Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-11-14

and that when humble1, He win again take
Us into favor and give us a. national future
tar brighter, far ptrer Tar more glorious
than our pastg Our faith and hope must
fully realize the certain fact that God has il,
store tOrus future rich, surpassnply rich
IN woudrons events that He has placed us
here in protniSsd land 10 stand up as the
guardian OF freedom, no the vindicator OF
the oppressed, as the defender Of religious
liberty, and as the leader Of the van IN the
great struggle for world Regeneration. Rest
assured that God will not destroy us for in
the wonderful prophetic programme sketcl-
cd by Dan e. and John. He has given us A
most important place d'he American ma.
tlon is 70 bes CO. worker with Him In pro-
ducing that millenial worldAthat high. holy
civilization which IS based on the Golden
Rule Of Jesus. But in order TO have such
holy y,co- partnership in !abof we must be puri
fled and we gre now pusS4g4tlIrcayii ooo
of the processes Of puliicaion, We ara. in
the furnace the dross is Consuming; tho
gold is refining, and We viii soon come out
fitted for the master use Thus we arc TO
pray in faith and hope Should reverses
sometimes meet u, a. st Manassas Gap, we
must humble ourselves before God, and pray
yet more earnestly; but we must not desponl
Israel ike us had a promised future-a
land in reversion flowing with milk and
honey land of palm trees and ofthe olive;
land of fertile valleys, watered by cooi
springs from the melting SHOWS of Lebanon
and Hernon' land whose mountain sides
were festooned with clusters OF the crane of
Eschol. 1t was a glorious promised land. -
they entered upon its possession by a won
drous march between the up walled waters
of Jordan. The city Of palm trees fell before
them. Elated aud self.confident by the
easy victory, they marched against the next
opposing city, and there met a disastrous
reverse. They fed before their enemies. -
They had sinned in the accirsed thing at the
sacking of Jericho, and 6 cd punished them
Joshua, the leader, together with the peo
pie, went up to the tabernacle, confessed
their sin and removed the transgressor from,
their midst. 1t never occurred to them to
abandon their inheritance and recross the
Jordan, for the next day they marched
again to the assault with much more pru
dence and caution than at first. They had
been taught a lesson, and had proited by
it. The city fell before them. Thus, when
IIeverses come to US, NUT we improve them,
but never despair. The cause of our coun-
try is the cause of freedom and of God. We
need not fear.
The next duty is-,ooyk. Repent and
pray; remove the cause Of controversy be-
tween God and us by abandoning our sins,
and by asking his forgiveness and then adj
dress ourselves to manly effort for the re-
moval Of the calamity. Thus the ancient
Israel repented, returned by confession and
prayer to Jehovah, and then went forth to
successful battle against the invader. Like
us, they were COntedcrated Governinen.
composed oftwelve States, and in all their
wars it wus with theHss> .casdinal peist to
preserve the integrity Of their Uninn and
to maintain inviolate the national domain.
And it is fact full of meaning to US, that
so long as that Union was preserved Israel
was safe that when, at the persuasion of
that prince ofdemagogues, Jeroboam, ten
of the States seeded, speedy and renedi-
less destruction came upon them. They
are pattern most worthy our imitation. =
We have "A broad inheritance, the title deed
of which was signed and sealed in the blood
of our fathers God has given us quiet pos
session for eighty-five years But men have
risen up in these days, and with swords in
their hands have asked usto divide this in
heritance of our fathers with them yea.
they demand it from us under the penalty
of death. five would shun the fate of the
Hebrew Secessonists, we must meet the
impudent demand with fiat refusal. They
say to us: "The form ofrepublican govern.
ment which has hitherto prevailed on this
portion of the land is failure" We an
swer 1t is not a -faiRgre." They say :
1.-The working masses are unfit to govern
themselves, and must he governed by the
aristocracy of the few We reply: st
is false ~ '"The stars and stripes shall float
no more over this land" We answer :
''They shall float there while the sun and
moon last, so help us God and our good
swords !" ''They say that separation Of
the States is necessary to the well being of
both parties. f" We answer: Union and
liberty, one and inseparable, now and for
ever!" Such is the issue which is fairly
made in this once peaceful, happy country.
Let not men deceive themselves by the
charitable hope that in this issue peace can
be reached by compromise or non-coercion.
Look for moment. They have by vio-
ence taken possession of the land. They
have torn to atoms the sacred parchment on
which Washington and his companions
wrote the Constitution ofthe United States
They have torn down our flag and raised
another in its place. They have formed a
Government of their own. and claim under
it a jurisdiction over half, the land And
they demand from us the cordial recogni-
ton of that Government. They demand
from us this, and all this, and nothing but
this and this we must grant or fight But,
say the South and their Northern allies /:
War, and especially civil war, is dreadful Z:
il is an awful sin give us peace let us alone;
peace is all we wantr' This sounds relig-
iously hut what is it? They take eleven
States by violence, and tell the Government
to which those States belong; Let us
alone we want peace .I .Ir ID
Deliberately, and without interruption
from the authorities of the United States,
they draw Gordon of batteries around lit,
tie fort, garrisoned by, seventy-fve starving
men, and without the slightest provocation,
open u hundred gums upon the. fortress, aud
as the walls are crumbling over the head OF
the heroic Anderson they shouted to him
20, let US alone we only want peace it is
sin to shed your brothers blood T. They
claim the capitol, and march an, army to
make good their claim and as the head OF
their columns, bristliDg with bayonets APP
proaches the city, they cry. ''Let Us alone!
we only want peace II They are upheaving
the deep foundations of our ,Confederacy,
are attempting to reduce the nation to the
condition Of the petty States Of Mexico,