Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-12-04


Cosr1rnrss OF HUMAs PRoeRzss:-
AS 70 those who think that the uprising
vas necessary. but that i should have
sost netbipg. I ask whence they have
aer;v.d an aIissIos OF this nature. 1t
Has moi been, at an events, from histo-
Iftbers be truth shevn clearly
io its pages. i is that every uprising Is
4 crisis. To dream of roses without
tborns, and Of pregress without suffer-
ing, we must shut our eyes. Nothing
is SO disagreeable to witness as the up-
rising Of people; there are struggles.
reverses and dangers; there is blood
and ruin; prudent men stand aside,
feeling hearts are rorsed TO indignation,
vulgar miads disparage and snathems
tige. Why not die decently. tssnquii-
| ", instead of troubling the world BY
these psroxysms of faverisb agitation. :
1t is almost always at the epochs
when the good resumes the lead, that
we behold the appearance OF social sui
ferings. 1t does not enter into the de-
signs Of God for great iniquities to be
blotted out before their chsstisement
has made itself felt. And bere-the
fact is renarkab1e-the chastisement
falls at once upon all the guilty ones;
upon the South, which sustained slave
nv; upon the North, the sccompliee ol
ltbe South; upon Europe, indifferent to
the wrong. and too long disposed to
profit BY it. l.- mi
We must bow our heads and adore
the hand that smites US. God has not
sent the wars, the commercial crisis,
the miseries of all kinds; they are the
pains of travail; they will last until a
new America, free and just America,
shall have come into the world. '
| We always pay more dearly for a
progress than fault; or rather, it is at
the hour Of progress that the account
of faults are settled. Crisis Of uprising
mark the great epochs of history
What crisis--I limit myself to this
what crisis can be compared IN that
which dates from the coming of Jesus
Chist? He said, al do not come to
bring peace bat sword" The i'm
mensity Of the benefit is measured by the
immensely of the suffering. Behold the
whole antique society succumbing; be-
hold pagan supremacy disappearing;
behold the national religious preach
ing; behold divisions introducing them
selves everywhere, in the State, in the
family, in the very recesses of the hu-
man soul; atrocious prosecutions, relig-
ious wars, spring up increasingly from
their ashes; the refinement Of cruelty
and the excess OF hatred are about to
have full sway; the blood Of Christians
will be shed; and Christians Cor those
that bear the name will shed blood IN
their turn; it will flow in torrents; the
world will be in anguish. But the world
will be trans6gured, rejuvinated, up
raised. Above the mire OF ancient So
ciety, a new society will have appeared,
like unto the lands which, when our
globe assumed its present form, rose at
the voice of God from the bosom OF the
troubled waters. The ignominies Of
Rome have disappeared, slavery has
fallen back slowly before the gospel;
the family has been formed, and wo-
man has become the mother of the fam
| ily; individual conscience has conquer
ed its rights. direct relations have been
established between the soul and God,
light has been shed on life, death and
eternity; the mind has known deeds,
agitated questions, entered upon spaces
of which antiquity knew nothing; mod
ern liberties have made invasion, mod
ern thought has been born. These are
marvels, dazzling marvels, which We
should better appreciate if we were &C.
customed to them, if any one could
make us feel but for day the icy con-
tact with human communities, such as
they were before Jesus Christ.
Gdsporin.