The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-03-13

what Benlamin is here seen TO have done
Have they not often boas.ed that one South
ener could whip FIVE Yankees?
z. Ihoxgh the forces of the national
government scere nnmerous, they irere not
: prepared TO attack tie rebeks The men Of
Israel had not the means OF subsistence
with them. When they left home, thev
took with them provisions for journey TO
Mispeh onl y. and not for a campaign, so
that they had TO despatch portion of the
army "to fetch victuals for the people,
TINS caused delay. And had no, our
Federal Government to delay Its operations
against the Southern rebels from lack of
the proper munitions of war?
.. Tile natioadi troops had dt6fculty in
determining acho should be the leader of the
grand army. The Israelites seem to have
hao much contention on this point. To lie.
clie the matter, they asked counsel of God
and said Which Of US shall go up first to
the battle against the children of Benja. !
min The question is not which tribe
shall advance first into the battle If that /
were the question asked, we would expect |
to ind the station and rank Of each tribe
assigned. as IN the journeyings in the will
derness. But the question is who shall be
Commander-in-chief of our armies Each
tribe had its prince, and whichever tribe
was named. the prince Of that tribe would
be the leader Of the grand army. The an ,
swer OF the Lord was was. Judah shall 60
up first. or as it is in the original. "Ju- q
deah is in the precedency" God had al !,
ready constituted that tribe the leader of j
Israel; nineteen years before the rebellion
broke OUT God said. Judah is in the pre-
cedency." and here the truth is simply re- 4
peatsd. Judah was powerful tribe, and
furnished large body of fighting men it
vas expedient, therefore, even in political a
point fvlew. that its prince should be made d
ommander-in- Chief. Have we not had h
analogous to this in our own o.
country Did we not appeal to God that d,
We might know who should be Cnmmander- q,
H. Chief OF our armies And did not God Of
lecite the matter? We cas-, our votes free 4,
y. but God disposed the ordering Of the in
OF. he plrced Western man in the Pres
because large body Of Of
gh'ing men was to be furnished by the be
vest: And have not the leaders in our tn
rand army been mostly Western p to
re not Halleck, Mcclellan, Pope, Fremont So
gel and Burnside, well as the Pre- >itent, ST.
Western men? And it is, We believe. I'M
Western man that we shall vet have
'liverance
.. 4" The first battle Tie national forces Pc
re routed wtth immense slaughter g nd ba
men of lsaael went out to battle against the
'n)amin and the men of Israel put them ma
YES In array to light against them at can
oeah. The BenJanites were prepared tba
give them warm reception. Though rai
silly superior in numbers,-by having the the
oice OF the ground. they SO arranged their the
ny ina. hen !ns @Alp eaaxas 's,,a
,onfus;on and panic that Israel fled in dis rem
.y. and there fell .'of the Israelites thai IN
v twenty and two thousand men. Is re'l
t this a Bull Ruo precedent = the
TO- after the frst battle. ne n"ho"al ota
OOPS retreated to their general RENDEZVOUS To
e Israeli,es retrealed to their camp ground q
,ar Mispeh,-and our forces sought their Wit
around Washington. WI
II. Many among the national forces Go
,u began to doubt the propriety of'ths fur pei
er prosecution of the acar. The men 0, wa
,raei no longer asked (which OF US shall da
I'm To the battle % but shall we go up
ali p shall 60 up again to battle sainst ed:
" children Of Benjamin my brother = a
n this question they intimate reason why tns
,ey should hesitate in the further prosecu- ga
on of the war Beojamin was their BROTH an
Providence seemed to be frowDing upon th
,em, and the land was mourning over the th
laughter of twenty-five thousand OF her WI
ons. Were there not murmurings IN our
Nm land similar to those here described
Md do we not hear such croaking yet
-. BIZ both nations a second battle icds ia
ought on Me.r old battle ground The W
men Of Israel encouraged themselves. and ra
ct the battle in array in the place where ar
hey put themselves in array the hrst day. 70
rbev did not abandon themselves to des
,sir. but determined, if possible, on the VI
anne spot, to retrieve the terrible disgrace OF
which their arms on the former occasion Ell
us,ained Was not this the desire OF our II
nen also? And did not our army secono IL
ime meet the rebels on the Held oi BUN j.
Run? "
Is In both nations the result Of The sec 5,
,na engagement ras that the national arms $,
,rnerienced another defeat. "Aud the tt
children of Israel came near against the "
children Of Benjamin the second day. And o
BENJAMIN went forth against them out OF
Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground v
Of the children of Israel again eighteen
men. Is not this second Bull ]
Run affair a
Thi. anology might easily be carried {
further. but as we have already written
more than we originally intended. We shall
bring il to a close by simply noticing the 6
fnal result of the rebellion in Israel. This !
i given in full in the last eighteen verses OF 7.
the goth chapter of Judges. There we
learn hat the national arms were glorious
lv victorious: that the rebels suffered an ir-
re.rieyable defeat, yea, that the tribe of
Reniamiu was almost annihilaled. So ter
ribIe was the re,ributlon that came upon
them. that not daughter. sister, wife or
mo,her.--not child. youth or old man IN
the rebelious territory, escaped the devour-
ipg power of the sword. The whole tribe,
with he exception of six hundred men who
aed to the rock Rimmop, was entirely an
Initiated. God forbid ina; such an awful
re,ri,,u.ion should come upon our deluded
Southern rebels.
| \. regard to the rebel Be.,amife'. t'ro
things are ro-tAy Of notice
,st. Throughout the campaign they .ere
eorsdent that the day teas theirs And