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HOPES.
It is mean thing to strike man when
he is down, and no one but coward in-
quits the weak and defenseless. For
great and powerful notion to oppfem and
despoil a small and feeble one, moves the,
Indignation of the world; and all men de-
nounce as treacherous and shameful In any:
Government crafty or bsld attempts to gain
undue adyantag from the MIST fortuncs or in.
tanl divisions Of another people. Any
effort to impose huiinilisting concessions
or demand and enforce in the time Of great
trial and danger, what it dare not claim Of
3 nation in its more pfogpe times, shows
the spirit OF craven and the heart Of a
tyrant. When England took advantage Of
our civil dissensions and attending feeble
ness, to dictate to,:us with haughty and
o7erbea1ing temper, her conduct was
stamped with condemnation by the whole
civilized world: and 10 ourselves con1a
not find language in which to cl,aractan7;7, l
her meanness and perfdy..
If it be thus atroc;ous in FOREIGN nation
to seek to aggrandize Itself and humiliate
or weaken us By means Of OUT misfortunes.
and in the DIV of our greatest trials,
what is to be thought Of the men or the
party in our own midst who are pursuing
the same courses what language can fifty
express our sense of their treachery and
deeradations And yet it is a most mourn.
full fact that We have men among Us who
would not hare this war end so long as it
puts money in their purses or secures them
good offices with fat salaries. We have
neighbors who set the triumph Of their
party so high that they would not have the
rebellion crushed if that event should give
political power to their oppouents: and 50
long as they think that the protection and
defense Of Slavery is essential to the Sue
cess Of their party schemes and their hold
on power, they find Slavery right, benef-
cent and divine, and assal and revile all
lovers ofjustiee and freedom as traitors and
fanatics.
There are men who hope that the losses
and sacrifices Of this war Will soon become
50 great and g1ievous that the people will
abandon the cause Of justice and freedom,
and submit to any concession OF compro-
mise which promises relief from intolerable
burdens. There are demagogues and
political schemers who are to-day
working with all their powers Of head
and hand to prevent the rebellion
being too sun1marily cr1,shed, or slavery
being too Quickly extinguished: who hone
that the war may be dragged along with
its enormous expense, the ranks Of the ar
nv be thinned by disease and death: COM
plant, dissension, and heavy burdens final
II paralyze and destroy the strength of
tue Union; and then an Administration Of
their own choice can be imposed upon the
nation, they themselves have power and
Dlace. rebellion be FORGOTTEN or hardened.
and secession return again to seize the
mighty power Of the whole United States.
ana H1Eld II 10r the DEuent OF slavery.
What is to be thought of the men who
have hid out this scheme. and who are at
work now on their plans. getting into train
ing their adhcrents, subsidising yenal
7ress co,+no11inc corr,,nt and ambitions
contains md ganora1s and bonino IN t,rn
all the sufFerines and s,r,1os1es and 1ossos
Of their country into the instruments and
means If gratifying their own v;1c am-
hilton! Alter hayinr the Hesitation
and policy Of the Government shaned
during its whole existence hv the
haurhtv and do,nineerine snirit Of slavery
and secession after being plunged into
bloody civil war by the same selfish,
wicked and arrogant class, if certain par
ty North can have its Yav. ne arr tn come