, 1865-02-27
CHICAGO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY p, 1855.

. churches as can will keep their doors ope
/ ! and the services in operntion without int
| mission during the whole day, the minister
relieving one another, and the ptople goln
and coming as they may need; third, tha
through four Of five hours; fourth, that th
people really humble themselves and By a
means cat no more food thnn may ba neces
saty to keep up their health; fifth, that al
light conversation and unbecoming amuse
ment be discarded, and the day be>1ruly oh
served Us day OF humiliation. If there b
shy sh5yn'5 TItqe Re IN day Of fasting ard prayer
Heretofore many have kept 1t as mere holl
day. This cannot be expected to elicit God
blessing. Our condition is now such tha
trh1ng is madness. II we give all our TIM
and hesrts to It for that one day, re ma,
look for great blessing"
The Encsf'rsr contains The following sig
] n'tcant editsrial: "Virginia did pot con
melce this war, nor did Tennessee, Missouri
Or Kentucky. Its magnitude and losses wert
battle would fall. The States further south
protected by those on the border, rcpeled
our advances, rejected the connection, and
with tancted security, cut the fastening which
bound us together, aud cast Virgiuia and hei
children on the exposed western frontier
! A0AAA1 aAAau u lCIl 1HC HUU lUC1E1d1uR H1E. Ii
vain did these States foretell the future, and
protest against the ungenerous rashness ol
those who expected By the misfortune Of 9th.
us to escape the calnmities Of civil strife,
| We told them that the storm would indulge
| It's fury on our soil. We pictured to them 1
desolated country, pillaged fields, burning
| towns, .nsurgent slaves, and a hired soldiery,
infiamed to crime BY the stnooth-skinnetl wo.
men Of the .Ottaman, aud the silver plate on
! the boa1d. Neither did these just appeals,
nor the terrific fate which was increasing and
advancinD, check the selfish impetuosIty OF
those who risked little Of the disaster to be
endured BY Others. We are told We must fol-
low our own people Or be against them The
alternatives presented an adherence Of COM
mon enemies or an abandonment of common
bl. Cd.
"Thc choice was at once made under sol:
emn compact to stand faithfully together un-
til complete victory blessed our single strug-
gle. Amid all the ceremonies Of National
birth, the States stood shoulder t, shoulder,
Sid by sacred oaths pledged all lives, all i'd
tcrest, MI property, In the mutual support
and for general relief. There was nothing too
sacred to be appropriated or abandoned, ex-
cept plighted faith to be true to each other,
These, both Virginia and her frontier CHI.
drcn, have not broken. The lives OF their
people are now In the trenches, with a daily
tncT1tlcc equal to the necessities Of defense.
Ncarly all their property has been yielded to
the enemy, In ebedienceato the requests
Of Strategic movements. Slaves have been
appropriated aid losses suffered according to
the demand Of the'advnncing enemy. These
appropriations OF territory and slaves by
these States was rs much d voluntary contri-
button by them to the wants Of war as II bills
to grant emancipation had been passed BY
their separate so7ereigdE Conventions. They
we're part Of tfe price contemplated at the
time the struggle commenced, to be- paid
for the blessings to be common to al. But
The tide is now setting townrds those States
who made the fight, who affirmed success or
universal destruction, and who eWorc the
oath. This oath has been broken, and they
by whom the first blow was stricken arc the
first TO desert those whose breasts have so far
received the fury Of the storm rHlsed by 9TH
ers.
"After The Border States have offered land
and slaves as necessary sacrifice to success,
they still declare that wife, child, bride and q
free tongue and unclaimed neck are the things
to be fought for. They say to the States Of
the Gull, Now make the slme contributions
Of lands and slaves that you, forced us to
port WAS broken. Tie bill, to appropriate
slaves 50 as to secure honorable existence vas
~dcfcuted in the Senate, chiefly by the votes
of the Gull States. The Border States had
previously contributed their slaves for the
common defense. It makes, no difference
nAetue1 tAose eiasee Wetc 4ust " tuelt OWL
ers " strategy Of war or BY action Of Con-
gress. They were equally sacrifices Of prop
erty TO 1he national defense, sacrifices FORE
toio oy Some, ane "hicn NJ e"ore 70 share
ahke. Inc Eote ny "n1Gn shat DILL WIS lost
given, or wc may perish. he who watches
me aestmies o. tae IS state. oeelalcs us wants
ana aemanas % seie,s tpr ~ hnom ILL., aose ol t9e peo-
e r. OILY eHesueu w. ~ ~ a's - Snn tIeanecton
an, II the conanernr Of everT M II iGnah1a asries.
ton. i,nnlores tie recreant States not to
abandon thc glory be won for them Il Chan
secures by his lines around the still uncon-
quercd capital Of Virginia.
The afmy demands that its depleted ranks
shall be strengthened by more men Of what-
ever color, and It is sometimes impolltic to
refuse demands Of an army like that which
Lee commands. The border States insist
that such laws as are necessary to save the
State tha1l be passed eyen though those