Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-02-24

= ating is all we can d." Fighting is only
q part Of what ought do and can do. 1t is OBJ
lged 10 e done, but if it ends except in sub
jugat;on and sxtsrmination, something else has to
lie due. What is ita =" When mems ways
please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be
rpeace with him." From this you can at once infer
my answer to that interragatory. Has our course
Of living pleased the Lord Of Hosts? Our people
nave heen and are now exceeding sinful We have
hated cur enemy most intensely; We have looked
to tho foreign powers of the world to bring US de-
ivcrancc VIC lave relied too much on our own ply
seal strength appliances of war and the dashing
chivn'ry of our soldiery our people have not been
jackson Christians" not to myself but to God be-
longs the glory Of that day, was his response to
the great Lee when be was magnanilnously con-
graduated by the latter upon the achievement of
the spieniidvictorY of Charlottesville. The source,
to Which jackson looked, ia tbe one whence to
expect victory and independence, He humbed
himself before the throne of Mercy, confessed his
sins, kept his Christian as we'll as his martial armor
bright, gave all the glory to God and bowed lowly
10 thank fitness and gratitude to Hn,Fna. what
our people have got to do before they get peace no
matter how long or valiantly they Gght "Love
your enemies" is the injunction Of Christ and yet
our people do notso much as think, in some, fear,
in many instances, that it is enough not to hate,
which wrong, but actually cherish ard boast not
unfrequenty, of the lveliest hatvcd for our common
foe. That is not right Who can look in the Holy
Bible and say it Isl 1.-THE good man." says the
Rev. Dir. Wiley in the same work. twill not fail,
when acting according to his Christian instincts to
denounce sin; but not euen the Archangel Gabriel
dares TO denounce the offender before God" Ponder
that awful thought, but true awful? The enemy 8
aggressive war upon US is wicked-his merciless
and brutal vandalism Is without parallel in history
All that ab minable wickedness aud savage cruelty
you may. ought, to condemn, loathe abhor; but
hard as it may be, "love your enemies "-regard
them s,itA compassion and benevolence -" bless
them that curse you return good cishes and Kind
cords to their curses aad rsril;ngs: "do good to
them that hate "--retarn 6snetcent actions to
their injuries; and "piay for them which despite
FULLY use you and persecnte you "-implore Heacen
for their eonre'sion and best good erea ,ehcn OPP
pressed, prosecuted and tortured by them. The ex.
tension Of the thought in each of these four phrases
is the Impressive language OF the Rev. Thomas Scott
Pursue this course, and it will avert the dspleasure
Of Heaven, turn back the invaders. and secure peace
undergraduates and national happiness
"1et forty days. aud Nineveh shall be over.
thrown" was the cry Of the Lord from the lips of
Jonah as he passed through the streets of that ex
ceeding great city. That people believed God :;
both laan and beast were covered with sackcloth
and tasted; they "cried nightly unto God" and
He saw their works, that they turned from their
evil way; and God repented of the evil that be had
SAID that he would do unto them; and he did it
not That was not Northern Army that He
turned back no. it was His own hot dspleasure
ard threatening wrath. Let our people, then, have
faith, like the Ninevltes; let them aLase themselves
sincerely aud believingy, like they did and we
need have no fear Of the marsballed hosts of the
North. That city, too was saved in less than FORTH
&'ys How lons then, needs this war continue. If
our people wopld only mend their ways and turn
IRON the violence in their hands? "Fervent effec.
tua prayer is mightier than the sword in the punv
nano OF man,-ait, strong and sincere is ten thou.
Eand fold more powerful than hate fierce as ten
turics" and all the most dreadful missiles of war.
lie saved the Ninevites in less Mas forty DAYS. and
yet we have been fighting three years, and kaouinq
soTedtsags say VIC must fight another, and the will
OF Tue national Executive must be the will of the
subjects.
Never can the people submit themselves to
nome despotism. They are Anglo Americans
Their blood is pure and noble, and the Hottest spirit
oil freedom thrills their hearts. Their Constitution
ana declarations of rights to them certain in.
silenaeis privileges and among them that of peace
aole conference, free interchange of views on all
qaest'ons OF governmental policy, and the right to
instruct their representatives.. While they are ex-
pressing their loyalty to the cause of the South.
te5 dare tell the servants whom they have chosen,
taat they are honestly and decidedly opposed to
the suspension Of the great Writ of Right from the
exercise OF which no conceivable harm can arise but
oy Inc denial OF which angelic innocence itself might
% orutai'y wrongcd; that they Can never consent
that any iran, however mighty in intellect, exalted
IN PATRIOTISM or iIlustrious l., craftsmanship, shall
ever be their DICTATOR and that they most heartily
oesire that an effort in the best possible way shall
De mace 10 secure peace and Independence without
another ont pouring of blood. PREJUDICE not the
people who are for such course impuen not their
motives, misintepret not their designs. manufacture
no aise character for such assemblages "do JUSTIFY
to every one everywhere and at all times "loye
mercy, and let our public journalists, instead of
denouncing and inaligning them, take up the elo.
quent language OF our own honored Graham: "Our
people are resolved to be independent and free not
only IN the end but in the msans. They are resell
vea not only to be freemen at the termination of
TINS Contest but will not surrender their liberties
during its progress. Nor will they be satisfied with
the himsy preexts and excuses for the sacrifice of
sacred principle, that it can do no harm except to
tra;tors They intend that even traitors shall not
oe condemned exceptin accordance with those great
principles OF right and justice which are of univer.
sal application. For they know full we'll that it is
upon the persons Of friendless or odious men that
despo'isn, whether Of single tyrant or mob, first
lays It's hands,; and that vigilance is more necessa
peril and revolution, then in peace" And why !
cannot peace and independence be secured earlier
than in one year? God can give us National
Convention of both governments, if our people only
repent and sincerely and rightly ask for it, and He
can. give US the victory in the council chamber
where is only clasaing of minds and not of steel,
as easily, and, would as honestly believe more
willingly, than He will on the field of gore and
death. ami yet we cannot get peace as some think
until another campaign has passed. He can give
US peace and independence NOW as well as quarter
Of century hence and yet some talk as if His arm
is not strong enough to deliver US. But if we ex-
pect tive must use the means,-rspentance and
well as manfully and heroically |
confront our enemy in his attempts at invasion, con.
quest and determination. Blu: negotiation, we are
told, has been attempted. How? At the very out. |
Set OF the secession movement and before our State
went out of the Federal Union Pres Davis sent com,
mlssioners to Washington to sue for an acknowl- |
pdgement of the independence CT the seeded States
Nothing was accomplished, because they had not
turned from their evil, and lie, therefore, repent
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