The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-08-24

al ard hw-ahiding people, to convene on
tins day at thoir places of worship.
lst 10 confess udrepout Of thoir mani.
fold sins Aud here let us pause Tor mo,
mont to inquire what groy,ous sins have
we eommt,edg We are so accustomed to
bear our comtfylhuu boast OF our high civ.
iliaoiion. OF CUR moral and religious culture
that we are apt to forget our sins, aud lay
claim to great goodness But with ali our
advantage, Notwithstanding all eur nolle
characteristics, we are very wicked pec-
pie. This wickedness is confined to no
section nor party. Tho disease is doop.
seatosl.sa8t has reached ,ho heart and head
of the nation, and is corruptiug the whole
body.
And now when we remember that there
sa God in heaven, whose laws cannot be
violated with impunity, well may we trem-
bic for our country, when wclook over the
dark catalogue of her crimes. If prolan.
ing the name Of tho Lord, and breaking
his holy sabbath are crimes SO great that,
in obedience to his commands the civil
moglstrstes Of other times punished them
with death, how dark must DO the fearful
record against this people whose mouth
is full of uursing, and whose Sabbath is
everywhere proiaued2
We are not accustomed to lay to the
charge of this people the sin Of idolaty.
For no images of gold or silver or brass or
wood or stone are erected in our temples
of worship. But if all excessive fondness
for temporal things is idohry, then the
spirit of idolatry is wide aprcad as the
people. The worship of mammon is one of
the great sins of this nation. | wish in
commenting on the sius of this age and
nation, | could see less to make mention of
wish could see less of this intense al.
Grafton of cash. wish could see less of
this absorbing grinding toll to crafty wants
purely imaginary, II costs all the time,
and all the energies of body and soul to
crafty the artificial wants OF this age ana
nation, and there is no tmo left for re-
Election and religious meditation.
see the authentic signature of anxiety
deeply written on almost every countou-
ance. Life has become great tread-mill
where each man must move on, exhausted
aud heated and weary not daring TO stop
FOR moment without being left behind, or
trodden down by tho busy, rushing multi
tude. Weary heads and aching hearts
make oid age now at forty; The, nlea@o'e
OF NE ~ tAdefl~s'Ts nn the altar OF
IA rrfrs s strange God men are ready TO sacri-
fee honor and virtue and health and life
nay moro--thoy dtfor up iawels worth all
the kingdoms of the earth--their souls, and
all their hopes Of heaven.
We must mako mention Of another sin
yet baser in the sight of heaven, aud ten-j
fold moro terrible in it's effo2ts upon, this
nation. NNo have been called, by our
enemies nation of drunSards. II we had
been vilifed with the name, beasts it had
been no Greater insult But what arc our
feelings when VIC are compelled to own
that the charge is jut? o! that dread
curse rolling over our land like burning
tide Of dosolation, crowdng our jails and
a)ms.houses, and filing our land with pow
erty and misery, and heart-schos, and tears,
who can contemplate its rnvages without
horror?
This tide Of desolation as 1t sweeps over
our land carries with it, every year, forty
thousand of our countrymen and lays them
in drunkard's graves and plu0scs their
souls into thedrdnkard's S hell. II old ocean
~ E., 81,
os water borne down by the Amazon,
surely the confines of the pit do tremble
with the rush of human souls borno down
by the tide of intemperance. Could | call
together all the orphans and widows ~
our land, who haye been robbed of a lathor
or husband by~rsVi'thoir suiforings and
poverty and tears Would speake,cloquently
against this awful sA.....sal1i I call to
gether all the drunlSq zslapd their
bloated carcasses antsslsss eyes and
loathsome breath would dsIspcak volumes
against this sin. Come from your loatl,
| some prlsons-=come from your insane
r asylutns--come from every drunkards hoy
! ol ye spirit-maddened wretehes-and' if
r this be not enough, then come back froa
t your dark abodes ye spirits Of the drunk
: en- dead and testify against this dreadful sin
I o America! thou land, blest of heaven NOR,
: tuan all other lands, how art thou abusing
n the gifts of heaven to thee! What ar
/ thou doing to save thy drunken sons Co
I pity us and forgive usl
a Another still more dark and yer NOR
It hideous crime is registered in the books 0
a heaven against this nation Heaven neye
s frowued on a blacker crime--the cart
n never groaned under a heavier curse tha
n human slavery. And no section, nor paI
n ty can plead innocence from the guilt 0
/. this sin.
e, If tho ono did dictate, the other obeyet
&c And he who permits oppression, WHICH h
y might prevent, shares the guilt. Tha
81 which in itself. is wrong, absolutely wron
v and nothing but wrong, no human legisli
is ton can make right No sate policy nc
IL political economy can excuse guilty PEI
" plo before tse bar Of heaven. All cove
e. Ing for orr sin is TOD thin to shpt OFT Ii
Omnscient eye. No slave codeA4o i
81 junction Of silence can prevent the cfi'
he and prayers Of an oppressed people Gro
IS entering into tho ears Qf tho Most liig
5t. HIS iustice can 30 Longer slumber o D