Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-21

weary Oul OuI dIlIlGS ny CHTOH1C
they will outwit us in council, as they have
ever done. When l see how they have de-
ceived our rulers ever since the first ordinance
of secession, by the continual border-state du-
plicity and constitutional bubbles, while tram
ping on the constitution; how they still man
age to bring the greatest force on the point of
attack and their reckless sacrifice in men and
property; the fanatic zeal of their women,
which aids their conscriptons; their hope of
foreign Interference; the open sympathy they
receive from men in all our cities; the rapidi-
ty with which they fill their ranks and, as
a final result, their purpose to arm the slaves
after we have repealed them. When | see
these things south, and kR0iO that despotsm
strains every nerve, and felon's doom lashes
them on, and then look for the ability, the
iron will, the courage, the persistency, the
whole-Souled consecration, necessary to meet
this emergency, how can l say less than this
| ''Our dearest interests are in jeopardy? The
nation is in peril!'
| II. Our means of delire7unce.-G God must
deliver us. And He will do it, as he delivered
Israel. Call as, call us till we come to his
help against the mighty; or curse us till we
| do come to his help; and if we are going to
| have God on our side, the quicker we come
on HIS side the better. Not that He is weak
| God can blast those rebels in a moment. ,Ja-
bin, the Canaanite was not so strong that God
could not conquer without Baraks 5000 war
chariots God can fight our battles as He
can clear our forests, without our agency
Only He never did and never will do any such
thing. He will see us go to perdition first
When Senacherrib invaded Samaria the
prophet asked God what should be done.
$50 down." said God, ''into all the towns.
and gather the best men that can be found.
do all and | will frix,o
That was Gods plan then, and he has not
changed it. This rebellion is a lcicked thing.
Conceived and brought forth in sin; sin po-
| htlcal, ecclesiastical, and theological sin, no
less than the sin of ambition and gain God
| Is dealing with this nation, not by miracle,
but by laws that will not change. His iudg-
ments are on the land. And there is cause !!
Slavery has long reversed the moral force
and practical workings of the whole enginery
of our government. 1t has read Scripture,
as Satan is said to do, blackboard, dethroned
| the God Christ revealed, and installed mean
er god than heathenism ever owned-a man
stealing, woman-whipping, baby-selling god,
and sert his sleek prophets over the north
and the south, proclaming, 'sthese be thy
gods, Oh republican democrats sons of the
men of '76!" And the doom has come, black,
terrible, desolating, and deadly, exactly in
proportion to our iniquity ;-as the rebound
| to the bend
We have destroyed ourselves, but i'll God
Is our help. He calls us to His help against
the mighty. All his laws will work for us.
once come IN harmony with them as they
curse us while in opposition. As God says to
the builder, "Observe my law of gravity, or
your house will topple to the ground" So to
the builders Of the temple of freedom: COB
serve the law of justice, or the laws of my
moral universe will bring it to destruction"
First, then, we come to His help against
the mighty forces of this rebellion, by doing
| justice. Injustice is the cause. Justice must
be the cure. The rebel army fights for slavery,
dominion; our army must fight for freedom,
or we are doomed. Come back, all We loval
men; come back into the line of Gods Justice
as 1t now bears upon this struggle, and God
is with us and the stars in their courses will
hight for us. No longer-nor president, nor
CABINET, nor press, nor congress, generals,
soldiers, people-nO longer offend heaven by
palterlng with rebels, protecting their proper
ty, and guarding their slavery while their
grippe is fastening upon the throat of the ma
ton!
Listen to what jeff. Davis says 1--WE can
fight twenty years if Lincoln's army will act
as our negro police" And shall our men do
the rebels such service. Let swift destruction
overtake him who is content to undertake it !!
| My God owe ~~s doonlodP Are we so blind
that we cannot see, because we will not Jcf
1erson-yeS, Jefferson, whom the pulpits
called an intidel, could see that God had not
one attribute that could take sides with the
STAKEHOLDER! And now, fifty wears later,
when this Shareholder acts the traitor. the very
army sent to fight him, must be weakened to
help him in the very point where God curses
MN II we throw ourselves between the
crime and the judgment bolt it will hit u.s. for
IL goes to the mark. No wonder all the
speakers at the great meeting in New York
OF all partles-called upon the government,
as IN their agony, to make war by all the laws
OF war! For New York trembles.
But doing justice is more; it is such a
proclamation Of liberty as will bring every
slave into cooperation! We NAV do this,
or the rebels will do it! They are
doing 1t. Rather than submit, they will
use ece'y means,-offer themselves to Eng
Land, or to France, to the negroes, or to the
devil, as shall best suit their purpose. They
are trammeled by no constitutional bubbles.
ihey know what war means They counted
the ost;-and they will pay the price.
Second, we must come to the help of the
Lord against this mighty rebellion, by a sumo
ror force. trust, that by this time we are
cured OF the nonsense that the battle is to the
weak, and not to the strong. And by strength
L mean as one item, strong, sound, earnest
men, and enough of them, not only to repulse
the attaek of the enemy Chat for us is defeat) ;
but to chase him and take him, his munitions
and his capital
''But, does not God favor the rght?" Yes.
for the right will comply with his terms God
fayors good men in build ng HIM house of
worship But if they put a two-inch pine stick
to support its dome, God will not stand and
hold it, or alter his laws to give it the strength
OF iron or heart of oak. He will see a chris
tan temple, falsely built, fall, as he will a
gambling-hell. He will not be triied with in
his laws; he does not trifle with us, and we
must not tritle with him. Christ says-sWili
you take ten thousand to go against an enemy
OF twenty thousand? Then you shall be put
| to shame !"
we have SAID long enough that the enemy
was weak and starving, and poorly clad, and
without money! LetRichmond answer ''Mon-
ey" "With bread and STEEL said Napoleon,
81 can march to China" If men will take
scrip Or wampum, for money, it is, for the time,
the same as gold for the object. ''Poorly clad !"
Frenchmen whipped Prussia and Austria in
their shirt sleeves and shoes of straw We
must have more men-half a million more
it will save life and end the war, if used, as we
believe it will be, as the president says it now
shall be! Let the president utter few bugle
notes, and call upon the people whose war
this is, and must more than ever be, promis-
ing that every man shall do the work he wants
done, and no other; then enthusiasm will take
the place of apathy, and the nation will be
saved! Let the press speak and the pulpit,