Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-10-29
The New Creation.
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A. ,.,c,b the fuorbed sun Of freedom is rising the
New World The trailing shadows OF the dtk aSe ns.e
gone down to the dark abyss Of oblivion We the tu
from the m siegegans that eleaguer the
Capital of Slavery We read it by the electric ght th
the desert to the eci tr LII ms OF enisht
ue millions We feel urnng the affairs Of our hearts
by the alphabet of the stars For rer
of century great nation. bearing the most inperous
standard Of freedom been whsaniins The ordinations
Manifest Destiny; deaf t. the appeals OF iiuniny bn
the example Religion in-ensibe To the progress oi CIV
izat and utterly frgetfu that un Ter our own
helpless people with affections imm"f, uls Ike
our crying nightly TO the rude eoqence
of the barbars We given the doatry IF Mann
mon At the North huge ships with strained luiis ana bel
led sails crowded to harbrs. laden with the richest
commerce of the globe in the East were continually
enriched by the driving wheels OF vast from
the West the gentle Ceres annually with her snowy
shoulders laden with fueared from the South millions
of swartv brought their burdens Of the imperial
fabric When the sun thousand of churches cast their
long tapering shadows the land The institutions Of
charity stood everywherc adventurous SHIPS bore away onr
to heather with the glad of sal
walton: and when the wall starving Ireland
the hearts warmed with sympathy and eyes
over with All the time We had forgotten that
we were ourselves oppressors from whom humanity rccoe
and despair; that pointed at Icy the
csing finger of civilizations religion crossed herself
when named: that four millions of Gods children
held by in bondage in comparison with which the
worst desp tisns civilized Europe freedom Under
the authority which becoming venerable.
took the child from the mother the husband from the wife.
the family. sold strangers:
when the natural instincts of humanity rebeel tied the
wretched creatures to the whipping post branded them with
hot irons rivcttei their shrinking limb together took the
price Of their flesh and blood and suffering aud had them
driven away the tyranny of still stonyhearte
God forgive but have done all these things
nm Ter the authority pf free Constitution and in the
M which the oppressed ofthe earth have
/ been stretching nporing hands
IF there D,nd that there is all nature cries aloud
in all her work might expect that lie would a
length rise up in fierce judgement agan, us and send upon
the fiery cuhorts of his wrath If the sparrow falle
the ground without the knowledge and consent of hi
Maker why should millions Of human beings, with son
impeabe with all the faculties for suffering with living
hearts and tongues to utter the most impusvt
emotions of be perpctualy dehunnize and nnsouet
right under the sight OF Omnpoent Justice! We mas
controls the admit that the disaster of civil
pressons could of century bring forth
from heaven rebuke the spiritual state soul
less and God himself of the inagn on
deaf Dlgon and nsenble to justice til,
sacred monsters that swim the Gauges.
But the atoning has been made and the crea
ton is almost perfected. What the to Isaac bount
the altar this natinn hut the sacrifice must
continue until the victim shall have been utterly consumed
in the lie DEATH and
has ordained that this nation shall live to become what Isrca
the other peoples of the earth 1t will rise again
from death but from restoring sleep to become abs"
lutte in the domain of Free )m AT length there Will have
been und the American continent Arrl upon which
fugtves Of whatever color and FORM whatever oppression
lisembark and ascend attitudes far alb we the
boiling But this wonderful creation must be per
formed by that the Sword who in the creation
o; nltons have been the chosen minister OF
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