New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-07
THE WAR FOR the UNION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Hssm OuI Own Correspondent

served of the nresent there 10 one marked and
peculiar spectacle Of which, IN all time gone py'
there have been but two resenbances. Ihe cru
sadipg host gathered under one leading banner
the enthusiasm, the picty, and selt-devoton o.
oh Europe. Fired by a passion which seemed
but higher form of frenzy, the barrier of Da-
tional divisions, the jealousy of warring nations
and the St paration and confusion OF dialects and
languages, all yield to zeal which, epidemic
and contagious, brought the discovered naiionah
ties, in rudeness and refinement, under bar
haran cbieitain and crowned king to the rescue
Of tue Holy Sepulcher from the hand OF the In
fOel But this was but the free offering
Of service and life to cause which came to
the mmd feryid in religion which addressed
the eve in the scenic pageantry of ritual, rather
than the heart in the teachings of pure faith
and almost brutal in ferocity as yet wanting
for that slow education which, at q later period,
was To adorn kniehthood The yassal followed
his leader, who dreamed of glory, earthly and
immortal, and saw Visions of conquest and EN-
pire in the Oriental possessions of rival faith,
which, hardly more earthly and sensual than the
practices Of bis own, came from the broken c's'
terms fashioned by man, and not from the hea'
venly fountain from which flowed the oracles OF
God.
The centuries which followed, with their paroxys-
NAL attacks of energy stimulated by ianatlclsm,
left Europe to fall into It's distinct governments
and fight IN it's ever.recurring wars, IN separate
armies, or in coalitions of Limited extent, formed
Against more powerful potentate
In our time, under one commanding and con-
trolling genius, binding to his destiny the power
of all that bad sway from the Bay of Biscay to
the Balkan-each Monarch, Prince, and Duke
marched to his rally the contingent OF Feudal
Lord whose men.at-arms were OF the gentle
blood of royal and noble veins. This was not
voluntary, but held to alliance, only oy the strong
hand and the stern will. COmpulsion to the
EULER and conscrIptiOn TO the soldier held TO bis
behests the fearful might of contumaclous na-
tons whose population were made the spoilers
Of habtaous AID the destrOyers OF human hfe.
The world will not soon see such another mag.
pifcept procession as that mighty march which
descended Tito the valley of the Niemen, gorge
Gus in all the panopy of war and gilded by
sui shine which was soon to pass behind cloud
charged with the thunder and whirlwind OF
doom. frightful and wonderful, as had been the
footsteps which led to catastrophe ending in
the sublime Of calamity.
With the close of that sepulcher of frost,
lAmiDe and the slayer, into which they marched to
die benumbed on the steppes of inhosptaole
provinces 10 be butchered at BOrOdiDo, or
buried in the icy food Of the Beresna, went out
the last grand gathering of distant kindred and
b., oto IN trpp
and uncompusive profer of life, we assemble
again an army in which the sons of men who
fought at Dresden and shouted " Pire PEm-
psreur" in the last fatal march upon st. Dizer,
salute our unfurled flag, and mark time to the
national air which salutes its raising.
With us now, for life aud death, not invited
tut seeking-the post Of danger, is miDghng of
tongues aud races, more comprehensive in scope
than even the campaign of disaster and death
\ against the last contumacious resistant OF uni
versal empire, whose capital had not trembled to
The stern football of the Old Guard of the Corsi-
can Emperor. From the Shannon and from the
Dsnube-from the Rhine and the Rhone, and more,
from the fords of Norway snd the frths ofScotand,
o1me those who have sought freedom under our
sky, and now stretch out the hand to help to
rescue in alarm and danger. Our regiments
bear names dear to Liberty, both Of the
living and of the dead. Yankee Doodle and the
Harselaise, the RAM des Yaehes and the Rhine
Song, mingle their stirring refrains as the
steady ranks beat with even step to the cadence
Of their bars.
1t will be something, in the grander acts Of
Ghis drama, to tell to our chdren-those Of us
- who surviye-Of the holiday pomp which delighted
sur eyes in the mastering up of native born and
foreign birth-tbe brOgue and the burr-the gut
eural and the /" soft bastard Latin of Tuscan
sweetness. as they dehled past in the march to
xepossess oar own territory, held from our juris-
aiction by rebellion with the glow of pride on
their foreheads and the glitter of sunshine upon
their polished steel Dreamer of evil omen
dOubter Of the Wisdom which is from on High,
and holds nations in the hollow of His hand, see
In this the sure and certain triumph for the which
1be world is waiting, and for which it shall not
wait in vain.
Emancipation has left the eastern shores of
she Atlantic, where it has done its work. the
step of its progress treads upon the paths of
retiring oppression. Here, where the people
6nt took power into their hands and founded a
polty, which rested upon the equal and impartial
participation of all, building an image of wor-
shp-wbose feet were part iron and part clay
che frstlIngs of the heart shall now become the
6rstliDgs of the hand, to the true liberty which
has been, heretofore, but q fiction and false