Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1862-12-12
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would never bo considered when the angry
blade is sheathed, and the spirit OF God again
broods over the face Of the waters. No
there will be great Joy in heaven and earth
when this war is over. and it will repent us
Of the things which in our haste we have pre-
posed to do, as it rcpented Israel respecting
the tribe of Benjamin in Gibesh, and we shall
swear, as they did, Surely there shall not
be a tribe wanting in Israel. We will give
them of our sons and daughters to marry
and there shall be a glorious bridal after all
this great crushing sorrow is over, bridal
blessed Of God aud Of men. For people
that can fight so we'll, can love better when
the passion has all gone out Of their hearts,
and the mists out Of their eyes, and the false
hoods out Of their minds. All, the time ia
coming when the King Of the land shall weep
over his rebel cnild, slain in battle, and over
all his loyal children lying there in their
nlcod, and his ire shall kndle against the
political Joaos of one side, or the crafty
Ahithophels of the other, whose hands are
red with the gore of these many gallant and
beautiful sous that are lying in cold graves.
from the crimson fields OF Autietam TO the
sunny plains OF la Fourche.
The country will remain too in its terrific
rial integrity. Though the problem be many
years in working out, yet it will have its solu-
ton. Though we are not wise enough to-
compass it. yet i, will be compassed. The
passion and self will Of the Anglo-Saxon are
tremendous, but his judgment and intelligence
are greater. aud when the former are exhausted
the latter will come into play. My we not
then hope that the back bone of this country
will not be cut in two ,he great Mississippi
aorta will not be disected the northwest
will have its har Dor in the bay at New Orleans.
| have faith in the great laws Of nature, in the
conclusions Of physical geography, in the
principles OF moral government aud when our
people get a little leisure from lighting to
study them, they will be applied. The sword
may devour first until it is glutted, but brute
force is only destructive, and other agencies
have got at last to come in and settle, and heal
and save. Those agencies are on their way
to the work. When all sides have suffered
enough, and their sius have met the designed
chastening, then will come the cod, and the
Divine heart which beeds to punish will
swell again with such blessings as re-
conced God only can bestow.
The country will remain too in its political
integrity. We shall save the entire and per-
feet government, the blended harmony of
state and national authority, or we shall save
nothing. Our hope ia that when all false and
partizan theories Of the constitution are shak-
en- out Of the land, the constitution itself will
remain as the ark of safety for the whole
country "The fiery trial through which we
are passing will light us down in honor or
dshonor to the latest generation are the
mournfully pathetic words OF the President
E cannot resist the impression that 1t will be
to the overthrow Of all revolutionary interpre-
= taiions of the Constitution, to the ultimate
aud blessed reinstatement of our Republican
, principles and institutions We may contend
e for years, bat Anglo-Saxon, constitutional
g liberty, whose fundamental idea is God and
e duty, will get the mastery. We are learn
t ing more nov, in one day, of what people
= need in order to preserve their institutions,
a than we ever learned in the years of peace
! War is a stern and inexorahle teacher. Hope
5 may be the mother Of the faith, bat cannot
e doubt that a purified, law veneratIng, law
e abiding people, having learned wisdom in
t the fire, and henceforth jealous OF all infring-
+ ments upon fundamental law, either in the
d letter or in the spirit will yet at length SIT
down under the shade of the mighty tree Of
Il the Americau Constitution, and our nation
= shall fling its branches into wider space,
r. aud they shall bloom with more beautiful
d Towering, and hang with a richer fruit the
s daughters, TOO, not one wanting, clau IN tue
. vestments of different States, shall grow
T. about the mother tree, overarohng with their
t peaceful benisons this occidental continent
o Peace and good will will again hymn their
Y praises from Plymouth rock to the Delta Of the
t Mississippi from the Capitol at Washington to
e the Golden Gate Of the Pacific, to the God of
n our Fathers. | cannot yet believe that the
n North and the South are to be the reality of
= great poets idea and have final separation
after still more ghastly scars
n They parted, neer 70 meet again
% But never either found another
TO fee the hollow heart from pAining
j. They stood aloof with scars remaining.
/. Like cliffs which had been rent asundef.
A dreamy flows between.
Bat neither frost. nor heat, nor thunder
II Shall wholly do away | ween
, The marks NJ that which once hash
Il The friend. Of the American Union cannot
. look forward even to such an Emh masia.-
IT But to save us we must trust in the God Of
It our Fathers lie yet remansth to ls, In Him
}, alone are to be found all these other blessings.
: Lot us ask him for success Then with Gods
blessing the Republican institutions which
:. we're more the boon Of Heaven that the
I. achievement of man will be triumphant
3. May God grunt that those may remain and
n our Governmen, and people be evermore
e pleasing in His sight Of whom, through
/. whom and to whom are all things. Our
e Fathers God behold nation PROSTATE be-
i, fore Thee and in anguish and in tears. We
e repent before thee in dust and ashes. Re-
- store unto rs rhy favor BE- fhou our light