Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS.


kS bAuaSb lIoHl SeTulOn pTcaCDeu III
the Spring Garden-street NJ L. Church
Philadelphia, Sunday, Sept. 11th, 1864, by
Rev. James Neill, pastor:
"But the hopes of the South have been
disappointed. She hoped to see an insur-
rection in the North, and an army go forth
in support of her cause. Colonel Crinshaw,
one of the most prominent men in the now
rebel capital said to me the day before
Fort Sumpter was attached, that for every
man could find in the North who would
| take up arms to sustain the Lincoln Admin
istration, he would find two who would
espouse the cause of the South but in this
they were disappointed. She tlattered her
| soldiers that one of them was equal to five
of ours, but in this she has been sadly dis
appointed. She hoped long, and begged
iadustriously, for foreign intervention, only
to be disappointed. Her last hope is in the
success of treason in the North, under the
false title of peace men, and secret organiza-
tions, whose arguments for peace are to be
the dagger and the rifle, and public Conven-
tons OF her friends have done much, ana
will do more, to restore her to her former
supremacy over the land; but in this too,
we venture to predict, she will be disappoint-
ed. God has not raised up this nation to
have it destroyed. He is only reigning so
as to give every traitor both North and
South an opportunity of burning tue brand
into his own forehead, bone deep, which
shall be the indelible initial of the disgrace
he has brought upon himself, when, for the
position lie has assumed, he shall be regard
ed as Cain-like fugitive, cursed of God
and abhorred 10y man until the day OF his
death.
The rebellion is nearly crushed; Fort
Morgan taken, Mobile certain to surrender,
Atlanta i'll our possession, and Sherman pre-
pairing to strike another blow, while Grant
is shutting every avenue to Richmond, so
that flour is three hundred and seventy five
dollars per barrel, and every port but that
of Wilmington sealed against blockade run
ming the population exhausted by conscrip-
ton, so that, from sixteen to sixty, nearly
all are in the army; while with us more
than two millions are left, so that when a
draft ior 5000 men is ordered to take
place in sixty days, such is the gathering of
volunteers that 1t is questionable whether
there will be II necessity for its enforcement.
What means all this power2 Whence these
vast resources? Napoleon said "PreTi-
dep,,e was on the side of the heaviest artil-
lery," ant, so he found it. England had it,
for God prov ided her with it. She was a
Christian nation; his an in6del. And so it
is with us. God has furnished US with all
we need, with his blessing, to crush this re-
bellion, and then meet any who niay adopt
her cause Never since the commencement
OF the war was there such ground for rejoic-
ing as now. The territory conquered is
greater than France, England, and Austria
combined, and the war is now confined to
two principal points, under the care OF
Grant and Sherman, and with God on our
side, we have nothing to fear from the bat
tie fields. Our most dangerous enemies are
those janus-iaced Judases at home, who are
perpetually proclaming their love of coun-
try, and yet have all their sympathies with
the enemy, and make their boast, while they
enjoy all the immunities of this God-bestow
ed Government, that they have never given
a dollar or "a vote for its support in this ter
rible struggle to maintain its rightiul supre-
macy. But let no mans heart fail him, but
| let him do his full duty. God is working
his own good pleasure, and the day is hot
far distant when the leaders will abandon
their vain attempt, and the men will lay
| down their arms, as they did at Fort Nor
gan, and the flag of our Union will wave
uninsulted in Richmond and in Charleston
and that sweetest of national anthems, the
Star-Spangled Banner, shall be sung by botl
North and South, and the whole nation
| with freedom established everywhere anC
forever, will send up one universal shout
"llallelujah. the Lord God Omnipoten
| reigneth ~