Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-12-23

! EtlLE Ol the llNELH OA llUELlY III GNEl1
land. In 1912 it became an object of
envy and hate. Again a mighty axe
was drawn to hew it down with a
stroke. The yeOmanTy of the land
rushed to its defence, and another
/ 100000 laid down their precious lives
under its shadows in a war Of three
years. More than ever it grew, until
its giant arms extended from shore to
shore and from lake to lake.
Again, when a number of attempts
had been made TO mar its beauty by
Looping off some of its branches, by
those who were lily inclined in advO-
eating State Rights while resting in
in its shadow, (but without much
damage,) n great plan was cOncocted
more hellish than earthly, by which
it was proposed TO divide it in two,
1 and make the divided parts perfect
OppOsites, like heaven and hell /; one
being for Freedom, i" the other Cop
preston" Around the summit of one
the sharp sighted eagle was to soar, at
the roots of the other the kissing SER
! pant was to nestle. vfez'T
In 1851 the Rebellion was fully in
augurated, and we are ready to say
that it was the greatest Rebellion of
Our world, and only excelled when
Satan and his angels revOlted from
heaven. .-r .t..l,.sf
When the time finally arrived to
make a stand in self-defenee, the cry
"war war! warl to arms TO arms ]"
rang across the continent, -f.-aar
The cry was needed; and in answer
to the different calls made by the Gov
eminent, not far from fifteen hun
dred thousand men rushed to arms.
! To crush the gigantic Rebellion. the
Government waged a war for four
ears, sacrificed 500, 600 and increased a
"National Debt ofhear s., ,000, 900, ,O00
On the side of the heinsergents, every
thing was done that their financial
and military strength could do, or the
most diaboIical barbarity devise.
They enlisted I 1,124, 900 according to
their own statement and of which
100000 are either dead or disabled.
Their war debt was probably about
$4,000, ,OO0, 600, to which untold mil
lions were added by losses, by the ill
fortunes of so sanginuary a struggle.
Productive industry suspended, fields
laid waste, houses and cities consumed
all, all, as the manifest ire Of Jeho-
Vah-make such devastation and ruin
as no finite mind can fully cOmpre-
hend. Their plans indicated military
skill their ramparts bid defiance to
the loyal legiOns; their 'iron-clads"
were staunch; their battering-ram
powerful, and all unequaled by the
courage, herOism and endurance of
the sOldieTy, numbering more than a
thousand thousand men. Their mu-
lnitiOns of war were laid up in vast
stores, which. they had been accumu-
lating for long years before the war,
:. and to which England was adding
constantly fresh supplies while
France made flank move By taking
. Mexico, which was our natural alley
by being a Republic. Such n Rebel
lion was powerful enough to have
: overthrOwn the Chinese-the oldest
, and largest Empire in the world.
These facts show in some degree
the magnitude of our struggle so lately
, terminated.
: Only think of it, two millions d
men in hostile array, under the mill
: taIy discipline of modern skill and
: empowered by all the most perfected
engineFy of war invented by modern
science and through all science hav-
ing q line of defence a thousand miles
long by land and more than two thou
!, sand by water.
We might well wonder that we have
been no more shaken by such pow
erful Rebellion, when in fact it very
sensibIy affected, morally and finan-
cially every nation in the civilized
world
We do wonder with unutterable as
tOnishment, that a nation so young
only ninety-three years old now
could get up such a great fuss create
so great debt, and Kill so many men.
Lovers of negrO-slavery defied lib
erty-lOving America; hence the fuss.
Both were ardent; hence the frey
wheel and bloody car Of war. The
Government, in crushing the Rebel
lion, created debt of say $1,000, ,0O0,-
600, and the Insurgents S2,0OO,0 600, 600;
while the sacrifices and wastes on
both sides would be as much more,
which would amount to ten thousand
million dollars. The gold and silver
coinage of the world would not pay
our losses. One million lives have
been sacrificed while heaven, and
earth and hell have felt the shock. In
the sanguinary strife we created q fleet
of war-ships, irOn-clads and batter
ing-rams, that eight years ago would
have been sufficient to sweep the as
sembled Fleets and Navies of the
world from the face of the sea in two
hours.
The principles of liberty and op-
preston or freedom and slavery, were
the antagOnisms; and around the
standard of these OppOsites, Ameri-
cans have rallied. Hence the war was
one of principle. And thank heaven,
the Government was on the side of
right consequently on Gods side
At first she hesitated to do the right
thing in respect to the 4 ,0OO,0 600 Of Op-
pressed slaves. Gen. Fremont was
Superseded for attempting it, and
Gen. Hunter was displaced for re-
peating the attempt; and only after
God had increased lie tempest until
the "ship of State" was in the most
eminent peril by the inactiOn and
disagreement among our Generals,
and the maIiy reverses following in
rapid succession on the head o. each
other; not until the sympathy of
England and France was made signif-
icantly manifest, the Capital actually
beseiged and the enemy had stained
free soil" with blOod-the blood of
freemen-and not until refuge seemed
to fail the nation, and her tower Of
strength was nOding to its fall, was
she ready to "dO Justly" and obey the
behest Of Jehovah, to "break every
yoke and let the oppressed be free"
Abraham Lincoln, the Chief Mag
istFate from the observatory Of the
nation, saw the deluge Of blood, and
the further threatening calamities yet
in reserve; then, and not till then,
did he put his signature to the nOblest
Proclamation ever penned by an un-
inspired man fOrthat Proclamation
of Emancipation" " issued on January
1st, 1853, gave liberty to more millions
than were in the nation when our
Revolutionary Fathers had gained
their independence by waring seven
years.
That Proclamation had a power in