The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-03-10
From the dayton Empire.
What of the Futurel

+ Who has not wondered again aud again
as to what is to be the future ofour country {?
What the end, and when, of this most un-
natural, bloody and suicidal strife? The
storm of revolution has swept away our
Iold landmarks, and we only know that we
are drifting-drifting somewhere! As in
dividuals we may trust in God las Ma
ton, we are utterly without hope. We
have forfeited all claim 10 Divine care and
guidance, and the only evidence we have of
Gods existence at all. is the dread, sad
weight which we feel of his disp!easure!-
1t this is not true. tber there is no truth in
the peaceful precepts of the gospel. We
are told that slavery is the cause Of all this
m arderous strife and bloodshed. Was
there ever 80 lame an apology for crime SO
stupendous! "The serpent begu;led me, ,"said
Eve, "and did eati"-sbe did not ignorant
ly point to the apple, and cite it as the
cause of her tisobsdience. Slavery did not
cause the war--it was the Devil The ser,
pent beguled old Lincoln 10 the shape of
the uigger, and inculcated the fatal. bloody
and diaboical sentiment: No Compromised
Weak men, excited by passion, have igDor-
anly asked--"Whati woald you compromise
with t'aitors!"-not seeming to know that
their Savior had given up his life on CAL
vary to seal ICON promise with traiior.!"
Who were they who so despised the Union
as our fathers made it, as to Genounce it as
league with bella covenant with death!
And where are they now? And hat great
partisan host was it, who in the unfortunate
year 1860. gave practical expression to the
hatred they b5re the Constitution by elect
ing man President of the United Stares
who had declared that the Union could not
exist as the Constitution bound it-half free
and half slave. And yet. disguised, and
trembling like craven. he stole into the
Capital aud took an oath to support and ad-
minister that Constitution. Let history
write how he has kept his ssolemnIy plighted
faith. The first compromise that he and
his internal adherents! wers asked to enter
into, was not with traitors, but with Ameri-
can citizens. 1t was pleaded for by the
w;sest and purest statesmen of the country,
but pleaded for in vain! The Chicago
platform to be the supreme law. and
mo compromise" the bloody watch word.
of black republicanism, The church echoed
back mo COMPROMISED" and the peace OF
America was brokenl The smile of God
was then withdrawn, and instead thereof
we have his frown. Sorrow, slaughter,
desolation and despair have been visited
upon us. and yet, alas! how few seem to
realize tho self evident fact that all these
! are the inevitable consequences Of war
And why? Why because war is wrong
il is a violation of Gods law. The tree is
known by its fruit, the fountain by the
stream. and causes must be judged by con-
sequences. Think OF the agony succeeding
great battle, where maddened and infuri-
ate hosts have str!ven or what is called
/ victory! Think of the wives and ch ildren
fathers and mothers at home! and tell the
christian man who takes no pleasure, and
has no hope. in such horrors, that he is
"copperbe ead!' Never mind. Wherefore
all this fraud, theft. perjury, malice, vio-
lence. crime, and almost universal demora
lizatiou? Wa! Wherefore this desola-
ton, and all that it involves of sorrow and
wantto women ane children, to the aged,
the helpless and the innocent? War!-
! Relentless. ruthless, uncharitable VAIL
"Oh, judgment thou art fled to bruish
beasts, and men have lost their reason!"-
War for Union! Prepos'erous idea!-
Blood deluson! We have tried war for
! Union, till the consequences of war have
well nigh ruined US. Already we have lost
! that, without which Union is but whited
sepulchre. Public virus has been straDg
led, and courts and juries, legislatures and
and congresses, pulpts, professions, oaths,
and obligations. amount only to great
complicated m ockery. Under these appall
ing circumstances, is it not meet that every
man should ask himself in solemn serious
! ness What of the future? H