, 1863-05-08
Ul)!foeo Urlbnlte,
NKyER DESPAIR: MORE MEN:


Up Hearts up all hearts! there is no
good in dcspondency. The greatcr the dis
aster, the more courage We need to meet it
the more wise and resoluto must be our
counci1s-thc more prodigal must we be
of our resources, yielding the last dime and
the last man to the cause but never yield
ing the cause itself.
We cannot have it all our own way In
this world, and it would not be good for
us If we could. There are great lessons to
those who can learn them, even in reverses
and defeat and the Federal armies to-day,
are stronger than ever they were, and the
hardEhips, and bloody wounds, and savage
poundings they have met with, have con-
densed each man into battalion, and
armed him with all themoral forces Of pat
fiotism, and military pride. which in the
end there is no resisting.
We are in all things too hot, Or too cold;
too easily lifted up, and far too easily
stricken down. Tie glad tidings which
VIC heard on Tuesday, from Hooker, raised
us higher than the kite flies; the bad news
which comes to us this morning, from the
same quarter, casts US into the abyss, as if
it were the end Of the world.
But we notice that the sun still shines,
as if nothing particular had happened;
and nothing particular has happened, so
far rs the final issues Of the war are ron
cerncd, although we must confess that this
time, somebody, and not nobody, has been
hurt. What wise gcneralship, and crafty
planning, and swift movement, and tre-
mendous fighting of soldiers could do to
WIN victory, over troops equally as brave
as ours, belonging to the same heroic
1uce, and rendered desperate by the pros
pect of famine, and the consciousness that
they we're playing their last stake for the
game, has been done up to this time by
Hooker, and will yet bc done by him as
new exlgcncics shall arise. We have had
no such man before at the head Of our ar
mics in the field. Hc Is neither traitor, nor
laggard, but very clearly, 50 fur, a mighty
man Of war, such as the Lord loved in the
old fighting days Of the Hebrews.
What if Hooker has rccrossed the Rap
pahannock? He WIGS not driven over by
the enemy, nor was his retreat scramble
for life, or Bull Run panic, or instigated
by any fear Of the Southcrners' cannon. It
was a necessary strategy, made such by
the sudden rising Of the river ten feet in
about si1 hours; and on the other side Of it
alone could he get supplies. He planted
whole parks of artillery 10 protect his rear
during this retrcgadc movement. and up to
this tine the storming Of impossible
heights, and driving tie Zoe from lis in
t1cnchments, if beating him on all sides in
the open field, and annihi1ating FIVE out Of
seven Of his Divisions, and taking above
six thousand prisoners and sending them
in triumph to Washington, are any proofs
Of 1lctory-then Hooker has q right to the
laurel.
What, then, is the good of our mo::thing
and humping? We are not ut all sure
the bad news is nearly SO bsd as it is re-
ported in the secession sheets Of New
4ork-thc Herald and the IYvr'a. And it
il quite certain that the wary New York
ers do not put much faith in it. Gold
opened this (Thursday) morning in that
city al last nights prices, from 81 to 52)
and rose cnly to 81, and fell back finally to
81, which is very significant
But even admitting the worst that could
tefall our arms, absolute defeat namely-is
That thing to put the nation into hopeless
mourning? We have beaten, and been
Lea:en many times during the war, and
every time we hive recovered from our
disasters hy the bravery with which we
met them, We ill remember Bull Run.
and how in the campaign Of the Chicka,
hcrniny, sixty thousand Of our brave tel-
lows Lit the dust, and with no result. How
last summer t]lc ercmy captured ten thous.
:nd Of our troops at Harpcr's Ferry, and
were allowed 10 60 off with flying colo1s,
10 army following en- their track to ayenge
rs. Nor have We forgot Shiloh, and Hal
leck. at Ccrinth, who, like Mcclellan,
: ia great digger, and loves ditch. Nor
low Mcclellan and his Generals BETRAYED
the brave but oycrlW1nc Pope in Virginia
nor the struggle at Vicksburg, nor the
mighty but Intellectual battle of Frcdcr-
icksburg.
But none Of these things ever daunted
Is for O moment. "Sirc, / cannot take
that position, the fire is tco tcrrif;c,'' said
the General to Napoleon. "2Iorc men
, Fo,wardF' Was the reply; and tbs has
ever been cur reply, aud till ever be, tc
the great end, and final consummation.
AS for reace, or compromise there i
nothing base1 than q proposal Of this sort
nothing more cowardly, mean, and traitor
Gus. Wc have been compelled into thi:
war, and will fight it out, as Luther said
81 So God help us-Amen."
We are glad to find that this is the uni
Te1sal sentiment Of the Nortnwest-Cozt
rerheads excepted. Tie Ohio Legislature
has set noble example in announcing it
which it would be good for that Of Illinois
10 follow. It presents indeed, the only
platform On which the Union party car
now stand, md we give it entire for tht
benefit Of our readers:
healrfd by ths General Asse,a1sy cf the STATE q
nhto: That we will have no dissolution og til
Union: that VIC shall have no armlstfcc: that Vi
san hEht ~ long Al the rehels and traitors can
tEat The war shall 20 On until law Is restored sa
s'e thau never despair OF the Republic.
We endorse every word Of this brave re
solution, and the sooner VIC begin to rais4
more men to enforce it, tic better for Us al
Our course is now clear enough. Venus
have another half million to fill up the ol
regiments. Five hundred thousand ney
soldiers to join the five hundred thousan
old ones, who must every man Of them b
Kept in the Held, and can easily be kept
the Secretary Of War will adopt the fou
hundred dollar proposal, which we made
few days since. TIE want no new 1egi
ments, it will take TOO long time to 1ais
them and make them efficient, and alread,
they erc demanded on the battle ground t,
meet the last army which the rebels will b
able TO raise.
"hoso falters now, is not only traito1
nut coward. Let the Conscript law hay
its fullest effect, not upon whites alone ,,,,
upon blacks Let Us raise d whole arm
Of blacks, and throw their n,nsc1c .1sr