The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-03
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
The Baltimore Exchange thus comments
upon tho prevailing sentiment at the North,
that IL In

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The Baltimore ErcAangs thus comments
upon the prevailing sentiment at the North,
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rRHAsox TO CIR psAoB.
There II one day in every year which AL
men bless and Keep In Chrtatian lands. For
maay centuries all Chris tia1 i5en have blessed
ana Kept It, Ohurchas are wreathed and gar
landed m honor Of Its coming. Il dawn:
infant voices. The kindliest incense Of the
whole years worship rises from fts affairs,
ana the humbiest hearths It visits burn
brighter and warmer as they greet IT, Upon
that day good friends renew their friendships,
and enemies clasp hands ngain Tbs rich
give OF tner substance to the needy, and the
moor divide with those who are yet poorer.
Festivity and joy and brotherhood revel the
wide earth over, and there Is no vessel on the
sea, or lonely tent upon the land, which does
not near ~ least some echo of their blessed
music. Need we to tell what holy day this il
Ales IL Is more needful we should all re-
member the Heaven sent message which hath
made it holy. "On earth peace, good viii
toward mon ~ Well did the chaun tins
argels who came down to bear it, proclai N +
~ good tidings Of great joyl" All the phi
all tina wisdom that has searched the human
hear t-an tina: sages, and priests. and pro-
phets, and iawgivers, and moralists had
the side OF that sublime and simple lesson
1t Ia the whole human aspect of the religion
whose Author was born that day. 1t is the
sum ana the essence Of that duty which we
render 70 II i'm in the shape of duty to each
other. Il is a law to societies as 20 individu-
als-so those who rule as to those who axe
ruled. "On earth peace good will toward
m,n J. who shall gainsay it. who calls him
self civilized or Christian What people
shall rise up against it and yet dare to cal
themselves the people Of q Christian land?
But q little while ago no man among Us
would nave hesitated as to the answer to be
given TO these Questions. IT we Were any
thing. we were cody in our own eyes. II
there was any thing conspicuous in our charac.
ter as a people, We boasted that it was the
righteousness which exalteth a nation. To
have doubted that the influences OF Chris
tianity were more abundant and fruitful in
our midst than among any other of the ma
tions OF the earth, would have been to put in
perlioos question the in teliigence and patriot
ism OF the GOuber. We were as surely the
most religious, as we were undoubtedly the
most enlign tened pee pie under the sun, and we
would have resented skepticism On the one
point as strenuously as denial of the other.
More than all else il the acningS of the Sa-
Viour OF men we proteEsed to have EN- bodied in
our Republican Government aud tolerant and
equal laws, The sacred spirit OF good will and
peace. without 81 mics, and far away from the
ambitions and the STRIFE OF lands less fIee and
happy, we proclaimed, on all sides, and called
the Lehigh ted world to witness, that our mis-
sion, as people, was that of liberty and love
Of love not less tnan liberty. Who that
DenOldS us, as we now are, would know us as
The Christian people OF q little while ago
Where are our brotherhood and mutual chart
ties Whittier has coed will departed p
Where are the whito-Wlncad messengers OF
peace Hundreds OF thousands, who have
heretofore knelt as brethren at the same
affairs, processing the same faith and regis
lering the same vows, are no W in arms against
each other, upoa battle fields, where desperate
hostility is goaded on Dy yet mere desperate
hate. All the memories OF the past-even the
kindly ties and gentle offices OF yesterday
are as Things That never vera. We have
begun the saturpaiia OF France; when she
SCOT drunk with blood, TO vomit crims."
Even the pulpits through one mali the land
now ma their texts among the WatclWOrdS
OF human bitterness, ins teal OF preaching tce
good tidings which Heaven seat 10 us at BETH
Iehem. And the Goverameet-wnich some
believe TO have been setoser US by God-what
part does II bear in this crisis CT cur destiny
what Efforts is 1t making TO bring us back 70
the Paradise we have forsaken IL answers rs
aL the mouth OF the Cannon, and win the
charge OF squadrons. 1t is Itself the messen-
ger of war, and IL procialms the message or
me Gospel to be CRIME. There sEall Dc no
good viii There shall De NO peace Nc man
shall cry pe&c-l Every voice That is
Htted for 1t shall be stIIisu-every hand th;s.
Is raised III suppilCatio tor 1t shall be stricken
down and ElanGcied. II snail be trea-
son To pray that the tide OF blood b. stayed.
II sEalI be sympathy with treason 10 nope
that brethren may lie spared from staying
brethren. There snail De no reiisiJG except
Dloodshed There shall DC 10 IecOlcIl;atiJn
but only strife ana VIC II lin this tune torth
MeG ana country men! where are we :! ARE
We under the ChrIs,iln dispense slou--or mas
the second seal Oeen opeleu, AMI Tie red aorse
been sent toCia, with AIS -lasr, 40 sake xeace
from the earth, AMI that they should Kili one
anU ther? Let us believe, while We nay,
that tne hour Of wrath is not yet coma. Lee.
u proclaim the good ttutngs, 81 every hazard,
aau trust tile hiI, n no SEM tine
WHAT A FAILING OFF WAS THERE:
The Abolition correspondent CT the Phila-
do a,Ei II LII