Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-10


hearts believe in the Now; all brave, noble
work strives to accomplish itself in the pres
ent hour, DeliVerers, defenders, heUes, do
not look hack fer the Golden Age" their
paradise does rot lie in the dead past, and no
idle talk canes from their lips about the
''Geod Old Time; neither do they lock for
ward for millennium, showing present duty
in dreams Of the Future. They say "Nor is
the time fer us, the accepted time Is to-day,
and their faithful, noble work makes the gar
den OF to-day" 4 paradise, makes crooked
paths straight, and rough places smooth for
humanitys onward march They seize the
flaming sword to burn zap all evil, and they
make To-day white IN the divine fire of
Truth and Justice.
The true leader, with ardent, 6ery soul
gathers up the indolent, the slayisil, the UNI
grateful, and drives them before him on the
whirlsEind of his riEg! T4sere are no obsta-
eles in the path Of such man. Hebends the
istubbOrnness or foolishness Of rulers to his
purposes. He asks for no meaRs of transport
for his armies; 4Is oTn great genius finds OF
makes them. He stretches out his hand over
the sea and it gives liam passage; his picket
guards are like clouds and fire between him
and the enemy clouds, coRcealing his
movements and plans from the opposing
army--tire, revealing to his quick intelligence
every purpose OF theirs. He is a man tor
emergencies; when lns men cry for bread his
resource finds it for them as though showered
from heaven; if they are suffering for water
he will wiring it from the rocks but they shall
be supplied; and if they murmur for meat, it
steams before them plentiful as if quails dark
ened the air in their flying. Such man goes
not back tor orders, he trusts in each days
inspiration, and finds himself sufficient for the
evil Of each day.
Such general is worth having, equal to
all accidents, creating helps out of him
ORANGES, forcing obstacles 10 minister to his
plans, confident in his own genius and re-
source Of course he wins! OF course he
stands at last at the head OF splendid and
powerful nation! Failure is not the fault of
the times, but the maii. The Red sea bottom
was not SO muddy but Moses found way to
get through it; the desert was not so dry that
he could not provide means to overcome it.
@'NOw" is always the time when the right man
comes. In summer or winter, in spring rains
or autumn nuds, his decision is ever "Nown
the Present is the accepted time. Men may
grovel, stuck in the slime of yesterday or to-
that IS be th Tine i df item 10 Be 20 SIRE IRE
ward.
The people of Europe have lain in the
drugged sleep of despotism, but SO often as
this word ''Now' has been embodied among
them, SO often have they awakened and
struggled to bring higher life into their
"To day"
Have We founded your thrones and affairs then
On tue souls and bodies of living men!"
Thrones and affairs SO founded crumble in the
hour Of that uprising, and are broken into
glittering fragments by the great upheaval,
and swallowed in the yawning waves of Des-
tiny, and leave only some faint trace in the
rock of the Past. like fossil weed or shell, for
History to ponder over. England has heard
this ''Now!" sounding through all her CEN
turtles. The barons said it when King John
was driven to the wall, and they wrung
from him ~ Magma Charta,7 the palladium
of English liberty. "Now! - cried Elizabeth
when the Spanish Armada swept toward her
white cliffs; and the arm of the greatest
slave-master in the world, the Spanish Philip,
fall no aixrZaI hat
Snow :" sang Cromwell and his legions. and
the breath Of their battle hymn blew away
utterly the gilded bauble of a throne
l'Now!" said Clarkeson and Wilberforce;
of England's slaves. After centuries of hor-
rible oppression and sin, this cry arose in
France in terrible voices, as from the under
world, and so mighty was the upheaval, that
France has swung, pendulum-like, ever since,
from despotism to license and from license
back TO despotism again, and generations
must pass yet, before it finds its poise in the
atmosphere of purity and peace. "Now :"
burst from the flaming heart of Kossutb, as
he saw his beloved Hungary ground to pow
der beneath the mill stone Of Austrian op-
preston, and though he seemed to fail, we
know that failure often ushers in the most
complete and splendid triumph. So spoke
Garibaldi to Italy, and Italy is to day work.
ing out her salvation. And in Russia. in
spite OF all opposition, the Emperor Alexan-
der has said the word, and forty millions of
serfs have become forty millions of men.
And this inspiring ''Now y is at last spoken
in the midst of the blood and carnage of our
own land; it is shouted on the war blast: it is
murmured where trampled heaps of dead lie
in their blood on well-fought battle fields; it
is whispered in hospitals. where the soldier,
parched with fever or mutilated with wounds,
goes to the home where there shall be no
more pain. CHOW 1T has prompted thou
sands to noble work, to noble sacrifice; it has
moved hundreds of thousands to go out with
their lives in their hands; and shall there be
disappointment in this "Now"? Shall the fu-
ture darken down, and swallow up the light
of to-day?- We will trust the heart of the
people to say 'No!" We will trust them to
echo the presidents word and usher in ''now"
the day OF our salvation. The melting away
of the rebel armies is saying to us that joyful
word; our own armies, with Gilmore With
ROsecrans, with Banks, are thunderipo il =,
our ears: the exodus of the freedmen rro
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