, 1863-02-28
Gl)ttooo Iribu1rt.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY rs, 1868.
TIE PRESENT OUTtDnE.

TIE PRESENT OUTLOOK.
The ecvidences Of q profound and comprc-
henslvc reaction against the Coppcrhcads
and their plans, comes 10 us from every
quarter; and with it comes the assurance
that the day Of the final triumph of the
good cause is not far off The enemy,
1emmed within q narrow space, is suffer
ing for all the means that make war clIec-
tive, and, hard pressed BY the vigor and
daring Of our troops, shows signs Of weak
ness and dependency that no man can
mistake. A few more blows will, if fol-
lowed BY the moral force that an earnest
and an united people can exert, remove all
doubt Of the issue; and then all that re-
mains will be the labor Of treading out the
sparks that will here and there be left Of
the fire that lately blszed so high. Six
months Of unaninity in the North, marked
by the effort that she can put forth in such
q cause, will end the story
These are convictions that have taken hold
OF the popular mind, and in obedience to
them the hatred Of the treason that rears
its front in our midst, and that labors to cre-
ate new jcalousics and new dis.cnsions for
dcferring the day of victory, grows daily
more and more intense; and in every part
Of the West from which we hear, patriotic
men who hare been temporarily misled by
the clamor against the conduct Of the war,
That the CopperAeads have raised, and who
have feared that the Administration had de-
signs upon the liberties that the Constitu-
ton secures, are 1erenting Of their folly,
and hastening to make, By loyal endcavor,
full expiation Of the sins against their coun.
try Of which they haye been guilty. Even
the most vencmous Of the Copperheads arc
dismayed by the change. 31alignants who,
on the first Of January last, proclaimed
That the revolution is inauguratca, and
nothing can stop it''-who made day and
night lidcous By their bloody harangues,
and wko converted the Legislature into q
cabal Of traitors, are now ready to affirm
That their uttcranccs were pure gas
conade, intended only for political effect,
and that no men arc more sincerely OF de-
youtly loyal than themselves. Newspa-
T1ers that but short time ago knew no
limitations Of reasonable expression when
our Government Vas the theme, arc con-
strained, by manifestations Of popular
<lisfavor, to put on loyal garb
and hide their malignity under
the mask Of patrio:ic words. The
treason that ran1pcd around our streets,
threatened in bar-rooms, and declaimed in
meetings of "Inyincible Clubs" has be-
como silent; and save in the districts where
The poison Of the Chicago Times has done
its expected work, patriotism is the rule
patriotism, real or seeming, that even the
fprigs Of the first families OF the slave
States, VITO have come West to find tho
bread that vas denied them ut home, do
not care to challenge. And it is elsewhere
as here. New York has felt the 1ealthful
influence, and the capitalists, Of whom we
hear so much; the merchant princes who arc
princes only in ostentation and ignorance;
the politicians who still claim rcspecta-
bility while on terms Of familiarity with
pro-slaycry parsons. Fernando Wood, Isaiah
Rynders and the pimps and faggots Of the
stews and slums about Five Points-all
obedient to cotton, and the willing allies Of
man-sc1ling and woman-whipping-have
become alarmed by the threatening aspect
Of Affairs. They see, in the possible politi-
cal combinations which will follow the
lisintegretion Of the Union, the danger to
1hcir city and the commerce that has male
it what it is. Its prosperity, cut off at the
fountain by the withdrawal Of the West
which is too proud and too honest to sub.
init 10 the domination Of the ruling Glasses
of the metropolis, New York would re,
rlize, though late, that tic God, Money, j:
worsllipped only to bctray those who bring
it offerings such as her dcnizcns, who con
trol her politics, have laid upon the altar
the loyal faith be seeming or real, it is graf
flying to chronicle its effects. Whethe
The frequent blasts Of indignation tia
have come up from the camps Of our sol
diers in the field, causing Coppcrlcadisu
TO see the gleana Of sharp bayoncts through
The fog Of their partisanship, have don
the work, or whether reason has rcturnc'
to those who were bcrcit Of its guidance
and conscience las come back with its III
dailing light, we may not ask. Sufficient
the fact that Coppcrheadism has culn1i
nated-that the war for the Union, for tn
Constitution, and for our institution
goes on!
Wantcd-a hole 4 hole decp, broat
caracious. There arc Il thousand men
Illinois, who, before the end of tho twcly
month, will be seeking it. Wanted ho
in which the Copperheads can hide.
we are not mistaken, the loyal men Of the
own party, whom they have assumed
lead, will drive them to it.
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