Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-16

| yet,-such IN the order OF war, the experience
| OF nations, tile good and watchtul providence
| OF God brings most in safety away. 0Onle
must needs enter within the portals. But
| what is death, at the post Of dut In the de
fence OF our country,-In the cause OF liberty
with the flag OF our cOuutry for winding
| sheet, and the assurance oil nations gratl-
tude ! so slept the brave defender OF Mis-
souri,, and awolle to immortal fame So sleeps
| every true soldier who tails under the nag OF
his country.
| There is tear for all that die,
A mOurner FER the humblest grave;
But NATIONS swell the funeral cry,
And FREEDOM weeps above the BRAVE
For THEM is sorrows purest sigh
Der oceans heaYiug bosom sent.
In vain THEIR bones unburied lie;
All earth becomes THEIR monument.
A tomb is THEIRS ON every page,
An epitaph every tongue;
The present hours. the future age,
Nor THEM bewai to THEM belong.
A theme to crowds that knew them not;
Lamented by admiring foes
W hO would not share THEIR glorious lot?
Who would not die the death THEY chose!
l conclude that vigorous prosecution OF
the war is TO US a political choice of duty and
patriotism; but it is also our necessity. Tue
suggestion of peace at the present stage OF the
contest is an impossibty. A man might as
well apply for lite insurance on lis death bed.
Who and where is he that would think of
compromise with an enemy laundering at the
gates of the capital We may as well, once
for all, bring our minds to contemplation OF
the dread reality. We may no longer talk as
we would if it were question OF avertin !
war. We are IN civil war; by no fault, or
act, or responsibility of ours, we are IN civil
war; and somebody must conquer, and some
body else must be conquered, before there can
| be possibility of peace The great historic
| crisis has been cast upon us-so strange, SO
sad--and we cannot avoid it nor run away
from it. 1t is, Union-the whole or none. 1t
is. the government-sayed or lost. 1t is, the
national unity-preserved or extinguisled.
| The DEGREES of Providence, the conyerging
| lines of history, the revolution, the conledera-
| ton, the constitution, and seventy years of
| happiness and reuown under Washington,
and Madison, and jackson, all have stamp d
the seal upon the issue, and it is-ONE
| COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, One DEsTI-
| NY. 1t is this or nothing The republic OF
| the United States, or the republic OF the Con-
tederate States is TO HAVE the government OF
! all this imperial domain. TO this alternative
| has it come at last. So it appears to me now.
And what an alternative is thatl The NOV
ers of this rebellion have for years been at
this work TO thrust this government from its
sphere OF light, and send like a baelul meteor
through untraveled paths OF darkness
transform gradually but surely, the constitu-
ton OF the American Union, the creation of
Liberty into the embodiment of some of the
worst features OF a feudal and barbarous age,
with only the ailurements OF an outward pros
perity to decorate and mystity the appalling
sacrifice. Failing at the last moment TO attain
their objects through the ordinary machinery
l.,,A
itately to the accomplishment of their made
designs in another way,-and have made open
war upon the government. And at the same
me that they have been doing this, they have
also organized Conlederacy of their own, and
promulgated a constitution OF which the basis
is the same exclusive and barbarous element
which they had aimed to incorporate into the
government OF this Union. You know what
1t is. And that constitution, founded upon
that theory, they offer to us as the measure OF
their terms oil peace. 1t is one of the mar.
vellous disclosures OF these marvellous times
that these architects OF treason appear to have
hoped and expected that the mJnstrous doc
trine OF their contederacy should become the
basis OF reconstruction OF the American
Union, and that we, one after another, like lost
aud prodigal children, found and restored
again,--the great, free, and sovereign commu-
mites OF the north, and the west, and the cen
tre,-wOuld, III due time be found knocking at
the door of their coniederacy. and asking per-
mission to rest under The banner of the pal.
metto and the radiance of stars that never vet
were lighted. Pitlable desperaloes Their
history cannot be tulIv or iustlv written until
science shall have reconstructed the classified
tion of the buman r,r,. such are the terms
that are proiier4d, Nv aocenting them we can
have peacp before another nightiall
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there are those at the north the Lord knows
thcm if thew ,,xist at ali in Massachusetts or
in Connecticut who as the measure of D,cir
terms of snrr'nfar ard n.ace would accent
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