Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-15

centrifugal az we'll the csntnpsts force For the Gov
ernmen to lay down now an absolute rule to be applied
in possible contingency to all States alike, without
card TO their ish system by
which every State shall be merely national territory until
slavery shall have ceased emancipation begun In it,
seems to my poor judgment TO be needless and danger
For one fellow ctxsns should not like TO be the man
TO meet the SCARED and impoverished loyal martyrs and
OF Tennessee when they have rescued their
State with every prospect Of emancipation soon, and TO
close the door sganst Them and for no other assgnabo
reason than because they did not square with system
New England. Gov. johnson might say: "Not receive
US then what and where are Wet Whose enemies are
We Whose subjects Z" No sir, the heart OF the
country the sense Of the country would REVOLT from ,uor
or make new war-and for WHAT !,
would not dogmatse negatively, any more than would
have others dogmatise afrmatvey When the case: OF
reclaimed Safes loyal and ready for all service shall
we must bs free TO meet each the eternal rules OF
right and justice and convictions OF what competent
to the Government and OF an enlarged public policy looks
ing before and after, shall require.
Many ssy-snd it 10 allurng cry-let ~ have high
and holy for Let not fight for the sell
fish and gnobe OF the integrity Of the empire, the
Constitution the laws; let fight for christianity and
civilization. This cannot must mot b. Our Saviour says
that his kingdom 10 not to be enforced by the sword The
magistrate may bear the sword the missionary most not
use Of violence and the shedding Il blood for It. propaEa
tim. We must c0nfne the OF violence TO lower OBJ
jeots Truth is not Unsuitable cause Of war; either in
doctrine or 10 INSTITUTIONS Whdt snail we MAKO Wat 70
land cargo and not TO spread truth christian
and free institutions, to abolish the mosque, the harem
and the slave msrket tits Wars for truth are
for opinion. Wars Of opinion are Of all wars the
most easy TO excite for their always present and
when begun the most anatica the most bloody and the
most ntermnable They scarcely admit Of adjustment
protest. therefore, with all my heart and might against
oil attempts to commit this Government to any system or
dogma, however high holy it's purI which we must
fight for take the risk of being obliged TO light for
protest against them because they tend to divide loyal
pie, break the march of columns to put stumbling
blocks n the way of those who ready to sustain the
Government in the suppression Of the rebellion by force Of
protest against them because they lead to the
growth and supremacy of an armed anaticsm, militant
metaphysics of opinion, instead Of armed mags
tracy for selfdefence and all the moro dangerous
for the very that the ultimate purpose high and
holy.
Our duty to the country 10, in my Judgment TO have
short and simple creed That creed 10 to stand BY the
Administration in prosecuting this to the final exnc
ton Of the rebellion and to make political concessions
to rebels in On this unite the peOple-al
WARRIOR the people do not believe and cannot be made to
believe that their liberties are 10 danger The questions
of modes and and final settlement, and the doc
trnes which they rest should be matter OF reelection
and study-o extent Of public discussion, but not
made in advance conditions Of loyal operations, and
10 their public discussion az well prudence
and self restraint Our duty to others to do that which
in most solemn applications ask may be done for
uto strengthen those who stand to comfort and help
the weak hearted to raise up those who fall in the hope
that thus at last Satan may be beaten down under
feet While the lasts let have, it be possible,
one heart, one voice, and one hand