Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-01-07

means must be adopted other steps must be resorted TO-
They not ripe for this Louisiana is There the
amp Of armed must still be heard there the battle
still must feroey there the fight must still go
necessity requires II the safety of us all demands it, We
cannot live thus side by side peace, two rival angry
Powers Could truce take place. peace would not long
continue mutual ea0uses and hates would quickly breed
contentious there could not be two Rcbmonds in the
Held No; rebellion must be crushed; the limits OF the
nations right must be its former borders tho ancient land
marks must BIO reestabshed authority and sway must be
reasserted and the flag of the Union the spots
blasted by rebellion We cannot stop short of this Stop
short OF this and prove traitors to bouuden duty
Stop short OF this and do wroBg to those who
In or have been the land and prove trail
tors to country, which has done much borne
much and endured much to the sick and wounded in
the hospitals moving round on crutches to the many
manned and maDged to the honored dead to homes OF
desoatn to the orphan and the widow to the bereaved
and desoate of the whole land
Sir, feel that have had hand in setting this fierce
war on FOOT but l. for one, will not consent that it shall
until each rebel hand against the Government
brought beneath its undsputed sway This being fast
accomplished; events swift hurry Secession has been
cut in two and now is scared all its outward borders
The Union force moving forward and though the
rent may from time to time, by temporary checks, be
eddied on its surface, still the v0ume sweeping
eddies, rppes every thing before it, The progress Of
our arms by aud and by river and by lake. has been
successful The victories of Vicksburg, New Orleans,
and Hudson have opened up the of the West and
Murreesboro, Doneson and Chattanooga have secured
the valley Antietam and Gettysburg have hurled rebel
hon back and the of navies boom down aol
the coast Kentucky, Mississippi Missouri, Arkansas
Texas Tennessee, Louisiana, West Virginia aud part
OF North Carolina have been reclaimed and loyal thou
sands held in thra have hurried forth to meet the
great restOrer.
To some the work seems slow. Never did so great a
work move forward with such swftness Never has SO
much been done within short time. Treason, for
thirty years plotted and conrvod deep rooted wide-ex
tended unsupported unpr0vded for has been driven back
aud forced within contracted limits and desttutOn want
and death have fallen backward with it, There is no
to fear. Blockade running has been broken up.
Charleston will fall Rebel armies must dWin-
die by diss0vng causes 1.-THE pardon now held out will
greatly aid the thng and though for months there may
be show of fighting, like broken Clouds when the main
storm is passed. the effort will be feeble, unmportant,
ftfnl.
There be no other end. The people of the North
have resolved It, The loyal people of the Middle States
equally determined No matter how they strive on
less important TOPICS in this great absorbing thing
the safety of the Unon they and all unite. No mat
tor what their differences matter how they other
duct Of the This the mouths of ALL and in the
hearts of ALL say of all: the sneaking, wretched few
who sympathze with traitors harmless to power
he late elections prove this to be The million voters
speak voice that cannot be denied They will produce
The men to fight, and, than that, they will advance
the to keep them in the service They send their
and neghbors to the field they themselves they
freely offer up their choicest gifts They take the public
loans sustain the public credits supply the nations fsc
support its able head, who strikes the rock whence
flow the streams by which the public wants are all sup
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the pubic good the memory of the pas-their fathers
deeds their Ondest future hopes; their duty to their
kind their duty to their God They feel it to be and
feeling, act upon it, The young go in the ranks; the
aged lend their means all give helping hand The rich
advance their thousands the poor invest their pttance
the trust universal the spectacle sublime The Gov
ernment directs the war; men, children, widows, Or
phans rich and poor supply the ready their faith
is firmly fixed they do not hesitate they venture all they
have, they now have all at sake.) They act due
hecton they never will turn back. The day the people
fnnk a nnh lIc linn Aau thaa nd
Nor can interference from another prevent it.
No foreign aid or sympathy recognition State
naton no calculating policy of gain, no chronic hate OF
INSTITUTIONS Jealousy of greatness, wish of
absolute exclusives, prevent it English noble
lords the friends of ancient privilege English merchant
traders angry with our Tariffs English manufacturers,
calling slavery once damnng sin forging chains
to get bale OF cottonake doomed to grievous dis
appointment They may ignore all comfy may violate
the law OF nations, may furnish iron cads and men, may
aid by stealth IN many ways, subtle always
set on foot may catch at points, and in darkest day
may seek to pick quarrel with but all these steps
sure to end in utter total failure Tho IS ~..os
the golden coast may lend his dock yards for the OF
pirates but that will not avail His movement costly
one already; has cost him many men and france and in
the end will cost him many more. He will fDd he has
enough to do to build throne in Mexico it seems to be
no less task to fnd an emperor
We have to fear The day Of fear has passed
If ever it existed. The nation is fully used to
Too many have molly served in camps, on battle.
to meet whatever comes and meet they
But such strife viii There is throb of sympa-
thy abroad Russia s orr friend Imperial Russia sends
words of comfort. She is our ANCIENT ally She sym
pathizes with struggle She ia awake to honor and
the Issues of the day Absolute herso she berates her
serfs She will not aid to keep the chain on limbs
struggling to be free. Nay, more the feeling of the
abroad is alec in favor 1t is so in Britain.
1t is the continent The vast, great middle
classes, the men OF toll and industry, hold up their hands
for us and wish us all success. The struggle is a
strife Of classes part Of great whoenvoves the
freedom Of the the of human progress and
yet how strange it is that found at home who,
fleeing from despotc rule unite in sympathy with those
whose objects is to keep them always down
But thing more is needed. The army must be
filed filed up with Each ons who can
must enter the service Let all the ranks be filed let
volunteering and the draft go let three hundred reg
ments the spring campaign, and many months will
not eapse before this fungus state whose stone
and boast slavery will forever from the earth
When Mr.. TEN EYCK concluded the Senate adjourned.