Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-06-15
TRINITY JOURNAL
WcHvcrviiic, Saturday, June rs, 1861.
brave Words for Brave Men.

Brave Words for Brave Men.
We have met with nothing of the kind more
suitable to the times than the discourse of Rev.
DR.. Bellows of New York, preached in All Soul s
Church, in that city, April 81, 1861. 1t should
be read by the President and Cabinet and circu-
lated by millions of copies We have room for
only few extracts
No people can be great respected, loved,
feared, trusted, without nationality; without
patriotic devotion and unity, national instincts,
and afiectons common government around
which they rally, and common soil, every inch
of which is sacred to every citizen. We have in
several respects the grandest elements of unity
ever possessed by any people ; common Ian
guage and common religion territory ind-
visible in natural boundaries continent with
all the isolation of an island and with the disad
vantageous vastness of its space overcome by the
genius of modern locomotive arts. We have the
solemn memory of common wars in which one
people shed their mingled blood now on Northern
and now on Southern soil. Our great names be-
long to the whole country. There is every rea-
son in the wOrld-one only excepted-why our
American people should be q unit and the trial
now upon us, is whether that one reason shall
prevail over all Others.
You cannot have strong government in our
circumstances of democratic liberty without the
free and full consent OF the mass of the people
Can you have that consent ia this country! No J
says the whole European world. No says the
history of the past No! says the Southern Con
federacy No! say the Governors of the Border
States. No said week ago some of the leading
presses of the North. No! said the fears and
misgivings of patriotic souls everywhere But.
thanks be to God, the instincts and affections of
the American heart, the latent nationality Of the
vast majority of its people. have rushed with
thn ,i,rl,f nf dali tn fan rful
Nays, in one sublime affirmation YEA YEA !!
say the people, we are nation. We have a
common heart and soul, and are one body. The
government 1--WE care not what party has put it
there) stands for this nationality stands for our
honor, power, unity, self.respect stands for our
dignity abroad and our peace and prosperity at
home-stands for America! The American flag
has our hearts blood in its ruddy veins our ma
tional heaven opens in its field OF blue ; and our
lives shall set sooner than its stars
This rebellion is rebellion against the ballot
box the most sacred possession OF modern clvii-
zation The balOt-boX is more vital to our
interests as Americans, than mints and forts and
bank vaults and treasures and armories. We
NAV more innocently and safely submit to as
saults on these, than upon that symbol and i'll
strument of our peaceful liberties. Allow un-
certainty, dispute, contempt armed opposition to
hang over its DECISIONS and our country is lost
No the ballotboX must be now forever lifted
above the dcsecraton of sectional or party rage
and opposition. It's peaceful rights must be
sustained with all the force that its loyal sup
porters can command. A million c1rtridge-boXes
must see that the ballOt-boX at the end Of this
struggle is hencclorth safe without one musket
to protect it.
This noble patriotism which now dgnfcs all
hearts, must not be suffered to escape in tempo
rary ebulition. 1t must be calmed on the sur
face and dcepened at the bottom. 1t must learn
nat
providcntially called to a conflict more urgent
than our first revolution more perilous and
awful. We must not despse our enemies, nor
think slightngly OF their sagacity, their means,
or their resolution. They are terribly in earnest
they are richer than we think they have long
arranged plans, they have desperate game to
play, they have able, ambitious, and unscrupulous
leaders, and are under the sway of local delu
siOns political lallacies, and military habits and
tastes. 1t is only by the instant rally OF the
largest force can muster, and by the immedi
ate exercise of the greatest power we can put
forth, by the dropping of any hesitatng or halt
way policy, by the most direct, aggressive, and
overwhelming vindication of all our laws and
rights that we can diminish the ehusion of blood,
and control within the narrowest limits the hor-
rors and the injuries of civil war.
March on, then, ye noble patriots from the
loyal States of our sacred Union Your faces
are set towards the grave of Washington, which
must never pass into any keeping less dignided
than the nations own. You go to save the Cap
itol, where the Father of his Country, and Jeiler
sou and the Adamses and Madison and jackson
presided over common soil with impartial care;
where Marshall and Jay and Story judged the
people rghteOusly where Gadsden, PinCkney
and Livingston, Hamilton aud King, and Clay
and Webster honored the Union with their fervid
devotion and where patriotism and wisdom and
justice still survive, and seek, with honest lmpar-
tiality, to maintain and allow the rights aud
claims of the thirty-four States of the nation,
What though your blood has already, on the sa-
cred 10Th of April, re-haptized our liberties on
the soil of Maryland? The men of 'Gl are not
more precious nor less brave than those of '7G,
and Baltimore is as good place as Lexington to
die for ones country! Go, then ye noble sons
of Massachusetts, and New York, Pennsy ylvania
aud Ohio, Rhode Island and young Minnesota
offer your bodies the first rampart to our lnva-
ders. The ranks will rapidly close up behind
you-for this is no time for men to hold their
lives dear no day for towards, sluggards, or
neutrals