The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-06-07


Church and the siEte. And yet 4 sdl a.
have said oar em0isots ara eomiaeisd Will,
i was natural for Us ~ to give oarselkes u
10 eomplste sadness, while the patriot and
friend mourn. and Ehils The whole land Is
fall cf sorrow, AZ the premsture waste Of ca.
ergy and death Of the yoaAg. still when vi
consider 81 sides u tbs matter, when ",
permit our minds to rise above ourselves aud
poise themselves upon the high ground d
principle, taking ia the mighty question,
that are in deep agitation, add their momeai,
Gus and hopeful issues. when we think oi
this. thar as our impsriIled land called for Il.
young men to come forth, 10 sustain ia
threatened institutions ans our interests, no
one mighi hare been sCsitiag 10 respond, aud
thereby all tnat We held dear ia national hon
or must have teen long ago overturned. aud
then again cansider how readily many did
leave their quet homes. tivir Offices, their
shops, and then farms, aud how cheerfully
parents and frienIs hare said 60, and they
have gone, yielding themselves to hardships
never 4, eaa1ea Of TAM endured, maafuily
facing the Zoe. aud rillingly dying, not for
themselves but for as, there is quite auoth.
er emotion found IN our hearts, euen graii-
tude and Joy. This we must and should ex.
press. There is something worse and more
to be dreaded than death ibelk There Is
that which ever follows hard after ones
country has gone down, ones Government
/ is utterly demolished and the protecting
shield, which is composed OF good laws and
holy institutions, is torn away from the head
Of the State and all our interests Of earth lie
exposed to the iron tread Of the mad invader
and the corrupt. What We can but ask
ourselves, what IL the plots Of Treason had
been utterly successful. What if no armies
had risen high and strong enough to have
/ impeded or put back the proud waves Of re-
bellion and crime What if all law had
/ been trampled under foot, the capitol Of our
country had been sacked aud the roll -oall Of
4 African seryitude, with all its attendant hor-
rors, had been heard amid our hill-tops and
along our villages What if the plans Of
1 desperate ones had succeeded, and anarchy
and ruin had become wide spread, for in the
necessity of the case, there must have been
/ collision and terror and blood d-shed in the
wake ofa successful insuVrecton What if
all this had happened, because the loyal and
the true-hearted had been passive and ener-
vate enough to have permitted il, then death
would have been aimed, disgrace and shame
would have mantled the death cheek Of our
sons and brothers. Then the curse of Heay-
en- would have rested upon US, as we proved
recreant to the high and holy duty Of that
4 hour, when madness and perjury struck
down without just cause the representations
cf nd .ui,.ya G n 4
had rippled in the face Of the world ard
whose banner had been everywhere greeted
as the symbol of Government founded in
justice and constitutional law. say in that
dread hour, the opening seal of the Walls Of
Gods wrath upon people depressing the
weak and upon US all as guilty nation in
deed, but we believe also the opening seal Of
Heavens favor in the end. What il the
Government had found no hearts to respond !,
What if no young man had been willing to
20 forth in defence Of the right and the true
All, that would have been a still darker hour,
and death would have been oil gloom, but
sincerely believing as we do in the general
rectitude Of oar cause, and in the wrong Of
rebellion under the circumstances, linking
our sacrifice and our bitter deaths to the
work of Governmental justice as called for BY
the voice Of Heaven and earth, the sorrow Of
our hearts become mingled with tidal flow
of gratitude and joy. We can't help it; the
heart Of true Patriotism can't help ii and
even through the hot tears that scald the
face Of parents and friends, there is holy
smile and in the smitten heart there is a Sc
rene comfort. There is something that sus-
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while we lie crushed to the earth. Personal
ambition is lost, mere personal retaliation is
forgotten, we seem to drink somewhat Of
that cup that martyrs for christ and his
cause drank, as we suffer and die, not for
bare Liberty, not for an independence based
on the seryitule and degradation
of portion OF the human race, but in the
interests of Government ordained of God,
if ever there was one, and in behalf OF prn-
eiples that underlie the hopes of the world
know there is something in US, that sym
pathizers, with even the reckless aud insub-
ordinate as they yield up their personal COM
forts for indepen lance Even in the family
circle, as the impassioned boy in the mutiny
Of youthful ardor, deties the Government Of
his Father and casts from him the fearful
beseeching Of Mother and declares himself
free, there is something in us that is inclin-
ed to smile upon his folly aud even to SYM
pathze with bis insubornnation. Man
loves to be free, to reyel in his own inde-
pendance, even though it be among the ru-
ms Of all order and peace. lie hates all
tyranny. and yet who is there upon rehec-
ton that does not know Parental Govern
ment should be sustained, unless absolutely
cruel, rather than that lawless and reckless
passion should override it. We feel in our
conscience, that it is far better TO endure
wrongs than that rebellion and anarchy
shou make ply ball of order and law
Their is deep principle at stake here, that
goes far down 70 the very foundations Of hu-
man hope ami peaceful progress in our world.
II is a principle that lies close TO the throne
Of God and Of His sway over us. Rebellion
against q good Government by force, is no
more just even for independence, than was
the Rebellion in Heaven, among the angels
Its gigantic nature then. diminished not their
crime, nor did the lofllness Of the Arehangel
spirit make any shallower the.plunge Of his
direfuI fall 1t is the very work Of infinite
wisdom and justice 10 maintain Government
in and among free moral agents. and civil
Governments are Of His ordination, to this
same aud high end, until they prove recre-
ant Of their mission and crush with their iron
heel their subjects. Not to sustain them in
their legitimate work is not only a crime
against the State, bat il is sin against Gcd
Here 10 where we stand. and hence we be-
lieye that the efforts q Government to sas-
tain itself are righteous in principle, the
like all other earthly powers or forces il may
err In its plans, here and there. If this be
30, then we can infer that cur cause is just
As We suffer and our deaE ones suffer and die
it is not in the wrong. nor is their suffering
or heir dying lost' History shall make the
memories Of such immortal. as !, has already
those who have suffered and died for the same
purpose, the establishment and perpetuity
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