New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-24

/ From The IN N Nsus. SrDL II.
There was n private letter from Hawthorne, soon
after tie war began ~ bch might serN for descfp-
ton Of the cizen-spiri of hr cOurirymen, any day
from the gnn-fre at Fort Somter till now. He raid
that everybody was astOlished to lind bog happy u
was possible and natural be- in the midst a "A civil
war. Wherever "a war ID entered upol for patriotic
reagoos, in any aye or country, there must be the
exclamation which Hawthorne described; but no
where--nOt even in Italy IN lsJ9-can there have
been such intense enoymeut of action and relief AZ
III The Free States OF America for the last year and
half.
Ofker oppressed nations havs suffered under n for
eign woke; the Northern Americans have endured
tie more Calling tyranny OF I'M olelrchy of th-ir
own cOuntrymeu. Stung IN conscience, alarmed for
the future sen.itivc 10 the worlds censnrc con-
scionr Of deadly that could neither be borne
much longer nor got lid Of, the American citizen felt
himself neither 20 free, 70 happy, honored
AZ he pretended TO be; aud vet he did not know how
20 proceed 10 mend hie Io-lton When the rishners
of the Slave Power set him free to speak and act to
strive aud to hope 1t was felt 4 grand deliver
ance.
Some people on our side are 30 far from under
standing tins that they quefulously wonder what
the Americans can mean by not being miserable.
They ought to he inghteDed-thcy ought to be-
moan their dfcomfOrts-tbey ought 10 be dOwncast
al their money osses, and heartbroken under other
bereavements yet they are 70 far from being scared
and moody and fearful, far from living Ia sack
cloth and ashes, that they nist either be supposed
hypOcrites or fools and blind, or must be gwen up
like a 100 hard puzzle We, for part, see moth
ing uIinieliebe or wonderful in the good spirits Of
these children of brave Old England. The soul Of
their fathers il awake aud alive in them, ind they
taste The elixir Of patriotism which Ii bequealbod
from Generation TO generation o! our race; aud they
feel their youn rencw Wed and exut III IT, le-giying
power. They are unfortunate, very unfortunate ~
tueir public men, WHO do not fairly represent them
becaure they will not rice TO he hight Of their alii'
oiisln; but those Of them who suffering under
bereavement, suspense, and prvallOn, are nhipli-
is od 10 fad how little grievons grief ~ and woui
plru TIE very notion Of wishing that they and then
country could bc AZ tb-y were before
L0oslng 1t the genuine Amerllans-at The sons %
the iilgriinf and the Sons o. the founders oi Tie
Republic we find, as happens everywhere, inaDiies-
tatiOue OF the same courage nndertwo OIflncioiinf
Oar rcadorshaye seeu what Ihe y. y. EreHHg P0,t
says Of the Quakers and their share in the events
and influence OF the tines No doubt there are
Qnaters AKIN in sIifit 10 i'm who advised INC cap
tan 10 q ia fight To luil a ltte;" and to hn
VINO, iIarlug spikc in hand, requested the boarding
enemy 10 keep 20 his own sbp, ana showed him ire
way oVeilOhId. 30 long ago IA the beginning col
l'Dl, When The IfOSavery interest had stu Us
tufbiHR power ia the New-England cities, There
were Quakeis among The liie-gua(ds a the leading
Abol iohists, walking with ocked ar,s and revOly-
eis 10 ther pockets, and standing sentry all night,
VITA every intention Of using physlca force rather
ihan leu bar Of citizen head be touched, for
matter Di opinion aud free speech.
II the Northern dash" (which was never ex-
ceeded Wy lle seutlcIp) carries away the very