so; wince the cross, suffering and blood furnish the costly price of the'bidefest- hiimari blessing, by the-very vastness .of the..sacrifice denianded and freely given, it has so wrought these enduring ideas : into'the nation's 'future life, that every peOP - 4 16 of the world must -feel theirtioiver.` Well 'arid truly has it t beensaid.by an intelligent friendlY Englishnian that, ,iistory has no such con ,flict on the , r,Oilrof Treedoni'i struggle : that we are fighting the'great battle of humanity , and .eiviliz,atiop, ,the• battle of human liberty in its largest sense." So ' too, this conflict has devoloped more fully to the view pf-mankind the true idea of -a Christian State, the elemental essential principles upon which•such.a . state is founded, upon which only,it can ;endure.. ,It.has af firmed that liberty - -; intelligence, and i!eligion are the vital forces of liatibn's life, -fcirces which the .powers'of ; despotism are ipipo-, tent, o destroy or withstand. And so it; has, uttered 'an - emphatic` warning • and apileaf tt - O' 'the professedly Christian states of the: earth. That voice will be heard:more and more dis 'tinetlY when the - din and convulsion of the Conflict is endear- It is Vdkiithing Oita now . to be heard by our heartless mother-land,. which, by reason of the Trevailing n surpa c tirig potter of the'evertung - classes; aided, 'f'ar asitidate; thoselivith. Whose 'princitilee.itA ruling, classes ; arein,sympathy. And as,the tocsin of liberty to nations yet enslaved, the voice "of-this conflict will 'Allitd on and 'out more and more _loudly the , ,c, ming years, o • • with effects that no.prophet's tongue is needed to foretell. Again, this conflict las bronght' hope to a race long down trodden and enslaved: By the token of a single State regenerate :to free s , dom it has pledged the breaking of their SlM:elites from the millions of that race VeViti' Vondage.!l,Byt disclosing, in, the stern: ordeal,. ffie. i trying, ;area of battle, those elements;of courage Whick'men eveitwliete irevereneti it' has "elevated theta' it( their' own` , conspiousaeSsi:arid in:; the, estimate of their. fellow races; ; : and it will cheer them on _in iihatelef destiny awaits thern bY the aPpOirit 'nhent of God's providence. ' •1 Finally, this household conflict has made us nation: at: last;;` baptized us into the great family, of .uations bythat • red gory ! .baptism 'thiOughlviiich all have been initiated into the -brotherhood; and 'purified US 'toe littlM ensanguined'• stream., It. has ...given -words-,used. by, our President at Gettysburg, ": a ikeribirtli `fieedom, assured - the' world; "that goVeinthente of the petkple, 3 by the people, n ana ; for the ...people, • not Wish from the earth." It has taken away -t all sertablerdelien c aerice Upon; lear'et o=ter nations. caleft alone in our struggle, without p,ympathy,frorac_ those who,shonld have , ,teu- ; : dered it, AeliVered even from "Weir lnterven- Ann•agariastits;'while that intervention - earl& , ayail to,harm,,giving them, enough to derati thcone,, left thus alone„ we have been, con-, .136re:bled to 'rely 'ripen' our' own "eridealiers:' Putting .forth these endeavors, in the •re aSsertion of our old declaration of divine 'principles and faith in God Uttered the i - ecimparative feebleness-of youth, we have !'„attained our„,majority, we, realise • the full ,vigor manhood:;-. And the conflict`"has • , shown, in the number of men brought into and sustained in 'the field,' in the immense navy sosuddefily constructed and armed; and the actual_Mease meanwhile of popula-i. -i - Aa or every form of Material, product, that"'herd greater resources then any,, nation. in , Ehrope that, 'the-noble/ .I"' ‘ Ohn • Bkight.has boldly affirm r our GOveriarkent• std nation is the = strotigcsk t in, the world at this hiiai:7 little while age we, were . ,nation of traders, presperity Upon us so fast as to wrapus up' in selfishness, to' • multiply -viceS:'among Ars; 'threatening - to' con .skime.,our markhookt. to harden our hearts, add lead to national degeneracy, and decline,- Bet to-aay everyman, is either a soldier— a volunteer. notra hirelingi---cOnSecrating life :with intelligence = and ,:heart in this!, Suffering work of, war; t a • helper , freely .devoting toil and 'treaSirre,to the. wok'. And this heroism and sacrifice, together'with the unweariedAe-, votion, the loyal sympathies and exertions, 'and yet_ more_, , the uncomplaining' hereatie: -went ,of mothers, wives, and, ( sisters, 'have develope4; and are-,daily makin and stronger our,national Character., For a review so ',wonderful aimcheering,' considering how great things the - Lord' hatlyclone for us, truly= are we constrained to exclaim,. 'Hehath not aeultbo with any nation I ' ' For such a heritage and, possession wbich IThegivefins in sacred_ trust, for. such -ennobling, raseieleVating-priiiciPles which He hath planted and routed deep in the nation's' i heart, . by, which • lie is moulding the, •nation'S character for great and benercent deeds, for such priceless institutions yyith; which he has endowed us, Tor the - large pya sesision & idler - ger *Rini*. or. Materiel roma . per,ity, for a the ties of „eonmlon , _history :in=;terest, memories, and sufferings , ,yitk which He has bound us indissolubly together,for t a,,, historieci• 2 • "subliine, j afr - marked ! at ' ~' step' :by 'the :guiding accoMpanying footstepb of God himself, a history so momentous in its • bearing upon the future of mankind, for the high part He has assigned us in carrying out His own blessed design in, tnao's elevation, and for the slieng.th of a More - p'erfeCi unity, 'imparted, throughthe welding -forge of. this ,fiery wherewith He „ia pieparmg effectivelk iskihserthig - His ultimate grander pnrpose of man's ledenititioif,4hat ;thanks and irrdises'are theeito holy 'name! What a solemn' eeusei of trust, ;whata uten:. sure of lofty, feiyid; prayerftil:Self:censecra- ItiOn'slcoild'wehencefdrth cherish arid 'exein- Iplify as a people', the People chcigeri`OFGod confer innumerable :blessings • upon• a rade, to Make His name a praise in ; all the -; #qp.!o#* : ;o. - 44., CHAnas sTinds & Oat FIRST-CLASS' "ONE PRICE " READY-MADR CLOTIthiGt . STORE; 824 citEtirNri STREET, (Under DIXGRAIA FOS SELF-31EASITRIEMTNIc for Coat-L'-5. ;ngthofback„ milto2., and 0in2t03.'." Length . eeve rm...crooked) ',4o4tos,artd round the osk mt part of te chest and •Stlite tether erect • stooping.' F c or Vest.-- lame as coat. I For Fonda.— uide °tan. id 'outside nutiplione;_ •ound. the dst and hip. good fit gun te s j ()facers' Uniforms, ready-made, always .on hand, o made` to, order in-the bfist..:manrier; line rim the Most reasonable terms. Having _finished: manst.lrondred. uniforres.the-past year; fcieStaff, Field and Lina Offi dere : , as well as for, the 'Navy, areprepsred to ere dote orders is this line with °Az:Mi.:faces:and de.onateh. .T.he Urged andinost.desirable steek.ofamody-made clothing in_ Philadelphia always on and. (The price. Marked /if plain Tigiireteot A department for Boys',Clothiruris also, maintained at establislim entianii-tsuperintexided by experi enced hands. Paltillentei and others will -find ; here, a most . desirable deireititent of Boy? Clothing at low prices. Sole Agent lot the "Famous, Bullet-Proof Vest." CliAlttES STORES' & CO. READY-MADE CLOT all TG. WANAMAKER & BROWN, I IF C T:' O,T~ITFG,I - 0AK..11 - ALL - . :I. .. . , .1 8,, E. con Sixth and Market. 1 CD,,STOM DEPARTMENT, I M1 No.:1 South Sixth Street.l E, 0. THOMPSON, • ;FASHIONABLE TA_LLO.I4 ',llr.'E.eoriaer of ikeventh sued Walint N. ag : ebtsinecle celebrity' for . cutting 131001)17..TTMG ,?AIq . TALOON§; u along it kupecialty inouy business .for sumo yeap .IRbit;ipiltiongh;tuf auf oie timportance to announce thefact in tile.' Inanner to•th; thet tliose who are dissatlafied,insylknow ofrnyneeihed'and give =me EL trial- -963-1 y FASHIONABLE' CLOIIIII4O - -± Ready-niidi3'.9o4 mado order -...11.1e • . FAthiLONABTE. CLOTHING, and made to order. TASHIONABVE CLOTHING; • - : Ready : 4ll'nd° Ana made to' ordit §ta oi:6 . • , FA , =Ready made and inide to ord.& PERRY Eteneivi3 Clothing Bowe, ; 1 , 3" , 0.1... 03 and . 305 Chestnut street. 11:3 ,, F1NE5) , GLOMMING: JONES' CLOTHING, B,E: corner Seventh and} Market Str to , - JONES' CLOTHING • - S. 13. corner Seventh and Alirket Streets JONES' CLOTHING; S.-,E. -corn& Seyenth: 'and Market' Streets. AID TEOII3''hiCRETYPIS PROTRACT'OR SYSTEM OF GARMENT CUTTING ‘, AND ," "Amp's, BEST" INCH MEASURES. 950 No. 13S South Thiviti. Street Philada.. tHOMPSON BLACK SL' SON'S Tea W:dieholia and Family Grocery GiOre eor. Broad and Chestnut Streets, PRIL.ADELPET I TA ,(EstablishedlEp6 .) , , t a t N EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF CHOICE 21. Black and Green Teas, and:every:variety of Fine Grocexies, suitable for family use. Goods delivered in any part of the city .or .packed seourely for the 'country. . al-ly SLEEPER'S UMBRELLA MANUFACTORY 1002;1Warket Street, above Tenth, W. G. BEDFORD, ; _ •,, CONVEMMIAIDERESTM AGEIT 14 . 4:;: 53 NORTMTiNTRSTIi ' EM PilLAbk . _ OLD EYES MADE NEW. painPlilet•directinrihowlo'zileedily restore sight hind give up spectacles, without aid of doctor or medi cine. Sent by mail, free on receipt of ten cents. Ad d •• t. t . - B. B. FOOTB__, M. D., ' 1130 Broadway, New York. ' 'S;I3"A. , • 81X:IOLLARP t j110111:FIFTV• ef4NTS. - , Asi ratiliftiOr., iri.L4.17...-... I, , X.RIT.,_vp, Cial and" examine somethint i ur ;; en Weded Z. plemerbelB nt evenly:gin or'sfoit' sr y gag for oents, that retails for $6. . L. WOLCOTT,_ 661-ly , 170 Chatham Squire, N. -Y. ITOm.E•_001/1p.A.Ny. 14.11.01):11:001111SU,)roy, Street; E. con Or Nirt4. . „ INCOME FOR THE : -. 17,41i:Vg6,3", VEIL LOSSES - PAID DURING ''friEtE• YEAR Insurances made-upon-the TotalAbstinenee Rates, the lowestin the world. Also .uport,..TOINT STOCK . . Rates whic h are over 20 - per cent. lower than Mutual Rates . . 1112220 - - TEE TEN-YEAR FORFEITURE PLAN; by which apenson insured , can make'all his payment` in .ten Tears, and done. not forfeit, should , be not be able to pay his fall TEN - YES' now a most pannlar ffio tbod oflinannnee. - Pastgers upon, t.IieMMIT.:B3SSTENt in this Com -1)IFIY. have the additional riaraßtee cf ir250,000 CAPITAL- STOClL.atkpsihi.np-DT—OASII, which, together with CASH ASSETS, now on hand l am o unt to Orkk.' 031:0,000: The Trustee' have made a DIVIDEND on Nirti" ' kolicies in.foreeDeeelibeilli ' ; FIFTY PER CENT:' ' -' " , • -- . of-thee:mount of 'PREMIUMS receit;eirdeting the Year, which amount is credited :to thelvPolleies, and the Diiidends of 1860,. up0n Policies, issued quid year, ~ is now payable as the Policies are renewed. THE . 3N: CAN IS A HOKE COMPANY. CHARLES STOKES, S. T.., TAYLOR. W. J. STOKES. its TRUSTEES -are well known citizens in owr midst. entitling it to more consideration than those whose managers reside in distant oities. ALEX. WHILLDIN, President. 'Ling .i . nL• WORK, Vice-Ihrimadpitt. 00gT 'f' . it"lo l * . TO STOCIEHOI,DERS. SHAKES, each entitling. to one and a half tons ) at s int i ev . eus,ear; for TWENTY, years, and to sash Dirt : dends of Profits from.the sale of all surplus soal, may MOWN) obtained at $lO, payable half-on subscribing and half on January sth next. of the mutual , 'MAR MOUNTAIN FRANKLIN COAL COMPANY,. Office 121 Month Third Streei,' 44A " - ' Opposite Girard Bank.- - STOCK- CA3PprALL, $5OO 000 In 62.500 Shares. 9324 f :1 iSulsoriptions of 4 shares,s3B ; of 10 slieree, $:10; of 7241 shares, $175; of 50 shares, $125- of 100 shares $825. of 250 shares, $2000. - Each Share entitles, „the holder to • receive, every year, one and a half tons of Coal, at cost, for 20 years. and Cash Dividends. every al/ months, of 'the . Profits' from the sale of all surplus coal. s t • Stockholders who do 'not' want anY'cinil may have their proportion of coal soldby the company for, their especiaibenefit the nrofits'being paid over to theca independent of the.regular rash dividends to which they are - slip entitled. • company . large! and well built' Coal. 'Works at Donaldson, Sneer Tremont,),Schuylkill coun ty,-with extensive nulling .and`, timber- rights ; an ex cellent double Breaker, Slope Works,. large Steam Anginas, Ilailroads,'andall other'ldachinery and Air ! . ,paratus•in-full operation. cabable miningl6,_oolll tens, td - bd ;extended - to 150,0011) tons per year. The coal is of the best quality, chiefly of the Black - Heath and Primrose Veins, which. with _several other valu able coal •-veins. extendliithin tliiilines of this corn pony-for two miles in length. A.branch °t i the Read ting Railroad .eitendl.tto the Mines of 'tins oimpany. ever which the, coal is daily sent, o market. Steekkoldere may 'ordef 'their coal in' any of the usual : sizes.-.vis.,ltimp coal,- broken, 1 'Stove Anol 'nut coal , all if the present cost price oft 50 per top, .deltyere(lat the house;Vithin the us distances of 'the company's yards, in the northern, middle and southern portions of the - city. • "- :Subscribers, of stock are immediately coal. For circulars and sabscriptions, aPPIYatt the , • ' OFFICB, No. 121 South THIRD Street, second Skier, .. opposite Girard Bank: • The Compariy.and all its Mining Works are elw of debt; and all operations aria' 'Carried on on the oeah principle. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Wm. Schmoele, President, 8. 1 3: King; ' William Foid, Sohn:K. o W D. H. Wolfe. T. Jardeti:Seerriteall PHILELPHM. gnsurana aglitpaitits. INSURE YOUR LIFE IN - TOUR OWN AMERiCAN $200,00 - 0. AIsiOVNTING TO OVER $62,000. 33€11.AL1C13 f:ks 3 ' 'XiEtITSM'EMS. --- 7 - : . Alexander Whilldin, William J. How,a{d, J. Edgar Thomson, - Samuel. T. Bodhie. George. Nugent. • JolmAikman, Hiin.james Pollock, Charles F. Heislitt, Albert C.. Roberts,. - _ - Rim. Joseph Anises. P. R. Mingle. - Isaac 'Haslehurst. - . . SanmeDWork: JOHN C. suds. Actuary. . ' JOHN S. wrr,soic, Secietax7 and tressniei. CHARLES G. ROBESON Ass't Seeretaiy., &id gattlro. COAL AT FIRST COST. "$7.50 PER TON. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ** ' . ol" cl 5 AL Or BEST 9IIALITY. Reserved Wo - Acini i Va - pit — al, 12500 Shares. . . 11011 ERE ICE AND COAL, 'COMPANT , WOLBERT & BROTHER / WHOLESALE AND DETAIII, DEALSDA IN 144. ICE IND COAL:. No. 206 SIIIPPEN STREET. = '.-"r. ces * IN°. 621 N. EIGITTEBNIRSTERST. JOHN TAYLOR, Agent, 135 Solith -13eventkstrast. TICKETS will be furnished to families for EXTRA. 'ICE when 'required; If not used, they wil l be re deemed at the end of the . f. •-• W. ,k Bro. inform their friends and the publiogensr rally thatthey have proeured'a full supply of GOOD CLEAR ICE, and are prepared to receive Orders at the following REDUCED rateS for the year 1866: . 8 pounds a day, 75 eents . p, week. • 12 • 87 $ll.OO - 20 " " VICK'S • ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL CATALOGUE FLOWER HD -VEGETABLE SEEDS, - - GUIDE TO THE FLOWEB OABDES, FOR' 1865, II Si 14r,O.W; : PUBLIkgSaD. It contains. ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS of the leadittg Floral Treasures of the world, with full dire& tiona for SOWING SEED, TRANSPLANTING and CULTURE, making a work of over SIX.Ty..pAGEN. beautifully illnstrated, with about • . THIRTY FINE WOOD ENGRAVINGS: , • ' I' l TWO COLORED PLATHIX.' " This Annual is published for the instructionef:mar customs:Ts, and to such it is sent free as soon as pub lished. To all others pries 14) cents. inoludir - i§ Postalie. which is much less than actual cost. • • ' Address ' JAMES 11 ?7321 ; . Rochester, N.:14 ENRy s p A=R MA 'L E4E4 , 1•15 t _ CONITYANO.` foinnamo.2o6 S. Fifth Streei:liaaAftiliiikt, PHILADELPHIA.
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