Litchfield enquirer., 1864-03-17

dfen of wrong and oppression are the lawful spells of out victorious arms, give up to the enemy your proudest national memorials--the sword of Washington, the ssaff of Franklin, the time-worn but immortal parchment which frs. authoritatively published your indepen dence to the world-give up to him the blood stained flags and trophies which, upon the bristling crest of battle, your heroic defend- ors have wrenched from his desperate grasp; give up to him this Capital itself and throw at his feet the Presidents head, before you rive up the most abject of these boAdsmen disenlhrailed for in surrenderiug them you will squendsr one of those priceless moments, big with the future, worth more than whole generation of either bond or free, the rare and pregnant occasion placed in your hand by the fortunes of war of wiping forever African slavery from the American continent.
 If this deliverance is ever vouchsated, then ehall we be purged forever of the solo source of our weakness and dissention in the past ; thea will pass away forever the sole cloud that threatens the glory of our future then will the American Union be transhgured into c more erect and shining presence, ana treao with firm footstep 0 lottier plane, ana cher ish nsbier theories, and carry it's head nearer the s:ars; then will it be no proclamation to wed its redeemed and unpolluted name to that of immortal Liberty then Liberty and Union VIII 20 on, nAuu III uUuus OhuCi 0 hSAANA AH spiralion and with more benign and blessed auspices, will revive their grand mission of peacefully acquiring and peacefully ineorPoF- ating contiguous territories, and peacefully as s;uila,ing their inhabitants :; then from the Orient to the Occident, from the fiowry shores of the great southern Gulf to the frozen barri- ers of the great northern Bay, will they unite in spreading civilization, not intsrtwinsd with slavery, but purgel of it's esntamina- tion, a civilization which means universal emancipation, universal lenfranchisemens uni versal brotherhood then shall VIC have done for the United States what Richelieu is saia Co have done for France:
 He found France rent ssuadsr.'
 "Rrawls fostering to rebellion, and weak laws Rsiting away vita rust in antique shsatLs, lie recreated France and from the ashes
 Of the old feudal and decript carcsss,
 Civilization, on her luminous wings,
 Scared, Phsnix like, 10 Jove."
 Despair not, then, soldiers, statesmen, citi- zeas, women, who are fighting energetically 1or . nations life. The cloud which now shuts flown before your vision will yet disclose its silver lining. Peace shall be born from war, and out of chaos order shall yet emerge, We shall dwell together in harmony, and but one nation shaii inhabit our sea girt borders. We seem sailing along the land, hearing tho ripple Iha. breaks upon the shore, where our recrea- ted and regensrated Republic, after it has passed through the fiery furnace of war, these ga:Ss of death, shall be permanently installed l;e shall ye: tread it's meadows and pastures green. trade in it's marls. live in its palaces. ~Srsnip in its temples, ani legislate in its Capitol. The Providence of God moves through great cycles of time. If we could only attain a point in the future that commands suth- ciently comprehensive retrospect, all the mys- terics of cur historic evolution would unfold their meaning. We should learn why our jcrrnsy to this "more perfect Union" was SC long and wsarisome why the morn was so lcng i1 breaking why diverse races were at the Ou.se. planted on this continent; why we struggled through Indian, Spanish, French, and English Ears to political independence wAy ilst as the new born nation was " hard eninS into the bone of fmanhood" it was suffer- cd to divide itself into hostile armies, that have crossed each others track, and intersect- cd and rushed and crashed together, as the planets would, if the forces which hold them in their orbits were once suspended why re lixien and knowledge and law were too feeble to bind together repelient societies why big osry and intolerance were but half cruci6ed in our best men why slavery was ever genera ted why it did not die in the womb, and why 1t SO long impedet the march of the American people to national unity and domestic tran guilty