Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-28

and they are most urgent for it who are least
liable to be exposed to its dangers and its
disasters. Men who have seen battlefield
shudder at the recollection of its horrors, and
look upon fighting as only to be done under
pressure Of q strong and unavoidable neces-
sity; while men whose pursuits have led
them far away from such scenes, often mani
fest joy at the idea of battles and murder
and sudden death, in curious contrast with
their habits and associations.
The Rev. Thomas Starr King, now residing
in California, has recently delivered war
speech in San Francisco, portions of which
reach us in the New York papers. Mr.. King
is a gentleman whose salary and means of
subsistence are probably little affected by
those disturbances which have, without fault
on their part, brought shipwreck to the for
tunes of so many, and led the wolf of desti-
tuition into sVlarge a number of households.
He, therefore, occupies a safe and high po-
sition, from which he is able to overlook the
whole field. War may approach the foot of
the eminence upon which he stands but he
is in no danger. A man of God, profession
ably "a man of peace" his person is sacred
and the tide of battle recoils from the sacred
person of him who, clsmor for battle as he
may, assumes to prophesy in the name of the
Almighty.
1t will not do to complain of Mr.. King
because he is in favor of war. He he's right
to his opinion, and right to express it; but
it is unseemly for a minister of that Gospel
whose claim to be received rests upon the
fact that it proclaims peace on earth and
goodwill toward men, to indulge in the
phraseology of a Danton and Robespierre,
and denounce in language as bitter as he can
compound, those who differ with him in
opinion. Mr.. King inquiries: Who are the
Peace Men, and answers the question as fol-
lows:
"The cry for peace comes from the enemies
of the Government. The leading voices that
uplift it have never condemned the outbreak
of the war, the first drill of battalons, the
first roar of cannon. The men who shout
thus have been, from the first, in sympathy
with the war.makers. They gloat over ma
tional disasters. They Shrek for the assas-
sination of the President. They are branded
for jeff Davis, on the shameless foreheads of
their souls, deeper than California cattle are
scared with the owners mark"
Now there may be peace men who answer
the description of Mr.. King, but surely all
are not of that character. However mis-
taken and misguided they may be-how.
ever limited their views, and inadequate
their conceptions of the facts of the case
there ore men who are as sincere and as
honest in their wishes for peace, as Mr.. King
possibly can be in his desire for war. We
do not know that we can pick out any one
class of our fellow. citizens holding any one
particular opinion, and say, with truth, that
they are either more or less sincere than any
other class. 1t is not however, 80 much to
comment upon the sentiments of Mr.. King,
as to show the unscrupulous manner in
which minister of the Gospel, when he
turns sgitator and demagogue, places him
self before the world. We give another
specimen:
A PICTURE.
1--WE do not stand to receive lectures about
| peace from the sympathizers with rebellion
we offer them. 1t is not for them to call our
attention to bloody battle fields and a groan-
y
| guish, and homes darkened with despair
| We press the picture upon them. When
think of what this country was last Novem.
ber-how vast its prosperity; how rapid its
march TO greater opulence; how various the
| ducts and bands which nature and art had
opened and multiplied to sustain a common
| life when think of the harmonious play OF
| all the physical and commercial forces that
! knit nation, and see how, from Eastport to
| in oe
never before on an equal area of the earth
ennobling labor, building up society in the
wilderness, promoting education, filling
horns of plenty for thousands OF homes
when ! think of the harvests that were
gathered and the blessings they were to beal
to all districts of our land, and to distant
shores; of the slighht expense of the govern.
ing power over the immense area, and the in
| significance of the military force that was
subordinate to it; when l recall the fact thai
all this peace andsfhuence and happiness wa:
due to one piece of parchment called the Con.
stitution of the United States, and that al
which was necessary to its continuance wal
loyalty to that, and submission to a popular
vote honestly thrown and announced, a!
Northern States had submitted many timC
before-a submission, too, which would still
leave ample resources in the hands of de-
feated States against open acts of aggression
ply acknowledgment of the popular will fol
four short years, and the right of free discus
sion; and when think of what the countrl
is now--the paralysis of commerce, the de
vastation of industry, the choking of tn
channels of intercourse, the bitterness ant
hate, the land groaning with cannon, port
shut up, peaceful vessels the prey of pirates
hundreds of thousands withdrawn from
wealth-produoing labor and trained to dea
slaughter. Yes, the battle fields that hav
drunk blood from civil strife; the nobl
men that have been cut Off in an instan
from a vista of honorable years; tn
agonies of wounded and dying; the wo
in which thousands of hearts have beel
stepped; and when think that every rive
might now be sweeping only peaceful
burdens, and every port might, have bee!
open to cheerful intercourse, and every lsti
tude of the sea been safe for proud bsrks un
der the Stars and Stripes, and not dollar @
private property or national treasure beel
wasted by confscation or diverted from tn
channels that widen blessings ! can say
with Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, that Nv
realize-what think the popular heart, i
its forbearance, has never completely com
prehended-the unSpeakdbLe and hsLLish afro
city of this rebellion. II is q perfect satuI
MALTA of demoniac passion. From the red
dened Wsters of Bull Run, and from the gOr
field of Manassas, there is now going up a
appeal 10 God and to millions of exasperate
men against those fiends in human shapI
who drunken with the orgies Of an inferni
ambition, are filling to its brim the cup of
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