Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-17
fCONIMUNICATED.1

EDS PRHss 1t was my privilege recently
to make one of a social party where the
evening was closed in the good old fashioned
way with family devotion. A chapter was
read from jeremiah, and the Goth Psalm was
sung. The exercises were SO appropriate
and applicable to the thieving Secessionists
and the armed rebelsin the Southern Con-
federacy, that l concluded to send you a
short sketch for publication, if you think
proper to give it a place in your paper. 1t
would make this communication too long to
give the whole of the chapter and psalm re-
ferred to above; l therefore send only the
portion that struck me as peculiarly applica.
bic to the present times Jer. xiii, xix; The
cities Of the South shall be closed, and none
shall open them; Judah shall be carried away
captive all Of it, it shall be wholly carried
away csptiye;" xx, Lift up your ewes and
behold them that come from the north;
where is the flock that was given thee-thy
beautiful fock2
81. What wilt thou say when He shall
punish thee; Cfor thou hast taught them to
be captains and as chief over thee;) shall not
sorrows take thee, as woman in travail2
fore come these things upon me2 For the
greatness Of thine iniquity are thy skirts
discovered, and thy heels made bare.
A portion of the Sixtieth Psalm
Lord, thou hast scourEed our guilty land;
Behold thy people mourn;
Shall yer geance ever guide thy hand2
Shall mercy neer return?
Our Sion trembles at the stroke,
And breads thy lifted hand;
0 heat tho people thou hast broke,
And sare the sinking land.
ExGIt thy banner in the field,
For thoHe that fear thy name
From barbarCus hosts our nation shield,
And put thy foes to shame.
Attend our armies 10 the fight.
And be their guardian God;
In vain Confederate powers unite
Against thy lifted rod.
Then followed ferveut and impressive
prayer for our country, for all in authority.
and especially for the President and his
household, that their walk and conversation
might be an example to the people of tenn
perance and economy, rather than of feast
ing and extravaganza; that our legislative
balls and the army should be pureed of
traitors and drunkenness; that God would
have in his holy keeping the fathers, hus
bands, brothers and sons who have left their
comfortable homes to put down a wicked
rebellion; and that be would look in mercy
on Jne mOtneTsi WlV65i slsCetS ana daughters
of those now on the battle field.
The exercises of the evening brought Wv
idly to mind the beautiful picture in Burns
Cotters Saturday Night:
"Then bneeling down to Heavens Eternal King,
The saint, the husband and the father prays"
Contrast this imperfect sketch, Mr.. Editor,
with the accounts we have of the recent
grand and costly entertainment at the White
House in Washington. And, moreover, we
have no account that one of the chief per-
sonaRes in that extraordinary proceeding has
ever visited q hospital, presented even q
sympathized with their sufferings Thank
God, the mothers, wives, sisters, and daugh-
ters OF America are very differently eonsti-
tuted. They have warm hearts and ready
hands to sympathize with and aid the sick
or wounded soldier,
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.