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PARTY PLATFORMS,
PLATFORM OF THE NATIONAL
UNION CONVENTION.
The following aro the resolutions
adopted by the Convention which nom
inated Lincoln and Johnson at Balti
more, June 9th 1864:
-
Resolved, That it is the highest du
ty ofZvery American citizen to main
tain against all their enemies the in
tegrity of the Union, and the para
mount of the Constitution and laws of
the United States; and that, laying
aside all differences and political opin
lene,we pledge ourselves as Union men,
animated by a common sentiment, and
aiming at a common object, to do eve
rything in our power to aid the Gov
ernment in quelling by force of arms
of the Rebellion•now raging against its
authority, and in bringing to the pun
ishment due to their crimes the Rebels
and traitors arrayed against it.
Resolved, That we approve the de-*
termination of the Government of the
United States not to compromise with
Rebels, or to offer any terms of peace
except such as may be based upon an
"unconditional surrender" of their hos
tility and a return to their
_just alle
giance to the Constitution a laws of
the United States, and that we call up
on the Government to maintain this
position and to prosecute the war with
the utmost possible vigor to the com
plete suppression of the Rebellion, in
full reliance upon the soli-sacrifice, the
patriotism, the heroic valor, and the
undying devotion of the American
people to their country and its free in
stitutions.
Resolved, That as slavery was the
cause, and now constitutes the strength
of this Rebellion, and as it must be
always and everywhere hostile to the
principles of republican Government,
justice and the National safety de
mand its utter and complete oxtirpa•
tion from the soil of the republic, and
that wo uphold and maintain the acts
and proclamations by which the Gov
ernment, in its own defense, has aim
ed a death blow' at this gigantic evil.
Wo aro in favor, furthermore, of such
an amedment to the Constitution, to
be made by the people in conformity
with its provisions, as shall terminate'
and forever prohibit the existence of
the jurisdiction of the United States.
_Resolved, That the thanks of the
American people are duo to i zoldiers
and sailors'of the army and navy, who
have periled their lives in defense of
country, and in vindication of the hon
or of the flag; that the Nation owes
to them some permanent recognition
of their patriotism and valor, and am
ple and permanent provision for those
of their survivors who have received
disabling and honorable wounds in
the service of the country; and that
the memories of those who have fallen
in its defense shall be held in grateful
and everlasting remembrance.
Resolved, That we approve and ap
plaud the practical wisdom, the unsel
fish patriotism and unwavering fidelity
to the Constitution and the principles
of American liberty, with which Abra
ham Lincoln has discharged, under
circumstances of unparalleled dificulty,
the great duties and responsibilities of
the presidential office ; that we approve
and indorse, as demanded by emergen
cy and essential to the preservation of
the nation, and as within the Consti—
tution, the measures and acts which he
has adopted to defend the nation against
its open and secret foes; that we ap
prove especially the proclamation of
emancipation, and the employment as
Union soldiers of men heretofore held
in slavery ; and that we have fill con
fidence in his determination to carry
these and all other constitutional
measures essential to the salvation of
the country into full and complete ef
fect.
Resolved, That we deem it essential
to the general welfare that harmony
should prevail in the national councils,
and wo regard as worthy of public con
fidence and official trust those only
who cordially indorse the principles
proclaimed in these resolutions, and
which should characterize the admin
istration of the Government.
Resolved, That the Government
owes to all men employed in its ar
mies, without regard to distinction of
color, the full protection of the laws
of war, and that any violation of these
laws or of the usages of civilized na
tions in the time of war by the Rebels
now in arms, should be made the sub
ject of full and prompt redress.
Resolved, That the foreign emigra
tion which in the past has added so
much to the wealth and 'development
of resources and increase of power to
. the nation, the asylum of the oppress
ed of all nations, should be fostered
and encouraged by a liberal and just
policy.
Resolved, That we are in favor of
the speedy construction of the railroad
to the Pacific.
_Resolved, That the national faith
pledged for the redemption or the pub
lic debt must be kept inviolate, and
that for this purpose wo recommend
economy and rigid responsibilities in
the public expenditures, and a vigor
ous and just systeM of taxation ; that
it is the duty of any loyal State_ to
sustain the credit and promote the use
of the national currency.
Resolved, That we approve the posi
tion taken by the Government that
the people of the - United States never
regarded with indifferenec the attempt
of any European power to overthrow
by fofee, or to supplant by fraud, the
institutions of any republican Govern
ment on the western continent, and
that they view with extreme jealous-
sy, at menacing to the peace and in
dependence of this our country, the ef
forts of any such power to obtain new
footholdsfor monarchical Governments
sustained by a foreign military force
in near proximity to tho United states.
EMI
WILLIAM LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XX.
SERMON,
DELIVERED ON SEPTEMBER IITII, 1561,
By Rev. J. GUSS,
IN U. B. CHURCH . , MAPLETON, HUNT. CO., PA
"Because ye have said we have made a
covenant with death and with hell are we at
agreement, when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, it shall not come unto us,
for we have made lies our refuge, end under
falsehood have we hid ourselves. Therefore,
thus eaith the Lord God, behold I lay in Zi
on for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a
precious corner atone, a sure foundation; he
that believeth shall not make haste.
"Judgment also will I lay to the line, rind
righteousness to the plummet, and the hail
shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the
waters shall overflow the liidingplace. And
your covenant with death shall be disannul
led and your agreement with hell shall not
stand.
"When the overflowing scourge shall pass
through ye shall be trodden down by it."—
Isa. 28th o. verses 15-18.
Our theme is Christ—the Moral
Scourge and Purifier of Nations.
The stone in the sixteenth verse sym
bolizes Christ. Passing by the char
acteristics of this stone as a tried, pre
cious, corner stone and sure founda
tion, we take our position as it is clear
ly taught by the prophecy and preach
Christ as the Scourge of wicked na
tions. That the stone in the text' re
fers to Christ, is abundantly verified
by the testimony of St. Paul and St.
Peter, and that it symbolizes Christ as
the scourge and purifier of nations, is
equally clear from the context. The
agents employed in scourging man
kind are war, famine, peatdience,marth,
quakes, itc. There are those who
think
. that Christ has nothing to do
with calamities such as war, &e.,—
that they form no part of his works.—
One reason for such an idea is no doubt
in the fact that in our preaching and
public ministrations we usually fellow
the beaten path in speaking of the
more agreeable and pleasing manifes
tations of Christ in his work of re
demption, whereas we seldom or nev
er present him in his strange work of
scourging the nations: - But another
reason is a partial and superficial
view of Scripture. When we think
of war and kindred calamities, invol
ving the destruction of human life, our
sympathetic natures are aroused, and
revolt at the contemplation of such
calamities. We are ready to fortify
our sympathies with such precepts as
"Love your enemies," "Do gerod'to
them that hate you." "Resist not evil,"
"I came not to destroy men's lives, but
to save them." 'nut we have no right
to be controlled either by our feelings
or by isolated portions of Scripture.
We are taught not to resist evil, but
we aro also taught to "Resist the Dev,
il." Did not Christ say "I came not to
destroy men's lives but to save them."?
110 also said "I came not to bring peace
upon the earth, but a sword." Did
he teach non coercion ? But he took
a scourge' of small cords and DROVE
wicked men out of the temple and up
set the tables. If fifty or one hundred
years hence a man were to pick up a
scrap of history and read that in the
year of our Lord, 1881 ; a man from the
western portion of the United States
of America entered the Capitol, upset
ting the tables and driving out the for
mer occupants and denouncing their
as thieves and public plunderers, ho
would get the idea of coercion and tu
mult. And when I read the Son of
Man entered the temple, with a whip
in his hand, overthrew the money
changers' table, drove the occupants
out and called them a "den of thieves,"
I get the idea of force, a a tumult.—
When therefore Christ says "resist not
evil," he is directing his word against
that law of retaliation that obtained
among the Jews, "an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth.' And when
he says "love your enemies," "do good .
to them that hate you," the qtiestion
is left open as to what would be lov
ing our enemies, or doing good to them
that hate us. Ido not suppose for a
moment that in loving our enemies we
are to love anything bad in them.—
Suppose a man's hatred will lead him
to acts of brutality and violence, would
it be doing "good to him" to allow him
the gratification of his passions with
impunity. Suppose he proceeds in
his hatred to bloodshed and murder,
would it be a blessing or a curse to put
no obstacle in his way ? Our opinion
is that it would be'doing good to such
a man to arrest and to punish him.
There are instances in which it would
be a benefit to-a -man to knock him
down—not iu malice, but in self-de
fence and love. "Let the righteous
smite me, it shall be a kindness; lot
bim reprove me it shall be excellent
oil which shall not break my head."
"Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
but the kisses of an enemy are deceit
ful." " Open rebuke is bettor than se
cret love.' Now these thoughts are re
flected in the text. Christ is set forth
-in Scripture under various titles and
symbols, all of which are expressive
and significant. When presented in
his sacrificial character, the Lamb is
the appropriate symbol of meekness
and innocence employed. When in
his judicial character, the Lion is the
bold and significant symbol used.—
When ho is set forth as the head of the
church, he is called Shepherd. But
when he is set forth as the scourge of
nations, the. Stone is the symbol em
ployed.
Nebuchadnezer saw in his dream an
imago like unto man; its bead was
gold - , breast silver, body brass and
legs iron. And he beheld as:tone cut out
of the mountain without hands. This
stone smote the image and broke it to
pieces. Commentators say this stone
means Christ, and the -fact that the
stone smote the image and broke it to
pieces is evident of force and not of
gentle means. And may not war and
kindred calamities be implied in that
prophecy l The same idea of a scourge
is given whim Christ applies this sym-
bol to himself, "Whosoever shall fall
upon this stone shall be broken to pie
ces, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it
will grind him to powder.
The prophecy in the former part of
the chapter seems to apply to the ten
tribes who had forsaken the house of
David. Upon the death of Solomon,lle
hoboauf took the reins of government,
and when the people asked for a relax
ation of his fathers rule they were giv
en to understand that instead of modi
fying he would increase their burdens.
Whore they had been chastised with
whips, they wore now promised scor
pions. Ten of the tribes took excep
tions to this inaugural address of the
new king and seceded from the house
of David. They recalled Jeroboam
who bad been banished, as a danger
ous person, from the kingdom, and
made him their king. They took
Samaria as their capital, and Jeroboam
ordained priests and made idols of gold
and set them up for the people to wor
ship. Thus these ten tribes departed
from the Lord and grew worse, until
under Hos ea, the Assyrians came up
against thorn, and after besieging them
for three years, carried them away in
to captivity.
The prophecy in the text relates more
particularly to the "residue, or the
tribes of Juda and Benjamin. They
too became so wicked as to bring down
the scourge of heaven upon them. Je
rusalem was destroyed by the Babylo
nians and also by the Romans, and
was six times taken according to Jose
pima. The great distress and suffer
mg Which attended the.aiege of Sama
ria, as also the initittetion of Jerusal
em justifies the strong language of the
prophet in pronouncing their doom.
To the bloody carnage of war was ad
ded the horrors of famine and pesti
lence, and the people actually devour
ed one another to maintain life. When
the Roman army entered Jerusalem
after its reduction, whole families were
fOund dead in their houses, and such
was the slaughter by tho Roman sol
diers that the, flames of the burning
houses were in some instances extin
guished by the blood of the slain.
The streets were filled with dead bod
ies, and on those the soldiers tread.
"When the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, ye shall be trodden down
by it"
I will now refer you to a few passages
to-show that the wickedness of the
Jews.brought this scourge upon them.
"The prophets prophecy lies in my
name, I sent them not; neither have I
commanded them, neither spike unto
them; they prophecy unto you a fala
vision and divination, and a thing of
naught, and the deceit of their feasts.
Therefore ; thus saith the Lord concern
ing the prophets that prophecy in my
name, and I sent them not, yet they
say sword and famine shall not be in
this land, by sword and fitmine shall
those prophet's be condemned, and the
people to whom they prophecy shall
-be cast out into the streets of Jerusa
lem, because of the famine and the
sword, and they shall have noun to bu
ry them, their wives nor their , sons,
nor their daughters, for I will pour
their wickedness upon them." Notice
while we quote further, that the char
acter of their wickedness is also indi
cated. "Is not this the fast that I
have chosen, to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens,
and to let the oppressed go free, and
that ye brake every yoke Therefore;
thus saith the Lord, yo have not hear
kened unto me in proclaiming liberty
every one to his brother and every one
to his neighbor, behold I proclaim a
liberty for you•saith the Lord, to the
sword, to the pestilence and to the fam
ine, and I will make you to be remo
ved into all the kingdoms oftho earth."
Their complicity with slavery brought
down the judgment of heaven upon
thorn. The days of prophecy have
pasSed away, but the lessons of probe.
cy remain for all futurity. The lesson
is, that no nation can sin against God
with impunity. No nation can insult
the Almighty and escape his scourge.
National crimes too are punished in
this world while they are in existence.
The bloody scenes of infidel France
teach us that God will be honored.
Ancient Greece will admonish us that
a nation given to idolatry will come to
naught. The once proud but now
fallen and, dishonored fragments of
ancient Rome reminds us that a nation
whieh aims at the \destruction of
Ghristianity and legalized traffic in
human flesh, will be visited with the
retributions of heaven. And the
history of the most ancient and power
ful monarchy of the earth, Babylon,
teaches us that merchandise of the
souls and bodies of men will bring
down the stone that shall break it to
pieces.
But what have these things to do
with us as a nation ? Have we sinned ?
Alas! my countrymen we have. Why
else this scourge of civil war that has
been desolating our country for lo !
these years? Did ever an innocent
nation meet with such a calamity ?
Have our courts of justice been twin
•fluenced by party spirit? Have they
been above bribery and corruption ?
Have our State and National councils
been free from drunkenness and do
bauchery—have they been clear of
bribery and falsehood, of profanitwd
gambling, of dueling and brutal en
counters with knife and cane ? Above
all,has the nation's helm been unstain
ed by human blood as merchandise?
Who can lay his hand upon his heart
and say we are innocent of those
things ? Let us notice briefly the na
tion's complicity with slavery. We
doubt the morality of the first com
promise by which the foreign slave
trade was lett open for twenty years.
It was virtually sanctioned, yes legal
ized, by that act. Under the protec
tion of this clause of the Constitution,
vessels were fitted out and sent on
their infernal missions of traffic in
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human flesh. The wilds of Africa
were made hideous with the savage
wars created by these dealers in hu
manity; for they had to set the differ
ent tribes of the country at war in or
der to got subjects for the market.—
When a cargo was obtained the vessel
was started homeward and thus they
ploughed the "deep blue ocean" with
human souls and bodies as merchan ,
disc, in the bolds, and the national
colors flying from the mast ! God par
don the past. Some twenty-five years
ago, according to Benton's " Thirty
Years in the Senate," petitions were
sent into Congress by the hundred,
and signed by the hundred thousand,
praying for the abolition of slavery in
the Districtof Columbia and its pro
hibition in the territories. How
were those prayers treated ? Why a
speech was not allowed in their favor.
A resolution was introduced and almost
unanimously passed, that all like pe
titions should be laid on the table with
out debate, without printing, without
any further notice. The nation's capi
tol has stood on slave soil. It has
been a slave mart whore human beings
have been bought and sold to the high-_
est bidder. Tho nation's buildings
have been used to hold these human
victims until a purchaser could be
found. The nation has been under the
control of slave power for more than
two-thirds of the time since its exis
tence, in all its departments, Executive,
Legislative and Judicial. Her foreign
Ministers, ambassadors and consuls
have been either the open advocates or
secret apologists of this wicked insti
tution. The Mexican war was made
in the interest of slavery. The Mis
souri compromise was made in the in
terest of slavery, and it was broken in
the interest of slavery. The fugitive
slave law was passed,and under its pro
visions free men have assisted in seizing
men in Whose veins flowed Angle
Saxon blood, and soldiers in the U. S.
uniform have marched persons thus
seized through the streets of free cit
ies, placed them• on board a govern
ment vessel and with the nation's en
sign flying carried them back to sla
very. Horace Greely burning under
tho disgraceful and humiliating pros
titution of the nation's banner, pro
nounced it a "flaunting lie." 0, my
country, how bast thou been humilia
ted ! It is a wonder that the thunder
bolts of Goct Almighty's wrath have
not long sin&eloonTet.looSif upon this
nation.for her complicity with this one
sin.
But finally on this point. The high
est judicial tribunal in the country
virtually made slavery national in the
Bred Scott decision. The people be
came alarmed at the aggressions of the
slave, power, and declared, by the elec
tion of the present Chief Magistrate,
Abraham Lincoln, that the tide of sla
.very should be stayed. Hero those
interested in the propagation and perpe
tray of slavery, appealed from the
ballot to the sword. Hence this war.
In our opinion, it is a conflict between
right and wrong, good and evil, truth
and error, light and darkness, Christ
and the devil, for God and humanity.
We think the prophecy that we have
tried to explain finds a fit counterpart
in the rebellion. We think the rebel
lion
may be fitly styled a "refuge of
lies, a covenant with death and an
agreement with hell." Lot us see.
What are the doctrines they started
out on ? Secession is one. That is, as
we .understand it. they look upon the
Constitution of the United States as
simply a league or , compact, every
Stale being a separate and indepen
dent partner to such compact, having a
I right to sit in judgment upon its own
grievances, and when the verdict thus
passed is not respected by the central
' power, the compact is dissolved and
the complaining member is at liberty
to depart in peace. But our fathers
were not guilty of framing a govern
ment of this kind. There is doubtless
a proper tribunal at which to decide
public grievances of a national charac
ter, but such tribunal is not a State in
its independent and sovereign capacity,
if such capacity it has. This, then, is
one he that goes to make up the "refuge
of lies." But closely allied to this is
the doctrine of non-coercion, or that
the general government has no power
to enforce its .laws or coerce a delin
quent State. If the doctrine of Se
cesSion were true, then the doctrine of
non-coercion would follow, bat as the
former is untruo,.so is the latter. The
President is charged' with the faithful
execution of the laws, and if obstacles
are fbund in the way, the charge still
remains " that the laws be fhithfully
executed," and for this purpose he is
commander-in-chief of . the, army and
navy of the United States, and of the
militia when called into service. James
Buchahan argued well against seces
sion in his last annual message, but
almost in the next breath admits the
doctrine of non-coercion, by declaring
that he had no-power to enforce the
laws i n South Carol a. lie might
have saved his paper and brains in
exposing secession, because he nullified
it all by teaching non-coercion. Se
cession, then, is another lie that makes
up the refuge of falsehoods.
But, said the rebels, "our -rights'
have boon invaded." To this Alex. 11.
Stephens answered in a speech made
in a convention held in Georgia to con
sider the subject of secession. That
speech will stand in history as one of
the most triumphant vindications of
the general government toward the
South that ever was made. Mr. Ste
phens challenged any man to point
out a single act where the goVernment
had ever wronged them. That chal
lenge has never been met and never
can he. Senator Douglas, in a, speech
at Chicago, after fort Sumter was
fired upon, declared that ^ there never
was a time since Washington was'
first inaugurated President of the Uni
ted States, when the rights of South-
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ern States stood firmer under the laws
of the land than they did at that time.
That there never was a time when
they had not as good a cause for
union as they had then. This cry of
" rights invaded," them, is another
falsehood. And so it is on to the end
of the chapter. The whole thing is- a
‘refuge of lies."
But the Rebellion may also be styl
ed a covenant with death and an agree
ment with hell. What is the basis of
their confederations? Slavery—Chat
tie Slavery—is the foundation on which
it rests. When Georgia passed the
ordinance of secession, in spite of Mr.
A. H. Stephens' remonstrance, and
when he was tempted by a place of
power he yielded to the pressure, and
' now is second only to the chief traitor
in the conspiracy. After his 'return
from the Montgomery Convention Mr.
Stephens made another speech to. his
constituents in Georgia, this time on
the new constitution they had fram
ed. After commenting on various
parts of it, he came, finally, to the sub
ject of slavery. Thomas-Jefferson,
and most of the loading statesmen of
his day, says Mr. Stephens ; looked up
on slavery as a social, moral and po-.
litical evil, and would by some means
die out. But these men were greatly
in error, according to Mr. Stephens'
view. "Instead of the social, political
and normal condition of the negro
race, and on this stone, which the for
mer builder ejected, the Con
federacy rests." In keeping with this,
was an article in the Richmond Ex
aminer of more than a year ago. "For
liberty, fraternity and equality we do
liberately substitute slavery, subordi
nation and government." There aro
master races born to rule, and slave ra
ces born to servo,"&c. Thus discours
ed this paper. There . are those who
accept the pro slavery view of, or look
upon the Constitution of the United
States as a pro slavery instrument, and
hence have pronotinced it a "covenant
with death," Sie4 but we think Mr. A.
H. Stephens justly says that the fra
mers of that instrument rejected this
stone, and the confederates have adop
ted it. - Whatever, then, may be the
opinion with reference to the Consti
tution of the United States, there can
be but one opinion with regard to the
basis of the Confederacy. Its founda
tion rests on a system which, in the
nervous language of Dr. Clark, is
"cursed at both ends and blasted in
the middle with the - maledictions of
Almighty God," "But judgment is
being laid to the line, and righteous
ness to the plummet," and the hail is
sweeping away the refuge of lies; the
covenant with death is being disannul
led, and tho agreement with bell will
not stand. The overdoing scourge
is passing through the land. In the
destruction of Jerusalem, the Romans
used a kind of artillery called the bat
tering ram. With this they hurled
huge stones agains the ramparts and
fortifications and beat them doWn.
The stones and other missiles of
death no doubt constitute the hail of
which the prophet speaks. In our
case, minnie balls, solid shot, grape
and canister, bombshells and Greek
fire is the hail that is sweeping away
the refuge of lies. It is said there was
cmiugh . of this hail tires-vn into tho
defences of Vicksburg to make a mon
ument for every soldier that fell in its
capture. And what shall we say of
Ft. Donelson, Pittsburg Landing ; Mur
freesboro, Chickamauga„ Missionary,
Ridge and Atlanta; of two Bull Runs,
the fights near Richmond, of Antei
tam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorville,
Gettysbtlrg, Wilderness, Spottsylvn•
nia, and all the smaller showers that
have swept over the land. I count,
the defeats with the victories for these
lies seem to have been so interwoven
over the whole country, that it seems
to have required all this hail to sweep
away the refuge. But it is being done.
"And the waters shall overflow the
hiding places!'
_ At the siege of Samaria and the
capture of the ton tribes, there were
openings made and.streams of Water
were admitted and thus the waters
overflowed their hiding places. In
our case, the waters too perform an
important part. The waters carry
our monitors, and iron -clads, and wod
den vessels up to the very dens of trea
son, and the hail is rained from these
vessels into their hiding places.- One
of Gilmore's Greek fire shells, after
passing through the air five miles,
struck a statue of John C. Calhoun
and knocked it into atoms. No doubt
it was divinely directed.
Thus the hail is sweeping away the
refuge of lies. "And your covenant
with death shall be disannulled."—
Slavery is being destroyed. Six months
of war has done more for the destruc
tion of slavery than ten years of peace.
It is written that "Jesus Christ was
manifested to destroy the works of the]
devil." When the dominions of Satin
are pressed by the aggression of ChriSt,
he sometimes appeals to the sword to
defend his empire ; then Christ directs
and controls in such a manner as to
make the devil's own weapon defeat
his purposes. We have a striking in
stance in this rebellion. This appeal
to the sword was to perpetuate and
extend slavery; hut the - first gun that
was fired in the conflict was its death
knell.
In our opinion., the world will he
the gainer by a thousand • years for
this conflict. That- is, certain evils
that would have continued to curse
the earth for a thousand years in the
ordinary course of events, arc being
summarily destroyed. And certain
groat principles which are in harmony
with the Gospel of Eternal Truth, that
might have been kept under, Will be
brought up to bless mankind. Thus
the foundation of the Confederacy is
giving way. Its corner-stone is cram -
bling to pieces.
"And your agreement with hell shall
TERMS, $1,50 a year in advand6,
not stand." As for the. application of
this, we remark that if the devil don't
get some of the leaders of this rebellion,'
and some of their alders and abettors!
there is curry little use for a hell ?
But will we not all be involved in one
common ruin and the nation be de
stroyed ? We think not. We believe
that when we are sufficiently scourged,
the nation will yet come out of this
struggle regenerated and free. What
is the ground of such belief ? We re
ply; there are many things to encour
rge our faith in this respect. Contrast
the contending sections with reference
to their naval power. While the Gov
ernment had almost nothing to com
mence operations .with on the seas,
the rebels had a formidable power
in vessels stolen. from 'oar harbors.
But how stands the case to-day?—
While the naval power of the "rebels
has dwindled down to a pirate or two
upon the seas, ours has grown until we
challenge comparison with the world;
yes, I would put up Admiral Farragut
and Captain Winslow ; with wooden
vessels, against the navies of the world!
But we may find room tor encourage
ment in looking at the financial condi
tion of the contending section.s While
there is financial distress and ruin in
the rebel ranks to such extent that, we
are told, when they go to market the
money has to be carried in a basket
and the beef home in the pocketbook,
our finances are snob as to command
respect. United . States stock .com
mand a premium in the market. Since
the war commenced as high as sixteen
millions dollars of Government bonds
have been sold in a single day. But
says one, "it is all paper money, and
will be worth nothing after awhile.'
Not so sure of that. Besides,we have
silver enough to carry on the war for
twenty years, and then make a silver
musket for every soldier in the army,
and then plate every monitor and
iron:elad with silver instead of iron!
My authority for this remark is Bish
op Simpson, of the ALE. Church, who
said he made the remark from obser
vation and actual calculation on a vis
it to the silver mines of Nevada. But
the intelligent reader need not be told of
the vast treasures ofsilver and gold that
is being brought to light just at thisaus
picious time in the territories of Idaho,
Nevada, etc. It is there by the ton. It
is currently rumored, too, that foreign
capitalists have made an offer of the neat
ccouettrousitud million netters
to our Government _
Our faith is
.
strengthened, too, by tlke waning pow
er of the rebellion and the gradual
progress of Union arms. More than
two•thirds of , the territory ,hold
by the rebels at the outset has
been wrested from their military grasp. The
forts have nearly all been re-possessed. Ports
Henry, Donaldson, Island No. 10, Port Hud
son, Forts Jackson and Philips, Gains, Mor
gan, Pulaski, and others have fallen. New
Orleans, Vicksburg, Nashville, Knoxville,
Chattanooga and Norfolk have fallen, and to
day we celebrate the fall of Atlanta, the tri
umphs of Sherman and Farragutl A month
or six weeks ago the heavens were dark, A
well-laid plan for the capture of Petersburg
failed for want of co-operation among some
army officers, the rebels were raiding in
Maryland and Pennsylvania; in.. burn
ing Chambersburg, and Sherman failed
in a bloody assault or two to carry the works
around Atlanta ; a call for five hundred thou
sand men was made, and a draft threatened.
In the midst of - an. this, a- net of- mon-wero
busy plotting treason in our midst, and wore
preparing to strike hands with traitors. It
was a dark hour. But a rent was made in
the cloud when we hoard that grand old Far
ragut had again run the gauntlet at Mobile
With hie wooden hulks. Then again we felt
good When we learned that Grant had plant
ed himself across the Weldon railroad, and
defied the rebel cohorts to dislodge hips, But
on the sth of September there was a grand
flash of lightning that scattered the black
cloud to the four winds, and filled every loyal
heart with such joy as could not be contained.
Then we read, with emotions too big for ut
terance, "This department has received in
telligence that Sherman's advance entered
Atlanta about noon to-day I" The immortal
campaign of Sherman had culminated in the
capture of tlio "Gate City." The stars and
stripes were unfurled afresh to the breeze;
the Union bells pealed the notes of Victory ;
the iron throats of ten thousand cannon
shook the earth with their thunders of op
plause—the nation's thanks were heralded to
the victors, and to-day, by invitation of the
President, tens of thousands of loyal chris
tian hearts aro gathered around the conse
crated altars to swell the grand chorus of
Glory to God. On the top of all this good
news comes the letter of Gen. Grant to Mr.
Washburn°. The words Of the great chief
tain no doubt fell upon the ears of a certain
class of discontented spirits like a clap of
thunder from a clear sky. 0, yo desponding
souls! look up, your redemption draweth
nigh.
But fluidly, our chief hope or final triumph
is in progren qf right principles and the
consequent approval of God. The nation is
learning. True, it has been a dull scholar ;
hut through this school of blood, and tears,
and lire, we aro coining up to those great
principles which uphold the throne of the
Eternal, and by Ills favoring smile we ex
pect to conquer.
The nation has learned that it is idle to
attempt to kill the rebellion without injuring
Slavery. It bas learned to place a musket
iu the hands of the "smoked yankee" in
stead of threatening him with an iron hand
if he attempted his freedom. 'We are learn
ing. The fugitiveielavedaw has been repeal
ed. ' The Nation's Capitol stands onfree soil.
A decree has gone firth, which is like the
laws of the Meades and Persians, unchange
able, that the oppressed shall go free. Mis
souri is virtually free, and Maryland, in con
vention' nssem b I ed, has declared that .slavery
shall die instantly, We repeat our convic
tions then, that this nation will yet come nut
of this strufigle, purified like gold in the fire,
regenerated, free, and that 'We wail be one
united, individual, indivisible whole, stretch
ing from the waves of the Atlantic to the
golden shores of the Pacific, and froth the
lakes of the North to the world's great boil- I
ing cauldron . —the - Gulf of Mexico—on the
South.
onion of Isites,s union of lands, .
A mite,, no power cos 'l,v,,
A union of hearts, a union of howls,
The American Union forever."
Then, my friendP, and not until then, in
fact and not only in name, will the
°Stnr•opangled banner wave
O'er the land of the Polcs end the home of the brave."
And may Almighty God hasten the day,
and save us-for Christ's sako. Amen.
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Letter from o.enera Dix . .-- --S'oniething
for Democrats to Reflett on.
The followhig letter was addressed
by den. Dix to' theynion Demonstra.
tion in Philadelphia, §aturilay dVeti
ing last:
X.EW YORK, October 6th 1864.. •
.
GENTLEMEN 1-1 have received . your
invitation to address the mass meet
ing to be held in Independepae &pan
on Saturday. The duties indderd'ict
the active command of Et military de
partment render it impossible kir, die'
to attend public meetings or make-ph
litical speeches. But I accede with'
pleasure to your'request to write Srod
a letter. •
There is but one question before _thd
country in the approaching canvass
Shall we prosecute the war with line!
bated vigor until the rebel forces laY
down their arms ; or shall we, to use
the language of the Chicago Conveh
don, make 'lmmediate efforts" fot °at
cessation of hostilities, with a Vie* to .
ultimate convention of all the States?"
&c.
Believing that the latter meusttre,
for whatever purpose adopted, would
lead inevitably to a. recognition of the
independence of the insurgent Statesi
and believing, moreover, that true pol
icy, as well as true mercy, alwas,flu..
niands, in the unhappy exi . giencies of
war, a steady and unwavering appliCa,
tioE of all thti means and all the eller-,
gies at command until. the object of
the war is accomplished, I shall op.
pose the measure in every form In
which opposition is likely to be effec
tive.
General McClellan tho:candidato for .
the Chicago Convention, by force . , of
his position, oust be deemed to approVe
all the declarationS with whiCh he has
presented to the, country, unless ,jie
distinctly avows them.`" Unfortunate
ly, he is silent ou the only- question in
.regard to which the people cared that
ho should speak. Ile (lobe not say
whether he is in favor of a cessation
of hestilities, the- measure announced
by thos'e who nominated him, as the
basis for action in case of his election,
or whether he is opposed to; it. go
does not meet the question with .man
ly frankness, as . I am confident ho.
would hive done if be bad taken coun
sel of. his own instincts," instead of
- Yielding . to
politicians. The Chicago Convention
presented a distinct issue to the peo
ple. As the nominee of the . Conyen
tion, he was bound to repndiato or,ac
cept it. Ile has done neither, and
whatever inference may be drawl - , trotlt
his silence, either_ the war DemuerstS
must be deceived.
In calling for a cessation of :hostili
ties, the members of the Chicago Con
vention have, in my judgment, lotally
misrepresented the feelings and opin
ions of the great body of the Denied
racy, The policy proclaimed in its
name makes it—so far as such a decla
ration can—what it has never -been
before, a peace party in war; degrad
ing it from the eminence on which it
has stood in every other national con
flict. In this-injustice to the country
and a great party, identified with all
that is honorablein our history,
I can have-- no -part. I pan_ only
mourn, over tlio reproach which has
been in.ough - t upon it by its load
ers, and cherish the hope that it may
hereafter, under the auspices of better
counsellors; resume its • ancient effec
tive and beneficent induenoe in the
administration of the Government.
Does - any one doubt as to the true
cause of our national calamities? •-I.
believe it to be found in the manage
ment of the leaders of both . the princi
pal political parties during the last
century. In 1840 the great men of the
Whig party—Webster, Clay and others
—men of universally acknowledged
ability and long experience in civil life,
Were thrust aside ' 'and Gen. 11arrisen,
a man of very moderate capacity, was
selected as its candidate for the "Presi
dency. The principle of availability,
as it was termed, was adopted as . the
the rule of selection, and the question
of fitness /Meanie obselete. Tho con
cern was to know, not who' was beet
qualified to administer the rGovein
ment, but who, from his comparative
obscuritypvould be least likely to pro-
Voice au eMbittered opposition. This
was the beginning of a system of 'de
moralization, which has , ended in the
present -distracted condition of the
country. It reversed all the conserva
tive principles of human action by pro
scribing talent and experience and
crowning Mediocrity with the highest
honors of- the Republic. In -1844 the
Democratic party followed the success
ful example ef its opponents : in 1840.
.It put aside Van Buren, Cass; Marcy,
and its other eminent statesmen, and
brought forward A. 1.1. Polk, a man 'Of
merely ordinary ability. Parties
which have neither the courage :nor
the virtue to stand by their greatest
and best men, soon fall into hopeless
demoralization. This system of retro.
gradation in all that is manly and just
has continued, with two or three abor
tive efforts at reaction for twenty-four
years. It has,driven pre-eminent tal
eat out of the paths which lead to the
highest political distinction ; and-mul
titudes with a simplicity which would
be ludicrous wore it not so deplorable,
ask, what has become of 'our . great
men The inquiry
,is easily answered.
They are in the learned professions in
science; literature and art, and in the
numberless fields of intellectual exer
tion, which are opened by the wants of
a great country in- a rapid career of
development. The intellect of the
country is neither diminished in'the
aggregate nor dwarfed in the individ
ual proportions. The political market
like the commercial, under the inflexi-,
blo law of demand and supply, is fur
nished with the kind of material it re-
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