The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-29
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4 The Chrtstian Baams-, OF rredsrieksburg.
draws a graphic picture of thu horrors ofcivil
war which would inevitably follow the dis
union of the States, That civil war would
be the inevitable result Of disuion, no reflect
ing mind can question for a moment. The
Banner adds
Nor is this all. The work Of war and death
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Fsr L' % Torn into thou.end Fragments and
SSaited to the tour Winds OF heaven Whom are
We 6Shting foreign enemy! No, our broth
srs oar sons. our fathers, our own eountrymen,
What shall we sain u we achieve the victory
s.ys al Sssa sssesed ana nom 3. @
politicians; who a. soon 81 we have Ton sht their
Ss. Of ps,ts cc.p"ssm on our nscEs and viii
grind us into dust Are these conside rations GAL
calsted 70 nerve the arm Of the warrior to strike
nonary struggle, fathers fought for their ooun-
been anticipating, ne such iaotIves can hIe UP
the soul and inspire courage IN the actors. TRAIT
eversWhere. and those who are permancntS To-
Gated and have property TO defend ana interest At
stake VII hd veil BE- oo . s' !"
the awful rum. Remember this, you who would
Damn the purest form OF government that has ever
existed. aud the happ,est country the ~of'a mas
These solemn words Of warning are worthy
the attention of all sections of the county,
There is no interest which would not suffer
from disunion. There is no locality, however
remote from the boundaries of the warning
sec lions, which would not feel the conclusion
of the tremendous shock of civil war. Inc
bu r,ben Of taxation to carry on the connict
would press with tremendous weight upon
eyery State in the Union. Neither section OF
the Union can be conquered by the other IN
war as long as the American Revolution, and
the attempt at conquest would cause an ex-
penditure of treasure and blood to which all
that was layished by both sides in that tre-
nendons struggle would be drop In the
bucket. This enormous cost, too, would have
to be met with crippled resources, for every
stream which now supplies revenue would be
dried up, every department OF commercial and
manufacturing enterprise paralyzed, and all
those public improvements which deyelope
the resources of the country be brought TO an
abrupt termination. The generalization of
the country would be more deplorable than
its decline of material prosperity. The cor
ruptirg habits contracted in the camp would
at the end of the struggle scatter seeds OF vice
and crime through the whole length and
breadth of the land. Every peaceful village
aud every orderly rural neighborhood from
one side of the country to the other would feel
the disturbing and demcralizing influences.
The grim slaughter of q hundred battle fields
would be more endurable than the moral death
which war, especially civil war, engehders,
and which would spread a darker pail over
multitudes of once happy households, than the
weeds of mourning and woe which would be
seen everywhere as the mourners went about
the streets And all this for what? Let all
patriots unite to save the happiest country
under Heaven from such dismal catastrophe,
from a fate which would realize in every State,
county, town and neighborhood of the land
| the fearful curse-"And thou Capernaum,
which was exalted unto heaven, shall be east
down into hell"