The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-02-26
i your arms. thought 80 too; and yet

/ Of your arms. Thought 50 too; and yet
I know how easy it is to criticise the
movements of your military commanders.
know how dangerous it is uncharltao!y
to criticise the movements Of our armies.
We must trust somewhere. The Presi-
dent is President for two years to come.
If tho country is to be saved under
Providepce it must be through him and
his Administration. The great book OF
books, the Bible, assures US that individ-
uals are saved by faith-"by faith are
We saved" and SO of nations. Trust your
President, trust your Congress-, trust
your generals in the field, ard, above all,
trust yourselves and God above, and all
will be well. ,sa a s.s's-ts
We have had temporary reverse of
our arms, bloody reverse, which We all
regret; but it has not for one moment
shaken my faith in the final triumph of
the great and good cause. l will not
believe, / cannot believe, that under the
baneful influence Of human slavery this
model Republic is to be blotted out from
the history Of nations. Here, Mr.. Pres
ideut, for the first time in the history Of
the whole world, two different systems of
civilization meet face to face and contend
for the Mastery. One is represented by
the effete and worn out system of Asiatlc
government, based upon human servitude
and human bondage; the other is repre-
sented by the free institutions of Western
Europe, whose light was first eDkiDdled
10 the dark forests of Germany, and the
whole world, at this day, CLOVIS in that
illumination. We represent In the North
the system Of free government based up.
on free labor and free institutions, and l
will not believe that this government is
to be destroyed by the monster demon of
slavery. I cannot believe it. The wise
purposes of Providence, for which the
Government was planted, forbid me to
believe it. Our mission is not yet &C.
complished.
In the midst of this sea of blood, see
way of deive-ance to pass to the prom
Used land of peace and security. We may
have to pass through sea red with the
blood of slaug entered thousands; but new.
ertheless, under the guidance of Provi-
dence aud our own high destiny. we
shall reach the other bank. In the midst
Of all these convulsions, homogeneous
and harmonious Republic, based upon
human liberty and human rights, shall
yet be established. 10 the midst of these
cou,ending factions, yet afar off in the
future, ! catch the light of institutions
more benifcent, more grand, more per-
feet, than have ever yet existed in the
tide of time. | will not for moment
despair of the Republic. As long as the
free sous of the great West, from their
prairie homes, raj y to the defence Of
the country, as long as the Atlantic sea
board is alive, so long as New England il
true, and is yet part Of the Union,
rely upon her sons, sons whose lullaby ant
,, cradle song was sung by the wild wave
of the ocean that beat upon Plymoth rock
With these elements of strength, relyin
= upon ourselves, relying upon God, tn
' Republic is safe
;, ask you, to day, to stand worthy c
the high mission entrusted to you. Sc
. you that the President and his constitu
u tionsl advisers are in harmony with tn
people, tina, they have adopted the RICH
theory Of the rebellion that they beIiev,
q in crushing out, at all and every hazard
this monstrous treason I have no faith
I in an officer, cabinet minister, Pres
iient, or any one else who continually
balances secession against the honest anti
: slavery sentiment of the North Sir, VIZ
!, must have men in earnest, deeply in ear
nest, five are to emerge from this terri
y BILE struggle with safety and with victory
= | doubt not We shall do So The people
c are sound, sir No people on earth hav,
shown such self torgetiulness, such self
sacrifice, such lofty patriotism, as tn,
people of the United States have shown
Ttey have done all, and more than all
:, that could have been required; and if tn
country is doomed to fail, if freedom
doomed to perish in the blood Of her "
- taries at her last altar upon earth, histol
y will write this, and record it truly: "Jl
re Republic failed not for want Of suppo
IS by the people, but for want Of far-reacl
. ing craftsmanship upon the part Of h
III statesmen, and for want Of able leadt
TO in the arpies" That is the fiat of h
10 tory; history will write it, and the wat
~ Of a thousand deluges cannot obliterate
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