Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-12-07


1T17, on the era of the battle of Brandy wine
hy :he Rev. Jacob Prout, to a large portion
of the American soldiers iu the presence of
General Washington, GeGeral Wayne. and
| others of The Continental army. was recent,
discovered among the old papers of Major
.J"hn Jacob Sch"e6nyer. an offer of the
Revolution. Ii should be perused by every
lover of patriotism --W. TerRon Record
REVOLUTIONARY SERMON.
''They who take the Sword, shall peri b BY
the Sword. -
Soldiers and Feuo,c- Countrynien -
We have met this evening, perhaps for the
last time. We have shared the toll OF the
march, the dismay of the retreat-aliye we
have endured cold and hunger the cont ume-
ly of the eternal foe, and the outrage of the
foreign oppressor. We have sat night after
night beside the same camp fire, shared the
same rough soldiers fare; we have together
heard the roll of revilie, which called US 10
duty. or the beat of the tattoo, which gave
signal for the hardy sleep of the soldier, with
the earth for bis bed, and the knapsack for
his pillow.
And now, soldiers and bretherp, we have
met i'll the peaceful valley the era Of bat
tie. while the sunlight is dying away hey ond
yonder heights; the sunlight. that Tomorrow
will glimner on scenes of blood We have
met amid the whitening tents of our encamp-
uent; iu times of terror aud gloom have We
gathered togethcI-God od grant it may not be
for the last time.
1t is a solemn moment Brethren, does
not the solemn voice of nature seem TO echo
the sympathies of the hour ? The flag of our
country droops heavily from youder staff The
ba. Il, Il. IL
Chadd's Ford the plain that spreads befnre
us, glisteniug in sunlight the heights of the
Brandywine arise gloomy and grand beyond
the waters of yonder stream, aud all nature
holds pause of solemn silence on the eve of
the uproar of the bIuodshed aud strive of to-
morrow.
They who take the Sword, shall perish
by the Sword"
And have they not taken the sword?
Let the desoiate plain-the blood-soddened
valley-the burned farm house, blackening
in thd sun the sacked village, and ravaged
town. aaswer-lct The whitening bones of the
butebered farmer strewn along the fields nf
his homestead, answer-let the starving moth
er with the babe cliuging To her withered
breast that can afford no punishment. let Her
answer, with the death-rattle mingling with
The murmuring tones, that mark the last
struggle for iife-let the dying mother and
her babe answer
It was but day past aud our land slept
in the light of peace. War was not here
wrong was not here Fraud and woe, and
misery, and want, dwelt not among US
From the eternal solitude of the green woods,
arose the blue smoke OF the settlers cabin,
and golden fields of corn looked forth from
amid the waste -ofthe wilderness, and the
glad music of human voices awoke the silence
of the forest.
Now God of mercy behold the change.
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 darken our plains,
aud now they encompass our posts on the
beautiful plain of Chadd's Ford.
They who take the Sword, shall perish
by the Sword"
Brethern think me not unworthy of belief,
when L tell you the doom of the British is
near Think me not ain when [ tell you
that beyond the cloui which now enshrouis
as, see gathering thick aud fast, the dar-
ker cloud and the blacker storm OF Divine
retribution.
They may conquer US to-morrow. Might
and wrong may prevail. aud We may be driy-
geance will come
Ay, if in the vast solituies of eternal space
If in the heart of the boundIess universe
there throbs the being of an awful God, quick
to aveuge aud sure to punish, then will the
man George of Brunswick, called king, feel
in his brain aud 10 his heart. the vengeance
Of the eternal Jehova! 4 blight will oe up
OF his life-a wlthered brain, an accu el in
telect; ablight viii be upon nis children,
aud upon his people. Great God how great
the punishment
A crouded populace, peopling the dense
towns, where the man of money thrives,
while the laborer starves; want stridiug a.
mong the people in all the forms of terrors !;
an ignorant and God-defying priesthood
chucklng oyer the miseries of millions /; a
proud and merciless nobility adding wrong
to wrong, and heaping insult upon robbery
and fraud royalty corrupt to the very heart;
aristocracy rotten to the very core; crime and
went linked hand-in-hand and tempting men
to deeds of woe aud death; these are part
of the doom aud retribution that shall come
upon the English throne and the English
people
Soldiers , look around upon your fam
liar faces with strange interest To-mor
row morning we will all 60 forth to battle
for need tell you your unworthy Minister
will march with you. Invoking Gods aid in
the fight We will all march forth to bat
tie Need l exhort you to 6ght-to fight
for your homesteads. and for yous wiveo and
children.
My friends. might urge you to fight by
the CALLING memories of British wrongl Wal
ton. might tell you of your father. butcher
ed In the silence of midnight. on the plains OF
Trenton-I might picture his gray hairs
daubed in blood might ring his death
shrek in your ears. Shelmire- | might tel
you of mother butchered aud sister outra.
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