Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-03-14
A BRTTBs TIME COMING


II Is clear that the dangers OF tn. hour are
inducing those who WELD influence over the
popalar mind tO exert themselves more siren
oOusly TO check the headlong impetuo=ity OF
party lAtors in widening the breach between
the pecple Of tbs loyal STATES, U pom whose unity
of action in support of the Government the So
luton of the problem OF the duration CT the war
depends.
The following admirable letter from the Hon.
Montgomery Blair, IT ad 81 the la,e loyal meet
ing at ths Cooper Institute, New York city, so
clearly illustrates that to which we refer here
that we give IL place in the Stars oyercrowded
columns:
Nuk1eONEKY BLAIR on THE UsIoy-Tha
following letter from Postmaster General Blair
was received TOO late TO be read at the Cooper
institute mesui z on Friday evening last:
WASHINGTON, March ), 1853.
kessrs. Opdykc aud othtrx-,IrntirIncu: l re-
grrt that l cannot be with the loyal inen of
New York TO morrow. heartily appro We the
uiovtm eBt aid the resolutions TO h,. submi ted
at the meeting.
The Iovfrs of fire government should be thor
ouEbly roUsed 10 a seEss OF thu necessity OF
comet int, LnI,ed and igorous eforls 20 preserve
Tor mankind the happy progress OF our great
Republic, " hIch III less than Il century has
CIs cted IN The New World nation blessed
with prosperity hitherto unknown Ehls
Fro fsr"us power IL the Creation OF popular
government on a vast scale, aud the sirug gIe
IN Will q We are row involved iS resist &c 10
home ahd sbruad to destroy H.
tbs not pei raanentiy 10 dismrnlber its terri
toTy taat this grra; Government is NJ w assaiiad
Ii. vital princirlr-popniar soyereignty--s
struck A. The physical conformation OF our
country defes all attempts 10 Gissrysr tn,
Union IT. lakrs and gull, North and South
MS rivers TaveTsing East and West from ranges
oi mountains, terminating in immense bays OF
the Atlantic and Pacific, and vast navigable
STIR ans In the cEntrai vaii-ys w hfch are ch an
neis OF commerce, bringing the seas 10 the
of al ska nrnfs
rsnti r the dissolution OF the Union which
grows out OF the necessities Of commerce AS
Impossible a. The destruction Of the system
provided BY nature for thai intercourse Eng
land and Scotland are not more marked rs the
hone OF one people and one Government, than
our own country. Perpetual, unmi;iga,.d
nssulity was the fate Of the English and Scotch
people until they became one, under the same
Government, and so Is would be Of US But
white the conspiracy against the Govern nent
Sspnot permanently dism- mber Union born
OF NATURAL caus%s and bounded by natural
limits, IL may, and will. IL successful, change
tae character OF thai Geyernm rs h Yyr b,plyns
Charts 1t its birth, and Accepting tha connta1
nsclsfanons OF the Rebellion, which makes
siATery the foundation OF the ne " In. titution
70 give law 10 the continent The prophatic
rSert or the President long ago forStoli Ln, is,us
Whcn tne Southern azi ators were forcing on
toc country, when he said, in one Of his early
contests Tor freedom, - sec that the ITuitad
States nust all ~ free or all slave" and tbis IL
!he issue OF the hour-not of debate hut OF arms
N
the Union itself will subject Va 10 the OIigarchs
AM WY respectfully, your obi servant
NJ. BLAIR
This patriotic exposition or the true Issue OF
tue umrs was In excellent keeping with the
pro eedings OF the i'm portsnt meeting, whereat
Jonn van Buren, and James T. Brady led off
win great eicQ uence, in behalf of tn. ensrgetic
prosecution OF the war until peace NAV bs
achieved by the only means to which the OIL
ssrchy Will iisten-by the due exercise of the
military power OF the loyal States
Subsequently,, Gerritt Smith published a
pamphlet, full Of patriotism and sound sense
proving that st length he, too fully appreciates
tho difficulties OF the Governments TASK in
hand and realizes and heartily sustains the
cause for which the nation il in arms-the
re-'oratton OF the Union and the Constitution
Hh IDEAS therein expressed are diametrically
opposed To the mad iniosy ncraces of the New
York 1ries~e, the dangers lurking in which
Mr. Thuriow Weed, by the by, continues 10
expose with a master hand, in reply To each
succeeding attack Of that journal upon himself
Amos Kendall, also, Is about to address serie.
OF letters To the democratic party, warning IL
with his we'll known cosency Of argument
against following leaders who ara traitors At
heait Into treason a. ainst the cause of tina rss
toratiOa OF The Union