Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-10
w RC Il S T E r:
MONDAY. AUGUST 10. 1863
National Life.

at the hand of the Lord, and shall we not re-
ceive evil?" 1t says, BLESSED be the name
of the Lord both for what he has given and tor
what he has taken away" and is measured
not by any moment of outward triumph but
by the growth of a true life in the nation,
life sprngng ever fresher and dvner from
the soil of mingled disaster and success, turn
ed and furrowed by the ploughshare of God,
and watered by the blood and tears of pco-
pie melted in the furnace of affection to a
more perfect unity, whose joy is an earnest
of their growth toward the ideal of christian
republic.
Truly do we thank God for "Vicksburg,"
and Gettysburg" and "Port Hudson;" but
we also thank Him for the defeats and suffer-
ings that have educated the public mind to
broader and more humane views, drawing
men out and up to higher plains Of living.
The joy bells of Charleston, ringing for the
downfall of Sumter, were the school bells,
calling the country to learn, through tears
and blood, the lesson of our national saliva
ton; and as we look back, along our ''via
Dolorosa, from the summit Of day achieve
ments, and listen, at the same time, to the
thunder of cannon around fort Wagner, in
this present hour; as we see the rush of the gal
liant 54th against those fiery walls, the moving
down of their glorious ranks before the death
reaper, the harvest of heroes gathered into
the garner of God; as we see (best and bright
est of them alp their young heroic colonel,
with sublime courage, bearing on that devoted
band, and dying gloriously in the midst
of them, consecrating that parapet as the
corner stone of Cardinals freedom, by
pouring out his life-blood thereupon; as we
see those blood drops falling from the heart Of
the oppressed race for our delverance, and
hear that blood crying from the ground,
'Father, forgive them!" a we see the trench
into which these poor black bodies were cast,
with the pale beauty of their noble leader still
among them, and know how scorntul, barbar-
Gus hands have been instruments Of the most
honorable burial man ever had; as we see
Gods finger writing "Liberty and Equality
in red letters on that halowed sod, we bow
our heads in thanksgiving for the diviner life
Infused into the nation. We know that our
salvation is at hand-the haven of peace
opens from the summit of our Mount of Cru
ciixion, and we hear, through the silence, a
voice saying, Thou fool, except "a corn of
wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth
alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much
fruit"
Wilson sand in his speech at the fremont
Temple on Thursday =
''To-day l thank God that the power of
slavery is being brokeV,T Gay trust that
VIM pnt 1t in the heart of every loyal man
in this country to trample it till it is extin-
guished.
''What have we done in the past few
months? Abolished it in the very capital of
the republic, and given its victims the right to
go into the courts and be as other men; we
have prohibited slavery forever in the vast ter
Titorial possessions of the republic; we have
abolished it in Western Virginia, a district
which has sent members of congress fully
pledged to government support; the Indian
Territory and Missouri have prohibited it
also; we have made treaty with England to
destroy the African slave trade; we have re-
cognized Hayti and Liberia; we have made
every slave free who escapes from a disloyal
master, to our armies and we have made a
proclamation giving freedom forever to three
million three hundred slaves.
1.-The black man, who two years ago had no
rights that.a white man was bound to respect,
Is recognized by the attorney general as citi-
zen of the UnitedStates and Mr. Seward gives
the black man passport TO travel in foreign
lands as a citizen. We are organizing reg
lments and we are filling our armies in the
southwest with these same black men, placing
III their care the standard OF our country. And
we want quarter of million more of them
to hold our fortresses and to meet the chlval-
ry' on the battle field where our colored
brothers have already proved their bravery
These are the noblest grounds for thank
fulness. And as we note this education for
nobler life and a dviner permanence, we are
thankful that the sources of our weakness are
being also made manifest. that the chaff is
being winnowed from the wheat, the tares sep
arated from the good grain, the base metal
melted from the gold, so that the party of pro-
gress sloughing off and casting out the evils
and impurities that have bound and weakened
it, may stand strong in the purest republican
ism, people and not party, feeling Goods
greatness flow around their incompleteness;
Round their restlessness His rest!"
We may be thankful too, that this lesson
came to us before it was too late, that a ma
TONS life ''consisteth not in the abundance of
things which it possesseth," but that its wealth
is in manly hearts inspired by liberty lifted
out of selfshness, striving that Gods kingdom
shall come, and bis will be done on earth as
is done in heaven.
But the new birth of liberty in our land, the
moving to a higher platform of living, the
broadening and deepening of our ideas, the
lifting up of an enslaved race, the casting out
of the devils that rend us, has its dangers
dangers to be met with wisdom and with cour-
age.
More than two hundred years ago, Thomas
Fuller, tone of the wittieSt and wisest divines
who have ever assembled the pulpit" a chap
lain in the army during the great civil war in
England, wrote his ''Good Thoughts in BAD
Times. Among them is this lesson for to-
day.
without care no cure. A woman. when
newly ueuVered OF child, her pain is ended,
ner perm Is Dut new begun; little distemper
IN diet, or a small cold taken, NAV inflame her
into fever, and endanger her life. Wbere.
fore, when the welfare of such a person 10 on
CURED after, this answer general is returned