Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-08

The War and the Union.

The following elegant passage occurs IN
the address recently delivered by the venera-
bic Daniel ). Dickinson, of New ork, oe-
fore the literary societies of Amherst Col
lege. BY the way the Express should puo-
lish the entire address, for Mr.. Dicknscn5
name foated at It's mast head last year, as its
first choice for the Presidency:
War is emphatically, and more especlaiiy
a war between brethren, disgrace To CIVIL
zation-and any war is drain upon the lie
blood of nation and originate in wrong
Evil spirits give power to evil men Tor us IN
auguration, that amid conflicts of blood they
may cast all roaring down to the dark re
gons where the wavas Of oblivion VIII
close over them Its evil cannot be written,
even in human blood. 1t sweeps our race
from earth, as if Heaven had repented the
making of man. 1t lays its skinny hand upon
society and leaves it deformed by wretched-
ness and black with gore. IL marches on us
mission of destruction through red sea OF
| blood, and iinges the fruits OF earth wlth Il
sanguine hue as the mulberry reddened IN
| sympathy with the romantic fate OF the de-
voted lovers. 1t "spoils the dance OF youth
ful blood, and writes sorrow and Sre' pre-
maturely upon the glad brow OF childhood
1t chiils the heart and hope OF yonlh. III
drinks the life current OF early manhood,
and brings down the gaay hairs OF the"ged
with sorrow 10 the grave. 1t weaves the
widows weeds with the bridal wreath, and
our land, like Rama is filled with waihng
ana lameGiation 1t lights up the darkness
with the flames of happy homes. 1t con-
sumes, like the locusts of Egypt, every living
thing in its pathway. it wrecks fortunes,
brings bankruptcy and repudaiod, and blasts
the fields of the husbandmnn-it depopulates
towns and leaves cities modern llercuIe-
neum. 1t desolates the freside and covers
the family dwelling with gloom and an aw-
ful vacancy rests, where, like the haunted
mansion,
"No human figure stirred to 60 or come,
No face looked forth from open shut or easement,
| No chimney smoked there was no sign Of home
From parapet to basement.
No dog was on the threshold great or small,
| No piee0H on tire roof no household creature,
No cat demurely doing on the wall,
| Not one domestic feature"
1t loads the people with debt, to pass down
from one generation to another, like the
curse of original sin; upon its mercless er-
rand of violence it fills the land with crime
and tumult and rapine, and it 'gluts the
grave with untimely victims, and peoples the
world of perditon." In the struggle OF its
death throcs, it heaves the moral elements
with convulsions, and leaves few traces of
utility behind it to mitigate its curse, and he
who naugurates it, like the fcrocious Hun,
should be denominated the scourge of God,
and when his day of reckoning shall come,
he will call upon the rocks and mountains to
hide him from popular Indignation. But
with all its attending evils. such Union
cannot be yielded to its demands, nor to
avoid ito teTrors, even though, Ike the Re
public ct France, we may exchange for time
"liberty, equality and fraternity, for intan-
try cavalry and artillery, Nor are tame and
timid measures the guarantors of peace. 1T
is as much the natu.e Of faction to be base as
of patriotism to he noble; and q divided
Union, instead Of securing peace would pre-
sent constant occasion for conflict, and be IA
fruitful souece of war. Let the rabble cry
of divide and cruelty 60 Oh from the throat
of facticn, and the cold and calculating po-
litical Pilates wash their hands, and proclaim
their innocence, while their souls are stained
with guilt and crime for urging it forward
but let the faithful, conscious of their integri-
Y, and strong ia truth, epduEe TO the end.