The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-06-13
NUMBER l I'd.

Standing upon tho brink Of d precipices ba.
meath which seethed those cold vater, of
oblivion, instead of warning them. ,I nledca
you my word would try 10 indusslr r,J.s, shsn,
70 step over the edge-in fact. r miuh, Lam,
them push ,;Laughter1 AZ ies.t r
should feel a. Indifferent about ;t - !, - .
iodgs! at an inn did, who was awakened ia
| .ae n'gne when the meteors wore falling.
@ s1g sold ehat the day ofjudgment had come.
well, well !. said he, testify, steilthe land,
iGrd about about y; am only 4 boarder..--;
And nov, M. Presidens, If n. .b,e..,,,
|w?s Aboetstp leave my body, and u Vas uer.
mitted to say but one word as 20 what INV
country most needed, that word should be-
hest! Rest from strife, rest from sectional
connict, rest from sectional bitterness. rest
llom innammatory appeals, rest from this
eonstaht most unwise and Improbable ari-
tation, Rest in all lands and in all Iitero-
ture Is used as symbol of the most perfect
state of felicity which mankind can attain
In this world and the next. "And tho land
nad rest, said the old Hebrew chroniclers
10 describing the reign of their good kings:
"and his resG shall be glorious" saws tbo
prophet Isaiah in foretelling the coming of
our Lord, when Ephraim should have
ceased to envy Judah and Judah sbould
nave ceased to vex Ephraim.
Heaven itself is described as rest-o,'
"f6erss Tthssa TthHsslssa uthe weary are at rest"-
people of God" saith the apostle. Can So,
not give this rest to our people know,
Mr. President, that those from whom come,
desire it above their chief joy. The excite
ment through which they have passed for
the last twenty years, the suffering and tho
sorrow, the calamity, public and private.
which they have undergone have filled their"
hearts with indescribable yearnings for ma
tlonal peace, for complete moral as we'll:
as physical restoration of the Union.--
There is one policy, and but one, to effect
this object. and that is the policy of con-.
cillation, of restoration, so steadily pursued
by the Democratic statesmen and people of
the North. 1t is the only true statesman.
ship for our condition, the only genuine
remedy for the hard times with which we
afflicted. Nature everywhere teaches it,
aud her thousand agencies, silent and mys-
terious, constantly inculcate it, even as day
nnto day uttoreth speech and night unto
night shcweth knowledge. Cross this no..
Bile river which flows by our capital and.
search for the battle fields of blood-watered
Virginia. You scarce can find them.
Dense forests of young saplings cover all.
the hills aud plains that were SO lately
swept bare by marching and encamping
armies. "For there is hope of tree if it..
be cut down that it will sprout again, and
the tender branch thereof will not cease"
Waving seas of wheat cover the open fields
so lately plowed by the bursting shells
while charging battalions met in deadly.
shock and green grass has so covered the
lines of intrenchment as to give them alb
the seeming ofthe cunning farmers bitches.
Restoration is natures law Let us initiate
her. God of all mercy and grace, may not
these gaping wounds of civil war rbe per-
mitted to heal, if they will2