The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-27

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PrI1sKr. March 18Th, 1863
A iOvelier. day never smiled upon sbe world
Purhr skies. speeter air we're not among the
enjoy nents or the blessed pair for whom the
infant world vas made paradise Every
face We meet has lOst something Il its SON.
bre hue; re scarce thirk. housver. IL il Al
tributable 10
-rhs bridsl Ct he sarsh and sky.7
but to the faint light which glimms.s from he
West and upon ~hieh sll eyes are anziousl,
and Eneryousy turned as tie joyful herald OF
Peace peace o. OF all rords ever syla-
bled by mortal lips The most blessed is
Peace.l Yet marx you. this light from Prai-
Ireland is but the ignis iatuus-the Delilah
to lqII u 10 a fatal sieeP-tle dead sea frni',
Ito turn to ashes upon the Iip"
Would that our people ~ould rely solel,
upon their brave hearts. their well-nlanaged
artillery. their strong arms and tie vel d.
rected TRUSTS OF their bayorefs. TO restore rs
that peace we ardently desire for our
bleeding land Surely our terrible wrongs
are sufficient 10 nerve one and sfrei gshsn
The other. But strange and painful to say,
there Is ''class Of abls-k,odie skuIkrrsTl
wearing the semblance Of men. WHO have
lodged from the battlefield under various
PreiensiOns. The scorn Of woman and the
conts mpt Of gray haired. men have not been
able 70 drive these corardly submissionists
10 6ght for their 6resides. AZ long as they
can thrive upon the niseries Of the people.
and shield'their worthless lives from The en-
emy's bullets. they are lost to shame.
Wi nothing but their burning homes. aud
dark oppression with all its train Of horrors
arouse them from their false position. and
teach them that to die for their country j.
the highest duty mankind owes to this
worgdt"
The Northwest is not eia'noring because
she loves the South. Is not her hand cory
with the blood Of our brothers. Have not
her pns desolated our homes, Have they
not stolen our property, Have fhey not
crinsomed and Mustered with tears Of humii
iaiion the cha<ks Of our defeDceless women
Have they not aided In imprisonng our hon
orabfe cifizens. with the worst of criminals
in jails alive With vermin. on the testimony
Of negro, Sill they cry for "a Union Of
hearts and hands !" lis the a1nion q purse
they desire 10 aid in the Hquidatiop Of their
war-t1r- Let US not be too hasfy 70 sop in
the same disk with these Judases-ws might
hold commercial intercourse viii then. moth.
ing more
And in the establishment Of = Peace. let ID
be honorable to our heroic dead. and 10 the
noble survivors Let lie foundations be made
as strong as the Rock Of Gibraltar. that the
rising generations may avoid the cronn Of
thOrns that now presses our brow
Oh if the past two years with its agon.
king memories could be swept away by the
waters of Lethe Could our loved dead who
baptized their patriotism in their blood and
those whose fiery hearts were eztin,yuished"
by disease in presidential hospitals. the Ioa,h
some BastiIes. aud upon the weary march. be
restored to their cherries hearths-fle aged
father, the heart broken mother. the weeping
sister, the moaning wife made happy had
they (the West) not been the chief iusirn-
menls in the hands Of tyrant to work this
woe and ruin. then conld we give them tie
hand Of brotherly Lowell But lis done And
the traveller in after years who threads the
Sunny South will be startled BY the siupen
dous slaughter fields like those which blscken
every CLINE il Europe. Yet our people, we
thank God. have not fought for plumber and
the achievement OF free peopIe-but for the
precious boon Of LrBEETr. and for the de-
fence Of cur Gresides from the unprincipled
foe- May the God of battles. who guides and
controls the desiinies Of nations, crown our
arms with victories upon every field. and
save our beloved country from poverty an
slavery. DI. yERsoS