Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-05-14
cleared through the abomination Of our desola
tion highway for the Prince of Peace.

hearts. and not need to be borne up through it.
wish you to stimulate and not crave stimulus
from Others. wish you to be the CONSIDERS, the
encourages, the sustainers and not tremble In
perpetual need OF consolation and encourage
ment. When mems brains are knottd and their
brows corrugated with fearful looking for and
hearing OF financial crises, military disasters,
and any and every form of national calamity con-
sequent upon the war, come you out to meet
them. serene and smiling and unafraid. And let
your smile be no formal distortion of your lips,
but bright ray from the sunshine in your heart
Take not acquiescently, but joyfully, the spoil
ing of your goods. Not only look poverty in
the face with high disdaiR, but embrace it with
gladness and welcome. The loss Is but for mo-
ment the gain is for all time. Go farther than
this. Consecrate to a holy cause not only the
incidentals of life, but life itself Father, hus-
band. child do not say, Give them up to toll,
exposure, suffering, death, without murmer -
that implies reluctance. l rather say, Urge them
to the offering fill them with sacred fury fire
them with irresistible desire; strengthen them to
heroic will Look not on details, the present,
the trivial the feeting aspects of our conflict,
but Fix your ardent gaze on its eternal side. Be
not resigned, but rejoicing. Be spontaneous and
that you are reckoned worthy to suferin grand
and righteous cause. Give thanks eyermore that
you were born in this time and because 1t is
dark, be you the light of the world,
And follow the soldier to the battlefield with
your spirit. The great army OF letters that
marches Southwark with every morning sun is
powerful engine of war. Fill them with tears
and sighs, lament separation and suffering, dwell
on your loneliness and fears mourn over the dis
honesty Of contractors and the incompetency of
leaders, doubt if the South will ever be conquer
ed, and foresee financial ruin, and you will damp
the powder and dull the swords that ought to
deal death upon the foe. Write as tenderly as
you will. In camp, the roughest man idealizes
his far-of home, and every word of love upifts
him to a lover But let your tenderness unfold
its sunny side, and keep the shadows for His
pity who knows the end from the beginning, and
whom no fOreboding can dishearten. Glory in
your tribuations Show your soldier that his
unfinehing courage, his undying fortitude, are
your crown of rejoicing. lncite him to enthusi-
asm by your inspiration. Make a mock of your
discomforts. BE unwearying in details of the lit
tie interests of home. Fill your letters with kit
tens and canaries with baby's shoes, and John
ny's sled, and the old cloak which you have turn.
ed into handsome'gown. Keep him posted in
all the village gossip, the lectures the cOurtings,
the sleighrides, and the singing-schools. Bring
out the good points OF the world in strong relief
Tell every sweet and brave and pleasant and fun
ny story you can think of. Show him that you
clearly apprehend that all this warfare means
peace, and that a dastardly peace would pave the
way for speedy, incesssnt and appalling warfare.
Help him to bear his burdens by showing him
now elastic you are under yours. Bearten him.
enliven him, tone him up to the true hero-pitch.
Hush your plaintive Miserere, accept the nations
pain for penance, and commission every North
ern breeze to bear Te Deum laudamus.
Under God, the only question, as to whether
this war shall be conducted to q shameful or an
honorable close, is not of men or money or mate
rial resource In these our superiority is unques-
toned. As Wellington phrased ii, there is hard
pounding but we Shall pound the longest, If
only our hearts do not fail us. Women need not
beat their pewter spoons into bullets, for there
are plenty of bullets without them. 1t ia not
whether our soldiers shall fght a good fpht :
they have PLAYED the man on a hundred battle
fields 1t is not whether officers are or are not COM
petent have blundered nations into victory
since the world bepan. II is whether this peo
ple shall have virtue to endure to the end to en-
dure, not starving, not cold but the panps Of
hone deferred of fdisanpointment and uncertain
ty, of commerce deranged and outward prosperity
checked. Will our vigilance to detect treachefy
and our nerseverance m nunish If hold out9 II
M we stand Arm we shall besaved ] thonob $50 60 90 by
fire, If we do not we shall fall, and Shall rich.
ly deserve to fall and NAV God sweep us off
from the face of the earth and plant in our stead
nation with the hearts of men and not of chick
ems E -. h =,
o women, stand here in the breach. here
Won ma s,and nowerfnl. invincihIe | had almost
said OmniDOtent Rise now to fhe heiuhtg of a
sublime conraoe for the hour has need of Won
When the first hall suote the rocky sides of sum.
ter the rebound thrilled from shore to shore and
walked the slumberinr hero in every human soul
Then we felt in onr veins the nuIee of irnmnorfal
youth. Then ali the cbiyalrv of the ancient
davs. all the heroism, ali the self sacrifice that
sbaned itself into noble living came bact to ne
nonred over us. swent owav the dross of selfish.
ness and deception and pettv schemng and pat.
riotism rose from the swellino wave Stately 40 n
goddess. patriotism. that had beeu to us hpt
dingy and mean,ngless antionitv' took on a
new form a new mien a conntananca div;ne,v
fair and forever vonng and receiyed, onca rnore
the HOMAGE of oIr hearts Was tbat childish
outbulst Of excitement. or the glow of an aroused
nrincinle9 Was II \ nuerile an ger or a manly
INDIGNATION Did we snring nm Startled nigmies
or girded giants If the former. let us veil our
faces, and march swiftly Iand silently 10 rner.
cful forgetfulness. II tho latter. shall we not
Law aside every WEIGHT. and this besettino sin Of
despondency, and run with patience the race set
before ms?