The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-22
For the eflersonian Democrat.
Our Country.
June 18th, 1862.

"Have you enlisted in the army ?" "Are
you going to volunteer = and similar oucs
tions greet our ears almost every where now,
and tho ready answers show plainly that
America is not yet to become the land of
tyranny and oppression not yet to be gov
erned by lew hundred thousand naughty
slay eEoldors, who would throw to the
breeze another banner in the place of the
glorious stars and stripes that, for nearly a
century, have flnatod triumphantly over our
goodly land. No! no our country is still
10 be tho homo of the brave aud the free,
and wo believe that she will como forth from
this struggle braycr, and freer, and nobler,
than ever before.
We all know that war is a terrible thing,
ever when waged between different nations,
ana great deal more terrible when carried
on between two parties of the same nation !;
when mon are called upon to fight against
old scboolmatcs and companions OF their
youth, brother against brother, and father
against son. Aud, whom wo think of the
vast amount of money that has been and is
being expended, the millions of broad and
beautiful acres that are laid waste, and
above all, the myriads of human beings that
are slaughtered on various battle. fields, and
the my yrads mere of bleeding hearts hun
dreds and thousands of miles from those
battIe-fields, we are almost ready to say that
this war should never have been. But wo
know that He whose "ways arc above our
ways, and who "seos not as man soes," will
bring good out of this seeming evil, will
make us a nobler, better people. and bring
happiness to millions of poor, suffering ones
who have never known tho blessed boon Of
liberty. For He will never allow US peace
until evory human being from tho Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean, and from the Great
Lakes to tho Gul: of Mexico, can stand up
in tho prido and strength of his own human
ity, and say, II am FREQ; to none but
my Creator am l accountable i
This war is bringing out millions Of heroes
that we knew not as such before. We had
become SO much elated with our individual
and national prosperity, that wo were losing
sight Of those great principles that gavo US
such prosperity, and were drifting on, on in
the current of wealth and worldly ambition,
until, like ancien. Greece and Rome, we
shonld have fallen in the pride of our own
national greatness. We know not that so
many great and noble hearts were beating
and Sthrobbng all about us. ready TO do
great and noble deeds, until traitors un-
furled tho banner of treason against our
glorious old flag, and the call "To arms, to
savo our country !" was gwen, which awoke
our Nation from its lethsrgy, and hundreds
of thousands of Americas bravo heroes re-
spouded nobly to the call. Husbands and
fathers, with all tho fond endenrments of
home circ'ing around thom men of wealth,
with all its Inducements open to their view.
and young students, with all tho hobors OF
literary fame clustering around their brows,
and alluring them on; all are rushing to
arms in tho cause of saving our beloved
country from ruin and disgrace. Noble
women, too, with all the heroism of tho old
Spartan mothers, are sending their loved
ones forth to danger and death in the great
cause OF Nations safety, and have worked
assiduously ever since the war commenced
to amelorate the condition of those brave
men who are so nobly braving the glittering
steel and tho cannon's mouth.
We believe that this wa-, which many
have said was so cnfeobling our Nation, will
only increase her montal, moral and, we will
add, her governmental strength (; for traitors
are being delhroned from their high seats
and nObler, truer men placed at the helm
and soon we shall see our Government
stand forth in all her glorious majesty. dis.
playing a grandeur which she has never
known before.
God grant that America may be evor the
home of tho brave, tho energetic and the
FREQ, who will always stand nobly up for
truth, justice and liberty, until the splendor
of her moral brightness shall illuminate the
nations enyeIoped in pagan darkness.
A. G. LILLE.
WHLoUGHBY, Aug. 18th, 1862,