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2 THE ADVANCE, NOVEMBER 8, 1861. BT A HOX*HD. WILLIAM Cru.Rx BUT ANT. \ Long ha*t thou watched my bed, And smoothed tuj pillow oft, For this poor a< hlnir head, With touch*-* kind ami nott. Oh ! smooth It yet tigfttn, A* softly as before; One*—only on<«>» aud thnt I need thj hand no more. Yet here 1 may not stay, Whore ( \«> long hiivn lain, Through many a rfl»tles* d»V And meuy » nlj(ht of pain. Ifat bear me jjentlf forth Beneath lh>> open »ky, Where, ou the pleasant earth, TtH oljihl thr •in.beamK lie. Ther*. ihroitirK the coming I thai) not look to the* My wtary Mde to ralscf Aitd shift It Tber« sweetly shall I sluey, Nor wilt thou neod to bring And pat to my hot lip Cool water from the spring : Hor wet thr kerchief laid Upon my burning brow ; Nor from my eyelid* shade DID light that wounds them mm; Nor watch that none shall tread With noisy footMep nigh : Nor linleii by my bed To h«'ar my faintest High: Aid foijrn a took of cheer, And word A of comfort speak. Yet turn t<> hide the tear That (jathtTH on thy chovk. rm\ wlu'ic 1 rest. Thy loving hitiMl will t.«>t The flowi-r* 1 low the bi>nt -- row*' MJKI vioU't. Then to sleep I eravr Resign mi', tilt I HI'« The face of Him who gave Ills life for tin 1 ' and me Tft, with th« sotting son, Comn uow tud then, »t ovt\ And^thlnkof me ** one Kor whom thou »lto\ild»t not Who. whon tin* kind r<'U<aiH- From Mtn and sitnVriag came. Passed to tli« appoint ml peace In muruuring thy nantv, , at my r*ldf. a i»pacc Where thou nhatr come, at last, To and n resting, pUie, When ninny year* are pa»t. OITILT AND CRIME Of TBEA80N &BBELLI0H. A Servo n Preached In Lyceum Hall, •apd»7 t^vtulttg, Ovto^tr 97th, K. fw he Is thn Minister of <»<><i to Um» Tor good. But If thou do that which la CV'.'., he afraid ; fur ho btenth not thn *Vror<< In v*ln : for h« 1H thc.Mln Utfr of (HMISH T«»«iger to exeruU-wrath upon him Umt ilo«th c\W. -HUMAN* xui: i. This is 8|H>kt'n of tin* human ruler, itnd immediately follow* the declaration that Government in nrdutnod of God. The truth thus announced U wortliy of con- sideration ut HII times, and bt of spwuul interest in the present. The objects luul in view by a national existence aru of too great moment to bo •uppo«ed to stand ou a inertly human ba- sis. If the primary relatiou of life, that of the family, in instituted by Heaven, then surely a Government which extends over, takt* into its keeping, and controls families, nniht also \H> of Uod, uphold by Him, amenable to Hint, and also bv Him t propose no vxtviricd argument of this, ThlsshnploHta c.ncnt w improbablyRUffier. If any one is solicitous to trace out and satisfy himself concerning the. many argu- ments to the fact that Governments are ordained of Uod, he tan meet nil those* de- sires hy consulting any standard work on Moral Kciencc. 1 assume what t liavo now stated to be true; and on thiit as- sumption, to In; received and resected by all, at least, who have faith in I>i\inc Iluv*»l*tioi», 1 bmmwlmt I hutc to -ny on I tWftrenfc '\^ the 81K M '\^ subject ol this hour, 1 am to <*penk to you of the }<uilt nm\ crime of treason. A* thesv arc oHVnees agaimtt Government, we shall be- bent help\! to »n apprehension of their i-nor mity l»y considering the. real good ut- iexnpt4Ml mid accomplished by tho Co\- eramcni Hgninst which the crime is com- mitted. Government may b* denned as the instrument by which society accon^ It Is an Instrunjcn home*, in their reputation and Meant* must be devised, and funds raised, secured, and vestc/l, for the diffusion of in- telligence, the progress of the Arts and Science*, the establishment of currency, the encouragement and protection of trade; law4 looking to personal security must be enacted, enforced, and their pen- alties executed on offenders; and an al- most innumerable catalogue of powers' and privileges must of .necessity be deter- mined and secured by some form of Gov- ernment. Of necessity, I say, because the public safety demands uniformity of law in regard to property, ami to crimes against persons and against property ; of necessity, because the public safety dc- mnnds regularity and also responsibility in the execution of the laws; and because the convenience aud comfort of commu- nity, the privolcge and also the necessity that every man shall have opportunity to pursue his |labors, demand that norno shall !«' specially delegated to legislate, to judge, and to execute the laws. Government existing thus, and based on such a necessity, Its functions rind its importance arc of course apparent. While true to the conditions of faithfutaws on which individuals give up their original rights; and communities their privelges, Government deserves respect, allegiance, obedience. When false to these, and it bo - come* tyrannical, oppressive, assuming powers never granted, or juhusing those originally delegated for good, it loses ita claim to respect, and society is absolved from allegiance. Opposition to Government in the in- stance Mist cited, Incomes-Treason and Rebellion; in the last instance it is justi- fiable Revolution, ami loyalty to the pub- Ilo good, for the security of which, God ordains Government. \ Government I wing ordained o/God, it is His will, indeed, that its existence be preserved; but Government, like all other things Heaven approved, must depond on certain conditions for its preservation and perpetuity. To illustrate : Marriage is ordained of G«d ; but the bond of mar- riage may be, and ''Y the authority which 0KUiucaU>c6inmuii<le<l to lwillwoivetl, when tho condition of fidelity on which it is founded is disregarded and broken. Ro Government, which with the people 1 enter* into mutual relations, mny by its cnrhipl ways, itsevil ambition and its op- pressive measures, become false to its* du- ty ; and \viien deaf to entreaty, or in vio- lation of promise, it continues it* course of evil, it may and it ought to be over thrown. The Scripture* furnish several instances of such overthrow, and of God's approval of it; imd we today stand up and honor our fathers who, resisting such oppres- sion iullicU'd by Great llritain. threw oft\ the galling yoke, and by Revolution es- tablished a new Government. That Gov- ernment, the one under which we were born, 1ms been deemed by us perfect; not absolutely perfect, but. when compared with auy which have proceeded it, or any which are eotemporary, tthttirify' yvr- ftft % the best the world liu* ever seen. It hau granted thu largest liberty in religion, in thought and In action. It has enfolded iU subject* in the iuo>t -unple protection; ginirdv.d hunte. and labor with the m«»st perfect \igilnnec; Ami, as WtJ»e«n fre- quently said of late unfl cannot be too of- ten repeated, it has been known to us not by it* taxation-or its cost, but wholly by its bli\s>ings. Nmv it \* threatened by Treason and Re)icllioti. Large bodies of mOn urvin arms against it, ami are >«<k- ing its overthrow and ilr^tiiicUon. They desire that this Gowmmcnt may full and thut another Go\ eminent, bused on wholly Mini I usurp its place. Treason and Ruln-llion are always con*id- long-CHtablUhcd laws which they fancied might at some time work to their disad- vantage. All these things are notorious, and yet they lift their hands against the Government which has always upheld, blessed and kept them. And all for what ? Because, in the language of their preten- ded Vice-President, Stephens, they desire \ to build a system on the corner-stone of human slavery.\ That is their intention, that is their only wish: Can a greater wrong than thU l>c imagined 9 Can a more foul rcbellionJo found in any of the pages of the worUTs history of evil ? No; it is impossible The equal to this atroci- ty is wholly unknown. Look at the ba- sis of this pretended new Government, this worse than Algcrine despoti8in,which seeks to build itself up on the ruins of a truly noble and God-honoring idea of human rights. The hasis,cvcn in its mild- est form reduces to this: \ that capital shall own its labor,\ t. «., the old unchris- tian maxim that Might, not Right shall determine the worth and the place of everything. Where arc the limitations of this abom- inable rule ? They have oxistence only in the most variable and ever-changinjr forms. Wealth and power are, both of them, often mere accidents; but these alone, according to this new idea of Chris- tian Government (it may indeed be said to be the first of any Government, since no one before, whatever its secret desires may have been, has over openly aunounccd it), these- alone are to be the conditions of strength und place ini'this new Nation.— Why ! if there was the least spark of man- hood in never so feeble a portion of those thus owned, the cold steel at the tyrant's heart, mid the torch put to all his mate- rial poscssions, would soon placo thejwhole, in ruins; or, should all manhood be ut- terly crushed, the curse of God in permit- ing grasping ambition, the accumulation of gain and the seizure- of power, would involve the whole n speedy and awful destruction. AguiiiBt all tlkosc there h but one reme- dy, one that the ruler who \ bears not the sword in vain, who is the minister of (Jod to execute wrath on him that docth evil,*' cart apply, rind must apply,at what- ever cost: that is, the traitors must be put to death, the rebellion must be de- strojred. I know that crafty men have supposed that something less than this might be attempted ; but it would sqem that few, if any, can be longer deluded by the expectation of any relief from pacific measures. And yet men are to lie found who, even nt this late day, suggest a dif- ferent course, and have proposed one measure, the entertainment of which in their minds if they understand its import involves them in little if anything less than the guilt of treason. *• Consent to u re-const ruction of (he Constitution,\ say they. \ Cease * thin strife V'tween brethren, thin awftil spill- ing ofituman blood, this enormtms ex- pense <*f treasure, this terrible sacrifice of the remit ng and separation' of ftimiHes.— Consent to a rc-constrMctioYi +>f the Con- stitution ; give our ftotifttteni brethren what they ask and all will'he well.\ This ought not to 1>e. It -nMt not I* 1 ; urid for several reisoiw: First. This jVo|^Hfd reconstruction would be the th'r^iuctioii of our present Union giv^-n n? by our fathers, and sym- bolm.'d hy the \ stars and stripes,\ and at r?c*l only the substitution of another na- tion in its place; the death of tho Union founded on the, rights of man, and the creation of one founded wholly on the right of power. If any num is skeptical of this and does not concern! that thus much is of necessity involved in any re- construction that would be acceptable to the rebeU, hu as yet hits, unfortunately, no red the highest crimes powdble, and it | r«>nc< pt ion of their true purposes; he plishc* its purpn.se* tality vented by society with lowers, and may lx; considered a* the einbodlmoutof the public will. At Aomc time, of course, Bocioty must have existed without Gov- ernment, but Mich ft wmliliou could not have contiouotl long. The good of WM*C- ty dcmande<l some rules, restrictions, leg- islative wisdom, judicial fairness execu- tive force. Men mu-t tWl *cc«ro in I heir must IHJ admitted that in tlie present in- stance every conceivable evil is eml»od'u:d in them. The sections unpaired In this wicked- ness hnw, like iw, been v'mited only with protection nud bk*K*»ing by the power ngiMiiMt wUidi they nrise their murderous baud*. They have not IMWII oppressed ; they have, not been wronged ; they have eyes which do not see, and ears which do not hear. Now, for one, 1 fitly better* thmi- sttfintl deuths thin be a HtiUjcet t»l Mich a Nation, n participant in mch a llhion, willing fora momentary pcawe to^Jonsent 4o such expatriation, afiA ; IXJ made so wholly a foreigner to tho Unioh under which my birth «to<i : ft1l my privilegefi not <me aingle charge of unfaimesw nor of unfaithfulness to prefer against the Oov- cMimcnt. The legislative shaping of tlie \R\$ hasbeeu mainly in their hands; they have furnished the largest amount of Kx- ecutivc force; they have ruled UKJ Judic- ial decisions; they have repeatedly asked for and received concessions, comprom- new tfUftranlcc.!*, undthc revoking of were had. ^ l And wcondN, too e^pectatldn of stabil- ity could IK) hf»din sitch a nation. As I haw defkh*! Oovernment, and its func- tions, it is obvious that a nation •nustliavc* a foundation in something tioblier and more solid than mere material conquest, possessions and prosperity. A man has but a very vague notion of the first prin- ciples <;f Morn! \• cue <•'' 'V <>»t' laws of Nations, or even of the history of the world, who can suppose that any State can l>e established on any basis of wrong. God, in the providence of histoiy, shows us that it is impossible. But even were it possible, consider its consequences: It would be clearly at war with all Christian principles and tendencies, ami whatever influence it might exert would therefore be only evil. Then, again, as an objection to this, there is such a thing in community as conscience. Enlightened by it we have professed to believe that the rights of all men are equal, and that civil society can- not divest them of these rights except in punishment for crime. We profess to be- lieve tliat though Government cannot and ought not to give all men equality of rank and condition, it can and ought to give all equality of rights as men. Tlie men who hold to this, and I trust we arc allsuch, are opposed to Slavery, and can never consent that human bondage shall be tho corner-stone of the nation. We may oonsider it wise and prudent to ac- quiesce in the evil as a local thing in some of the SUtes where it existed prior to the Union, so long as it could not be reached without dping violence to the Constitu- tion, but it is something very different to consent to the re-construction of the Union on the basis of Slavery; and that, I hope we never can consent to. Our present position is, that we are tinder a Cons^Hrr^ tion which was framed with cxprens ref- erence to the exclusion of the idea of projKTty in man, ami which would need no altcratiou in any feature whatever, it* Hlavery was at once and forever abolished. Our position on the ground proposed by these crafty peace men would be that of commuting to a Constitution formed ex- pressly for the perpetuation of this ovil. And God knows, if there is any truith in Christianity^rto man has the right of do- minion over another. Every man owns himsel f. A man may be poor, but whether he is white or blnck, God has given him the right to be his own man, and not an- other's. What, though the ahtvc is well fed, well clothed, and has shelter! These tilings arc done to mere animuls, and if when you speak of the uhtves' condition, you consider only these, you regard him only ns an animal. • Hut has he no ration- al soul '( no intelligence ? no confidence 'i What does Slavery to that Iml to starve, impoverish nnd crush it. Has he no af- fectional Iwing ? WNit docs Slavery to his home ? l)oc« it preserve and sanctify it, as our homes are preserved, and our right to w*'f.», children, and parents, i» guarded > No ; the .Slave owns no wife, has no right to his child, has no respect paW to his affections. Whatever, then, ittp..v be done by Slavery for mere uuimal 'comforts, it clearly insults, degrades, cur- ses his manhood. It is not the aniiiml who is ma^e in the image of \God hut the rational, loving soul, and that Slavwy. despises. Finally, in objection to this re-construc- tion. No such Union could contain in it •the element of strength and durability ; but must carry also the seeds of its own dissolution. Secession has estft'Wished ft bad precedent. Who can gun>lmtec that it would not again and speciHty be-fceized on and followed. I repeat, then, that nothing remains to the Government but to put forth its strong anrt and i»ttfk<rlhc rel>cls and traitors down They have for- feited all right to the expectations of «uy- thing different from this. If in thoir sniV prcssion it also iKVoiries necessary ft: vle- stroy that giant evil which they have sought to exalt alx>vc everything that is truly venerable and just, so bc'R ; but at all events, aud with .whatever Consequen- ces, their gin must be ptfnished, and the Union under the ConMHiitron of our fath- ers must be preserved. The Union is offatacnee value, us note the following coflslderations: First, as an <?x**hple to the world. There is no aritrVm6&c that can estimate the value of VrarHjnion in this respect. Be twecn the Wild surging* of radicalism awl the iron-bound coast of despotism, what hojfie f &>r the Nations 1 if the fairnst and ship of constitutional litarty her anchors only to I* ongulphcd in tih.e yawning vortex on the one side*, or •\crashed to pieces against the rocks % on the other ? When can* the Experiment ever be tried again under such favorable cir~ cum»tancos ? If a man know* anything of tho history of the world, a*nd of the present position of the Nations, he enn c?»ilv see that .'V ho-nr *f tlie wjrM *JCH- ters in us. Aud not only this, but, in the second place, our Union is of value, as the key-stone of State authority, and of all that may be legitimately inclu- ded under the idea of State sovereignty. Our National Government is the key-stone in that great arch which it alone holds together, the United States. liemove that binder,aud we topple the whole in ruins; we reduce it to a mere shapeless mass. This is evident if we consider that the National Constitution is the grand con- servator of all lower law, and of all lower political rights whatever. No law of the State, of the city, of the family, of tho school; no contract l>ctween man and man could fail to IKJ weakened by a wound in- flicted on the all-conserving law of our lighor nationality. What right has a man to his acres who counsels rebellion against the power by which he holds his ands '( Least of all should he who claims authority over his fellow man by virtue f local legislation seek the overthrow of hat great power which alone protects his oca! law. And finally, the great value of our Un- on is seen in the fact that the world has seen enough of despotism. The distressed ami the degraded havo suffered long euQUgli. They long for something better. Shall we disappoiut them!/ Wo shall tliun cause them sorrow, if we suffer our Union to be destroyed by wicked and de- signing men. To the end that this may He avcrtcd,duty demands that we respond cyrtily,with purse, with lite even, to tho all of the Administration for help in this ime of peril. The heroic memories of our fathers 1 deeds Join this call; the hope of the future echoes it; and, most efficient of all, the strong men and the loving wo- men of the present, counting all sacrifice as little indeed in such a cause, give their strong response. Thank God I we *re not burrled yet. though long in trtnee we lay, Tlunk God! the fathers need not blnth to own the tons to-day! The call WM heard by Plymouth Kock. 'tw»« beard in Boston Bay; Then op the piny streams of Ma I no tped on Its ringing way. New Hanpuhire's Rock*, Vermont'* Green Hills. tt kindled Into flame; R*UJ*I- Inland foil her mighty wool bursting tier little frame; The Empire City started tap, her golden fetters rout, And mcteor-Uke across the North the fiery me**age Hcnt. Over the breezy prark'-land*. by bluff and lake It ran, Till KAn»a» beni iii* a no, aud laughed to find httnxelf a man; Then on, b} cabin ami by tamp, by Hormv wa»t*6 and KBIKIH, It rung exultant down the fca where the Golden City Ktandn. Aud w)u<re*u'er Vbe tmrnmonti came there Jo«e an Mgrydln. whuu upon a rocky coast a Ktonny tide come* in. Straightway the fatluTJi gathered voice, straight- way the »one aro-<u, With finshlng ch<;ek, as when the E*M with day's red current glows. Hurrah! the long de»pair is pact j our fading hopes renew; The f«>g is lifting fjrom the land, and lo I tat an- cient blue! We learn the secret of the dedds the fire* have handed down. To flre the youthful soldier'n seal, and tend his grcfen renown. Who lives for totmtfcys through his arm feeta all her fortfeft flow, 'Ti*T>a»y to be lA-a^s for truth, ax for the row to blow. Oh ! wotna*, drire the rattling loom. Mr* gather in t!fr hay; For irf! Ihe youth worth love and trofh, are mar- rtwllcd for the lray. « Hoi thward the hoetu ar« hurrylnfe with banners wide unfurled, Vrom where the stately Iind*t»n floats the wealth of half the world; From where amid hie din«redi*Iw Lake Huron'* From XereAhe ltti>»U«ippi poors au snpollntcd HtreaW/' From wtfatoj?«ntrtcky'sfi olds of corn bend in the Southern air: From broad Ohio'* luscious vines; from Jersey's orchards \fair; From where between his fertile slopes Nebraska's rivers ruu; From Pennsylvania's iron hllU; from woody Ore- gon ;— And Mat*achusetts led tbc van, as in the days of yore, Aud gave her reddest blood to cleanse the atones of Baltimore. Hurrah ! the drums are heating; the fife is tailing shrill; Ten thousand etarrj banners flame on town, and bay, and hill ; The thunders of the rising tear drown labor's peaceful hum;— Thank God that we have liv*d to see the saffron morning come !— The morning of the battje-call, to every soldier dear. # O Joy! the cry Is \ Forward t \ O Joy! the foe is near; For all the crafty men of peace have failed to purge the land ;— Hnrrah I the ranks of battle close, GOD laket his cause in hand ! \ REMEMBER the Sabbath Day, and keep it holy, for Clod has commanded it. THX FALLOW L1ATW Their purple and golden colors intens- ify .the beauties of nature, but, like all else on which we love to gaze with fondly eager eyes, and which we look upon as beautiful and strive to keep ever with us, the Autumn foliage is disappearing si- lently yet surely in 'the progress of the season's diurnal round. The countlew million leaves that burst the fetters of their prison walls at the call of Spring, and decked the trees in all the gorgeous coloring of an emerald-green, have run their short-lived race, and the sighing of the wind, as it floats mournfully and ten- derly through the boughs, sings a requiem to their blasted greatness. One by one they fall tafore the rude blast and the ru- der gale; but in their death they teach A lesson to humanity which we shook! not neglect. Though yonng, life is beautiful and gay, and joy attends the youthful heart; yet how much sweeter it the thought of dying with all the elements of beauty—beauty of character, of thought, of deed—surrounding us, than to die in the horrid deformities of a corrupt and vitiated existence. The leave* teach us to act the better part, and gracefully to put on the cerements of loveliness, even as the angel of death comes'to transport us to the golden shores of the other worW, . As character is formed, and from the ex- \ uberance of young life come the steadi- ness and sincerity of age, so let a more lieautiful light shine upon the heart,that, when the frosts of time 'come and the rude wind.- blow,wc shall be decked in all the attributes of beauty and all the char- acteristics of goodness, with which to an- swer the summons to call us henbe. Lovely attributes m life secure them in death* And ns the green lean* in the fullness of their life sheltered us from the scorching heat of the noon-day sun, and in death robed themselves in all the rich- ness of a radiant coloring of beauty, BO let them typfty the usefulness of our own existence and the l>eauty of death in the good* SXOIMIHfTAL KT7SIC. There is one expenditure that Govern* mciit is growling al>out, which we hope our soldiers will not be deprived the bene- fit of; we mean the expense of/furnishing the regiments with music, It is true the melodious sounds produced by the bands cont a large amount of money ; but it would cost piore to do without them.— Music is essential to military life. Its en livening influence has often produced re- markable effects upon soldiers, and ouf brave boys have often been led to victory by the soul-stirring strains of some na- tional melody. In history there are nu- merous instances recorded where the tide of battle has been turned hy music. War is a sad business at best^ and any thing that can enliven it should not be consid- ered useless. Soldiers can fight without music, and tbv$- can even march without music. 11i?5' can also fight without good clothing and they can march without shctev and sutaist without meat. But cfolhing and meat are considered agen- tial to good lighting and marching ; and so is music. A column of men must be exceedingly well trained if they march with regularity with nothing to mark the cadence. A tap of the drum, or a word repeated regularly, may answer the pur- pose ; but these soon grow monotonous and irkbome. Let a regiment be march- ing in the manner just described^with a dullness which is of itself tiresome, woe* the band strikes up a lively strain. Tke tired soldiers seem to have received life; the lagging pace is exchanged the firm step, and the whole apj of the column undergoes a change, have known men to march for hour* the music of a band apparently withoi* fatigue, when, had the music been wani ing, an hour's march would quite over power them. It is very proper that the GoTernmen should have an eye to economy id its ar my appointment*, but don't let it begk on the bands. When all needless expen* ditures in the outfits of the officers ant men are stopped,—when the officers ca; fight without a redsaah or an extra fcaib cr, and only necessary trappings are pt upon tho privates,—when in fact the ou* fit of an army is reduced simply to deoex clothing and the weapons which are act! ally necessary,—then may the bands £ stricken from the roll; but until that tim, let them remain. Whatever of comfot music can bestow,—whatever of coura^ it may help to infuse,—let tbe soldier % welcome to it. The people v. ill not \b «;rn<l <r <' it- Iff not *V- •• ' *.v; -,| f ^ •
