Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1865-05-20
NUMBER 10.
From the San Francisco .Ne,c Age.l
The Reign of Peace.


the days full radiance so the accounts rom
the seat of civil coTmotion presnge the coming
of glorious reign of peace. Like the tossed
mariner, who has been through long and
dreary night, battling with the discordant Gle
ments so, our people have fought against the
elements Of social discord. and like TIE seaman,
have chung 10 the Ship of State anxious for the
morning 10 appear. II comes at last, and the
silver streaks of light, which skirt the horizon
of our hopes are as unerrng indications of
dawn Of peace and prosperity as the lurd flashes
WHICH first greet the eye of the traveller, he
metes his progress through the gloom Of night,
are of the coming glcrics of the day. On our
western verge of empire those streams OF hope
and promise are more apparent than where the
wall of mourning is heard at many hcarthstoHe
! in the older settlements Of the East and coming
upon us rs they do. undimmed by the private
anguish which has been spread Ike pail over
/ the citizens of the Atlantic slope they appear
! more bright. more clear more real. At the IN
auguraton of the rebellion. were found m
prepared 10 meet the eXigent demands OF the
times and that another page. the saddest
and bloodicst OF or history. has been turned,
we are fully prepared TO meet the necessities
that will call upon our wisdom prudence, tenn
perance and Justice. War calls out nation
energies and we have proved to the world that
euliow cd with those energies coupled with
resources so vast that the nations of Europe have
been awe-struck at the gigantic result called out
by the most powerful and most comprehensive 70
volt against established Government in the
world 5 history. During the whole period o:
| suppression also when vast resources of men,
money wisdom ard genius. were called forth,
and treasure flowed into our Golfers like water
! from the mountain sides. to sustain a govern
ment. the benefcence of whose organization. was
the hope of oppressed humanity and the terror
of tyrants only and when millions of frcemen
i A. 4
the fascination of wealth, and the ai!uremenis OF
domestic comfort, and offered their lives at the
altar Of liberty and for the salvation Of their
common country well mi ght the admiration OF
: a world be kndlcd nj the subiiuitv Of the spec
lacle. and well might the totterHr empires Of
the eastern hemisphere become appalled, at til.
mighty sacrifice. The war of liberty that com
menced on the burning sands OF Arabia hv the
exodus OF whole people from hondcge had been
continued through ages, and the same finger that
pointed ont the path through the tlackless
desert the same hand that guided the armies Of
freedom at Marathon the same spirlt that evlnced
its existence in the repeated approaches to Hber-
aliSm and compelled monarch to hend TO the
concessions of the Magma Chartl the same eve
that traced the struggle Of freedom from its in
cipency far back in the dim vista OF the forgot
ten past: were enlisted in the struggle. III the
last great battle for liberty and humanity. which
from all time ordained to he fought the
continent Of America aud under the glorious
/ sunl 1ht of American progress But the issue
also ore-ordaincd, for though the struggle
has been long. the final result was sure. and
whether it had been fixed for this or the next
century, the fat had gone forth, and by laws IS
invariahie as the laws Of nature the doom Of
the oppressor was marked, and thankful may
be that have been the honorcd agents: though
mourning sufferers. in the great conflict. Wis
dom will now be required 10 mould the elements
OF our strength to the establishment of peace
which will guaranty not only to ourselves. ba;
through us to the world. the fullest measures Of
idemnitv from the further assault of arbitrary
power and the unwarranted exactions of despot-
ism.
As Americans we look with pride upon the
achievements of our arms. but as members Of
the human family we must pause to reflect how
We may devote those achievements to the COM
mon good of humanity. Oar destiny as nation
has been established by our success. but ms
people. it is but Indicated, and we would be
iaithless to the lessons of history If did not
accept it and render ourselves worthy the higher
and greater contest against ignorance and intoi-
erancc. the suppression Of which will devOlve
| upon us during the reign of peace. Prudence
should direct counses. that no indiscretion
may neutralze the advantage we have gained
and temperance withhold those impetuous i'm
pulses which might oycrreach our mission, while
I justice sHOuiu pTe>iue over All. ana lUete our u
/ full rctributon without fear or favor. In exact
! proportion to our exercise of these virtues, NAV
we esteem the measure of our success. and in
just proportion to our regard to these virtues
may we acquire the full benefits which will re-
suit from peace in our borders. The contracted
mind will see in tie issues of the late struggle
! but the local questions which were made the
pretext for the most g Nntic civil war that ever
afflicted any country. while the enlarged mind
will discern the contest OF principle against
power-mieht against right 1t may beassumed
that the American Government in the struggle,
developed the greater might as we'll as assumed
the cause of principle, but when it is considered
that that Government is powcrless without the
voluntary support of the people, and that it il
really but their agent to economse their resour
ces, it will be readily conceded that it was prin-
ciple in the hands of free people which fought
this war against thorough organization based
on material power, and whose corner stone was
human slavery.