Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-05-01
From the Danvilo Quarterly Review
OUR COUNTRY ITS PERIL ITS
DELIVERANCE
Ey Rry. RoBEHr J. DuEcKESRpGE, j, D.
Danyllo Kentucky,

considerations of a more general kind
and of the highest force, all pointing in
the same direction, which 1t behooyes
every man to ponder deeply, before lac
despairs Of his country, and before he
lays his hands rudely on our existing in
stItutions, IN the vain hope Of something
better. OF these there are two so pre-
eminent, that we ought 90 direct special
attention to them. The first relates tc
that view of the subject winch discioses
the iudestrucub.e power OF life in such d
nation as tins, and the length and depth
and breadth Of the agony which it can en-.
durc and yet live. They who know the
past OF human affairs, and they Who res
fleet on that eternal logic which is Of the
essence of things and events, know that q
la ion like THIS cannot d,C IL is hardly
possible to conceive how it can crca Jl
|Uuudcrca; but dc it connot. 1t would be
us easy to conceive that France could be
blotted from the map of Europe as one o.
! its greatest nation, and restored to the
condition it occupied before its conquest
I by Cu.ar, as TO conceive of the American
nation being annihilated, its sublime ca.
reer cut short, its boundless possession
.
of numberless arlstCCracies, demOcrac es,
dukedoms, and principalities, permanent.
ly filling its seat of empire and of glory
Alter eighteen centuries otanguisE, Italy
hailed by the acclamations Of mankind
is purging herself in a bapti,m of blood
from the very condition which men urc
.preIaIng tor us; and the consuming in
stiuct Of her rcUtored Inf, is for thst very
u1tio,la unity which wc are expected tC
sacrifice, and i'm default OF which She has
suffered every form Of evil, in every stage
OF civilization, under every kind of GOV
ernment. " hat have they to offer Us. in
/ exchange for our national unity, but sor,
! row Without an ohjcCt-and degradation
/ wlho,t u limit-accompanied with stIug.
| giles and suffering for its recovery, renew .
ed and suppressed in blood, and renewed
| for evermore-until in some distant age,
perhaps, it shall be restored midst the
IrejoiCingS of the people! This blind and
fierce spirit Of anarchy which has taNten-
ed upon the cNtromIties of the nation,
and Is threatening TO eat into its heart,
has no aspect more startling, than its
, trightful antagOnism to the absolute ten
dehcy and the total civilization of the age
IN which it has made itself manifest. The
SccoH Of the two great considcra
! tious alluded TO, relates to the dominion
and purpose of God over and concerning
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