Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-03-10

Solemn Benefits of the War The Leveller OF
Glasses Lesson not4oDc Understood by Cop
perheads.
War is a solemn monitor, leveller as
well as destroyer-an equalizer between
the rich and poor and balancer of classes.
1t takes away che best as well as the worst,
and begets mediums. Over two thou
sand OF the best men Of Grant county
have gone to the war, may be third new
or to return. Apart from the service to
country, what shall be the gam, what tie
returns The country is worth their SER
vices. their loss even. But are there any
gains besides the consideration of country,
union, constitution? We think so: What
1t is releasing the bonds of the poor debt
or, as we show elsewhere, and equalizing
his condition with that of the creditor;
it is evelling the rich and raising the poor.
1t is dwelling down the proud aristocracy
of the whole country, North as well as
South, some to sink in infamy, some to
dwell IN low places along with God'spoor
Then it elevates the humble, makes
stumbling blocks Of the wise and fillswith
wisdom and gives power 10 those for whom
we pray. The war is sure to release the
slave bonds and open the way for bond
men 10 rise up without levelling down
poor white people. 1t is widening the
way for all to rise and narrowing the way
so that none but bad men may fall to a
lower grade. It forever prevents a re-
currence 10 the past condition Of things in
the South requiring poor white men to
to compete with negro slaves for the
bread Of life. Il begets necessity for all
classes to become intelligent and adopt in
aeligent labor. The sacrifice is heavy
being the first born of almost every fani-
ly. But this has ever been the penalty
for holding long in bondage Gods poor.
The Bible histories events under Gods
law dealing such penalties for not letting
60 the bond peoples Gibbon and Hume,
infdel historians, affirm this same law of
Nature and God. Thomas Jefferson told
that by perpetuating these bonds upon an
innocent people, penalties would follow
which made the great statesman tremble
to reflect upon. Theodore Parker, the
most learned man of this century, foretold
this war, even to particulars, twenty years
ago unless steps were then taken to des-
troy this worst cause of wars. Still, Meth
or Gods law, Natures causes nor learned
councils prevailed to break the chains
They must now be broken, link by link,
aud with the lives of innocence as a sacri-
fce-the aristocrocy and wealth of our
country to fall in common ruin to rise no
more. Copperhead statesmen, Of the
species that copnciledePharoah to not let
Israel go, want to try their hands ut saving
the chains; but we rather guess the bot
tom layer Of the Red Sea will be formed
of Copperheads. Reader, better to halt
at once and listen to God, Revelation and
the lights shed by historians and the old
statesmen. You will learn that to tram
pie upon an innocent race of people is no
light matter. You cant afford it, even for
thousands of millions of bales of cotton
and all the tobacco, rice and sugar of anil
lion slave plantations. This war is but an
old war renewed, the war ofslavery to crush
out freedom, which began thousands Of
years ago, and has thken the field now
and then ever since. And though
slavery NSs never successful in war; it
never surrenders us principles that man is
property--consitutional property, divine
property, subject to the laws Of other prop
erty.