The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-24

our prayers. He shall 60 with every Dressing
on his head which fervent prayer can BRING
down. His family-if he have one-shall come
to no want. His hearth-slone, however humble,
shall be sacred in our eyes. Ills little ones
shall never lack for bread or friends. His me-
mory, if he falls, shall be tenderly cherished.
This congregation, it is my pride and my JOY to
say it, has had it's representatives on the field
from the start. But would to God they were
doubled. No Christian congregation can part
with too many of its fellow-worshi pers for the
service of the country. Ii will be an enviable
distinction in coming times that some were 50
lavish of their choicest young men.
HAVE COURAGE.
1t should furthermore be characteristic Of our
loyalty that it is courageous. The country has
already heard white lips and white hearts crying
peace, peace, when there is no peecc. We have
been reminded that Christ commands his ser
wants to put up the sword into its sheath. for
the sword drinks the blood as well Of him who
Yields it as of him against whom it IS welded.
But on another occasion the Prince of Peace
said, 81 am not come to send peace on earth but
II sword, " and this is the watchword of those
who mean to ooey the injunction of the text
and " render unto Caesar the things that are Ca
sars." Our Caesar demands unsheathed swords
to-day, and he who talks OF peace and thinks Of
peace is false to Caesar 1t is the duty Of the
hour to anticipate a long struggle and TO be pre-
pared for it when it comes. Energy is enerya-
ting by aattering pictures of speedy settlement.
There is danger OF collapse should these pictures
prove to be nothing more than castles in the air.
" e must look through vista of years to the
settlement OF this difficulty, and then lortily
our hearts with y courage equal to the time. 1t
Will tax the courage Of ouG men OF business to
face such a future as the continuance Of this
war will bring about. Possibly our counting
rooms may have to show their heroism by hours
and weeks and months Of silent anxiety and
manly struggles against adversely. In them
should be hearts of oak supon our battle fields.
Ardently as we must long for settled peace,
yet we are dangerous Sons if we say not, let that
sun never rise which is to look down on peace
wherein a miserable cxpediency, truck and
barter policy has thrown u noble loyalty fiat
upon its back.
That this injunction is pertinent to the hour
we may be assured Of from the fact that no
peace overtures were limited at till our arms
had met with disaster, and panic had con-
quered the army, which masked batteries and an
overwhelming odds could not conquer. These
bleatings of peace, coming from conventions
and journals, whether heard on the platform
or on the street, are the utterances Of coward
ice which dare not face reverse. Other reyerses
may be in store for US. We can accept the I'M
welcome prospect with calmness and with u
mounting courage, for we have at the head of
our armies those military chemists who can
reverse into strength, defeat into new
and better organization.
Moreover, there is o close connexion between
our camps and our homes. The pulses which
oeat along these streets repeat themselves on
he banks OF the Potomac. If they beat full
md strong, with high toned, hopeful, swell
ng courage, there will be more impetuous
,harges, more vaorous onsets in thcday of bat
le. If our pulses here are Ianguid and de-
pairing, the soldier had better forget us. To
'emember us would be to unncrve his own arm.