The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-05-03

10 ltS punIlcalipO, DuJ II IN your JuORmenl
it would subserve the interests of our belov,
ed country, toward which God has shown
go much favor, MS. copy is at your dis.
posal. --..
Very truly yours,
j. NJ. CARR.
CAD1z, O., April lS. 1866.
praise the 1orl, o Jerusalem; praise
thy God, Zion. For he hath strengthened
II bars OF thy gates; he hath blessed thy
children within thee, he max eth peace in
thy borders. ."--Ps. CXLvI1-l2.
This Psalm issupposed to have been com
posed after the Jews had returned from
Babylon, and had rebuilded the walls OF Je-
rusalem. 1t was sung in the Second Tenn
ple, IN praise AID thanksgiving to the God
OF Heaven, because Of the favor he had
shown his land, aud the great things he had
done for them. How could it have been
but thatthose Psalms, which were written
Gter the captivity, and sung early in the
Second Temple, should have abounded in
loltiest praise and thanksgiving. When
again they stood within the walls Of Jcru-
ealem, aad beheld their long-loved Zion,
how could they but ploclain--" lie hath
ne ae!lt So with any nation,' aud with
hearts oyeraowing With religious and patri-
oii, tervor but sing, PRAISE the Lord, @
Jerusalem; praise thy God, 0 Zion"
Tnus it has ever been, and ever will be-
for whenever God wo1ks sat fer bis people
a great national deliycrance, ti.ty must and
viii praise him. What could have restrain
cd that triumphant song which Miriam and
the hosts Of lsruel sang when the Lord had
,:iumphed gloriouSy, and the horse and his
rider he had thrown in tile sea- and on the
shore they stood q nation redeemed and
free? But come to our own times. After
nearly eight years Of dark and doubtful
aanhict when CORVALLIS had surrendered
20 Washington. and England had aei;nowl-
edged our independence, and gyms ard ellis
and bonfres heralded the glad t;dngs
through the land, what could l,a1c rr,vtE
ted that praise and Thanksgiving wh.,il as
cendod to Heaven FROM the glad hearts and
sacred affairs Of our patriot fathers? And
to-day, on The anniversary. Of the fall of
Sa ntcr, and the Inauguration Of this rebel.
Ion, aftcrin mick succession have come to
l.s the glad tidn2s that Savannah, Chsslas-
ton, Columbia, Wilmington. Petersburg ard
Richmond, the seat and citadel Of the II,
rchi0n have been captured, and Ilne and
The army of Virginia have surrendered,
what can or should restrain the patriot
millions Of the laal from p.t!ising God;
For all tlle favor lle hath shown
10 this fair land the pilgrims trod-
This land we FoNDLY GALL OUR OWN"
Where amid all these millions is one intelli-
gent patriot christian whose heart does not
ovefow with, a patriotic and religious feryor
akin to that which inspired Israel, when in
thcil beautiful Temple they sang, Praise
the Lord, o Jerusalem, praise thy God, o
Xion. For h. hath ST e,,gthemed thy gates
he nwleth peJ"e i. thy bori~rs"
To-day, assembled as christian citizens, it
becomes us to consider some Of the many
causes We have for praise and Thanksgiving
to the God our nation, tor the great things
ne hath done for us.
The orerthrow Of this rebellion is cause
for nyttgAcd Maahsgitmg.
Though all the iDsurgCnt forces are not
disbanded, yet the fortunes Of the rebellion
are fallen beyond any earthly power to re-
deem them. Because of this let us rtjoicc
Since this rebellion began four years ago,
hundreds of Thousands have fallen manned
and Aeedmg upon its bloody grounds; more
than hundred thousand--many in uncof-
fined graves sleep the sleep that dreams
of battle fields no mere" and all DER The
land millions mouln the ''unreturuing
brave" ~ Could the rebellion continue a
twelvemonth with that sangunary spirit
which characterized it in the year past, tel G
of thousands would be added to those al
ready sacrificed, and the hearts of hundreds
Of thousands would bleed alresh. To the
billions Of treasure already expended would
be added hundreds of millions more And
the beginning of sorrows had but come
Secession would have inauguratcd her car
nival and transmitted eternal war to poster
\ ity-for this land must lie one, or many,
and if many, dark and bloody Let us re-
ioice that the history of the Grecian States,
and the German confederations is not to re-
peat itself in our land; that in future we do
not behold score of petty despotisms in
the stead of the Republic for which our fa-
theirs fought and our brothers have died;
that our posterity shall not stand in as ma,
ny different armies, and the resources of the
country consumed in murderous wars. He
who loves his children, his country and his
race, will ever rejoice that God has saved
this land from 50 great calamity, Joyful
ms we may feel over the great events that
have just transpired, yet We are too near
them to realize their magnitude and feel
the fulness Of joythey SHOULD inspire. When
in the future we shall look back upon this
rebellion and consider the tell spirit that in
auguratedit and sought to blast the hopes
of posterity and humanity, we will feel
more than to-day our gratitude to God for
its overthrow. h-n H'i
Another cause which we have for thanks
giving is the overthroio of the causes or 1orin
c,ple aohich conspned to produce the rebel
lion. -.-..---..--.-..-.-.,-.--
One of the, conspiring causes was the doe
trine Of Isdepeadeat State Soreretgnty, the
,baseless heresy of the right of Secession. :
II in the. Fundamental law of the land il
should not receive an expressed condemna-
ton, yet certainly after the dark history OF
this rebellion shall have been written never
can men again be deluded to believe that a
State has sovereign right to dismember
and destroy the Republic. &a9 sS5 ~ eAf
A second coaspHing cause was che spirit
of contempt for Daaaual labor and la5orers.
Educated by this spirit, Southern women
who had slaves to come and go at their bid.
ding, had learned to consider the women Of
the Free States beneath their notice. II
was this spirit-tha.termed the honest yeo,
manry of the land the maud sslls of society,"
and calling itself chivqIy, boastedi ono Of
its subjects equal to five Northern men;