Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-01-13

Suiily cduSc, VI DendlI Vi tnOSe VINO val
iently, conscientiously resist the unwar.
rantable assumptions and encroachments
of power. it may not only prove no curse,
but oy uprooting possibly, the very "an-
cient evil destroying the very "hoar
abuses" from which it may have itself
come forth. work out truly unspcakable
grandeur Of result
Is there any reasonable prospect that
our present experience is to furnish an
exception to this great general rule,-that
in our case as well as in others, may not
prove true that
Grim war
Oft dashes down in its resistless path
The hoar abuses that defy reform"
That this great internecine struggle in
which we are at present engaged. is des
tined. in the Providence of God to prove
disciplinary in its character, hence in the
end, decided national blessing, there
can, think, be no rational doubt. That
in this present contest our nation is actu-
ally undergoing-heaving with the throes
and cenvulsions of q mighty morGi trons-
.t1rmation, no one, it seems to me, in the
least acquainted with Gods methods
for accomplishing his bene6cent purposes
on behalf of the race in times past, can
for moment gainsay. Admit that there
is much seeming disaster and ruin, thai
our public affairs for these few years past
have beeu more or less involved in gloom.
What of all this? It's but the flying
dust, and the falling bricks the general
uploar and confusion about the as yet
unfinished edifce. When the "new
heavens and lew earth wherein dwelleth
righteousness are finally complete all
these disag greeable incidents will, Of course,
have passed away.
Nor are we already without foretasts of
the peaceable fruits that we have rea-
son to believe shall be born of this great
trbulation. Has it not at last served to
reveal to us our true friends abroad. and
our hitherto lurking but most malig.
uaDt foes at home--a by no means unim-
portant disclosure. Has it not, moreover,
dealt staggering, if not death-blow to
parleying temporizing compromising
with iniquity. and demonstrated that in
righteousness alone there is security a
lesson which it is to be earnestly hoped
may be long remembered and religiously
acted upon. Has it not lessened the tena-
cious grasp of the American on the AL
mighty dollar-made resurrection Of
his manhood and given US grand exam
pies of heroism that, like stars, light up
the galaxy of heaven, and which. like the
examples of Leonidas and the gallant
Switaer, shall inspire posterity and incite
to deeds of valor? Has 1t not, again,
implanted within US national self-re'
spcct, and developed national character,
naturaliziug, by compacting and render
ing homogeneous, as the value and necessi-
ty of "more perfect union" becomes
more and more apparent. what has hith-
erto been too much an unorganized med
LEY? Is it not elevating our thoughts
and conceptions Of duty; bidding us anew
remember the sacrifices and sutferings OF
our fathers, and by the side, not only Of
their green graves, but by the side Of
graves over which the grass has as yet
grown green,--of the young heroes who
have but just fallen. in this strife
pledge anew for freedom to live and die !
Is it not producing the wide spread and
deeply settled conviction. that the life Of
this nation Is standing Tor great truth
and that because of that truth for which
it stands, which permeates its organism
of which it may be said to be the express
organization. God will hold that life al
sacred. and, as such, maintain it? Is i
not disclosing the fact that the same pop
ular instinct which originally determine,
the form, and has ever since, in the main
determined the administration of thi
government. though opposed by an alie1
civilization. leading to civil war. is never
theless still working at the popular heart
and is destined to result yet in the amity
, harmony. organization and prosperity
the whole country? Nor have wo reaso
; to doubt that these very yoars,--thes