Year: 1862




The blessing of peace which is honorably
gained and established on permanent found
atiops can only be appreciated by q people
who have borne the til ls and tribulations
necessary to its accomplishment. 1t is like
health and all other blessings, only to be
adequately estimated by those who have been
deprived OF it. But, like, them, also, to be
worth any thing, and to impsrt any solid
satisfaction and comfort it must be the re-
suit Of no shallow and superficial trertment,
caves the source of disease untouched
such IS affects only the surface, and
suo ready TO manifest itself again upon the
slightest irritation Peace, to yield permanent
happiness aud security, must be honorabiy
achieV ed - worked out by persevering and
Triumphant demonstration of our ability to
ma,DIan our independence, even though it
cost Logger war Than that of the American
Revo utiou. Such peace will be sweet and
glorious indeed, and all the more sweet and
glorious that it has been accomplished by
our own unaided valor aud elf-denial.


1t may well animate aud encourage the
heArtt OF all those now toiinR and battling
for the cause of independence, to look for
ward 10 such a result of their labors. AS the
lsrselltes sOlaced their pilgrimage through
the desert with the thoughts of the sweet
fields of Canaan beyo ond the swelling flood of
Jordan, ana as the Christian host, struggling
amid the pilalls and prosecutions of a hostile
world, look forward to "thst rest which re-
maineth to the people of God" so may the
great, patriotic souls of this war for all that
man holds dear, refresh themselves amid
their mighty tolls and solicitudes by antici-
paLiOns of peace which they can only gain
by their own virtue and fortitude, and which
though long delayed, will come at last if they
are faithful to the end The same Divine
hand which guided the children of Israel
through the desert has over and over again
manifested itself in our behalf, and if we do
not prove, like the Israelites faithless in the
midst Of wonders, and disObedient in despite
of mercies, we shall not be compelled to
wander many years in the wilderness before
we reach the promised land.


With peace fixed on permanent founda'
tions, the prospect arises before the South,
lot only OF reDose and security, but of q
career Of prosperity and happiness rarely
psrslleled in the history OF nations. We shall
be- sole masters of our own rich soil and is
unexampled products, and no longer be de-
spoiled of their value by the rspscious com.
mercial vultu of the North. Our commerce
will go TO build up our own cities, and our
wealth to be diffased through our own bor'
ders. We shall be homogeneous people,
separated forever from the incongruous and
disturbing elements of Northern society, and
from the tyrannical race who, because we
refused to remain forever hewers of wood
and drawers ofwater for Yankee taskmasters,
are trying to cut our throats. We shall be
delivered from all future association, In every
shape ard form, with the rascally, hypocriu.
cal, swindling, humbngRing, wooden nutmeg
making sons of the Pilgrims. We shall have
our own laws, literature, civilization, and sit
under our own vine and fig tree, with none
to molest or make us afraid.


And not the least gratifying result of peace
will be its effects upon the Yankee nation,
whom IL will leave high and dry, without q
dime in its pockssor a friend on the face OF
the earth. 1t will be at once the most i'm
poVerished and despised of nations. 1t will
be shut up TO the cultivation Of Goldfish and
potatoes, and the contemplation of its own
miraculous imbeeility. LIS people will spend
their days in cheating one another, and
their nights in remorse that, in making war
upon the South, they 'cast away q pearl
richer than all their tribe"