New-York daily tribune., 1861-11-04

conversation between two mon. "You know,
said one Of them to the other, "you are Sc
F." cessiopist." You have no right to say go,
replied the other. "You cannot deny it, !" was
the answer 81 do not wish" continued the
speaker, TO do you harm. would even de-
- fend you with my own life. But you knor,
p" late at night as it is. silent as these streets
are, were l TO go into them and proclaim
you Secessonist, in five minutes l could
have you hanging from the nearest lamp
post" Those determined, not noisy but
earnest crowds that waited to see the flag OF
the Union flung from the windows OF The Her
aid and other traitorous jOurnals-who has
forgotten them There was spirit abroad
then that demanded and insured heroic deeds,
ard even tho popular and illegitimate display
of that feeling showed how deep and irrepres-
sible it was
How oil loDged with an impatience that was
almost sickening to hear of Butler and bis two
regiments on their way to Washington. The
story has passed into history now, and the
recollection Of the incidents may assure U.s.
though Bull Run and much else has since hap
pened that we would rather forget, that we
need not despair Of Northern courage and
Northern energy when the times call for them.
Buffers men were no less artisans than SOL
diers, and when he wanted laborers every man
stepped forward; when engineers were asked
for they came; machini5ts, and they were
ready. They could build locomotives, or lay
railroads, repair bridges or man ships no
handcraft that was not familiar to them; no
toll that they were not ready for; no privation
that they could not endure; no obstacle that
they were not ready to encounter, none that
they did not overcome. Perhaps we do not
remember so often as we ought the spirit that
moved the people in those days, and which
swept events and men before it, and which, God
willing, and if we believe in it, will yet carry
us triumphantly to the end of that beginning
If it has manifested itself less Of late it is only
because there has been less occasion to call il
forth.
But il broke out again the other da!
at Balls Bluff - would that there hat
been some gain for such great sacrifice
when Baker fell at the head OF
forlorn hope; when those brave boys OF Bos
ton and of philadelphia fought every incS
ground; when young Putnam, wounded unt'
death. was carried of on the shoulders OF {
brother officer who would not leave him; wher
his cousin, Lowell, and Holmes, and another
Putnam, and many others, fought TIL the!
fell disabled by their wounds; when Lee wal
taken storming like "Mad Anthony" because
be could fight no longer, and Revere surren
dered himself prisoner because he would moi
leave his Colonel; where all. in short, had
rallied again and again. and thrown themselye'
against tho enemy that surrounded them on
three sides, with the cruel river flowing in
their rear.
1t has broken out again in Missouri. The
spirit Of Rebellion is fresh and rampant there
as, seven months ago, it was in Marylandi and
1t is met with the same spirit. The march OF
FremOnt's body guard has its little difficulties
to encounter as Butler and his two regiments
had on their way from Annapolis TO Washing
ton. At Georgetown, writes Major White, they
found their horses and mules unfit for further
travel for want OF shoes. There was call for
blacksmitbs, and the body-gusrd was not with
out them. They took possession Of two forges
they found few old shoes but much old iron,
and in five days their animals, 232 in number,
were oil well shOd, and in marching order.
And they marched TO good purpose. Presently
one hundred and fifty of those handy fellows,
brave as handy, under the leadership of Zagonyi
drove two thousand Rebels out Of Springfield,
aud ran up the national flag over the Court.House
of the town. Aud Gen. Lane all unconscious
be, for augbt we know, guilty Of some things not
quite in order with our friends" on the frontier,
and il may be that his commission has less red
tape to its seal than regulation calls for; but We
cannot withhold due need of praise for his energy
and courage. At Pleasant Hill, he also runs up
the Stars and Stripes $50 long" he tells these
Pleasant Hill folks, "as it remains here, you are
/" safe; but if il is cut down, by the Eternal,
" will return ard burn your town" 1t had not
been cut down at the last adyices, though the
Pleasant. Killers are all :" Secesh." We cannot
help augIriDg well for the State where the spirit
of those April days we remember, is breaking out.
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