The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1864-02-19
The Fact of the Union.

truth ~ stranger than notion, ana tne
fact that Unionism is every day increasingly
extent and influence cannot be gainsad or
controversial. The efforts Of its malignant
enemies to prevent and destroy the nation
that the Union is not undergoing a rapid
reconstruction are beginning to fall even
among cliques which, at one time, most
sedulously espoused them. Look at Arkan-
sas look at Tennessee, look at Louisiana,
look at North Carolina; consider the prevail
ing sentiments of the Southern press Either
| by direct demonstrations in favor of the
| Union, or by csvert Instructions in regard
to the futility of the Confederacy, or loud
lamentings upon the abject and fearful con-
dition to which the Southerners, as a mass,
are reduced, witness is daily born to the
fact that the new era Of the reconstructed
Union is about to dawn. And when we con-
slider this, tho evidences daily furnished be-
fore our very eyes should furnish no rea-
SON for surprise. 1t is what we have looked
Cor, longed fors, prayed for, and expected
1t is not consumation, indeed, for which,
I
working for that. We had mighy achieve
| ment before US, which would not allow Of
all pray and no work, and which required of
the millions throughout the land to do some
thing more than humble petitions and twirl
their thumbs. We have accordingly sentour
hundreds Of thousands forth to the field, and
strained every nerve and muscle at home TO
| meet the exigencies Of the times.
Very soon the great fact of the Union will
confront and stare us in the face, and we
recognize even now more clearly than of
yore the loved lineaments which we have
hitherto beheld afar off. The Executive
hand which has led the nation thus far to-
ward the accomplished of its end is as strong
and as steady as ever. The will, the sensi-
bility, the intellect, which unite to give it
direction, are hourly being exerted for the
same purpose and with the same ability as
| ever Nay, so far from being exhausted it
is increased in efficiency, since it receives a
| fresher impulse from the fact that tee fruit
ton of long continued exertions is apparent
and that the bud and blossom of its energy
ere quickly developing iAto fruit and flower.
The late news from East Tennessee gives
complexion Of additional interest to that
quarter. In Maryland, the call and Eman-
cipation Convention shows the true CO.
lor of affairs there. The late Union demon
strations in Arkansas and Louisiana may
seem nothing more than straws in the eyes
90 o,,,a ,.oo,,la b.t 4baxr Ioact rvh ii
way the wind is blow .ng. The reasoning aud
conciliatory tone slme # the Southern pa
pers, the gloomy despodency Of others, and
the acknowledg ment, direct or Indirect, tAat
the whole South is now suffering calsmitles
such as scarcely any otlsr nation on Gods
earth has so justly sufered-all these are
notwithstanding evidences that the nigh
ofdisunionsn is nearly over, and thereunlon
: is about to dawn. Tie candles of the South
, ern Confederacy are burnt out, and Mr.. Da-
Wis, having made his bed, will have TO lie
down on it in the dark.
Our efforts are not relaxing, and never
will relax, until the supremacy Of the Gov.
, eminent of which Mr.. Lincoln is the Execu-
tive is asserted. We have not advanced thus
far on our mission as nation to hold unne
} cessary parley On the subject, and to palte
. with our own convictions. These conviction
. are perennial, inexhaustible. Truth is sait
y to lie at the bottom of well. Truth the
L has ample opportunity for watching the ar
70 pearance of the stars in the heavens, daytim
. as well as night. Surprising the frmamen
J of the Union to be the present object of he
contemplations, the stars in that sky ar
somewhat dimmed and obscured now, bu
the mists and vapors of Disunion are at one
y TO be rolled away, and then Truth will behol
d the Union as it was with her own unAinchin
/. eyes.-War Press.