The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-07-28

Scotland had no poet so sweet il
song, and yet SO terrible in satire, AZ
Robert Burns. One little verse of his
we wish to adopt for text, and il is sc
well know that, as we quote it, there il
no need to shock the modern pfoprie
ties by giving the namo Of the poem
in which it occurs .. ...-.t
30, wad some powr the giltie gio US, -.
To sec oursels as ithors sec us
Ifwad frae monte blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress an gait wad lea'e US,
.s.. And zen doyotionl" ....
We Scccsh are habitually amused al
the shifts and lodges to which our en-.
envy resort, to keep up appearances
and to cover disaster or disappointment
But do we never initiate the schoolboy
who "whistles to keep his courage up
as he passes through the grave yard {
Do VIC never illustrate the wisdom OF
that desert bird, which hides its head
in the sand, and thinks itself hid2
The "on to Richmond" of the enemy
has become a by-word for children,
and we long ago learned to laugh at
the thirty, sixty and ninety days in
which the rebellion WAS to be "crush-
cd out. " Va. ID. ...g u.'I I..,a ara1r
We have feltpity for tho people who
could feel glad at an advance on Rich
mond, which appears to havo cost some
two thousand men for every mile they
gained and contempt for the Govern
ment which would forge our State pa
pers in a clumsy way, for the purpose
of making themselves temporarily sue
ccssful, and finally infamous before the
eyes of foreign powers. 't.r a.. n
Seeing these things letusavoid them
ever with the question before US
How do we look before the world p
Not forgetting another equally impor-
tant question, one which is vital to our
success, as it involves our self-conf-
dence--How do we look to ourselves ?
What we wish to urge is simply the
moral of the old proverb, "Lot not
him that putteth on his armor, boast
himself as him that putteth it off"
Often have our people been deceived
by false and delusive hopes, gotten up
with the best intention IN the world,
by those who think they help our
cause by proclaiming victory amid the
thickest of peril. Or when we are re-
ally and seriously harmed, they by
brave words attempt to "heal shghtly,
the hurt of the daughter OF Zion. -
God help them to have more judg-
ment, for they surely do not rcaIizc
the sickoning sense OF utter despair,
the utter crushing OF bright dream
flowers, which is the inevitable result
of those believed in prophesies OF sure
success, when followed by inevitable
disaster.
The magnificent army ofShcrman,
has, without loss and without battle,
forced back one of our best armies,
under iaVorite ueherai ana II nc nc
had only intended a rnlu, the destruc1
ton OF tho vast agricultural interest OIL
the grTalnery OF our STATE, Is y loss we we
are III prepared 70 endure; Tl anu Io!"'iy
mPreP}areu 10 reVrlGVe, , = my , oEli -,
hrst, inc WI,huTaWll from Il, iliarheV ..f vi Vi
inc essentlai loou secohu' Ciic increase ''''
or popuiatloh caused 1y refugees
Whlch makes an increased uen'",u 1,, ol
the producing caPacicy ol inc 0t"tc !;
thlEd, inc increased re prices Wilich .I .enu w
to depreclate the currency Whlrh .lI Gun
no not pear ahothcr oho-thlrurePuH1"'.on, l.
linen il IL oc i'icio . Un'' !" is'u, si,;ehn ""'
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,o ,oi,h T'i y tIonta ",v nmd tbo %rc3t ro;l
'nu oa Intn i4,natS mv ,oIrod T % IN 4Eo foto on
Lo.t1n o.u ,to tInt eSsb S5 or,on NOV ~ NAV NOT
paiV'o .i'a' '!no ,'no' - , tn,i o'; ,,oo,,ic thot
th tlsN 10 ~ VS. ~ oMr , ST. Stotp I bnt ~
one at,,,;d ,1 II,V hInndo,o oF Tho cnon,19 ~ :,
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Just eight hours before inc. Dat'le leo OF
Baker Greek, a Goneral hlgn IN CON. .3 !.
mand, toid a ndy N , our nc.ring' ..,lg' INA sll'a'
the crossing Oh inc MiSsisS'Ppl W uep;
Grant placed nm at our mercy aAa I
that the only thlng 70 lear Was thnpC pI
he would take the alarm ana ana escape
to his gunbo3mts before e we coula ., maze Iaaa,'
'he aIVaGN' lWcnty -ioul i'oIi ? .";oi
our broken columns were hurrymg
along the same road IN rGtreaC,' ana
the lady who had believed InG uonora'' re n ',.
oo!'u M Ms 9"tS 80 e',ot SorrIioa
rel That General was not ha"'ou
Penn mDCrtOn, or ,..r