The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-12-03
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TRUTH ARRALGNED AS A Dis
TURBER OF THE PEACE

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There are certain lazy souls in this world
that would rather sleep souudly on the moss
OF an GA false prejudice than be at the
trouble 50 Nlch as to turn over in bed to
give a new t-uth a nod or wink of recog-
milton. Since the beginning of the world,
the onward march of ages has been slack.
end by this kind of baSgage--the iDapeCii-
menea OF campaign as the old romances de
nominated it, II is not little singular that
| all the turbulent eras of human history
since Moses veXed Pharaoh, have not yet
| fully convinced people that hoary bigotries
ard satanic passions cannot put truth and
| Righteousness under bonds to keep the
peace. After a stormy passage Of 5000
years, there are unpsohistDca ones who
hope and halt expect tsat the residue Of the
voyage from now till the millennium will be
made under skies of unbruken azure and
over waters famed only Ivy zephyrs. When
for brief interval Of history there, comes
Il lull i'll which thrones cease to rock to and
| iro, and they that sit On them dispose them
selves to tranquil dreams of ambition and
power then we say THAT is our weaker
part, which is the more prevalent with most
Uf us)-theua We say, ''Rll goes we'll; the
world is quiet at last" But anon when we
mons begin, to thunder, and clashing sabers
to strike fire, we grow pale with manifold
| alarms, Is not this historic witness to
human 'depravity; that men take counsel OF
Cautona thousand times where they con-
sent Tor once to the dictatorship of Con-
science. '.a--.-
! For nearly three-quarters of century we
| in this land have occupied the relation to
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on some high rocky bluff watching the sea
waves dashng and foanng around its base.
Amid an almost unbroken period of repose.
socialatd civil, wefhaye kept vigil OF the
| febrile paroxysms of other nationss trugglng
toward freedom. We have felt the throbbng
tenn ples Of Poland, have watchedtAe toss
ings OF Hungary in the ceremenls of des-
| potism, have laid our ear or the bosom OF
| Italy, and heard q Nations hearl-venticles
paipitatihg IN q newborn life. We have
been like physicians walking the wards o!
canp-hOspital, administering tOnics and
| paIllatves to others, as if we were an anu.
| let which would forever exempt us from
the empurpled cheek and the quick hot
pulse. Revolutions across the seas have
been no marvel 10 us; we have expected.
nay welcomed them, as ringing the funeral
bell OF deSpotisns, aud Ginning the birth.
| hour of liberty tor the thralled. Was il
| ever chrOnicled in the annals of time that a
| nation seiZed the banner of great social
! truth and marched under its folds to tri-
umph, without hurting itself against the
| shields and bastioils of organize tyruHics
aud faisehouds? :? Nay, nay, we have said
il mentally and andibly q thousand times
respecting other peoples; but when this
basal principle OF Gods providence turns
itself in application toward ourselves, We
Ike il lot quite SO well.
AT hast we arc learning to our cost that
America cannot be an exception to other
nations III respect to the media and attend
lng circumstances of palilical recuperatiorr.
IlMhether,r hpt We will be recOuciled Ia
God predestined medicament of this dis
tempered land one fact is evolving with
| fearful demonstration, to wit, that we will
either submit to it or to dissolution. Dur.
ing II recent generation the eternal truth ot
human ilbeGty has In0rtaly c0ilided with its
OppuEIlsit lalsehO,ld, human slavery. Tic
people 0f this commonwealth long Tagu
| voted this continent shuul he the arena on
which those two rldmeutal ideas of God
and Belal should stretch sinews for the
mastery. Whether through prQYidentia
necessity, as sumo allege, or through era
! ven policy, as others stoutly hnld, Onr faith
ers unc0ilsc.ously inausurated the very
conflict which is now RAJ sing in our borders
by conceding to slavery place without
the dignity of name in the Constitution
and according TO it both place and name il,
the commonwealth He that leaves his dOol
ajar for robbers to peep III, need not mar,
vel to fnd his till and pockets rifled and
the nation that let's a agigantic social lie, like
th's'd slavery, SO much as stand oni its door
step. need not wonder il b ,and-by it has tc
ehoose its treasure aud its lle at the cost