The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-06-06

vide sea and chaos Of blood, tears and
convulsion, the bare. barren, dry land be.
gins to loom up, and the great end TO sp-
pear. Soon The patient s'atisician will
gather up bis facts, and by bis tables will
show us the exact thousands OF lives
squandered in this wide waste, and the in-
Vulnerable millions OF substance con-
sumed in the great coEhagration. The
curious and industrious annalist will swell
his huge volumes Of the amazing incidents
whose frequent recurrence has robbed us
OF the power OF being astonished even. Il
The moralist will go forth in melancholy
TO mourn the wide. spread licen,iousness
and decentralization growing out Of this
huge war, whose irradicable ulcers shall
be the last 70 cicatrize.
The covetous hand Of garrering love
shall have gathered up and inurned the
last lost treasured one the last inscrip.
ton shall be graved, and the last monu-
ment consecrated the last eulogy pro-
nounced, and the last requiem chaunted
and the all consoling hand Of time shall
have dried the last tear, or broken the
fountain, and soolhed or stilled the last
sorrowing heart. The footprints Of war,
burnt 10 thick and wasteful battle fields
into the whole South, will rapidly fade out,
and the restoring hand of nature, under
genial climate and weeping skies, will
again clothe them in Disgusting beauty
The fingers Of single summer will over
spread the war worn plains with the ten
der grass, whose living green shall creep
over the place of the final struggle, Of the
last rally and fearful rout I; rapidly it will
climb the sleeps Of innumerabe forts, and
roof with living verdure the mounds OF
sleeping soldiers, on which the tesr-dis-
tiling nights shall shed their soitest dews.
All these will speedily and certainly oc-
cur (; and the inspiration OF poetry, the
muse Of history and the pencil of art shall
construct in strains Of triple glory the
great legend, the deathless epic of what
we have lived and suffered and achieved
for the benefit, the example, the warning,
! and the wonder Of all after ages.
But now, ere any of this was accom-
plished, while we are yet in the midst o'
the great struggle whose tide is but now
turned-while the heady fight yet RACES
under our eyes, with lis shout and gtoan
in our ears, its scorching breath in oui
faces, and its fery pulse in our veins
we are to become calm and elevated, clea,
E 10 our vision, rise above the smoke anc
dust OF battle 10 the serene atmosphere, /
we may, Of genuine American statesman
ship. Heroism, devotion and constancy
equaling the highest achievements OF tn
race, accomplished the first Revolution
an excess of the same high qualities ar
carrying US successfully through th
second.
A wisdom, sagacity and patriotism
> hardly before parallelled constructed an'
}. breathed life and strength into our Con
slitutiopal Government; and nothing bu
an equal expenditure OF the same rar
qualities can successfully carry it throug
this, lis last and greatest ordeal. Its sue
cess was an accomplished fact, under
the ordinary and extraordinary Weiss
}. tudes 10 which nations may be exposed
= Strong and triumphant in war, and stab
= and benefcent in peace, it is now unde
o. going the last and most fearful process
which'it can be exposed. Out OF this, to-
It will emerge, stronger, ,purer, and beau
fed by the Gre. II the men Of this Coz
gress aie equal to this high occasion.
" it fails, it will not be through tho impe
feclions of the Constitution, nor yet b
= cause our Generals and soldiers are n
equal to the task assigned them-for tn
assuredly will be well and thorough
q done-but the failure will be upon u
the men OF these two Houses Of Congress
- Let US be done with caviling abo
others, thanking in our way this Geper'
or censuring that Cbieftain, as if tina: W
our task, or as if our breath made
,. marred fame and dictated the degrees
history, and address ourselves revereni
'c- 70 the greatest and mos, APPALLING Of o
labors. the rough hewing and shapil
: with our legislative hand the ends a
i destines OF the revolted States and peop
and so forever fixing our own.
IN; 1t has been said. and truly, that
hd present Congress, in this fearful exigenc
= furnishes no great, leading, masteri
If mind. with grasp and strength TO carry
his single arms the fortunes OF our sore
bested country. do not stop to discl
the strange oversight Of nature in not p
n viding great man for this great occasi
= according TO rule, nor 20 bewail our
'ne' ',Sa reaved condition in his absence. Conct
,als, that we have no overshadowing iutelle
yile. to ruin all by great mistakes, believe,
~ point Of practical ability and cool cour'
and constancy, the average Of this @
, gress equals that OF any OF its predect
ors. And l think, loo, that this CongrC
very with all its Earrings, discords and diff
sGts ees, ences, will prove itself equa! to the feal
responsibility that is upon it. II SO.
/, career of no man, however humble
Is. may have been, can be unevsntful, VIII
fortune it is to occupy a seat here.
How are we 10 deal with these rel
sir when the chasiening hand OF war s.
,bsr @ transfer them, subdued, helpless and
Oted jeci. TO the processes Of the civil pow
cite. In our grave and solemn deliberations
RanS 1 are 10 remember that these States
yles American States, these people '
edin American citizens, one half OF our terri
ho'' I and nation, OF what we were, who joi
ST with us achieved our nations wealll
- glory and power. We will also to rem
her that this ierriiorv ia aiill IN consti