Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-05-17

look kindly toward each other; that read
/ the same Bible; that hung over the his
torie pages of our national glory; that
studied the same CcrsGitution
Let this uplifting bring back all Of the
past tina. was good, but leave in darkness
ali that Was bad.
1t was never before so wholly unspot-
ted; so clear Of ali wrong so purely and
simply the sign Of Justice and Liberty
Did ! say We brought back the same ban
ner that you bore away, noble and heroic
sir? It is re, TIE same. 1t IS purer and
better than it was. The land is free from
slavery, since that banner fell
When God would prepare Moses for
emancipation he overthreg his Grs. steps,
and drove him lor forty years to brood in
the wilderness. When our flag came
down, four years it lay brooding in dark
ness. 1t cried to tie Lord, Wherefore
am | deposed p Then rose before it a
vision OF its sin. 1t had strengthened
the strong, ard forgotten the weak. 1t
proclaimed liberty hat trod upon slaves
q thl. seeiuSion it dedicated itself to
liberty. Behold, to day, it fulfiiis It's
VOWS When i: went down four million
people hsd no Tag. Tc day it rises, and
four million people cry out. Behold our
flag - llark they narmur. 1t is the
Gospel that they reci;s n sacred words !:
" 1t is Gospel to the poor, it heals our
broken hearts, it breaches deliserance to
cautiVes. it gives sight to the bhud, it sets
- liberty them that are bruised" Rise
up, then, glorious Gospel Banner, aud roll
out these messages Of God Tell the air
that not spot nov sUl.ies thy whiteness.
Thy red is not the blush of shame, hut
the fush of joy. Tell The dews thar wash
thee ;llat thou art pure as they. Say TO
the night, that thy stars lead toward the
mo rning and to the morning, that a
brighter day arises with healing in its
wings. AID then, oh allowing flag, bid
the sun pour light on ali tiny folds with
double brightness while thou art bearing
round and round the world the solemn
joy--a race set free na;.on redeemed !
The mighty hand Of Government made
strong in war, 10y the favor Of God Of
Battles, spreads wide to-day the bacner ..
liberty. that vert down IN dark pss<, that.
arose n Iglt; and there it streams, like
the sun above it, ueither parceied out nor
m0nopcli2ed but flooding the air with
i9ht tor all mankind. We scattered and
broken, re wounded and dying, bitten by
the fiery se,peuis OF oppression, every
where, IL alt the wcg'd lock upon this
sign, lifted up, and I've And ye home
less aud hOuseless slaves, look. ana ye are
Lfee, 1t length you, too, have part
AMI !g. in this glorious eusiLD, that broods
with impartial. love over small and great,
the poor and the strong, the bort an& TIE
| ires.
Ia this solemn hour, let Us pray for the
q1ic5 coming OF reconciliation and hap
ppess, under this comlnon flag.
But, We must build AGAIN from the
foundatiou, in az these row free South
cru States. No cheap explorations " to
forgetiu.ness Of the past, 70 restore all
thir . rs they we're" vii do. God does
not stretch ort his hand, as he has for
four dreadful years. that men may easily
forget the might OF this terrible acts
Restore things as they were? What, the
alterations and jealous s;Z the dlscords and
contentious, aud the causes Of them =
No. In that solemn sacrifice on which a
nation has offered up for its slus SO many
precious victims, loved and lame nted, le;
our sins and uifstakes be consumed utter
y and forever.
No, never again shall things be restor-
ed as before the war 1t is written in
Gods decree of events fulfilled, "Old
things are passed away" That new
earth, in which dwelieth righteousness,
draws near.
Things as they were? Who has All
omuipoieut hand TO restore q million dead
slain in battle, or wasted BY sickness, or
dying Of grlet, broken hearted /! Who
has omniscence to search for the scatter
ed opes? Who shall restore the lost 10
! broken families ? Who shall bring back
the aquaudered treasures, the years OF IN
iastry wasted, aud convince YOU that four
yeals Of guilty rebellion. and cruel war,
are no mere than dirt upon the hand,
which moments washing removes, aud
leaves the hand clean as before? Such a
war reaches down to the very vitais OF
society.
Emerging fror, such prolonged rebel
liou, he Is blind who tells you that the
state, by mere amnesty and benevoIeuce
OF Government, can be put again by a
mere decree, in its old place. 1t would
not be houest, It would not be kind or
fraternal, for me to pretend that South
ern revolutio against ;he Union has not
reacted, and wrought revolution in the
Southern states themselves, aud iraugu-
ted . rev dispensa.ion
Society here is ike broken loom, and
the piece which rebellion put in, aud was
wearing, has beer cut, and every thread
broken. You must put in new warp aud
new woof. and, weaving anew, as the fab
ric slow y unwinds, VIC shall see in it no
Gorgon figures, no hicsous grotesques Of
the old bsrbarism, bu. the figures of lib