The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1861-05-07


; spirit, pledging again their lives their fort
unes aud their sacred honor.
This is our duty, 10 stand by our country
: when assailed and impered by foes, foes a,
homo or abroad, 10 give freely of our sub
stance, to sacrifice our lives il need be, aud
humbly invoke the aid Of Deity in her de.
tense For what is our property worth; wha,
would we have left, worth living for when
our liberty is taken awav? Tis our duty to
sustain our country by every means in our
power. II she wants money, 1ive IL, if she
needs men supply them, and God be praised
that our country has never felt the need Of
either, since cur first struggle for freedom.
Though the Government Treasury WAS ex-
hausted by Southern robberes TO prepare the
South for this assault; though our Navy
was scattered, and our army reduced to the
smallest possible numbers by southern
schemers, and several commands differed by
men favoring the rebellion, all tending 10
embsrass the Government and strengthen the
enemy, yet when the crisis comes, the people
are ready to do thsir duty, so that she has no
lack either Of mon or OF money.
Some of our brethren are already in the
field; many more preparing to go, and the
in and stay the tide. Those who havc gone,
and are going. have ties of home and kindred
strong and cndearng, but the ties Of n be.
loved country in peril is stronger. They
have forsaken all, and laid every atfectionate
endcarment of home on the altar of our coun-
! try; for this we cannot sufficiently admire,
praise and bless them; and while they are
I fighting the battles of our country-fghting
with the arm of flesh for our assaed liberties,
let m-who remain behnl-assst them,
contending also against tho same foes, fight
! ing with prayer to the God of hosts, that he
will giant them speedy victory. Morning.
evening and at noon.day, let him hear your
cry, let your fervent prayer ascend to tho
Almighty ituier or the Universe, that he Will
deliver us from all our enemies, and dcfcnd
the county he has SO graciousIy given US.
Cease not TO pray for the whole conntry-our
Union. For the God Of truth and justice will
not forsake the work Of his own hand nor suf-
fer it 70 be overthrown. "Hope thou in the
Lord aud keep his way and he shall promote
ee--that thou shalt possess the land |
| need not counsel you TO relieve our soldiers
of all anxiety OF provilng for their families,
for your noble impulses have anticipated this,
and fully demonstrated that they shat tack
for nothing that sympathy and money can
procure. Go, then soldiers at your country's
call; 60 and fear not! leave your beloved
ones to the Kindness OF your brethren, and to
the care Of our God OF the ultimate issue
of the contest in which we are engaged there
can be no doubt; MS soon may the sun deseIt
his course in the Heavens, as God to desert
his cause in this republic; as well might we
lo IL l Il; IN, mi,
in oppression and in wrong. as to expect this
Goddess rebellion to succeed 1t cannot, for
The Almighty is against il; its death 10 sure,
tis only a mater of time. Over every rebel
lious State, city, town and fortress shall the
Flag of our Union trlumphantly wave again
We must be one; "E PIuri5us Unum" must
lie our motto f.om sea to sea, and from ocean
10 ocean.
Is ii rashness TO think Of as many sovsr
eighties as there are States; or n northern and
a southor" hoS, ivr tlIo law vr "uIl; -"
would soon lead TO this. Is it rashness to
think Of as many petty powers, rs States, to
treat with foreign powers, with England
France and Russia. Gas many bound to
keep the peace, or else cry havoc, aud let slip
the dogs of war; 1t must not be contem-
plated for the rivalros of commerce, the con
flicting interest Of territory and foreign en-
tauglements would lead to perpetual war
fare. "As many fleets and armies AID dep,-
matte corpse as there are States. What a
grieyous and unnecessary burden Divisions
with no national character, "no prestage in
history, no ancestral glory. In the past no
pride, and in the future no confidence" how
poor, how tame and how spiritIess, the pros.
pect? What an exchange is this for the Isl
lent power Of this great Republic, which
though remote from the strifes of the eastern
continent, yet controls and sways them ALL
What an exchang, for this government, that
already holds the equilibrium of nations, and
is as it were, tho "weathergage Of the world
Talk Of the calamities Of war; talk of the ex
rcnsc, they are nothing in comparison, better
have fifty years Of war, and spend hundreds of
millions, then Que dissolution. 1t must not
it cannot be, our country must stand as it is;
in the Union, cost what it may. "Wo know
each other, all, we grasp each otheis hands,
we feel each others hearts," beating in har
mony together that when 1.-THE world is to be
net in commere, in diplomacy, or in arms,
when the nation is 10 rise and rally at the
angels summons Of beneyolencc, or at the
cang Of the war trumpet, we will be one sin
Gle people" One country shall be for Us all,
with one all comprchonding constitution, one
GLORIOUS flag" blazoued with stals and
stripes, that never float but in victory. "Oue
monarch eagle" that mounts to heaven with
all the "Ierors Of his beak aud lightning Of
his eye" One broad and blessed, aud per
petual Union. The Union of our homes and
of our hearts, indomitable, impregnable, i'm
pcrishabIe, "indcpendence now, and indepen.
dcncc forever" And are there those upon
whose homes this glorious Union sheds the
blessings of its bow of peace and love and
hope, that have the heart TO sop and calcu
late its value or raise up their sacregicus
hands to dismcmber il. There arc NJ such
Arscrcans. There may be traitors, If ,here were
an American ] sho'd "fear TO Stand with him
beneath the arches Of tho Constitution, lcst Il
rock, from them should fall for his destruction
aud involve mo ia his just ruin" Our Union
is invaluable, it can no mere be calculated
/ than the infinite can be measured. Second only
/ 10 the blessings which flow Immediately from
/ the cross OF Christ, are the benefits which { e
Union Of these States have secured 10 us, anI
with Gods blessings, on our faihfulness, shall
! ha tnriloc,o forovar 70 c,i,I ful unto tho