The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-08-13

can afford no sustenance, let her answer
with the death rattle mingling with the
murmuring tones that marked the last
Of her life; let the mother and
her babe answer.
1t was but day past, sand our land
slept in the quiet of peace. War was
not here. Fraud and woe, and want
dwelt not among us. From the eternal
solitude of the green woods arose the blue
smoke of the settleSr's cabin, and golden
fields of corn looked from the waste of
the wilderness, and the glad music of
human voices awoke the silence of the
forest.
Now, God mercy, behold the change.
Under the shadow of a pretext, under
the sanctty Of the name of God, invo-
king the Redeemer to their aid, do these
foreign hirelingS Slay our people! They
throng our towns-they darken our
plains, and now they encompass our posts
on the lonely plain of Chadd's Ford.
"They that take the sword shall per-
ish by the sword"
Brethren, think me not unworthy of
belief when ! tell you that the doom of
the British is near. Think me not vain
when | tell you that beyond the cloud
that now enshrouds us, lSee gathering
thick and fast, the darker cloud AMI
taicker storm of divine retribution
They may conquer us tomorrow
Might and wrong may prevail, and we
may be driven from the field; but the
hour of Gods own vengeance will come!
Aye, if in the vast solitude of eternal
space, there throbs the being of an awful
God, quick to avenge and sure to punish
guilt, then will the man, George Bruins
wick, called King, feel in his brain and
heart the vengeance of the eternal Je-
hovah! A blight will light upon his
life-a withered brain and an accursed
intellect; blight will be upon his chill
dren and on his people. Great God,
how dread the punishment.
A crowded populace peopling the
denco towns where the man of money
thrives, while the laDorer starves; wabt
striding among the people in all forms
of terror; an ignorant and God-defying
priesthood chuckling over the miSeries Of
millions; aproud and merciless nobility
adding wrong to wrong, and heaping in
suit upon robbery and fraud; royalty
corrupt to the very heart, and aristocra-
cy rotten to the core; crime and want
linked hand in hand, and tempting meu
to woe and death-these are part of the
dooml and retribution that shall come
upon the English throne and the English
people.
Soldiers: | look around upon your fa-
miliar faces with a strange interest! To.
morrow morning we 60 forth to the bat.
tle-for need | tell you that your unwor.
thy minister will march with you, invo
king Gods aid in the fght-we will
march forth to the battle! Need | exhort
you to fight the good fight, to fight fol
} your homeSteads, for your wives and
{ children
, My friends, might urge you to fght
by the CALLING memories Of British wrong
: -Waton-lmight tell you of your faith
, er butchered in the silence of the nigh
on the plains of Trenton; | might wiring
; his death shrek in your ears. Shelmir'
G i might tell you of a butchered moth
g er, and sister outraged, the lonely farm
] house, the night assault, the roof il
4 flames. the shouts of the troopers as they
r despatched their victims, the cries fo
mercy and the pleadings of innocence
e for pity. | might paint this all again
e in the vivid colors Of the terrible reality
$ if | thought courage needed such wilc
e excitement.
+ But | know you are strong IN I'M
It might of the Lord. You will marcl
= forth to battle on the morrow with ligh
n hearts and determined spirit, though th
t solemn duty-the duty of avenging th
dead-may rest heavy on you souls.
/, And in the hour of battle when all a
J, round is darkness, lit by the lurid can
2 non glare and the piercing musket flash
y when the wounded strew the ground, ant
d the dead litter your path, then remember
5 soldiers, that God is with you. The e
J, ternal God fights for yo1; he rides Oh
# the battle cloud; he sweeps onward
d with the march of the hurricane charge
Il God, the awful and infinite, fights 70
n you, and you will triumph. ...
e "They that take the swore shall per
ish by the sword"
r You have taken the sword, but not il
the spirit ofwrong or ravage. You hav
2 taken the sword for your homes, ,,fo
l. your wives, for your little ones. 70