Year: 1861




: Gro then, in Gods name and with His
r blessing. You can accomplish more in
few days than otherwise you could in
the longest life. Rely not on the great
ness of the preparations or the goodness
of your cause. The whole of Israel
were put TO rout before the single guilty
tribe of Benjamin. And if our late ex-
periences as people wean US not in a
measure from our besetting sin of self
sufiiciency, we may well dread severe
judgments. Trust not then in an arm of
flesh, but in the name Of our God lift up
your banners.


Yet, with this spirit Of dependence
there can be no rational doubt as to the
final issue Of the war. Here is a people
terrible from its beginning, hitherto ma
ton of born soldiers, hardy, patient,
taught to obey, yet self-reliant and able
to command-like Alexander's army, ev-
cry one fit for a general. There are no
insolent banditt. On our soil we find
those who enquire for the old ways, what
are the good paths that they may walk
therein and find rest. On theirs, dis
turbers of the worlds peace who like the
miserable men that said to the bramble,
" Come and reign over us say that cot
ton is king and might as well say that ii
is the blind God. On the one side, we
see a nation of freemen carry the arts of
peace into war and contend with more
than chivalric generosity. On the other,
those who are tyrants at home and rob-
bers abroad, whom slavery makes either
beasts Of burden or beasts of prey, who
confound war with peace and contend by
poisoning, assassination, and kindred arms
against the weak and defenceess. The
former fight for a government so good
that to enjoy it its subjects must be good,
and concerning which ourvonly misgivirg
is that it is too good for such a wicked
world The latter fight for au organized
conspiracy againgt the rights of men, so
bad that only men utterly depraved could
live under it, and too bad we are sure ev-
er to be suffered in this world bad as it is
"a conspiracy with slavery for its chief
corner stone, fllibusterism for its foreign
policy, and robbery and repudiation for
its system of public credit. Even hoa-
then could have no doubt of the result
as be saw the armies marsbaled for bat
lie. Here are liberty, civilization, truth,
loyalty, the spirit of order, and sense
religion. There slavery leads barbarism,
rebellion, and riot


Rise, then, above personal feelings and
mere human passion to the dignity of the
occasion and the Importance of the issue.
Go as clothed with the attributes of God
in behalf Of our government agairat the
enemies of the human race. The mem
ories of past and hopes of future ages
bekon you on. The sympathies of the
civilized world attend you. The prayers
Of the weak and enslaved will follow you
to the field. The magnitude of your re-
sources is proportioned to the justice of
your cause, for only so holy a cause could
call forth such resources.


Go, then, and the Lord grant that you
may return in victory and peace, for the
work of righteousness shall be peace, and
the effect of righteousness, quietness,& as
surance forever. Then, as we trust, shall
be realized in this world that new order
Of things foreseen by holy men of old of
A government without kings, a religion
without priests, cities without walls, and
revolutions without wars. And all ma
ions shall flow into it, not only as to the
land of promise and the asylum of free
'O'hi out tue 'afoIeu doooe vi reHSiou.
And many people shall go and say come
&c and les us go up into the mountain of
he Lord, to the house of the God Of Ja-
,ob, and he will teach US of His ways,
and we will walk in His paths. And they
shall beat their swords into plowshares.
md their spears into pruning hooks and
lation shall not lift up its sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any
more.