The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-06-13
NUMBER "a.

standing upon tho brink Or d precipice; ba,
meath which seethed those cold va,ers q
oblivion, instead of warning them. i pledcc
you my word would try 70 induco- Cher,
20 step over the edge lin fact, 1 might lend
them a push. CLaughterl AZ sleast +
| should feel as Indifferent about ;t a. tha
/ lodgcr at an inn did, who was. awa kenod A.
the night when che meteors were fsilinc
and told that the day of fiudrmont had come 81
~ ell, weli, said he, testify, s'tellthe Iand-
i9fd about II; am only : boardor.''- :
/. And nov. Mr.. Psssidens, il /. III. ,br..,I,, I
!lNes = A6ost % Aassa my .beay Ana 4 MA pcr.;
mitted to say but one word as TO what INV
country most needed, that word should be.
ltest! Rest from strife, rest from sectional
connict, rest from sectional bitterness, rest
from infiammatory appeals, rest from this
constant, most unwise aud Improbable ari-
tatlon, Rest in all lands and in all litera.
ture Is used as symbol of the most perfect
state OF felicity which mankind can attain
In this world and the next. "And the land
had rest, >, said the old Hebrew chroniclers
10 describing the reign of their good kings:
land his rex shall be glorious" saws Tho
prophet Isaiah in foretellinG the coming of
our Lord, when Ephraim should have
ceased to envy Judah and Judah should
have ceased to vex Ephraim.
Heaven itself is described as rest-o,
"ifferss ssFFthASsaa FthASIsaaau the Weary are ut rest."-
people of God" saith the apostle. Can&o'
not give this rest to our people? know,
MIR. 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
tional peace, for q 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 tho policy of con-
ciliation, 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,
and her thousand agencies, silent and mys-.
terious, constantly inculcate it. even as day
INTO day uttcrcth speech and night unto
night shcweth knowledge. Cross this no.
oie iNer "uich noWS Oy our capltal anu"
search for the battle fields of blood -watered
Virginia. You scarce can find them
Dense forests of young saplngs cover all
the hills aud plains that were SO lately
swept bare by marching and encamping
armies. "For there is hope of a 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 80 covered the
lines of intrenchment as to give them ALI
the seeming ofthe cunning farmers ditches.
Restoration is natures law. Let us initiate
her. God of all mercy and grace, may not
these gaping wounds of civil war be per-
mitted to heal, if they will?