Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-20

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ever. Mol Never again shall things be
restored as before the vArl Il is written
in Gcd's decree of events fulfilled, aold
things have passed away and that new
earth in which dWelleth righteousness
draws near. Things as they were Who
has an omnipotent hand, to restore mil
hon dead, slain In battle or wasted BY sick
ness, or. dying Of grief, bEoken-hearted
Who has omnipresence % search for che
scattered ones Who shall restore the
lost to broken families2 Who shall bring
| back the squsndered treasure, the years Of
industry wasted, and convince YOU that
| four years of guilty rebellion and cruel war
are no more than dirt upon the hand, which
q moments washing removes, and leaves
the hand clean as before2 Such q war
reaches down TO the very Yitsls Of society.
Emerging from such prolonged re-
bellion, be is blind who tells yoC that the
State, BY mere amnesty and benevoienee
of government can be put sgsin By mere
decree in its old place It would not be
bonest-is would NOS be kind or frsternal
for me to pretend that Southern reVolu-
ton against the Union has not reached
and wrought revolution in the Southern
States themselves, and inaugurated new
dispensatiOn- Society is ike 3 broken
loom, and the piece which rebellion put
in and was weaving has been cut, and ev-
cry thread broken. You must put in new
warp, and new wool, and weaving anew
as the fabric slowly anwinds, We shall see
in it no gorgon figures, no hideous gr0-
tesque of the Old barbsrism, but the figures
of liberty, vines and golden grains, franz
ing in the heads Of justice, love and liberty
The august convention of 1887 framed the
Constitution with this memorable pream-
BILE. aWe the people of the United States,
in order to form 8 mora perfect union and
establish Justice, insure domestic trsnquili-
ty, provide for the common defence, pre-
mote the general welfare and secure the
blessings Of liberty to ourselves and our
posEerity, do ordain this Constitution for
the United States of Americs." Again,
in the awful convention of war, the peo-
pie of the United State for the very ends
lust recited, have debated, settled and Or
dained certain fundamental truths which
must henceforth be accepted and obeyed;
nor is any State or any individual wise
who shall disregard them. They are TO
civil affairs what the natural laws are to
health-indispensibl conditions Of peace
and happiness. What are the ordinances
given BY the people, speaking out Of fire
and darkness of war, with authority in
spired by the same God who gave the law
from Sinai amid tbunders Of trumpet
voices:
1. That these United States shall be one
and invisible; 2. that States are not alb
solute sovereigns, and have no right to dis
member the republic; 3. Universal Iiber-
ty is indispensable to republican govern
ment, and thst slavery shall be utterly and
forever abolished. Such arc the results Of
war; these are the best fruits of the wsr.
They are worth all they have cost. They
are the foundations of peace. They will
secure benefits to all nations IS we'll as TO
Us. Our highest wisdom and duty is to &C
cept the facts as the DEGREES Of God We
are exhorted to forget all that has happen
: ed. Yes, the overruling DEGREES OF God
} which this war has pronounced as solemn
: " as on Mount Sinai, God gays: HRemem-
ber--remember, hear it to-day, under this
sun, under that bright child of the Sum
} mer banner, with the eyes Of this nstion
, and of the world upon Us. We repeat the
syllsbles Of Gods providence, and recite
the solemn decrees-No moro di5NaioH-H0
more seeessiO1s-1lo more sLGDeTy. APP
plsuse Why did the civil war begin
We do not wonder that European states
men failed to comprehend this conflict, and
, foreign philaRthrophists we're shocked at q
: murderous war that seemed to have no
3 moral origin, but like the brutal fight OF
r beasts of prey 10 have sprung from teroel-
Gus animslism.
This great nation, filing sn profitable
3 lstitudes, Graded between two oceans with
! inexhausibie resources, with riches increas-
! ing in sn unparalleled ratio, by agricul-
: ture, BY manufactures, by commerce, with
d schools and churches, with books and news
i papers thick as leaves in our own forests
e with Institutions sprung from the people
T and peculiarly adapted to their genius
J, nation not sluggish but active, used to ex.
q citement prsctised in political wisdom and
9 accustomed to self gov ernment, and all IL
It vast outlying parts held together by a Fed
! ersl Government mild in temper, gentle IN
K administration, and beniaeent IN results,
o we do not wonder that it is not understood
!. abroad. All at once in this hemisphere oi
n happiness and hope there came troOping
d clouds with fiery bolts full Of death and
o desolstion. At cannon shot upon this
? fort slI the nation, as if they had been
II trained army lying on their arms awaiting
1t signal, rose up and began war Wnlcn tol
It awf1lness rises into the first rank o.
le bad eminenee. The front of battle go
7, ing with the sun wss twelve hundred miles
st long, and the depth, measured along I
St meridian was q thousand miles In tnl
II vsst area more than two million men, mrs
10 and last for four years, have in skirmisn
o fight and battle, met in more than tnou
d sand eonfic.s, while coast and river I'm
le not less than four thousand miles IN length
le has swsrmed with fleets freighted with ar
is tillery. The very industry Of the country
Is seemed to have been touched by some IN
= fernsl wand, and with one wheel changes
D. Il from peace to war. The anvlls OF tn
ID land beat like drums ss out OF the ooz
ID emerge monsters; so from our mine
g and foundries uprose new and strange ma
in chimes of war, iron-clad. And so In ns
re ton of peaceful habits, without externt
q provocation, there rose such storm
be war As blackened the whole horizon an
o. hemisphere. Whist wonder that forelg
In observers stood amazed st this tanallc'
y. fury that seemed without Divine guidanei
it but inspired wholly with internal frenzy
Sd The explosion was sudden, but the trsI
rs had long been laid. Wemust consider 80
ey condition of Southern society If we Woul
it understand the mystery of this lniquit.
V Rowing to the lateness Of the hour, we Al
- obliged to postpone publishing the balAnC
,el of the orstion till our next issue