The Portland daily press., 1862-10-11

comes this confession: "The more / study the
world the more am | convinced of the inabili-
ty Of brute force to create anything durable"
And another Frenchman ofsubtle thought and
perfect integrity, whose name is linked forever
with American institutions, de Tocaueville,
has said similar tribute to truth. "Force,"
says he, sis never more than transient ele-
ment of success. A government which should
only be able to crush its enemies on the field
of battle would very soon be destroyed."-
Surely in these authoritative words of the war
rior and the thinker, there is a warning to us
not to put trust in the batteries or bayonets
while an unconquerable instinct makes us all
confess that might does not constitute right
PEACE THROUGH FREEDOM.
Thus for the sake of Peace, which we all
desire, do / now plead for Freedom, through
which alone Peace can be secured. Are you
earnest for Peace, then you must be earnest for
Freedom also Would you uphold the Union
against treason, then must you uphold Free
dom, without which bloody treason will -four
ish over us. But Freedom has been adopted
by Congress and proclaimed by the President
as one of the agencies in the prosecution of
the war. Therefore. it must be maintained
with all our souls and all our hearts and all
our minds. The hour Of debate has passed !;
the hour of duty has come.
In opposing solemn acts ofCongress, which
preme law of the land, passed for the national
defenses in opposing the Proclamation of the
President, nay, in discouraging freedom, you
are as bad as If you discouraged enistments
1t is through Freedom. as well as the arms of
our soldiers, that the war will be waged; and
the same loyalty which supports the one, is
now due to the other. The Encouragement
OF enlistments is recognized as seditious and
traitorous; but the discouragement of this
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the suppression of the Rebellion, is only anoth-
er form Of sediton and treason, which an in
dignant patriotism will spurn. Emancipation
is now war measure, and it must be sus-
tanned, as you sustain an army in the field.
WAR CHANGED IN CHARACTER, NOT IN OBJ
JECT.
And now, thank God the word has been
spoken; greater word was never spoken
Emancipation has begun, and our country is
already elevated and glorified. The war in
which we are now engaged has not changed in
object, but it has changed in character. Its
object how, as at the beginning, is simply to
put down the rebellion; but its character Is
derived from the new force at last enlisted,
which must not only stamp itself upon all
that is done, but absorb the whole war to it
self, even as the rod of Aaron swallowed up
all other rods. Vain will it be again to de-
lude European nations into the foolish belief
that slavery has nothiug to do with the war
that it is war for empire on one side, and in
dependence on the other; and that all generous
ideas are on the side of the rebellion. And
vain, also, will be the other European cry,
whether from an incorporate press, or the eau
tious lips of statesmen, that separation is in
evtable, and that our Government is doomed
to witness the disnemberment of the Repub-
lie. With this new alliance, all such forebod-
ings will be falsiiled; the wishes of the fathers
will be fulfilled, and those Rights of Human
Nature. which were the declared object of our
Revolution, win be vindicated. Thus inspired
the sword of Washington-that sword which,
according to his last will and testament, was
to be drawn only in selEdefense, or in defense
of country and its rights - will once more
marshal our armies to victory, while our flag,
wherever it floats, will give Freedom to all be-
meath its folds, and its proud inscription will
be at last triumphantly fulfilled "Liberty and
Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."