The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-06-15

and spend hundred millions Of dollar;
.a-year than tbs Southern can raise ion
millions All thaeis outside and n,ateriaI
lis in favor Of tue North. III has tho prt.
poaderafce Of everything that eau lie
counted measured aud weighed. thu,
can be bought aud sold; that can Ii
entered in ledgers and put oah balane,
sheet. Ii has the manufacturers the buiEtl.
ing yards, the d6ck. yards the whole Al
parattis Of national wealth and strength,
1t has the money market, and II borrow
more easilytiran the South, where how.
ever political zeal sustains d fetitio,,s
credit So IN the North we read Of ntine.
rous gatherings Of State forces; t,f t,.n !,
steamers chartered, stripped Of, their
tnery, filled with soldiers, food ana ia5i,,
fntnition, aud Steamihg soathwnrd g.
much for the North In The S6nth a
the contrary, there is liitle. or nothing but
that which oftea becomes the eoapterbal.
ancc 10: everything else. There are .thp
men OF action, who can eoTiE,ife e6,is5,; =.
keep the secret, have Il plan. md ,lrry n
ont without wayefiiig or flineItipt. f,Gs
politicians at Washington. have been rncil.
hitting between peace and war, between,
comprotnisetand resistance. Ii. the SsYtib
there has been one STEADY uointerrni,t,.,l
progress toward secession altd war. M
the very last President Iincofn ms b,ar
eehind:ha4lf. His ships, sent 10 rclie@ye
Fort shiritsr only arrived ID time IA, he
distant spectators Of tho scene: they came
IN fact but TO contribute to the fsi,rp ~
the captors, and to bring shame. and ,liS.
trust on themselves and their cairsp. IN tb;s
Is to be. an .omen Of thes result, the rich
aud anrcady North will be. no. match foir
the dary torwardness Of tile S0utI j. ::
But long shots are very different from
close quarters. A fight OF batteries cr.iss
e river, watched with teiescones nn,l
quietly Witnessed by ID, large. Ii6pniati6p
affords little clue for theresrft Of. battle
hand to.hand, step bystep, with receivers
knives ind whit not, rpiiHd The yerv
buildings Of the capitol. That appears 10
he the thing next apptrheptlesi aud Presi.
dent lincoln has sphimofitd t} his nd ,tli
the miscellaneous fioqa, corps 81 tie seya.
raj Northern SStates that may cAeuse Is
hear him. Strange that The spot once {,
held so sacred and 50 carefully insulated
from local or paFtEifl dissertations, sIloC!t.
become tie object Of The first tiyI wGrt
That is, indeed, what We have come 10.
Maoy Of ms remember, not wltbout n TIL.
gle OF slIahIe Tor our own c1Gntrv. tho
gatitail attack ofthe British army on tie
capitol. ana theT5olisli fniarfes dane tl,sf9s
destined soon to be more than avenged.
|fhut was but soRreRtr Of tho older War
Of Independence. Z. No British officer
would hare dared to. ifiyt,tt the great
Striite OF American union aud Hbtty, had
it not been felt that, beside. the question
then at issue, there wits an uctoaut still
to settle iuf the former wat. Stnea the
year 1873 there las been a generation of
mutual respeet-ef even affection. That
is all gone BY: Other coinii4tanis gather
rortnd Washington. The wnriliiGister of
the southern Confedoraey publicly PROMISES
that the secession flag shall lioat over the
capitei@by the lsr of May: Any. day il.
IL expected that Virginia, whether Inv
choice or by necessity, viii join the seces.
sion, and then the sacred district OF Col,
umhia, which was 10 nave been tie com.
mon ground Of the worlds great brother
hood, will be the: debateabse border Of a
divided allegiance. aud n bloody quarrel.
Mean while tine brings round anniversaries
which are celebrated as OF yorc, but with
the feeling that they are. now a solemn
mockery., Want are the Declaration of
Independence. the Battle OF Lexington,
the birthday Of Clay, and the other red
letter days in the American calender, now
that the glorious fabric is itEGff in the dust,
md the mountain made with hands shat
tered TO pieceeE 1t was but the other
day that I'll eyes were fixed on the capitol
Of the Old World as the single object OF
Interest, aud the expected scene Of the
great events that were TO mark the latter
years Of this century. Rome. occupied
The attention Of all men. A hnndfetl gaes.
tions ware asked, but all were OF Rome.
VIII Rome be still Il eapitaig VIII it be
the head ola Confederation, or the throne
Of q universal bishop, OF the senate of a
national republics Before these aues-
tions. could be answered, and whlio they
are sttR asked, the capital Of the New
World comes to the foreground. and is the
object Of much the same inquiries. The two
cities Of Rome aad Washington ara not
so differently situated at this moment, nor
are their prospects so different as might
be. For The present, indeed, We shall ali
think more Of Washington thanof Rome.
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