The Nevada Democrat., 1862-09-06
The Lesson Of the Day.


Harper's Weekly, OF late date, has the
following sensible remarks on the Lesson
of the Days"
Every event in this war teaches US the
vame lesson. IL ia as old as human history,
bat Il is hard TO learn. II has been urged
n hundred times in this struggle Of ours,
and hundred times forgotten. II Is very
simple, for 1t is only, don't desptse your en-
enly. =,
From the beginning we have been told
that the rebels had no money, no food, no
ammunition; that they were demorallZtd,
disheartened, and cOerced; that their cause
was hopeless, and the issue oaly question
of little time; that they were good at
dash, but bad no persistence and would soon
tire OF a protitless aud overwhelming war
Several times they have been on their last
legs. Several times the back Of the rebel
lion has been broken. The lend" has been
approaching" for long time; aud the
steadiest and most suspicious papers nave
occasionally predicted the very day when
the national dag would hoat serene over
every iuch Of the national domain.
We have all shared this unhappy conn"
dence. These columns have not failed 10
express Il, nor will they ever doubt the suc-
cess of the nation in subduing this revolis
But let us he childish no longer. The sug-
gestion of the loyal Governors is the
prompting of the national heart. IL Is per
fectly clear now, that If we had had mil
lion Of men more or lesa enrolled, and armed
as rapidly ~ posi- ole. we should have taken
no steps backward, and the world could not
have had the least doubt as 70 the prospects
of the revolt.
Let us henceforth remember that this is a
civil war; that the hate Of men who have
been felow.citiZens is hundred fold more
bitter than the hate of Foreigners; that The
rebels feel their cause to be as sacred as
ever our fathers or any people thought
theirs TO be; that they have for long years
been taught to hate as aud despise US; that
the mass Of them are profoundly ignorant
aud poor, and that their prejudice against
us is malignant; that they look upon our
army as an invading host. coming TO waste
their homes and insult their families; aud
that by a thousand reasons Of conviction,
passion, ignorance, aud fear, they are prac'
tically united IN opposition TO the Govern.
msnt. Moreover, a people 20 infamed and
desperate, occupying 800, 900 square miles
of fertile SOIL Will not starve Immediately
If piece Of broSn paper, by common con-
sent, buys loaf Of bread. tits as good as
gold. Disaffeclon. disappointment, disgast
there may be in Individual cases, and IN the
perhaps intentionally exaggerated rumors
of designing straggIers But after fifteen
months of war the rebels stand to-day bit,
ter, defiant, Desperate; not hoping, ofcOurse
to subdue aud Overrun us, but expecting to
hold out Aercely nutil Europe interpoSes
Let no one mistake what we are saying.
There is not the least reason for doubt in
any loyal heart. But there is every reason
for keeping our eyes steadily open upon The
acts. A man Ii not depressed or gloomy
because he thinks a huge and radical civil
var is not picnic, to be ended by an or.
ler Of the day Ifyou expect TO stand on
be top Of the mountain you mnst climb.
and slip. and sweat, and fall, and bruise
our shins, and up again, and up. aud up.
be job is difficult, so is this rebellion. But
I is not in the Yankee nature to be foiled.
he tougher the resistance, the more resO'
utely, with grim gOod-humOr, it settles it.
elf to the task.