The Nevada journal., 1861-08-23
THE WAR WORTH ALL IT COSTS.

Ere Pm alone with the night.
THE WAR WORTH ALL 1T COSTS.
The y. Y. Albany Evening Journal, speak
ing of the consequences that will result to
our country from the present war, says:
War is an expensive luxury. However
tumanely and discreetly waged, it is serl7
aus ,1rain upon the life of nation. We
.ho,, c.mc out of the present struggle i'm
nororish., in uany ways. With the best
succsss we shall e~pend hundreds of mil
lions of treasure, and sa,' 'rihce 'no"s"nuS Vi
lives. We shall feel the bruls'E : u '"'
fiiet for years after the rebellion
crushed and peace has been restored,
Thousands of fortunes will be wrecked
thousands of hopes will be made desolate-
thousands of bright careers will be arrested
The mourners will 60 about the streets.
There will be sorrow and anguish-there
will be despair that no human sympathy can
assuage-in many a gentle bosom. The
wrecks that lie thickly around us-the char
sublime endeavors-will attest how severe
has been the trial through which the coun-
try has passed.
Will it pay the cost? Yes-a hundred-a
thousand fold-if we come ont of the strug
gle conquerors. If we. succeed in crushing
out this miserable rebellion-if we exterm-
mate the fatal hercsy, Secession-if we shall
succeed in convincing the world that we
have Government strong enough, vigorous
enough, determined enough to overcome all
combinations and attacks, whether from
conspiracics within or invasions without;
if we shall be able to impress Chrstendom
with the conviction that our Western en-
pire is built upon Il Ioch, which no convui-
sion can shake and no tempest undermine
if we shall be able TO do this, and do it eff
fectivelv, the war, no matter how long or
how desperately waged, Will be the cheapest
enterprise upon which the nation ever en-
barked. Every drop of blood that has been
shed-every dollar that has been expended
every purpose that has been banked and
hope that has been crushed-will fruetify
into future blessings. We shall emerge from
the conflict stronger in all that goes to make
up the life of n great people. We must re-
sumo the calm pursuits of peace, chastened
by the trial through which we have passed
purified by the atfiiction with which We
have heen visited We shall find ourselves
elevated to higher moral plane, and quick
ened by nober impulses to the performance
of nober deeds We shall find ourselves
purer, more self-reliant, more self-poised,
and more able to grappie with future issues
aid avoid future dangers. We shall find
ourselves less bound up in selfshness, less
slaves of toll and business, less groveling
in our tastes, less earthly in our aspira-
tons.
The successful termination of the war Will
be the dawn of a new era in the history of
the country. The country will enter upon
a new stage of its career. The public Heart
will throb with more generous pulsations.
Broader, higher, nobler issues will engage
the attention of statesmen. A loftier stand |
ard of public morality will animate the
people. The sterling metal of our Western
life, purified, as it were, by fre-abstracted |
from the dross that has so long tarnished !
its lustre-will shine out as it never shone !
before.