Daily union appeal. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-186?, 1862-08-17
Iu.,le, Of one Almighty.

Prom tie Chicago Trbans, August l2th.
IL seems To be decreed that the American
people q ust lose all they have made or ac-
ouired from the ain Of slavery, and suffer IN
their own persons sll the anguish they have
Wropgfully put upon tho African race. 1t is
impossible to compete in dollars and cents the
aggregates of the vast balance sheet, but We
cannot avoid the conviction that the sam total
OF proAt that mas bean derived from slave
holding, slave-trading and driving, from
the day the first cargo of Africans were landed
at jamestown, down to the day when the las.
of the race shall be emaneipated, ID to be swept
away in the vortex of civil war, with, prob
ably, compound interest at six per cont. to
date. If go, who shall gaiDsay the justice Of
the Almighty But the dread account does
not stop here. Dollars and cents can be re-
placed. The accumulated wealth, which the
sun beholds in his course from the Atlantic TO
the Pacific to-day is trife in the lifetime of
nation. There 10 an account Of bloodshed
and tears, bodily torture, separation Of hus-
band and wife, parent and child, extending
over q period OF two hundred years. Have
we nothing to balance it in our own sutferings,
In the tale of every battle field, in the NOR
tally report which every day brings US from
some qIarter2 We have used men and women
as SO much raw material, to be worked up into
cotton and sugar, TIL We have been able to
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of slave on plantation IN the cotton and
sugar States is about seven years. Do our
hospitals on the Peninsula show nothing to
correspond with this fact in the alarming waste
of human lifef
There is philosophy in tais war which
we would do well to comprehend. They tell
rs England 10 on the eve OF great calamities
by reason of the war in America. England
Is entitled 10 great calamities, for putting upon
~. 81 esr Yath aH b. aF TFiCf
share, and bear it us she may. al, the Lord,
thy God, am u jealous God, visiting the ini-
qaities of the fathers upon the children unto
the third and foIrth generation" England
gave US slavery and took cotton for pay. Ii
abe has made rope enough out Of it to hang
herself, let her cry cloud to God for mercy, and
not rail at US for being the instruments in His
hands TO carry forward the DEGREES Of ever
lasting justice. Let John Bull TO his knees
with US
But what shall be the penalty of tho slaves
holders themselves in this general settlement
What is the balance due from them in the
great clearing house1 If those who are
only responsible as sceessories-those who long
ago put away the ain from their own doors
suffer SO much, what must be the reckoning
for those who have trafheked in human flesh,
welded the scourge with their own hands, and
taken the sword 1T last TO perpetuate and ex-
tend the horrid crime7 Wee unto thee, Cho-
rsainl Woe unto thee, Be.hsaida 1t shall
be more tolerable for Tyre and Sldon in the
day OF judgment, than for you. And thou,
Cspernaum, which art exhalted to heaven,
shalt be- brought down 70 hell" Before the
slave-holdlpg classes shall see the sword again
sheathed they will, In all probability, be oblit-
Grated from human society, or reduced TO q
condition not LEES wretched than that Of the
slaves whom they have 50 long and soimpiously
znaltreated. II tremble for my country,
said Jeffsrson, "when l think that Goo is Just
I'D that his justice will not sleep forever
ne issasLi Let Us endure with humility that
which de E~.ts upon us, and strive no longer
10 our own hum to thwaTt His immutable
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