Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-04-30

everses Defeats must come disasters must come and
still greater Ones perhaps and the end is not yet These
mon would have worked through the first Revolu
tion but that this will be, achieved in spite Of
them.
Sir, if we fail it win be wholly because we are un
worthy TO succeed becsuse we will not with our whole
heart and energy, might mind. and strength. give
selves up wholly to this do the rebels study it's
p0rtents and obey m demands alone The task imposes
Tor our human kind. Its work the accumulated work
OF the dead centuries thrust upon hands, and its hope
the hope Of all the ages to be born If we doubt assa
and cast down those who alone lead u.s. might az
well now slough into any inamy that will call peace,
or skuk behind the medatng sceper of matter what
despst and forever hide dshonored heads amid the
ruins OF nationality If any here distrusts the
President let him speak forth here like these bad leaders,
openly, and longer offend the streets and nauseate
places of common resort with their unworthy camor He
may not have n that ecstatc fire that makes poets
and prophets and madmen he may not possess much of
what call heroic blood that drives stake price
less desnies desperate ventures and lose them he
may not in eminent degree possess that indefnable
thing that schoolboys call genius, that enables it's
p0ssess0r through and unheard-of combinations to
ufe; he possess any all Of these qualities they
abashed and subdued in the presence of danger that
unimPsssioned cool shrewd ssgacous seeing man.
with capacity to form his judgments, and will to
execute them and he possesses integrity pure and
simple the white rays Of light that play about the
Throne 1t ia this that has tied the hearts and love Of
the people to him, that will not unoose ia the breath of
oil the demagogues in the land It idle 10 compare him
with Washington or jackson Like all extraordinary
men, he is original and must stand in his niche
He has assduousy studied the teachings of this has
learned ts great lesson and in full time he uttered it's
great word He commits Who would have
committed feweri Think of the fierce and hungry de-
mands that necessarily devour him up. Remember the
repeated instances in time when the ablest of
statesmen that chair with cabinets of their choice and
sustained by mortes in Congress in times OF profound
peace, have gone down. and their administrations have
perished under the bare weight Of the Government
And then contemplate. if you can 10 addition to the
burdens that have crushed many strong the fearful
responsibilities imposed upon this Is not marvel
most living wonder that he sustans them well Let
not the distant mother, who has gwen up loved to
fearful DEATH think that the President does not sympa
thze with her sorrow. and would not have been glad OH
how glad to have shaped events to have spared the
sacrfce And let not fathers and mothers and wives any
where think that be the long blue regiments of
brave and beautiful marching away stepping to the
drumbeat that he does not contemplate and feel his
sponsibity he thinks how many Of them shall go to
nameess graves unmarked by the downookng eyes
of Gods pitying angels