Daily Republican., 1882-09-12
THIRD EDITION.
COL. McCARTER's ADDRESS.
The oh feet Of the ODeE C"~P Fire
The Grand Results Of the War.

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all.
In the history of wars, that in which
some of us were the participants, WAL
stand out as most remarkable In the
fact that its successful termination
gave higher morality to the nation.
This is not usually the case, War as a
measure has commonly had an oppo-
site effect; as q principle war is never
to be advocated, regarding 1t, as we DO
contrary to the genius of an Indus
trial State, not less than to that OF
Christianity. But | am here to say TO-
night, that it was owing to what 5he
the Union soldiers did in the late war
that not only was the life of the kepuo'
lie saved, but the nation advanced IN
virtue and all true nobleness OF charac-
ter. So that tire of hearing OF the
decentralization of the nation Dy reason
of the late war. 1t is simply hoG Stue,
1t was bv reason of what the soluleEs
did, that Emancipation was secureu.
This was the greatest and moSt nous
act of the natio Is life and history
When the President was waited on
and urged to make that proclamation
early in the war by delegations from
the North, he at that time told them
that until the soldiers won successes In
the fleld the measure would be useless,
and said in his own wise, quaint way
that against slavery 1t would "have
about the same effect as the Pope's bull
against the Come"
1t was owing to what the soldiers
did that reforms were introduced lnto
the several departments of government.
Take the political parties at the break
ing out of the war. There were the
Republicans who declared against
the extension of slavery Dut
were ready to guarantee the curse
in perpetuity in the slave States There
was the Bell and Everett party whose
highest morality found expression IN
their watchword "the Union and the
enforcement of the laws" meaning tht
enforcement of the fugitive slave laws
which made every foot of the tre'
States the hunting ground of tht
slave-holder and every U. S. Marsha
q blood hound on the fugitive's track
and every freeman possible negro
catcher.
Then the Douglass party, giving owe
the land consecrated by a national ordl
nance to freedom, to have slavery tas-
tened on each rood Of that domain l
the sQuatter should 80 elect and las
the breckenridge party, which tool
down without mnrmur the doctrlne
that four millions ofhuman beings Wer
"chattels personal, without any righ
which tho white man was bound to re-
spect." Such was the status Of politl
cal parties morally.
What the soldiers did also II
formed the churches. If you wer
a Presbyterian you then sat down t
the Lords table with fellow chris
tians (?) who owped 100000 huma
chattels. If a Baptist, with telloN
Baptists owning 100000 fellow crea
lures held under the vile laws q
slavery. If an Episcopalian, you ha
in your communion, those who wer
Shareholders to the extent of $500
slaves, and if q Methodist-yOu wi
remember that the children Of job
Wesley in this land, were owners a
100000 slaves-which they protessed
believe we're redeemed by the preclou
blood of Christ.
This crime of the nation had debaucl
ed the press and the judiciary. 1t ha
corrupted the Statesmen and Il
Clergy, had brow beaten and mobile
the eabolitionist, wrought out It's blood
drama in Kansas, and hung job
Brown for treason in Virginia. 1t hs
seized on the national property in Il
South, dispersed our war ships, take
possession of the national arms an
fortresses, and crowned its infamy b
firing on the flag of Washington and
our fathers. 1t had broken away frol
the community of interest, of ethnolog
origin, from the history and tradition
common to American citizens OF
great Republic, speaking a common la
puage, and you could hear the boomin
of the guns of the ship OF State hrlr
minute guns in the gathering storl
and the advancing night. Danger Sif
nails met her on every head land, an
the old world looked on expec citing
see her 90 down in the storm.
God the ruler Of our destiny al Iengt
spoke to the pilot He had given I
'iSteer by the light on the eternal coas
Steer by the light. house men call Ere
dom I" God gave him the will to do
and the Union soldiers and sailo
brought her into port in safety for II
construction. A few rotten timbers al
blanks we're taken out and the anen'
ments added, and she left for the ocei
of the future, her decks now CrOwdt
with fifty millions of souls. The Unit
soldier can say with fuller meaniE
than even the poet;
Thou too sail on, on ship Of State,
Sail on Oh Union. Strong and great,
We know what WOrkmen laid thy Keel,
What hands put in thy ribs OF steel,
What tanvils rang, what hammers smote
In what forge with what heat,
We're shaped the anchors OF thy hope
Sail on, nor fear each sudden shock,
Tis OF the wave and rot the rockl
Sail op, nor fear to breast the sea,
Our hearts, our hOpes, our Joys, our tears
Our faith triumphant DER our fears,
Are all with thee! A. Q all with thee"
Said Kepler, the mathematician a
astronomer when he seized on the par
bolic curve as that describing the tr
path of the motion of planetary vorlt
II think the thoughts of God" meani
that he was following the Infinite Mi
when ths projecting compass ct desi
swept the spaces above him, q
marked out the orbital motion of
path to be taken by each blazing wol
as he "called out their host by numt
and gave them their names" Said H
Ter, II think the thoughts Of God. "
will the future historian See, as he loo
at the Jewels which adorn the purl
robe of our history in the past, that
Union Soldier "did the deeds of Go
in saving this common wealth when
valor wiped out forever the curse
human bondage. Aye, and he "
write it down for the joy and the
struction of the Age to come, that
was by the men who wore the blue
the late war, that the grand ideal Of
nation of freemen projected by @
fathers in 1876, was by them made
actual. That the Union soldier q
sailor, by struggle and wounds,