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leaders in power, with the same unbroken
affiliations with northern parties and
northern men, would have been no victo-
nv. and would have brought no perma-
nent peace And the end approaches.
Every available man under the slave
power. except the slaves themselves. is in
the field to.day-in the field, as we be-
lieve. for Gnal complete defeat, brought
into the field for the express purpose of
being defeated. The browning victory
may still be delayed, for wise purposes
purposes which consult only the entire
conversion and reformation Of the North,
and the determination of every power
and the extirpation of every policy which
would Cypress four million human beings
for whom Jesus Christ lived and died.
The victory may be delayed, but it will
come; and when it comes, the African
will be respected as a man, and will have
mans privileges and prerogatives. 1t
takes no power of prophecy to say this
1t is the end and lesson Of the war.
Slavery is dying and will die Let no
statesman, politician or party approach to
comfort it in its parting struggle, for that
struggle will be violent and offensive. A
presidential contest even now looms up
beyond the terrible battles which arc to
decide the fate of the nations cause.
Let no man and no body of men look for
ward to any possible bargain with the
slave power, for party ascendancy in ma
tional affairs, or hetray the remotest SYM
pathy with that system which is alone
responsible for this horrible war; for as
certainly as they do it, they will 60 to the
wall. No party can go into this contest
with sneers for the negro, and evident
sympathy with those who have held him
in bondage, and coL.~' out of it alive.
That party assure to prevail which the
most unequivocally places itself on the
side of humanity, and in harmony with
the designs of Providence, as the grand
events of the war have unfolded them. If
the democratic party, or any portion of it,,
shall go into the presidential contest as
open opposers of the policy of emancipa-
ton, it will die in whole or in part,
and sink beyond the reach of a resurrec-
ton
Beyond all the struggles, which has
so long, and which still looks so infinite
in its continuance, there is a day of peace
Hearts will heal new ranks of men will
come up to ill the place of those who are
gone; new social systems will take the
place of dead barbarism; and then a
grateful nation will look back to the he
roic time, proud of their ancestry, and re-
joicing most of all in the universal free
dom which their beroism secured. Then
it will be read with shame and wonder
that it took whole years of discipline to
bring the nation to hatred of slavery,
and the determination to exterminate it.
Then it will be read with shame and wo2-
der that at the North, there were men
who rejoiced at every disaster to the ma
tional arms, whose hearts were with the
slave power, who counted it dishonor to
be called an abolitionist, and who mourn
ed when the curse of slavery was wiped
away. Then it will be read with shame
and wonder that in the midst of this
great struggle there were political cliqucs
and parties which coolly calculated wheth-
or capital could he made by still adhering
to the fortunes of system which men
aced the national existence, and destroyed
a quarter of million of its truest men
-Springfeld Republican. %.
From the Burlington Free Press.
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.