The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-10
unxpaY MoaNINn... AUGUST 10. 1869


., r.av he come consolation 10 a people
.,s,ing unaer the cslami,ies Of war 10 bear
:. mind that tie evil which they endure is one
e-.e, which their race has never been exempt,
"a which is as inevitable as suffering and
at, In any ether fern. What nation Ia
.soy. =, hich has escaped the sceurge Of warf
s,.,eb the records Of ancient and modern
,,u,ss explore lhs whole hsbtable sreS of cur
r,snst. snd name ons country. discover one
,ood Of earth, which has not been visited BY
this d.so!siiug seourgs Like plague, pssti-
,,nes and famine, war Is scourgs from
which fallen humanity never has escaped and
nave. will. Why should the people Of this
routnsn, expect exemption from the common
eurss of mankind I. ia only In the Mil
i.ram ths. the Scriptures havesaugh: as to
look for the conversion of the sword into the
,iooshshsre snd the spear into the pruning
l3ck Bnt We seem 10 think that America was
.nlil'ed TO Misuinm Of it's own, indspend
IN, Of the fest Of The world, and consider II
peculiar grievance that whilst every nation Of
our fallen race nag been punishsd in this way
fnr i;s sins we should escape it altogether. for
d letter fehsDu tnSn tiiat We bASo Decu ucI'
cifaily spared 1t for the last fifty years.
There are tbose who gay that if tha Ucion
i.at not besn dissolved there would have been
80 war: bus If tha. were true, the Millennium
would have been established in America and
uowhere else. Fer it was part Of the
manifest destiuy announced by Northern polit-
ciana ,ha. we should 20 On annsxing other
-. Il. --.... A.
whilst we ourselves sit in peace beneath our
own vine and hg tree God does not permit
such Injustice aud inequality as that in his
domnions. Moreover the Union could not
have been preserved, unless the disp0si.
ilon to abuse power on the one hand, and
,te spirit OF manly resistance on the
other, had died ont from the hearts of men.
IL these principles may be traced most Of the
wars which Rave convulsed society, and these,
sooner or later, rendered the violent dismem
terment Of the United States inevitable. II
vas impC ssibls to aoeeda to the demands of
the party which has overth,own the United
States Constitution without such surrender
oi manhood and self-respect as to the honor
Of humanity ia rars in it's annsls We must
submit 10 war as a thing that is inevitable;
that cannot be escaped by living in America
any uoEs than sorrow and death in any other
sbape, sai console ourselves with refiscting
that ,his crest evil was forced upon us against
our most earnest prayers and etruggles for
pence We have only asked to be let alone;
We have stood upon the defensive; we are
hnnted and shot downin our own fields and at
cur own freeides. The same has happened to
eur unhappy race in every age and every
ciius. Shall we ueet our tribulations like
men and Cbristians, or whine like epoiled
.b'd.en tecauec al All wise Father con-
menis 10 oar lips the sa,ne bitter chaliee which
car noihren nave drank in sil generations
10 speak Of no other nation, England alone,
our mother country, hseides her various civil
eopydlsous and ware with other empires, has
had, within period of ssvon hundred years,
ire iundre3 and stxty -szG1oe0rs IF desoiatang
srar with France. Some Of these wars lasted
twenty, thirty, forty, and one over fifty, years
The slts Of tho Continental nations has been
even worse Was the Western Hemisphere
part and parcel Of Heaven, that We wersto
expect il 1t perpe:uai peace IT is not enough
10 eIaifrste feosn Europe to America TO escspe
war, il order TO accomplish that, laan must
smgra;e from himself
Tie Wars OF the Roses 10 England, "a.s
cut, ae ihs London Tunes Expresses it, "the
heart or a century" The Reformation found
tslligersnt employment for q whole genera
.on. The Civil War, from the raising Of the
standard at Nottingham to the final reduction
If Scotland and ireland, lsstsd ten years. 1t
matters moi what the form Of aovsfnment-
whether detpeiism, constitutional monarchy,
cr ,epublicanism the earth hae no covert or
sLelter fsom war, except the grave. There
alone 'ihe wicked cease from troubling and
The weary ara al reet'
Tie American Uaiopists wonlI bald up
Ia a colossal Union another Tower of Babel
against ~ fich the floods and storms Of War
should bea. in vain, Idle, impractieabls en-
,erFrise God hsa but to utter his voice, and
there is desperation of the tribes, leaving a
Aalf finished monument to attest the weakness
aud The misery Of man. The very magnitude
ot-lhe project WAS the source of it's failure
For, as hss been already shown In this paper,
1t Is impossible to hold together immense ter
slteiies having conflicting sectional and 80
e'a Interests sad feelings and inhabited Ly
iopaous and civilized communities, by any
iieAns shcfi Of dssro,ic force. Unless the
people become ss degeaerats ae the cohssive
power is dsspotie, rssataucs and dsintegration
are inevitable. Tie Old World is fall OF IL
astfs'iona Of the fact, and the history Of the
oid World is ROW repeating itself in the New.
in whatever light, therefore, we look at il,
We matt ieysrentiy recognize the hand OF
Providence. We must Rubmit to this inhiction
as We DO to Plague and PestiIence, which, in
oas respec,,at lighter evils, because they can
not Dc resisted. Bat this invasion, cruel and
bloody AS ii is, we may rob Of its crowning
agony, our subjugstion, If we but meet il in
the spirit of men and Chrietians. Let Us learn
TO prefer death TO degradation, and We shall
convert au inevitable evil into the source Of
security and happinera to ourselves aud our
posterity.
The Yankees ut Fortress MenFoe.