The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-06-30

md &c, tile captive free. While church and stnte
were thus dronched in the blood OF their victims
ond There was no humnn eye to pity and created
arm TO save, Gods own eye piled and 10 dny
through the blood Of our most beloved, Ills
arm hath brough: salvation. In the blood O
ADfaham Lincoln, has God rewritten His etcr.
nal law, as declared by the prophet Of old. ."As
I'VE, salh the Lord, though hand join in hand,
.he wicked shall not go unpunished." Turn
whichever way we will in our iniauity, God 3
law conirons US, and eterual justice encompass.
e'h US round about. Judgment hath been laid
To- the line and Righteousness 10 the piumrnet'
ne hail hath swept awny our refuge Of lies, -
ana the waters OF Gods justice have overnowed
Ine hlding places oi the wicked" In the frag.
mchts OF our tatered constitution we see our GOV.
eenont wit h death" disannuled and in q dismem
oered and disorgonizcd republic we behold our
agreement with hell'' overthrown. IT'S thus with
lhe swords point by the urid Inrc OF the lannon's
snlPhurous light, God has inscribed on the pace
., .ne ha'ions history Iii, warning TO oil coming
nges that in Justice and righteousness onlv ie
'here safety and strength. In the light of the
past lour years Of agony and blood, we mov he
hold' II we VIII, the truth Of the poets inspira
tion that, while
Round and round we run,
Ever the right comes uppermCst,
And ever is justice don.n
We can see in the desolstipg carnage OF
this gigantic struggle, in tho fairest portion
OF our country laid waste by tto ruthless
hand OF war, in villages burned and cities
sacked. in the gloom that oerspreads full
many household by the loss of the fairest
and bravest, lastly by the crowning act of
Slavery's minione, the climax of arstocra tic
spite the cowardly assassination of him who
stood the representative of Justice, Free.
dom and Equality, and as touching tho TEN.
poral rights of tho colorcd race. God 8
vicege-ent on eartb,-I say, in tho light of
this record wo may behold the deep Gamma
ton of our guilt. and what it has cost to
educate the people up to recognition Of
the manhood of a race we bad degraded
and trampled under foot for two hundred
years. know how easy and how pleasing
J. is to charge all the guilt and crime O.
Slavery upon our brethren of tho South.
but rest assured. il we had not been eonai
partners in the groat inigui,y, Gods hand
had never been laid SO heavily upon us in
Judgment. Do we forget how, in the early
days OF the Anti Slavery enterprise. the
churches refused the use even of their vest.
RIGS in which to bold prayer meetings in
behalf of the poorest OF Gods poor: -
Have We forgotten how, with curling lin
and naughty pride, professed ministers of
the Meek and Lowl y sneercd at tho "mistak.
on philanthropy and mad fanaticism" of
those who were calling upon nation of op
prossors to cease from oppression and
wrong: Do we forget how minister after
minister, who fain would remember those
in bonds as bound with them, was driven
from his pulpit and forced to earn his
bread in some humber avocation: Do We
forget how the aristocratic Slave Power
dominated over the nation, driving peace
able citizens from their homes. rifiinp the
u. s. mailo in search of incendiary docu.
ments, searching Northern vessels. and
casting seamen. charged with no crime. into
prison, and selling them into lifelong sIa.
very to pay the Jail fees? Have wo FORGOT.
ten how, to please our Southern lords and
masters, we first-helped enact, and then for
long years kept on the statute book, an act
that would disgrace an Algerine pirate?-
Has it passed from our memory how a
brutal ard cowardly assassin dealt a muir.
dorous blow upon the head of one of the
noblest men who ever graccd tho American
Senate? And how. like whipped spaniels
that we were. wo tameIy and iguominiousIv
submitted to the outrage: Do We forget
how. for two years and more of the Great
Rebellion, We proudly and scornfully re.
fused any assistance from the colored race.
until our cause was we'll nigh lost, and God
showed US on many cory field that the
white man alone could never save the ma.
tion: Can We ever forget tho mobs of
New York and Philadelphia 10 which the
unprotected negro was barbarously mur-
dered in cold blood, his dwelling sack ed,
AND bis family turned into the street and
most inhumanly treated? Can We shut our
eyes to all these painful truths,a declare
ourselves innocent of the blood of the slave:
Nay, verify. his blood hath stained our gar.
ments, and not bis only, but also that OF our
bravo sons upon many hard fought field,
and finaliy the fe-blood of him who fell
by tho assassin's hand dying that the nation
might live. bath left its mark upon our
foreheads, in that We still refused Justice to
those whom We had so long oppressed
Verify, might 1t be said of this nation, as of
ancient Israel: "Ye have built up your
church with blood, and your cities with in
iquity. The beads of the nation Judge for
reward, and the priests teach for hire, and
the prophets divine for money; yet will they
loan upon the Lord, and say is not the Lord
among US! None evil can come upon US.
'Therefore shall Zion. for your sakes, be
plowed as field. and your city shall be-
come heaps, and the mountain of the house
as the high places of the forest. And night
shall be unto you. and ye shall not have
vision. and it shall be dark unto you that
ye shall not divine, and the sun shall 90
down over the prophet, aud the day shall
be dark over them Then shall the seers
be ashamed and the OWNERS be confound.
ed; yea, they shall cover their lips, for there
10 DO answer of God"
And. now. my countrymen, Gods voice
to-day is. "Will 20 heed my warnings and
my judgments. or must other and heavier
chastisements be laid upon you?" Say not
that the Rebellion is crushed, Slavery is
ended, and that is enough. 'Tis not enough
that we break the chains of race we have
and degraded for two hundred