The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-28
Relieving Feature, &c the War.

TUES soaNiSe, .JUwR 50 ~
Relieving Features &c the War.
The President Il the United States, in b
late speech H. Baltimore, consoles his hca,
ers for the bereavem,n.s he has occasiore
throughout the length and breadth Of h
land; fer the multltndes whom he hs
hurled into the grave, aud the counties
hes'ts that are breaking over them for Oh
frigh,fal misery in every form anA the sLccI
ing demorali7 aion of society, by decla''n
that the war has had its ''relieriug aoinei
dences" in SANITARY aud Christian Commit
tees and Volunteer RefTcsnment Saloohs
unknown in the history Of the Woria DC
fore''
The .Yo,untcer Eefreehnent Saiocns y j
paint which "rneie Abe can appfefiaf'
60 well az any oiheS philanti ropisf in ih'
land We understand that he once Kept
"Refreshmrnt Saloon" himself, vuigar'J
called In these parts ''doggeTy,' aud dis
psaseA old rye, though not entirely on tht
"voiunteer" principle. If it was volunteer
It il the only volunteering he has ever done
ne never has anything 10 do himae!i with
volunteering OF draughting either, except
10 take big drink. Il "yoluutcer refresh
raent saloon" or, In the vernacular o! The
West, free docgsry,' ia compensation,
10 his opinion, for all the norrors Of war
It "a the supreme coDsola,ion Tor Gil human
distresscs and calami:ies. II any man has lost
son or brother II any widow walls over
her lost husband or child il any patriot ia
Ia sackcloth over once glorious Republic
in ruins, free Constitution destroyed, the
fses OF Liberty gone out upon her broken
sbrnes, and the hopes Of mankind betrayed
and destroyed. let him Or her step into one
of old Abe's Volunteer Reireshment Sa-
looms" and take drink. There is a pauacea
for every human woe Il seems to he the
belief OF His EZcollency that Us mankind
fell.by the forbidden fruit, they have only TO
distil the fruit TO rcpai: ail'the damage it
hiss cccasioned. Itwas eating the thing, no,
drinking ii, which was Adams fatal blunder.
Such appears TO be old Abc's theory, and -ye
dare say Gen. Grant agrees with him In that
opinion.
But the SANITARY ard Christian Commit
teeh part OF the Baltimore speech is better
Joke than the Executive Joker has yet got
o1 in any OF 1is wonderfully funny oratiopo.
the world he's never seen the like before, be
Gays, aud We may add the hope, will never
Gee the like again. The world has seen for
many centuries Christian Associations, com,
monty called churches, (Which, being
founded by the Divine Founder OF Chrls-
tianity, mas not hsTe been the ec.at, 10 Old
Aoos opinion, OF Bis Sanitary aud Chris
tisn Committees,'1 striving in every con
csiVahie way to mitigate the horrors OF hu-
man warfare The world has seen, even oi
late, "sislers Of Charity Sisters OF Mercy
Florence Nightingales, ana hosts Of kindred
spirits, shedding the light OF heavenly con
ISOLATION upon the bloody battle fields OF
Europe, ministeriug at the bedside Of sick
aud wounded, whether tiiend or foe, and
when human help could no longer avail,
turning the eyes Of the dying from their own
bleeding wounds to the redeeming blood OF
the Son Of Coo. But sch "GAEitary and
Christian Committees" as Abraham culo-
gisss. the world, happily for itself. for Chris
tianity, and for man, has never seen before
The Christian Associations Of the Iiorth
have been the leaders and mt. ring aijers
and abettor 8 OF the most feTociou3 war al
modern fines. The humane aud mercifrll
spirit towards enemies, peculiar to Chria
tiauity, has never had pace in their ccua-
sels. Peter the Hermit. and net Peter the
Apostle, has been thcir model. FluI
e-hortiug Christians to gentleness, losbtar
ancc, and forgiveness, has been discarded
for Paul before his CONVERSION, b1eathin,, out
threatening, and slaughter, throwing men
and women into prison. and conserving to
the death OF The martyr Stephen. We had
speci 0en not long ago of these "Ch, istian
Ranitsry Committees' at Fredericksburg,
where they vehemently urged that the place
ehould be utterly destroyed by FIRE, and in
etigatea other favageries which had not been
dreamed III by the armed vandals Of Lincoln
We arc not surprised TO learn that there ie
more infdelity at the North than ever known
before. for what else could be expected
when Christianity is Thus betrayed in The
hOuse OF Its protested friends Such men as
DIR Breckinridge, OF Kentucky, and Bishop
Mciivane, Of Ohio, arc worse enemies OF re
IigiOn than even Abraham Lincoln.
We advice the President of the [ uitel
States to look about for other relieving
Condolences" Of the war. II these are all,
HE war, so far rs his empire 10 concerned,
has no relieving feature. No light from earth
or Heaven shines upon lis oepu.chral shades
Il il. from beginning 10 end, the pure and
unmixed work Of the devil.