The Grand Haven news., 1864-12-21

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tration party, its remarkable blood thirst
iness issomething remsrksble. Old Blue
Light Fcderalists, who, in 1912, opposed
the war with England ss unjust and iui-
quitous, and gave whatever influence they
possessed to condemn it. are noa fierce
trumpeters for civil strife, ssdssdvocates
Of war to tho knife against those that
formerly il was considered q pride to call
our countrymeu.a t 90 s3
Old Line Wings, who, in ls46, de-
nounced the war with Mexico as pro-
slavery scheme, an unholy, God-defying
crusade against a weaker Republic, and
besought Mexicaus 10 welcome our army
with bloody hands to hospitable graves
are now clamoring for slaughter as though
they had been born in the shambles. 4
Members of pence societies, who q few
years ago, throUgh press andpulpit, thun-
dered their anathemas against all wars,
defensive and offensive, as contrary 70
Divine commands and Christian spirit,
and urged the immediate conversion Of
swords into plough-shares, and spears in-
to pruning-hooks, are now tho most ar
dent yotaries of the God Of War, and
have conceived a sudden affection for
grape, canister, and Dahlgreen gnns--an
admiration that is marvellous and quite re-
frcshing to behold. ll la
Consistent members of the Church,
who, little while ago, like Uncle Toby,
would not have harmed buzzing fly,
who listen with proper devotion, Sabbath
after Sabbath, to the ambassadors Of Him
whose coming was announced by the an
gels song: ." Peace. on earth and good
will toward men, who bade Peter PIT up
the sword drawnin self-defense, and said,
BLESSED are the peace-makers, for they
shall be called theschildren Of God," even
these people, the very salt of the earth,
the richest cream from the milk Of human
kindness, now breathe out threatenings
and scream for fresh heaps Of slain.
Men who, 10 their own proper persons,
would receive a cowhiding with perfect
equanimity, kick as a fundamental COM
pliment, and if smitten on one cheek,
would proceed to offer the other, have ap-
parentIy been bitten by some military
tarantula, and are now for war to the
bitter end without compromise, without
negotiation, and until every slave shall be
set free. !,
Fair ladies, too, who would shrink at
the sight of spider, and faipt in the
presence Of hostile mouse-dear daugh-
ters Of Eve, whose only artillery should
be bright smiles--whose only warfare the
roses Of York and Lancaster, fighting for
mastery on cheek and brow--thsse also,
have thrown their gloves and SCISSORS in-
20 the scale, forgetting the service OF Ye-
nus in the charms Of Mars, and join in the
f|ff.. = I
chorus, shouting, like the Roman multi
tude, -Delenda est Carbsagoi r
We hope these people will be consis-
tent. The most Of them have been con-
tent to initiate the war horse of Job, and
smell the battle afar off! We pray them
to reform in this respect; and having COM
mended steel and gunpowder as papa-
cea for our national ills, that they now
proceed to swallow their own medicine.
Let them, when drafted, not buy poor
African to stop bullets in their stead, but,
cheerfully proceed 10 the field Of battle by
the first train. And, finally, let them
not listen to any syren song Of peace,
such as has been ringing through the av-
enues Of the capital. 1t is but trick Of
the beaten enemy, trying to beguile our
President into an endorsement Of the Chi
cago platform! Tell Mr.. Lincoln TO stop
his ears and harden his heart, and to in
sist upon war--wAR, eternal WAR, un-
I'll the South is wiped out of existence. e
Gibbon tells us that the ancient Scytb-
JAMS vorsbippsd, as their Deity, drawn