Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-06-08

that the consciousness of having such cause
as this should work upon the mind and spirit.
Men who have u. weak cause may we'll be
harsh, unjust or cruel or unrelenting. Men
whose devotion is to a cause that must triumph
nSt in the country only, but finally over all
the world, can afford to cherish kindly feel
ings and generous wishes. Whatever truth
INDY reduire them to say, whitever the stern
demands Of justice may compel them to do,
they have no excuse for being unforgiving,
for cherishing one moments bitterness against
those Very Sersoas #Eoni- they Believe Ht.t
guilty. The cause for which the nation has
been cdiEnaing1 tilbre or leit blindlt It is
true, but none the less certainly for that, is
not theirs, but Gods, THE Lord God ON
npoteht tcigheth." and the drift of his ndnilYi-
istrstion is plain enough to By seen. 1t is so
very evident that his reigning involved a pro-
gross from d leset to a higher in. created be
ings Of a lower rank than man, that / cannot
but believe that tie mo vemeHt of the last GEN.
turtles. has hcen 5eplly % progress and not
rctrog canntt but ,lbot forw ard
to the sdyancesheHt If man to hifket and We.
higher intellectual. end moral levels III title
passes. IknoY. that it is teCdliatly difficult
for those who lire in, any one period Of this
worlds history I'd realize this The pettnesses
and nieahntsses, the Want Of tBprecihllM a.
pure and high motives, the lives of n,en OFT
of all CONCORD with their uvowed rrih ciples
| the open wickedness and injustice and cruelty
OF mail that.we pre- so much more apt 10 allow
our minds to dwell on tlini on all that is pure
and toblc and Of good report existing at the
same time, draw US to imagine that in some
far he IL A.
purity and steadfastncss and beauty of virtye
that is unknown i'll our time. But neiwii;
stenaiug all this and Notwithstanding that
in certain ages of the world aud among some
nations there. has been moral AMI intellec-
tual dcSer.ora ton, Ms,p'ay. UT safely assert,
aud rely on the evidence Of the history of. the
human race in general for the support Of tSe
assertion. that the movement of the human
race, not merely in physical we'll being but in
the well being Of mind and soul, is Egward. I'D
But. here il Wow which. We. may iaka Of
the purposes of this day that J. FAYE RECEIVED |
for the last. We ktte tbR. TITS. though not
the last of days Of fasting. humiliation and
prayer that this people will ,keep a. ont ma
ton. that IT is the last Of spsk da0a t4al be-
long peculiarly and exclusively 70 die struggle
through which We have EeGn Passing, So it
is, pot'a day Of mourning f. scrc martyr mere
ly, but for tens Of thousands that have offered
Up thor lives. With DINNER or clearer percep-
lion Of 7hat thgir purpose was, for their coun-
try or for all mankind. Hundreds of thous-
ands. We may we'll believe, were urged on BY. 1
a dun. though not purposelcss instinct tkat
hinted to them that it was great and 30
rious thing to die for their country, though
they saw but imperfectly what their country
really signiied, what its position and purpose
in the history of the world rcrrty was. .Thous-
ands offered up their liyef mere irtellgcntly
for their country and 30. for the world aud
there were some ardent and olear-sghted
souls, v~rily hs'isve, that werc, ~ise and
pure hcGr:ec and Hopeful enough to put the
world first and their country second, that were
ready to give their lives for theircountry, not
merely because it was their country, but be-
cause that country stood, stands, aud we hope
that il will stEhd. fc- s..T.,aankind. The bod
les of these men that willingly offered Them
selves for their country and the world in star
light. twilight or glorious daylight ore scat
tered over many q mile between the Susauco /
tanna I'd the Rio Grande conservative our
country into one vast sepulchre Of martyrs for
the human race. These are tho defJ over
whom We are to mourn together With ahe dead /
Of Last Easter Even. Iyemembe, to Lave read
many yearsag Of vision th.t some French
man who had fought and suffered fhroi gh the
wars Of the. lsepiltt;i End Gnlpire is said 40
have related lie saw the dead, apparently
Of hundred battle fields, ghastly and flesh
less and silent deflc. before, him. Such a
vision ra'ses Before me DOW, only, the sf,ast-
liress N rendered'lcss horrible BY .lle glory
that is shed over the sgd progression by the re-
mcmbrance tl4t great principles have been
indicated and that great nul ancient hopes
that ut some times have seemed almost dead
have sturIed thew~wfs for new nnvl long
&c eIAspre' ~ wSrd hight. Fly .onssrd are
upwards. oh. ~ Hopcs!, that hover hke
loves over the future Of tho human race; gaze
like eagles, at the brightness
IF the days and years to como. Qr nation
may prove itsslS unworthy. as other peculiar
and chosen nations have shown themselves, of
is past and QGi spRarers fpsqe ,,bpt ,se,~sY Il
believe, surg tina: equal right will ,aeys aud
ncse' belong % all mankind. that honor will i
be recognized more and r:ore rs due to every
nan fse1nsve-y plsa, that opr ~orA will grow
Soasger as.it gtEws oder. th It God dad not
make higher. .4ud higher forms of being to sue
iced one another until he croxnedtne creation
with man, in order to drsg Flower. g "a lower
liter man was made, that wars viii become
hofc ard more hnrdssibla, less and LEA ne 5as-
'ary as the years roll on un,ila pe&csthst shall
'eign over the world shall turn With tsarfdl
md thankful eyes to the battle fields Of .oIr
var as no smsfl part Of the, means by which
The Lord.Gqa !Omnipttent haa made possis,e
'uch s'2visn. go .s
4 portion Of the suppressed evidence taken