Sermons On Recent National Victories, And the National Sorrow. Preached, April 23d, 1865, in the Plymouth Church
Sermons On Recent National Victories, And the National Sorrow. Preached, April 23d, 1865, in the Plymouth Church
Edward Payson Powell
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Four years ago the sound of war was just breaking over us ; and we shuddered to think of our prosperity, our commerce, all under the blight of blood shedding. We dreaded to think of the future. Fort Sumpter was the first scene ; Bull Run bloody, disastrous, terrifying, was the second; Ball's Bluff, Shiloh, the Peninsula grave-digging succeeded. Buell's blun-' ders, McClellan's indecisions, Halleck's lines of circumvalla tion in the swamps of Corinth,— which ended in taking the Hosted by Google ...18 Sermon Appropriate to the village, but nobody in it; all these sickened us. Then cama the treachery that ruined Pope and defeated Burnside. Gene- rals bidding for the enemies votes for President; pirates ruining our commerce. But what a magnificent change has four years wrought. Gettysburg, Chattanooga, New Orleans, Mobile, Wilmington ; Sherman's circumnavigation of Secessia; Grant's garroting of Richmond; Lee's army capitulated; Mosby surrendered ; in fact the old giant, armless, headless, legless, a miserable trunk of lies and sins and filth, only cum- bers the ground till we can learn how best to bury it.
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