Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-04-07

From Davis to NailandIgham,
They all shall rue their treason yet.
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CHRONICLE.
A late writer in the Philad Press, as a
means Of turning away Gods wrath from
this nation, proposes "that the people
unite in prayer to Him with earnestness
and faith, that grace may be granted them,
that peace and prosperity may be restored
to our nation, in the way best pleasing in
His divine sight, aud that the Holy Spirit
may be poured out upon the souls of all
the inhabitants of this country" So far
30 good. A blunderbuss, we'll loaded, fired
at humanity in general, the contents of
which, by mere accident, hits any one.
1t seems strange to the uninitiated that
mems minds are SO obiuse in seeing the
true point in issue.
The command, the promise, the threat
ening, and the re-promisc, to the Hebrew
nation, through their law-giver, Moses,
was, do thus and so, aud We shall prosper /;
81 will be your Gcd, and ye shall be mS
people. Depart from my statutes, leave
of worshiping the true God, and 60 wOr
shipping the idol gods Of the nations, and
1 will bring calamities upon you, and scat.
ter you to the ends of the earth. But,
after oil this, if you will repent Of your
sins, aud return unto me, will return
unto you all the blessings you have for
feited by your sins"
BY the good providence Of our God, we
ss nation we're brought ou. Of the land
Of British bondage, and placed in land
flowing with milk aud honey-(as of old,
the heather nations gradually melted away
as We expauded)-although not by the
real declarations of Moses, yet by that
of the divine mission of truth" which
are in essence the same thing; we lad the
same alternatives placed before US, with
the same promises and tbreatenings. We,
as a nation, through the instrumentality
Of class of men called Shareholders, (in
Scripture language called men-stealers,) }
aided by the moral Cor rather immoraD
force of Northern sentiment, for many
years past have been worshiping idol gods,
in the EQUALIZATION of some four millions
of human beings, uniting them for hap
piness and usefulness in this life, and pos
sibly in the life to come. We have thus
become an unrighteous nation," which
Is an abomination to the Lord. As He
did, through the preaching Of "Cbristiaus"
to the Jews, for some seventy years before
the destruction of their city and nation,
He has been uttering his "still, small
voice." through the preaching OF Christian
"Abolitionis,s," (also term of reproach)
from the days Of our Franklin till the
year 1861. Blinded by an uuholy inter-
est in the muck-rake," We needed not
the appeals Of the "divine mission Of
truth" disregardiug the persuasiOns Of the
still, small voice, Gods favorite means Of
drawing sinners to him. He has sent upon
rs the terrors of His wrath His ulterior
means) in the shape Of civil war, to COM
pei us (having failed to pcrsuade) to repent
of our great national sin, and destroy the
molten god that We, Jereboam-like, erec-
ted for our worship.
1 would, then, (beiug quite as presump-
tuous as the man Of the Press,) propose
that we, as nation and people, (clergy
and laity) clOthc ourselves in sackcloth
and ashes, repent Of our great national
sin, as well as all other sins, Of which God
knows we have an abundance; and not
only this, as repentance without works is
y,lueless. Let US cease brutalizipg human
beings, by Withdrawing our influence and
sympathies from those who actually prac-
tice il, and throw the weight Of our ipau.
epce iu with the Government, and the de.
struction Of our idol will be just as certain
as tho destruction by Asa Of the gods Of
his fathers.
If We thus repent, turn unto the Lord,
and become q righteous nation, just as
sure Is Gods word is true, He will return
unto us, restore peace and prosperity to
our land, establish the right and put down
the wrong and We shall be a more prosper
ous nation than ever, simply because shall
be . righteous nation. If VIC do not re-
pent, but persist in fighting to rc-establish
our Government with the viper 10 its bo-
som, then, Just as sure as Gods threaten
Jugs are sure to be executed, we can now
piaiuly see our future as . nation, in tho
iremouito.y example Of Gods ancient