Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-11-01
Army correspondsnea.
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To the Infdel and Skeptical world thi
question has but little interest To every de
voted child OF God, it is a pertinent one
We are little disposed to the acknowledge
ment Of danger. Even its approach is barely
recognized when its fIrce is deeply felt. But
what would you insinnate that the present
Southern rebellion Is at all to be dreaded or
considered ominous to our cOuntry's peace p
Sir, have no fears of that. Their numerical
or political force is inadequate to Successful
resistance Of our just cause. But there is
danger, danger affirm, of loosing our individ.
uality as Nation. Danger that arises from
a force subtle as Lucifer, aud Herculean as
Hector. That danger is amongst US. refer
to a kind Of demoniacal dogmatism that has
poisoned the public mind, until it is so weak
that the insecurity of our nation is resolvable
into gtAsraL mutual debility Something
must be done. Down in the deep morasses
of our political education lie hidden difficulties
far more to be dreaded than the 100000 arm
cd men of the South. All po1rrra moral, po-
litical or mechanical, resides in mind, not in
matter. What signifies our force Of arms, if
our cause is unjust, ct Usia Uersa, what need of
fear if we be right, though our foes be mighty?
! God in his wisdom has entrusted TO some of
US limited power over mind, (e. g. paternal
authority. or civil power, limited only bY
I those just restrictions Of non-ihterasenOe with
lst, our 0od-gfven rights which each must
exercise for himself, and I'd, those God-reserved
rights with which none should intermedd!e.
To deny the authority Of civil power under
these due restrictions, is rebellion, insurrec.
tiol ary and REASONABLE. For the authority
of State or nation to declare that every or
any one she'll. not have the free, unmolested
exercise Of the right Of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, is oppressive, tyraunical
and unjust. And finally, to legislate against
:he<e principles is tantamount to the abolition
of the Divine right. and hence doubly often
sive.
Now the strength OF armies is 40 security
against these principles; In few individual
instances principle may be overrulcd and
transient victory gained, but it viii rise certain
and Polrerfa. What evolutions in the civil
world all unfolding the basis of civil power
TO be the divinely instituted law Of equity
e" Whatsoever ye would that men should do
unto you, do We even SO unto them"
just in proportion to the compromise of
this principle, in an equal preparation is the
security Of our nation endangered. Now it
is not for me to prove what the cause OF this
political debility is, or whether it be not the
result Of a combination OF causes too intricate
TO unraveE. l am seriously inclined to the
opinion that too much confidence is placed in
daily dispatches. If we make them the ground
Of action each day wottl,l be devoted TO some
new scheme and but little, if any, would be
rightly attended to. For while we in the
army were not favored with such redundancy
OF immature publications We had but ono
idea. the determination of Treason, and a de-
votedness to that idea armed us with tremen-
dous power.
Again the consequent influence cf milk
and water education upon the minds of the
uninformcd contribute largely 10 this weakness.
There are whole communities whose political
views are nothing more than the extravagant
opinion OF some Limb of the Law" whose
highest aspirations are rather to associate his
name among Statesmen, than snbserve tho
cause he advocates and hence whatever is
most popular is his theme, though often chi
merical and destructive.
That such is the condition Of the public
mind is q truism. however questionable the
cause. Look at the infatuated South. "A large
majority of the rebel army are wholly unac-
quainted with the nature Of this war. They
have been duped into the idea that the election
of Northern man to the Chief Magistracy |
must be sectional and equivalent to an open |
declaration Of war upon their domestic insli-
tuIiOns and the better informed among them |
have been misguided l seriously question /
whether JEFF. Davis himself would have re-
commended his own course, but from the prom. !
sed aid from these States. Look again at the |
multitudes among us, who are in actual SYM
pathy with the South. | must confess a dis |
covery of this Southern sympathy among my |
professed friends of Union. Logan and Della
ware counties, awakened feelings of indigniiy |
OF which l flattered myself insnsceptible.-
These oviporous feelings generated this article
Another class quite too numerous l shall |
denominate the - would be Union men, whose
confidence in our cause is SO weak that a child |
could wrench the interests of our happy coun-
try from their grasp. They said once " If
the call was for more than three months, |
would CO." Now they say If the call was
for less than three years, l would CO." There
are men, doubtless. whose business ren,lers it |
impossible to enlist for the campaign, but who /
we have few Cincinnatus' or PuInams now a,
days. and it would be of questionable policy to
redcce the time for those few. The truth of
it is, these hobby riders who show more chiv-
airy in evading the claims and calls ofour cour,-
try than the ancient Knights Of the Tourna-
ment, would not enlist If they had the selection
Of their time until The last drop of blood was
split in the contest and the broad hoatin; ban.
ner of freedom was seen on the very turret
stone of our civil Institutions. Then like the
old man who stood by and saw his " Dear
Betsy" kill the hear, they would be the only
soldiers left. "O-h but we whipped EN-
We had hard strugglH,-R'e are going TO
stand by the Old COnStitutiOn;-o-I-r names
shall be woven in the songs and histories of
the great rebellion Of the South;-w.e have
lmmOrtali5ed o-u-r-s-e-Ev-e-s."
Not few are devoted to the diForoement
Of our eountry's cause from the principles of
true piety. am no advocate for Church and
State union after the common acccptation OF
that phrase, but too great Indifference is paid
to the morals of our candidates for civil legis-
lation. 1t ought to be the pride Of this ma
tion 10 gu her Legislative hqlls with pious, God
fearing men. This might haze been done,
bat q stropg tepSIenny4 10 employ mans re-
ligious character against his fitness for Office
holding, has shown itself amongst u.s. 1t has
been thought by many that the christian world,
mean the church, could not furnish talent for
civil jurisprudence, and when that talent was
discovered, it it was thought a wrong applica-
tion to devote it to the interests Of our coun.
try, hence it has been always left for the man
agement Of the skeptics or semi-christians.-
And while it is the duty of every minister of
the gospel to enforce upon his charge their OBJ.
legation to the powers that be" az q moral