, 1863-08-01
SATURDAY, AUGUST I. 1868.


LET rs PEkATl;
Wo suppose that men and angels laugh
in uearcn. Reasoning from things human
and transient to things divine and eternal,
Heaven would not he the place OF enjoy
1ncut that the imaginationB Of men lore to
picture 1t, if the capahility Of Laughter
were destroyed It is not tmpious TO say
50. Gods mercy and blessings are what
make his creatures happy, and what is
laughter but the visible sign Of happiness
witlin2 We suppose, too, that men and
angels weep in Heaven. I'VE are taught
that the eternal is but continuation and
extension Of the temporal-that as men lie
down 80 they shall rise up-the Copper
heads and the rebels to the penalties that
thcF have earned, and, according to Par
son.C .Collycr, the patriotic and true, to their
reward
What men and angels will, when JEFF.
Davis proclamation IL announced, be most
disposed to do-laugh until the blue and
gcmmed vaults ring with echoes, OF weep
until their tears descend In showers upon
the unbc)ieriug earth-it is not for Us lay
men to say. We are not angelic enough
to conceive what the feelings Of angels
will be in view Of that most impious and
monstrous invocation of Heaven, its Mercy
and Justice, which the President Of the
man-selling Confederacy has put forth.
Nc can imagine the reception with which
the petition Of Il penitent son Of Earth
who had forgotten God In the commission
Of crime, would be heard by the infinite
patience and pity with which the hearts of
the elect and the redeemed are filed. But
the outc1y Of nation avowing 3 giant
wrong for its corner-stone-a wrong
which hopelessly curses four millions
Of men, which sells them into the
hardest Of bondage which uproots
The sacred relations Of the family, which
dooms them to ignorance and brutality,
which leaves their souls in all the peril
with which unconscious sin and enforced
brutality can environ them-the outcry Of
nation that has attempted the enforcing
Of this wrong by war, cause1ess, bloody
and protracted, waged with internal ma-
lignity and deyilish hate-tms outcry,
what shall men and angels say to its
Let US pray saith JEFF. to his Confed-
erates. In churches built by the toll whip
ped out ot unpaid men, the surpllcators
will gather ut his command; from Bibles
that have been purchased by the wages Of
infamy that women hare been compelled
by fear Of the lash or the branding-iron to
earn, the words Of Christ the Apostle Of
Human Equality and Of the first Christian
Democracy, will be rcad; In surpltces
bought by the sale Of little children torn
with mcrcilcss hardness Of grasp from
weeping mothers arms, men whose pay is
the price Of blood, Will haranguc other
men the crowning labor Of whose lives is the
effort to extend this business Of man-sell-
ing, woman-whipping, and child-stealing
these legaEzed outrages Of all the pre-
cepts that Heaven teaches or that good
men obse1ve-this aggregation, embodi~
ment and type Of all villa1nies- Into lands
where civilization and christianity hare
heretofore said that every man owns him
self, that every woman is the mistress Of
her own virtue, and that every child is its
mchers. Let US pray, saith Jef-pray
1hat The light OF the world-tlis sublime
cnunclation OF Gods truth that man is su-
rc1ior TO his accidents be put ont;
let Us pray that the doctrine Of human
equality may he uurooted and destroyed,
and that the other doctrine that the
strong may govern the weak-that capital
may own its labor-that the hopeless and
helpless may be enslayed, set up instead;
let us pray that the best Government
that Providence has yet vouchaafed
to man may be overthrown, and
thst tyranny may grow tlriftlly On
the rulns thereof: let lis pray that the do
minion Of slavery-American Slavery, that
most iuiqmtous Of all bondages that man
eyer invented to torment lis fclloWs-may
he extended all oyer this continent, and
that Freedom, with It's so-caIled blessings
to the millions may be forbidden in the
hearts and in the praetises Of men; let Us
pray for the incoming OF anarchy and tie
destruction Of order, for thevictory of those
whom anarchy has armed and the defeat and
death Of the armies tl1at civilization and
religion have put into tie field. for the re-
opening Of theAtrican slare trade and the
horrors Of the middlepaasagc, for the
widespreading Of Southern civilization,
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