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and Gen. Hood, in which the latter. leading the
rebels. was defeated with great loss, among
which were 5000 prisoners, SO field pieces. and
an immense quantity OF small fire arms. L
appears to have been simply Il repetition Of one OF
EwelI's disastrous routs, the rebel soldiers throw
ing down their arms and fleeing before the
Union troops. Indeed they seem TO have lost
the courage shown in the earlier part of the
war, and their spirit Is gone. 1t IS q question
whether they can ever De brought t. fight long
enough TO ensure to them q victory.
Gen. Sherman had reached the suburbs Of
Savannah with his army. in good condition, and
in need of nothing. lie was in full conmuni-
cation with Admiral Dahlgren's feet. y de-
mand for the surrender of the city lad been
made, and if not complied with, it was to be
bombarded. 1t was probably surrendered on the
18th, as resistance would only bring needless
destruction on the city, for there were bus few
rebel troops in or around it. 1t is not at all
likely that Gen. Sherman will remain long at
Savannah, but will rapidly move to Charleston
or som point -drther north. 1t will be observed
among the latest items Of news, that Admiral
Porter left Hampton Roads on the 18th Decen-
Der with a fleet o. 81 vessels. Nothing is said
of his taking many soldiers with him, which
leads to the inference that it is a transport fleet.
for taxing Sherman's army from Savannah or
Beaufort to some other place. The recent de-
monstIations on Albemarle Sound, North Caro-
lima. and the re-capture of plymouth, in that
State, lead Us to infer that that port is his
destinations, from whence he viii move inland.
take possession Of the North Carolina railroads
that supply Lees army, and then, along one Of
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Grant, finally compelling Lee either to fight out
side of his Notifications, or to surrender in
them. We may not have solved exactly the
movements Of Sherman, but our readers will
find. we think, that We are not much out of the
way. Never did the Union cause look more
bright, or that of the rebels more disheartening.
Much is said at the South about e~nlisting
and arming the slaves to fight for what?
Slavery? Well, the moment they are armed,
that moment the Union cause is doubly sure Of
success. Slavery is doomed, and no power on
earth can save it. The guns fired by rebel hands
at Fort Sumter, served to unshackie the chains
of the slaves, more than any other act before
or since. The Emancipation Proclamation sim
ply seconded and sealed the work begun by
the rebels at Charleston.
MARYLAND is now Il free State, where slavery
can never again exist. And Louisiana has fol-
lowed her example, the people having ratified
her new constitution, which prohibits forever
the recognition of property in man DEGREES the
education of all children, without distinction of
race or color directs all men, white or black,
20 be enrolled az soldiers for the public defense
makes all men equal before the law and COM
pels. by its regenerating spirit, the ultimate re-
c~ognition of all the rights which national au-
thority can confer upon an oppressed race. Ia
1860 sie had 3G0, Geo slaves, now hot one.
On looking over the papers received, which
are filed with election news, we find them all
rejoicing over the result-the reelection Of Pres
ident Lincoln. The New York Herad, which
supported NJ Clellan, exults in the decision, and
even the most ultra democratic journals appear
to look upon the result as decidedly better for
the country, than if it had been the reverse.
All classes, creeds. and parties seem to be salts
fed. And no where do we read of riots and
trouble, which many anticipated would accom-
pany the election. but all has passed off as peace
full as any political event ever did.
On this point, we will introduce some remarks
made by Goodwin Smith, an English traveller
who was in the States, and witnessed the cleo
ton. He is. we believe, a Professor in one Of
the English Universities, and his remarks, Civ
ing the result Of his observations. are entitled to
full faith. They were made at a dinner given to
him by some of the leading literary men in Bos-
ton during November
Il came here partly in pursuance Of my vocation
as a student Of history, to verify the theory which |
had formed. | came % see whether the progress of
humanity which | had learnt to trace through all the
ages, and believed to be perpetual, had been arrested
here. 1 shall return convinced that ii has not been
arrested. | was told that my visit TO America would
modify nv liberal opinions. In n certain sense I own
they have been modified. Till | came here | was
not a revolutionist, for 10 man can more heartily alb
hor violent revolutions-but somewhat impatient of
political evils and anxious for vehemen, effort and for
i mediate change. | shall return with my Impotence
allayed by a calm assurance of the future. You will
succeed in your great experiment, and we shall in the
end feel, in the solution of our political problems, the
benescent efforts of your success.
Il came also to see a great political crisis. Would
that all those who love aud all those who mis,rust
free institutions, could have seen it also 4! Would that
they could have witnessed as I have the majestic
ctlmness with which under circumstances the most
perilouS and exciting, the national decision has been
pronounced. Here is no anarchy, no military dicta-
torship. In the midst of civil war a civilian is re-
elected rs President by a constitutional process as
tranquil as an English Sabbath day. And no king is
more secure in the allegiance Of his subjects than is
the President in the allegiance Of all-even those
who voted against him-beneaih his elective rule.
IL would. too, that the English people could Wit
ness as | witness the spirit of humanity which retains
its power over all the passions Of civil war, Rotwith-
standing the greatest provocations; and the absence,
which has most forcibly struck me during my resi-
dence here, of any bloodthirstys sentiment or any feel
ing Of malignant hatred towards those who are now
your antagonists in a civil war. but whom, when they
shall have submitted TO the law, you will again eager
" welcome as fellow-citizsns, and receive back into
the full communion of the free. Many a prejudice,