Year: 1872

Texas, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from all intervening points,
then and there first shook hands across
"the bloody chasn" Of war. they proved
that their principles were vital and full
of the fruits of kindness and peace and
promise OF future prosperity. 1t was
like realizing the promise and the
prophecy Of Christianity. 1t was the
order of q mighty brotherhood. speak,
ing OF peace and doing deeds Of mutual
forgiveness and interchanging pledges
Of Friendship, Love and Truth. Did
Christianity, did any body Of Christians,
by general action Of the body, stand
back from this ratification Of peace and
Cancellation? Do any of them now
decline or refuse to join that chorus
of peace on earth and good
will amongst all our people
which that other great and mighty
multitude at Baltimore, in 1872, caught
up from that former day and toned it
with the notes Of that anthem of Joy
and Hope and Deliverance which that
great tbrong Of good aud wise men at
Cincinnati made to vibrate on the hearts
of the people. These are the jubilees
of peace; these are the anthems OF con-
ciliation; these are the deeds OF charity;
these are the works of spirit OF love
and candor aud forgiveness and union:
and in this hour OF self.sacritice, IN this
day of mutual concession, in this time
of harmony when all good men and
true Americans are offering the sacrifice
of their passions and their enmities on
the altar of their country, now let any
Christian denomination stand back
from the Altar of Peace and say to
their master, 1t is thy will b


This is the time Of peace offerings and
Of Cancellation. What sect, what de-
nomination, what church, what fra
ternity OF men shall now stand back
from the holy tryst of cnncilation.


What is Christianity? The decima.
ton of the S,cord, OF the moral influence
Of the pen!


Among christians and moraiists, who
is the greater, the blood stained soldier,
or the laurelled hero who holds the pen
of "a ready writer?'


Who is the greater, the pscifcator or
the soldier who fights it out on that
line," regardless Of the sacrifice OF hu-
man life?


Which is nobler, the moral grandeur
of great pacificstion or the victory OF
strife and evil passions2


Who is greatest Paul or Cesar?
Howard or Napoleon Greeley or
Grant2


What builds up countries quicker or
better man the pen and improves the
intellectual and moral condition OF its
people2 What destroys country and
brutalizes the people faster or more
fatally than the sword ?


What restores a people to prosperity
after the horrors Of war? The conclu.
sion of peace; the pacification Of a
great people, realizing the growth OF
christian principle in the history OF
nations.


As there are monsters who violate the
rules OF war, who attain their ends by
the sacrifice of all charities and all
laws of warfare, so are there monsters
of the pen, and they belong chiefly
TO that class OF newspaper editors who
repress the fair and manly, and, it may
be, the conscientious convictions OF the
members OF its own party, encourage
and reward the traitors OF their oppo-
nents, and in doing these halt at no
falsehood, shun no Misrepresentation,
are ready for any provocation, can
change sides and principles (for
Greeley or Grant as interest,
policy or pique shall incite,
can oppose a measure (the new Con-
stitution) but support man who is in
favor OF it; shall contend for q vital
constitutional distinction Fifteenth
Amendment and the exclusion Of the
word white) and support man who is
in favor of the one and against the
other, (J.J. Davis, who foments dis
cords in his own party and seeks to
rule and ruin the Democratic party by
fomenting discords in it, who praises
the man he despises, who denounces
men whom he should respect, in word
that life and conduct which is embodied
in the Intclligencer.


Give US peace in the name Of God,
give US peace-not the peace OF the
soldier and the fanaticism Of party;
not the madness Of method, but the
method of a great spirit suited to the
close OF the nineteenth century, when
the great leaders in politics, obeying
the popular impulses, seek to produce
that unity and fellowship among the
members of the State, that Christians
do for the unity of the great body OF
the Faithful. If this is right in the
Chprch can il be wrong in politics?