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Gin cinnati Enquirer.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
Notwithstanding the result of ths
election in Ohio ON Tuesday, we firm
ly believe that the late civil var il
America will one day end. 1t may
not be in this daysand generation, By!
that war will Some time close. We
have faith like a quart of mustard
seed-a faith SURPRISING that of sacred
history. We say this, not unmindfuI
of the faith of Gideon, and Barak,
and of Samson, and of Jephtha, and
of David, and of Samuel, and of the
Prophets, who through faith subdued
kingdoms, wrought righteousness, OBJ
tanned promises, stopped the mouths
of lions, %quenched the violence of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword, out OF
weakness were made strong, waved
valiant in fight, and turned to flight
the armies of the aliens. We have
no wish to underrate the instances of
faith that float down to US from the
days of Abraham. We only desire
to emphasize our own. We are in
clined to take a cheerful view of
things. Almost half a generation of
men have come and gone since the
war closed, and still the war is not
ended. This would discourage peo-
pie without faith, but it does not dis
courage us. There are little boys and
girls prattling in the play-yards, rid
ing in haby-carriages, nursed beneath
the pine or swinging in hammocks,
who cannot read the newspapers of
to-day, or of the day before the last
election, who will grow up and be-
come voters, or the wives of voters,
who will look upon the war of 1861
az ended. As these babies grow old
er they may sing together, under the
same apple-trees,
"My country, its of thee, - &c.
and
''Away down South in the land of cotton, u &c,
and the childish voices may chime to-
gether just as though there had been
no civil war. And as little boys and
girls grow older they may mingle to-
gether in the same schools, and at
tend the same churches, and look at
the same pictures, and read the same
books side by side, without knowing
that some are Montagues and some
are Capulets. And by and by the
lustrous. eyed, tropical girl may be
wooed and won by the manly North
ener, and through numerous romances
the opposite banks of the Ohio may
be more closely welded, and the wal
may become q tradition. Even if this
is too & severe strain upon magma
ton, our faith still stretches out and
sees children yet unborn and unbe-
gotten who will surely grow up, and
in the professions of seed-time and
harvest, as life and love and death
run on, as marriage and business and
society draw closer together, the peo-
pie of the orange and palm and the
people Of the hills aid hemlock will
certainly discover that the war of
1861 is ended. Or, even if these un-
born and unconceived children do not
consent to regard the last civil var as
closed, their childen Or their chill
dren's children surely will. The war
is bound to end. Our faith tires not.
We are the more encouraged about
this because the beauties of this So
cial, and commercial, and political
Union have really attracted the atten-
ton of the politicians. The Admin
istratIen saw them moro than two
years ago.
We have faith, also, that the time
will come when vaior and heroism for
the Union may relieve a Democrat
from the charge OF treason, and when
the loss of two legs and an arm in the
fight for the Union will be considered
prima facie evidence of devotion 10 it
on the part of a Democrat. 1t is al
ready demonstrated that the loss OF n
leg is insufficient. We have faith,
furthermore, that the day will come
when men will not be afraid to vote
for the Declaration of Independence
because it happens to bear a Demo-
cratic label. We also believe that
the time will come when the people
Of this country will not be anxious to
hire and subsidize corporations to loan
their debts.
But we see these things only by the
eye of faith. The blessed time of
which we speak is not now. The
of Ohio have just voted
upon some of these questions. They
have said that they don't want Union
soldiers TO be at the head Of the State
Government. They have said that
they wish to retain the National bank
ing system in power; or, if they do
not so wish, they have succumbed'
to the seductions of the especial
:" which the National Banks
announced that they would take to
carry Ohio for Mr.. Foster. The vo-
tiers of Ohio, at all events, have said
that they prefer National Bank notes
to greenbacks and silver, and the
chastened but indomitable people of
this great State have voted that the
Sec'y of the Treasury spans the heav-
ems with his right hand, and balan-
ces upon his finger the sunshine and
the storm, exercising, IN some mys-
FERROUS way, a controlling influence
the soil, and having himself the
industry, and enterprise, and energy
of millions of men, which no vicious
Legislation could altogether overcome.
Sometimes intelligent men are inca
pable of rendering unto Caesar the
things that are not Caesars, and unto
God the things that are not Gods.
OHIO has chosen to vote against
silver. against greenbacks, against
soldiers, against the Declaration of
independence, against the entire
sentiment of Union, against the
principle of civil liberty, and We desire
to say, In connection with this, that
we have a plan on foot for continuing
to print a very desirable newspaper
at the old stand, at unaltered prices, of
undiminished excellence and increas-
ed circulation. We don't expect to
reform the world in a minute, but, as
we said, we have faith. Our faith is
highly spiritual, for il is painfully the