Year: 1864




The Boston Gazette of April IA, in which
the last advertisement appeared, thus remark.
ed on the war:


"llow degraded must our government be,
even in their own eyes, when they resort to
such tricks to obtain money which common
Jew broker would be ashamed Of Il
They knew right well that the cause is so
sneaking and vile that nobody would be seen
in the broad daylight to lend them money.
Perhaps moneyed men may be bribed
10y the high interest that is offered. But il
they withhold their aid, and so force the
government into peace, will not their capital
be better employed, if employed in trade!
On the whole we think it no way to
get out of the war, to give money to govern
men, when the very thing that prevents them
from carrying it on is the want of money"


at is very grateful to find that the uni,
veral sentiment is, that any man who lends
his money to the government at the present
time will forfeit all claim to common honesty
and common courtesy among all true friends
OF the country"


Sympalhzers with these sentiments existed
elsewhere, of course. Thus we find at about
that date the New York Evening Post, said
one day: I'VE have only room this evening
to say that we trust no true friend to his
country will be found among the subscribers
to the Gallatn War"


There were clergymen, not few, who
lent pu pit aid to the factions who opposed
government. Rev. Mr.. Gardiner recto,
of Trinity Church, Boston. preached July
23d, 1912, a sermon, in which he said:


~ at M 1aro l. |,
ren, deter you at all times and all places from
execratng the present war. AS Mr.
Madison has declared war let him carry it
on. The Union has been long since
virtually dissolved, and it is full time that
this part of this Disunited States should take
care of itself"


Rev. DIR. Osgood. preached, April s, 1910
a sermon, in which he saI


'lf at the command of weak and wicked
rulers they undertake an unjust war, each
man who volunteers his service in such a
cause, or loans his money for its support, or
by his conversation his writings, or in any
other mode of influence encourages its prose
cutlon, that man is an accompice in its
wickedness, loads his conscience with the
blackest of crimes. brings the guilt of blood
upon his sou and in the sight of God is a
murderer. One hope only remains,
th at this stroke of perfidy may open the
eyes OF besotted people, that they may
awake as giant from his slumbers and
acreak their vengance on their bretroyers by
driving them from their stations, and placing
at the helm more skiIIful and faithful hands
Ii at the present moment no symp-
toms OF civil war appear they certainly will
soon unless the courage of the war party
should fail them.


Rev. DR.. Parish, at Byfeld, April 7, 1914,
preached thus:


"rhe lsraeites became weary of yielding
the fruit of their labor to pamper their splen.
ded tyrants. They left their political acoes
They separated! Where is our Moses?
Where is the rod of bis miracles?
Tyrants are the same on the banks Of the
Nile and the Potomac, at Mempis and at
Washington. Here we must trampIe
on the mandate of despotism. or here we
remain slaves forever. Let every
man who sanctions this war by bis sutf ages
or influence remember that he is Iaborine
to cover himself and his country with blood.
The blood of the slain will cry from the
ground against him. How will the
supporters of this anti-Chrisian wal fare en-
dure their sentence, endure the
fire that forever burns, the worm which new
er dies-the hosannahs of Heaven, while
the smoke Of their tornents ascends forever
and evern"


We might continue these extracts from
history at great length but these are enough.
1t is not slavery which is the only cause of
sectional disturbance tending to disnnion
We are not sure of a permanent Union by
removing that one cause. Nay more we
endanger the whole fabric by adopting the
doctrine that where one section differs from
another on a a subject of local or sectional
opinion, the remedy is to remove the subject
of difference. Such doctrine will lead US
into future difficulty and danger of disunion
ten times in every century. Is Massachusetts
ready to guarantee that she will never, for
any cause renew the scenes of l808-l4?
Can any man tell us that majority of the
people may not, before long, attempt to
compel New England to reform some Of her
habits and customs. Who will say that no
apple Of discord will ever fall into the midst
of this family?


The cause of disunion is sectional feeling
against national feeling. The safeguard
against it is, teaching the people the necessity
of compromise, as the only method ofuniting
States. five understand and practice on
this doctrine, if we return to it now, we shall
have Union stronger than ever. If we
make Union on any other principle, it will
not onlast the lives of men, who are now
descending the bill of life.


Journal of Commerce.


The crop of maple sugar, at the North,
will this year exceed 25,OOO.OO0 pounds;
and will 90 far tnwards snnnlx vim the daf.