The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-26
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- Ihe wealth 81 worlds, the spois oi-waT,
They sought faiths p eEs ssFEttRPs! SCI si7
Aye call 1t holy ground - fa
ga The sp8t.Rher9 frst tbey Brod
Or" gleyiave len uhstained What there they found,
Freetola to wOrshipGod
The same grand idea so austerely cher
ished by that littIs1bznd of exilss, amid
the periIs and privAtions of their forest
z ~ home, was transmitted as a sacred heir
loom from sire 10 son, until in after years
IA it illuminated the dreadful night-march
8 of sglorious revolution On the eve of
the battle strife, and even when the
80 matches were lighted to give voice to the
Z dread artillery, the great Washington
asa 3. WIS not ashamed to be seen upon his
kv.7 akHeesfn his tent, impI6rihg the blessings
Of Heaven upon fhe better cause. And
"a when that noble band of patriot states
Fl men met in conclave--to stsrtle world
slsslumberibg in shsckIes, by proclaiming
= that "all were born free and equal" and
~. yet again afterwsrd, to devise our ad-
ssi rmirable system Of gOvernment--the same
glorious sentiment hung like hale about
them, and upon their knees they sought
harmony, concert and courage of that God
who "mAketh men TO be of one mind in an
house." And thus the holy sentiment of
of religion was the star in the east
which shone upon the birth of American
freedom-has grown with its growth
waxsd strong with It's strengthEengraft-
ing itself uron our system of polity-
become part and parcel of our common
80 lag, so recognized in our law books, and
so announced in our high Judicial tri-
bunaIs Where it is, mankind is ele-
waited in the scale of moral and intellec-
tusl being : where it is not whole
acknowledgement into chaotic darkness
"Rosseau,' said the first Napoleon, @was
a bad man, be produced The French revO-
luton" Tt was RQsseau who wrote
down the bible, thatiholy book 80 bees
tful in itsethics-so rich in itspromises
so mOmentopS ~ iSs .niissioh.' - 1T was he
VINO nad engraved upon the arches of
the Partisan .cemeteries--that dread
sbibboleth of thsreign of terror ,-adeath
iseiernal sleep and the bible is fable"
TWAS the mission Of Napoleon to rein
a. state the Bible, and thus to re-difuse
sssb throughout Francefhs tide of,pFospefity
and progress. Well might Robert Hall
exclaim, when he heard of the disastrous
batle,of Waterl0Os 81 eltaB if the clock Of
time had Bvsh tdfhed ,bsck six centuries
-. when Napoleon was pros rstsd,R NapO-
leon saw that religion was insspsrAble
from the very instioCas ofithe human
sOul-that the Bible was the true bull
wark of Law, order and rational govern
]. ment; andloOking to the glory of France,
ssl,ahe deEeleti the energies of his mighty
mind, to4nculcatea in the hearts of her
people reverence for lis sublime doc
trines, If such were the necessities of
the consulate and the empirsPiNhere
80 might wasrighs, what are the necessities
= of this great republic, where the life
~ blood Of the government, is the consent
of the gOyemedS Hsliltle knowsof the
character of our government, who does
not recognize the religion Of the Bible,
As'better than standing army, in pres
ha3 serving the iutegrity-ths stsbility-the
symmetry Of this glorious Union.
- LetShis day, then, be consecrated to
-rs Almighty God. Let the solemn church
s. bells toll midday curfewltO allsecular
aooPaEuits-and the aAisles and arches Of
= sur beauiifal temples echo With the jdg
Siisnt chant Of praise and Thanksgiving
l@ iaAsn Oly being, who hath built us up,
sAnd made as what we arc the freest and
hAppiest PeOplsa on the hsbitable globe.
And above all let Us invoke Him to lead
our country into the paths Of peace, and
reuni 70 eli sec,iODsi in the bonds of broth.
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