Smyrna times., 1860-12-13

~Ol uutn anu tIRnl eA lHe AtHu
is overrun with ambitious asplrants for popular
applause and advancement, who would vote to
tear down this fair fabric of RepubIicanIsm, il
out of it's ruins they could erect throne for
themselves. They are ready to discourse in
any strain which will charm the peoples ears,
and to fOrsake The altars Of our Natio,a faith
for the false gods and ldOatres of the heath
ern. This is one of the most invidIous dam
gers which surround ue. 1t is nSldIOus be-
cause we attach little importance to 1t, and
think that no one will heed such defamation
| DemagOgism combines the passion of jealousy
with the phrensy of fanatIclsm, and the low
plotting of a corrupt conscIenCe-to cry up at
one time Liberty without Law, and al anOlner
Law without Liberty. 1t has no pe.-
Self is it's platform. Interest is its only mo-
tive. No bondage can be worse than that
which a people suffer under the control of
Dema gogism And yet it is one of our great
est troubles. 1t is DemagOglsm which to-day
is raising the hoarse cry of Disunon, and lead
ing its followers from 1T ills they have to
others that they know not Of" These are
some of the main sources of trouble which at
this moment are helping TO swell the excite
ment and distress of the country.
III. Let US turn TO consider our only hope of
relief 1t is not primarily in Conventions or in
Congress. We do not look for it directly in
Administrations or Parties. /" God is our ref
uge and strength, a very present help IN
trouble" He is our refuge. He is our fa-
theirs God. He guided the Pilgrims over the
stormy deep to this land of rest and safety.-
The history of this Nation is a record of His
Divine protection and guidance. In our Ma
tional cOunses, from the formation of our
Union 10 this day, HIS holy name has been in
vcked in prayer and praise, as the God of our
have taken refuge until every calamity that
threatened us has Overpast TO Him let ue
look to-day, and in humble suppIication invoke
the dlspensaton OF his wisdom and spirit, that
it may brood over the political chaos which is
gathering about this consle ation of free
States, and readju each to it's proper orbit,
that they may continue III their course OF har.
mony and order around the Union as the centre
of the system. With as much confidence as
the Psalmist let US believe that he will over
rule the judgments of his Providence to our
good, and be our refuge now as at the begin
ming. We have depended too much upon hu-
man wisdom. We have though that the LOST
: Of the great Statesmen who sha ped our policy
and controlled our counsels was irreparable.-
But the les on of to day is to know that God
has us uUdeT his guidance, and that he is our
only refuge. Let US be still and hear his voice
getfulness. Let US fall down aud worship
him as the God of the whole earth, and confess
and repent us Of our sins. In the assurance
Ofhis defence, we may joyfully repeat the hymn
OF Luther
A mountain fastness is our God,
On which our souls are planted,
E And tho the fierce foe rage without,
Our hearts are nothing daunted.
He is our strength as we'll as our refuge
1t is his arm which has governed these States
} in their alliance of Liberty and Law-of Chris
tan Faith and Love. He has bound US to.
gether by The ties of Nature-of History-anC
, of Religion. The indication OF his Providence
E is that this Republican Protestant people, whC
live within the borders Of the two great ocea NJ
. Of the Earth, should be one people-that thi
/ Continent, from the belt Of the Gulf 10 th
bank Of the st. Lawrence, should be thei
G common home. For this he has thrown tn
O great ranges of ;he Allegheny and Rock
!, Mountains longitudInally with our Rivers, an
e Rot built them like walls OF exclusion, running
>. from East to West. II is noticed that thos
If Nations which are least associated live on tn
q opposite sides of Mountains extending in
Il line with the Equator. That the Anglo Saxo
o. and Celtic races have been kept apart by tn
;. Highlands of the Cheviot Ellis, while thos
l., separated by the Alps have assimilated to eac
y other in laws and habits and even language
The fertile fields of the South yield their ric
ic produce of cotton, sugar and rice, while tn
Al quarrias, coal beds and forests ofthe North an
al North West supply the materials for our CON
v merce and manufactures, and the structures
a. defence. Between them there stretches III
10 broad girdle Of the Middle States, with the
Al millions of grain-growing acres, binding the
30 like the faoled zone of Venus, as an ornamei
4 IL.
"a roll the defensive waves of the Eastern al
en- Western oceans of the hemisphere, our stron.
m est barriers to the invaslons of Foreign strif
as God, not Man, is our strength. He h
re scooped out the great Valley ef the Mississip
o. and rolled it's waters from from the barre
nd cliffs OF the North West to the sunny wales al
lie savannahs Of the SoUth-like an artery of o
mt National heart, carrying lite stream to q
lu- extremities and channels Of the whole col
nd merciol system. God has united us Ihroug
IN. out the leng and breadth Of this land by Il
ed wonderful intersection of rivers, which, Ii
he veins and arteries, are traverslng The WHIT
les Continent, and flowing TO all parts, laden wi
ith the freight Of commercial, intellectual, soc
iu- and religious aliment for The whole country.
in And what He, by nature, has not done
ion US, ha over-ruling Providence has SUPPLE
oor The rock-ribbed mountain has been tunnell
y
The that the King of Commerce might come ir
r OF that he might travel upon the interlacing hi
,ur. way Of iron which line the soil. and visit
thi- distant fields of his wide domain; that he mi
BY receive the tribute Of every cline, and br
nee his peuce offerings to the door OF every 3
are iect OF his sceptre.
tify Chemistry has been made to reveal secI
US, which had bean hidden from the world but
In US and, like an angel OF love, Science has
nd raped the Union with electric bonds,
op tremble with the pulses of sympa' thy, and, v
ring the speed OF the lightnngs. fash with
ldg. tremblings OF the Nations thought. r
,tice dear brethren, God is our strength lie is
tho riveting the golden links ofOur Union by c
how tive and Providentisl Power.
,tice 2. fle has united u.s. remarked. in hist
the We are sons Of the same sire-WashingtC
the National Father Of Us all. We have
Ma. rocked in the same cradle of liberty and DR.
II aE he