Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-09-26

s89@ From an able paper entitled "a
Month of Victory and Its Results" in the
Christian Examiner, we take the following
graphic paragraphs on the consequences OF
the Union success at Gettysburg:
| 1t is not easy fer us to realize, even now.
| the greatness and imminency of the peril
from which we were saved mt Gettysburr
by the Tepulac of Longstrcets column on
Friday afternoon, the Sd of July. TO meet
this crisis, or grand climactsric of the gi-
gantic struggle, several things concurred, as
If by special directing of a Higher Power,
turning what might have been the most
terrific disaster into glorious dcliverance
rapid marcn of n large army-estimated
at from to a hundred and twelve thousand
men-so skillfully ordered that the invading
host suddenly found itself confronted with
divisions that it supposed hundred and
fifty miles away; our rcpulse in the first
days conflict, which drove the army back
upon position where an attack became
necessary, and where defense was possible
to men hungry wcaried, and foot-sore with
the cXhausting march; the sagacity, skill,
and patience of the chief upon whom so
fearful responsibility had been thrust liter
ally without an hours notice; even the
accidental false rumor that exhileratcd the
men, and was echoed three hours long in
their eager shouts, that endorsements were
close at hand under the old commander of
the Army of the Potomac all these, but,
more than ALL their patience and wonderful
endurance under the unrelenting storm and
accumulated horrors of hattlc,-such that
IN one instance, the commander of a battery
continued to give his orders to the two
survivors of his command after one leg was
shattered, until he was struck fatally in the
breast, and the only live man left of that
company dashed among the advancing enc
my to recover the battery flag, which he
brought off saic,-this wonderful endurance,
resting on the conviction that on the hour
the destiny of the nation itself was staked
such is a brief summary of part of the
circumstances that brought about this crown
ing victory Of the war. 1t was a stronger
hand and higher wisdom than ours that
saved us on that Friday afternoon.
Saved us from what 2 We do not draw
on the doubtful future, or on the treacher-
Gus fancy, when we try to sketch what
seemed to many, till that hour, the probable
fortune of the day. The sketch is already
drawn for US in the eager anticipaticns of
the Rebel prints, boasttu before the fact
III the cool calculations of the event that
followed, from beyond the seas,-in the
hidc0ur story of out5ursts at the North,
which only needed the looked,for Rebel
victory to turn our great cities into horror
that OF Paris in the days of September or
the bl0odier days of June. Philadelphia,
rich and generous, held under foot by an
insolent soldicry, and plundcred to furnish
costs of the devastating war; insurrection,
so long manacled, at length bagrant and
defiant in the streets of Baltimore; terms of
subjugation and claims of recognition die
tated by the victorious army that should
stand ready to seize the capital, aud usurp
before the world the prestige of the fallen
Republic; foreign ministers already instruct
od To recognize whatever government might
be in actua, power at Washington a rcyo-
luton 10 sweep the North over with blood
and hIe, inaugurated 10y the fury of New
York mob in direct completely with the
invaders, and Issuing in mere anarchy and
misrule; while the aSsailing column in the
West should find, north of the Ohio, a con
spiracy widespread. stealthy, well armed
inscriptions, to force the country to take
refuge from tEe catastrophe in the despotsm
which was thought SO nearly triumphant
These are the results, not as coniurcd up by
any heated fancy Of ours, safely vindictive
after the event, but as confidently counted
on in Richmond, and coolly spcculated on
in London, by those to whom they seemed
so certain, that they should appear no way
impossible, hardly improbably, even now.
The noble patriotic sentiments announced
by one Of the highest literary authorities in
the capital of New England will assurcdly
find an echo in the hearts of the people.
and have already received practical il
lustration in the result of the recent cleo
tions