Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-07-08
SAVED BY THE coIHREp RAGS.

Dr.. sCbesysr ounthe day Of the Nsst9nsl
Fast. :. t4af lo s.snsisxedsls boS
SAVED BY THE cotRRED RACE.
roWecahe'ssved oinathis conflict by the in,
slFumeutejity of ltha blacks by dsbe defence
Of Iheir csuse on, the. v holsI beisg, 90 ueps
SIDE, by their being with us, spd God With
ns FOR them. !. We are saved, not BY ops
Republican form Of eovefbment, for ,fbl IL
bad no power against dsunion. nor blythe
freedom Of orr CONSTITUTION, for IA consc
quepcs Of msiDtaiuibg our Oonstifutiob
itself to have been IAN iinstromeltoof bro
slavery guarantees. eyen 10 the midst of
the conflict We have had TO premise thai
We would reconstruct that, but .bs the
blacks being with. as, and agsinst opr enc,
mics, by our being compelled to recoastruct
the Constitution and the Union for their
sake, by the'Lofd God being on our aide.
fer fhess to doaibeu justice, God sos
broken nsunder the Union, aud by his idp
vise surgery, has cot out this cancer of slsg
yery that was eating at oar, yitals, and be
has not used chloroform for, this operation,
he's not made az iosensible to the pain, 'oL
the method fit, but has made rs see sIt
the. while what bs was. dong. ,'a'n'-'''e 4,
<Auu UUW ue VIII ItSsUfd the Union Ia
health and prosperity. II We wait ouo him,
aud do justly He broke the Union asuns
der because it. vss,sa prison, vi4s ifogr.
million. slaves walled, up 10 It's ,dpngsons,
and their cry went UP to heaeen; II the
Union is nescessary 70 BIS purposes, be wilf
build it sgain, but usserasill be lsttt stsud
with any ef that oppressed race Dbuiit Iiatd
IL as its ebatfeis,, neaer but asa just u aion.
And never can Ii be, a. all reboilded with
oat him, sAnd yet the proposition now tss
| to leaseithep sill in q, condition which our
fathers called slavery untfi We can amend
our CousI' ation.s God undertook this
war, for tho negr oes. because We had de.
clsred that we could not set them free by
the Constitution, and thai rather than have
the Uuion broken up we would stiiI keep
them slaves II we now undertake. to
make peace for ourselves, leaving, tbs ne,
groes ia, a condition which our, fathers said
rather than endure eor themselves they
| would lay dowu tbeia lives, and went 10
var accordingly, and leaving the right to
0ppress, them as q, race not emily denied bus,
admitted al. . right OF soyereignty. then the.
same reasons OF State aud justice which
made the j udge Of all The earth break 90
OUT y aiou, will cause H i'm to forbid chat
we should renew il. I'VE cannot renewl it.
but by His .fasor, His wisdom, His gal,
dance, His, power, We cap no more bring
these discovered empires iuto one, by any
human policy, that embraces . compromise
With slavery, o. leaves for future adjust,
ment the caase, the crime. that drove, North
| and South asunder, than NE could have re.
united The! Kingdoms Of Rshobosm and ,Jcs
roboam on cowRonaise WITH lidoisgsT. ..a-j
There too parts ofour broken Union have
stood bfistling with defiance at each lot her,
as the tagged mountain walls of the via
Mala in Switzerland with the torrent
tlrdpderirg through, You can see the cut
jutting crsgs on one side, and the CORES.
pondiugq cavities where they split, on. ths)
other. and vhers, they would mite again
II you could bring Them back. III; ,, q
But ~c can no more do that by North
ard South without Gods owai power, ohu.
man wisdom or enactment, than we could
stand on the suspension bridge over Nt
agra and at a word compel the Canada
side and the United States side to- close
up aud bury the torrent. Tue divulsion
by Almighty Power was the 6rstthiag and
!hs Gully thing that put. q stop to our slave
empire. We did not do il. but disclaimep,
The work. and eyensdeniod the Institution
as being o crime, even in our thoaghts -
The torren, has been laundering down 1esss
since, carrying, on the surge of he eatAeact
fragment after fragment OF the, institotion
Of tyrspsy that We sought TO sare.o nOdf
81 very Ia the Dr,ricf of Columbia7 went
by the board We still cluug to the Fa-
gi,ivs Slave law hut God threw thai also
over the Falls. %, Not, one of al, the meas,
ures against slavery did our, Chief Magis.
trate propose or originate. bat against
every one ip succession set his conserYativs
shoulders. till Indispensable necessity should
drive him on. . oAhd III God had stopped
the war wi hin the first year of its dbteak,
ing eupif God he'd made ~ bot ''ninety
days insurrection," nose of the measures
which be has compelled us TO adopt against
slayeFy would have been adopted, bet We
shoold probably have amended our Oonsti,
tuition ID behalf of slavery. And yet God
has saved US, though we have resisted this
kind Of sa lvation every step Of the way,
aud been dragged Reluctantly into u, en-
deasoring still to save slavery and the
Union together, q, d willing toabolish sls-'
very only when we must her do that, or
die ourselves. nor esed, abolishing ii except
only by peacemesl, establishing it 10 large
excepted regions egen where we dscrssd its
abolition 10 Others. Notwithstanding oil
this. God has saved us. .-.',.. - ~ /
aAnd he cav that there was no man. and
wondered that there WAS no insereessien; thersz
FIRE his. arm brought salvation, and bis
righteousness II sustained hin" ,"t'"I have srod.
den the wine.press aloae ofthe people thsre
was pone with me. And I Looked. and there
was none to help; and I wondered thst therp,
was eopsfo uphold; 0shese n,ios own arm
broaght shlvaiiop. sod ny fafy y upheld ms.Ts'
! God, ip,his divise majesty, hath xrought
sal v alton for, u.s.. IN spite OF usi even while
We have been epdeavoring 10 prevent both
,he breakn knpioftbe fyranny. asd the de-
ivsrancs pf its victims. Fronb this time
forth it has to he sboated. What bath.
God wrought. end God alonel Jehovah
hath triuRpb, the negroes are ffeel
| ta9A saasagTHs fs.. Il iaf9ayts - NE85. "
A. npeIintendent Of q mission school, be.
log annoyed by the noise. 6nsily tp appeal.