Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1845-08-13

SecHl u echo tue SyIHpatneS Ot TIE UouF'
The flag Of our country droops heavily
from yonder staff-the breeze has died
Away along the green plains of Chadd's
Ford--the plain that spreads before us
glistens in the sunlight--the heights Of
the Brandywine arise gloomy and grand
beyond the waters Of yonder stream,
and ali nature holds a pause OF solemn
silence, on the eve of the uproar of the
bloodshed and strife ofto.morrow.
"They that take the Sword shall per-
ish by. the Sword" 81 .e,,t
And have they not taken the sword
| Let the desolate plain, the blood
fshodden valley, the burned farmhouse,
blackening in the sun, the sacked viii
lage, and ravaged town, answer--let
the whitening bones of the butchered
farmer, strewn along the fields of his
homestead, answer--let the starving
mother, with the babe cliDging to her
withered breast, that can afford no sus.
tenance, let her answer; with the mur.
mering tones, that mark the last strug-
gle for life--et the dying mother and
her babe answer. .t ID
| 1t was but day past and our land
slept in the light Of peace. War was.
not here wrong was not here. Fraud
and wo, and misery, and want, dwelt
not among us. From the eternal soil
1tude OF the green woods, arose the blue
smoke of the settlers cabin, and golden
fields of corn looked forth from the
waste of the wilderness, and the glad
music Of human voices awoke the 81.
lence Of the forest. ,y
| Now, God of mercy, behold the
change! Under the shadow of pre-.
text, under the sanctity of the name Of
God, invoking the Redeemer to their
aid, do these foreign hirelings slay our
people! They throng our towns, they
4 darken our plains, and now they en-
: compass our posts on the lonely plain
Of Chadds Ford. 6!
"They that take the Sword shall per.
! ish by the Sword"
/ Brethren, think me not unworthy oI
, belief when Itell you that the doom oI
: the British is near! Think me not vain
, when tell you that beyond the cloud
Y that now enshrouds us, see gathering
thick and fast, the darker cloud and the
blacker storm of Divine Retrbution!
They may conquer us on tomorrow
v Might and wrong will prevail, and w
. may be driven from this field-but tn
, hour ofGod's own vengeance will come
:, Aye! If in the vast solitudes Of e
7 ternal space in the heart of bound
less universe there throbs the being Q
a Coo, quick to avenge and sure to pun
,sh guilt, then will the man, George o
Brunswick, called King, feel in hi
heart the vengeance Of the eternal Je
!, hovah! A blight will be upon his life
u a withered brain, an accursed intellec
e a blight will be upon his children. an
i on his people. Great God! how drea
+ the punishment. :,
) A dense populacc, peopling til
!, dense towns where the man ofmone
"a thrives, while the laborer starves; wal
g str:ding among the people in all tn
forms ofterror; an ignorant and Go
a. defying priesthood chuckling over th
d miseries of millions;-a proud and III
: merciful nobility. adding wrong
q, wrong, and heaping insult upon robber
q q and fraud; royalty corrupt TO the yer
Of heart; arlstocracy rotten to the yer
10 core, crime and want linked hand
+ hand and tempting man to deeds of wo
le and death--these are part Of the doc
OF and retribution fiat shall come upc
~ , the English people!
ID Soldiers! ! look around upon yo'
familiar faces with strange intere
Tomorrow we will 60 forth to bait
!. for need tell you that your unworif
r. minister will march with you, invokir
Gods aid in the fght?--we will marc
Te forth TO battle! Need exort you
he fight the good fght--to fight for yo'
of| homesteads, and your wives and Chi
is dreni -t
n nv friendss l might urge you
n fight by the CALLING memories OF Br
%. fish wrongL--VaIton, | might tell "
1t, Of your father hptcherd in the silen
he Of midnight on fhe plains Of Trent
We II might picture his gray hairs da
le, bIed in bloodsaIa might ring his dea
oil shrek in our ears. Shelmire, ! mig
he tell you Of mother butchcred. slst
.th outraged--of the lonely farm-hou
w the night assault, the roof in Ham
We the shouts ofthe troopers as they dl
Of patched yheir victim, the cries for mi
ay cy, the pleading Of innocence for p
to, Il might paint this all again, in !
,es terrible coiors Of the vivid reality,
lit. \ thought your courage needed su
me excitement. q @t v e'sf ~
ed But know you are strong 10
for nigh, ofthe Lord. You will SO To-
y TO battle on the morrow with light hea
en-. and determined spirits. though the 8.