Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-08
The war Worth AI1Tt Co,,..

The Albany On. Ys) E0sntlg Journal says.
War is an expensive luxury. However
humanely and disereetly waged, il lisa serious
drain upon the life of q nation. We shall
come out Of the present struggle innpovef.
ished in many ways. With the best success,
we shalt expend hundreds of millions OF
treasures and sacrifice thousands of lives.
We shall feel the bruises of the conflict for
years after the Tebellion has been crushed
and peace has been restored. Thousands Of.
fortunes will be wrecked thousands Of
homes viii be made desolate thousands Of
bright careers will be arrested. The mourn,
ers will 20 about the streets. There win be
sorrow and apguish--there viii be despair
that no human sympathy can assuage-in
many gentle bosom. The wrecks will be
thick around us-the charred and battered
ruins OF high hopes and sublime, endeavors
will attest how severe has been, the trial
through which the country has passed.
viii il pay the cost2 Yes, hundred, a
thousand fold, if we come out of the strug-
gle conquerers. If we succeed in crushing
out this miserable rebellion; If we extermi.
nate the fatal heresy Of Secession; if Weshail
be able to teach treason such lesson as
history will never weary Of rehearsiuR; 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 conspiracies within or inya-
sions without; if we shall be able to impress
Christendom with the conviction that our
Western Empire is built upon rock, which
no conyulsion can shake and no temDests
undermine; if wegshau be able to do rthiB,
and do it effectively the war, no matter how
long or how desperately waged5 will be the
cheapest enterprise upon which the nation
eyer embarked, Every, drop of blood that
has been shed; every dollar that has been,
stpfftnasdi every purpose that has, eees
will fructify into future blessings. We shall
emerge from the conflict stronges in oil that
goes TO make up the life Of o great people.
We shallresume the calm pursuits of peace,
'chastened by the trial through which we
have passed-purifed by the afliction with
which we have been visited. We shall find
ourselves elevated to Q higher moral plane
and quickened by nobler impulses to the per.
formances OF nobler deeds. We shall lind
poised, in6Ss ais Dts ~ s-ssais Sr;tb iS S,tur
Issues, and avoid future dangers. We shall
ind ourselves less bound up in selfshness,
less the slaves of toll and business, less
groyeling in our tastes, less earthly in our
aspirations. Es 100 II l.g
The successful termination of the war will
be the dawn Of new era in the history of
the country, The republic will enter upon
o new stage Of its career. The public heart
will 1throh with more generous pulsatiOns.
Broader, higher, nobler issues will engage
the attention of statesmen. A loftier stand
ard of public morality will prevail. A bet.
ter class of public teachers will come upon
the stage, Purer aims and more exalted
conceptions truth and justice will animate
the people. The sterling metal ofrour W est
ern life purified, as it were, by firs--ab-o
stracted from the dross that has 30 long tar
nished its luster--Nill shine out as It has
never shone before. 5Cagsasolqa sIf h1V1'