Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-04-28

darkness; lt cried TO the Lord "W here
fore, am | deposed 2" Then arose before
it vision Of its sin; it had strengthen.
ed the strong and forgotten the weak il
proclaimed liberty but it trod upon slaves
In that conclusion it dedicated itself to
liberty. Behold to-day, it. fulflls its
VOWS! When it went down four million
people had no flag. To-day it rises and
four million people cry out "Bshold our
flag! "Hark!' they murmur, "it is the
gospel to the poor; j. heals our broken
hearts; it breaches deliveranoe to cap.
tives; it gives sight to the blind it sets
at liberty them that are bruised Raise
up the glorious gospel banner and roll out
the messages of God.
1t would not be honest, it would not be
kind or fratcrnal for me to pretend that
Southern revolution against Union, has
not reacted and wrought revolution in
the Southern States themselves, and in
augurated new dispensation. Society
is like broken loom. and the piece
which rebellion put in and was weaving
has been cut and every thread broken
You must put in new warp and new wool,
and weaving anew, as the fabric slowly
unwinds, we shall see in it no gorgeous
figures, nd(hideous. grstesques of the old
barbarism, but the figures OF liberty
vines and golden grains framing in the
heads Of Justice, Love and Liberty. The
August Convention Of 1877 framed the
Constitution with this memorable pream-
BILE: 1--WE the People of the United
States, in order to form more perfect
Union, establish justice, ensure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common de-
fense, promote the general welfare, and
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity, do ordain this Consti.
tuition for the United States of America.
Again, in the awful convention of war,
the people Of the United States, for the
very ends just recited have debated, set
tied and ordained certain fundamental
truths, which must henceforth be acted
and obcycd. Nor is any State, or any
individual wise who shall disregard them.
They are to civil affairs what the natural
laws are to health Indispensable condi-
tions of peace and happiness. What are
the ordinances given by people speaking
out of the fire and darkness Of war, with
authority inspired by that same God who
gave the law from Sinai amid thunders
and trumpet voices? First-that these
United States shall be one and indiyisib!e.
/, Second--that States are not absolutely
sovereigns, and have no right to dismem-
Der the Republic. Tnird-that univer.
sal liberty is indispensable to Republican
government aud that slavery shall be
utterly and for ever abolished. Such are
the results of war; These are the best
fruits Of the war They are worth all
they have cost. They are foundations OF
praise. They will secure benefits to all
nations as well as 10 us. Our highest
wisdom and duty is to accept the facts as
the DEGREES Of God. We are expected to
forget all that happened; yes, the wrath,
the coIAict, the cruelty. but not those
overriding decrocs of God which this war
has pronounced as soemnly as on Mount
Sinai; God says: "Remcmber. remcm-
ber!" Hear it to-day under this sun
under that bright child of the sun, our
banner-with the eyes of this nation and
the world upon us, we repeat the syla.
bles OF Gods evidence, and rccite the
solemn dccrecs. NO MORE DISUNI-
ON! NO MORE SECESSION NO
MORE SLAVERY!
(At this point there was loud ard pro.
longed applause.) We do not wonder
that European Statesmen failed to COM.
prvhend this conflict, and that foreign
philanthrophists were shocked at mur.
dcrous war that seemed to have no NOR
tai origin, but, like the brutal fights of
beasts of prey, to have sprung from fero-
clous animalism. This great nation, fill.
ing all profitable latitudes cradled be-
tween two oceans with inexhaustabe
resources ; with riches increasing in an
Unparalleled ratio by agriculture by
manufactures /; by commerce; with schools
and churches with books and newspa.
pers thick as leaves in our own forests;
with institutions sprung from the people
and peculiarly adapted to their genius a
nation not sluggish but active; used to
excitement; practi( ed in political wis
dom and accustomed to self-government
and all its vast outlying parts; held to-
gether by federal government mild in
temper, gentle in administration and
beuclicent in rcsuts-wc do not wonder
that it is not understood abroad. All at
once in this hemisphere of happiness and
hope there came dropping clouds, with
! fiery bolts full of death and desolation.
At cannon shot upon this fort all the
nation as if they had been trained
army lying on their arms waiting a sig.
nal, rose up and began a war which for
awfulness rises into the first rank of bad
eminence. The front of the battle going
with the sun was twelve hundred miles
long, and the depth measured along
meridian was a thousand miles. In this
vast area more than two million meIl first
and last, for four years have, in skirmish
tight and battle, met in more than a
thousand conflicts, while a. coast and river
line, not less than four thousand miles in
length, has swarmed with fleets freighted
with artillery. The very industry Of the
country seemed to have been touched by
some internal wand and with one wheel
changed it from peace to war. The am
wills Of the land beat like drums. As
out OF the ooze emerge monsters, so from
out mines and foundrics uprose new and
strange machines of war--iron-cad-
and SO in IL nation Of peaceful habits,
without external proyocatlOn there arose