Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-27


And without seam.
The good people of Massachusetts, celebrate
their annual Thanksgiving to day. The fes-
tivities of many households will be chastened
with strange sorrow. Brave hearts without
number have, since the last family gathering,
gone to their rest We call to mind one gal
liant regiment which left us many months
ago--full of youthful vigor and manly
strength-whose devoted ranks battle after
battle has thinned and changed, till it is
scarcely the same. 1t had its first baptism of
blood at Balls Bluff. 1t passed the fiery or
deal of the peninsula campaign. 1t has had
part in all the important battles that have
since been fought in Virginia and Maryland.
Every one Of them has been a messenger of
bereavement TO some neighbor and friend
Another regiment which left us at nearly the
same time has been scarcely less unfortunate. 1t
fought at Roanoke, at Newbern, land at Camden.
1t was in the hottest OF the battle at Chantilly.
1t has been led up and down the Potomac and
the valley, exposed to the dangers of that ex-
posed field Less than halfits original men,
b6IS are NlNOIo Va ITO liftluoiAPo piu
sharers of its glory. The history of the two
regiments is the history of many others, whose
losses have been scarcely less for whose
sacrifices bereaved friends go mourning all
the day They have not all the satisfaction
of feeling that the results achieved have been
proportional to the cost, and thousands upon
thousands of them will go to their graves with
the conviction that the dear ones whom they
gave to their country with their blessings were
needlessly and wantonly slain. The day Of
trial is long one, but it must have an end.
Men cannot always have the compensations of
calamity at the moment when they would be
agreeable. Little of good comes into the
world except through purifying flame and
strengthening peril. But providence is al
ways just, and though it sometimes causes the
saints to wait, it never forgets them altogether.
Robert Browning says there are
1.-TWO points in the adventure of the diver:
One-wheD, beggar, he prepares to plunge,
0ne-when, prince, he rises with his PEARL
The TRANSPORTATION comes when it is due.
They who do right will come to their own.
The people of New England, educated in ad
versity, when the causes for thanksgiving are
less apparent, fall back upon their deep and
confident faith, aud give thanks none the less.
Darker days than these were in the beginning,
when, under the derision of the world, ship
load of exiles established the new order of
things on the western continent. Prosperity
has come down upon their children in sho ~
ers from the kind skies. Good institutions,
good government good moral and social in
huences, are in all their borders. Intelli-
gence comes to all like the sun and rain, and
christianity tempers and chastens the civiliza-
ton which is its fruit In the abundance of
its good things though suffering now with
every person and thing that the war
touches, this commonw ealth has an abiding
trust that it may be well with the nation yet.
1t has two weapons equally Useful for defence
or aggression-men and ideas. To contend
against either permanently is Communicable
and statute Madness" Both are of kind
that may bend but never breaks under diff
culties. History vindicates their quality from
that reproach. A million of loyal men, fight
ing for distractions, would be strong enough
TO terrify any nation on the face of the earth.
But armed with a cause they are permanently
invincible The angel of the Lord encampeth
round about them.