Year: 1862

"We have plenty of companions now in our constant faith that the North ought to triumph and will. The other day the Jimes discovered that the South was frantic and febrile'-hyster ically rebelous against her rghtful, resolute and vigorous partner. The Observer, feebly irnita ting the oscillations of it's daily contemporary swings back from pro-slavely confederation to the extreme of aboli:ionists federalism. Here is a splendid acknowledgment that nothing succeeds like success: The first blessing that the sub- jugation of the confederates will confer upon mankind will be the abolition of negro slavery. The American President has already settled that question by his message. and Congress has readily endorsed his preliminary proposition. Next will be the consolidation and the perpetu- atlon of the most powerful selEgoverned aggre- gate of human beings in existence an issue which, in itself is worth all the blood and treas ure that are now spent so freely in it's attain ment. The third result will be the immediate opening up of the illmitable resources of the whole of Amerlca to the everaugmentng popu- iation of both hemispheres. Other and perhaps not less important issues-in their degree-loom in the near distance; but for the present these are sulhcent to cause every lover of liberty to to hail each success of the federal arms as con quest made in the interest of humanity And this from the journal that but little while ago was eager for breaking the blockade, and send ing an embassy to Richmond-in it's own words for a : Navarino-in the interests of English commerce and universal humanity! It is fortu- nate that our whole nation will not be confound- cd, across the Atlantic with these whirlgig or gans of sentiment as base as it is short-sighted -or, perhaps, as mercenary as it is mean with out so much as word of respectful regret to bestow upon cause they championed till it was starved into poverty and beaten into submission. The saveowning rebels are morally respectable in comparison with writers who disgrace the English language by compelling it to do homage in tawdy and ragged dress, to the uppermost in- terest of the hour. Americans will do us the justice to remember, when the contest is over, that our government preserved throughout an honorable neutrality, and that our people never echoed the words of distrust or Encouragement that aristocratic statesmen and their organs were unwise enough to utter. The mind of the coun- try may have been divided in opinion as to the origin and issue of the war, but it's heart has been f,ithful in sympathy with the cause that represented at once the sovereignty of free people and the emancipation of an enslaved race"

 Even the Saturday Reriew has a good word for us in it's number of May 24: .........

 The government of the United States de- serves great credit for the efficiency of it's mili tary administration. Although six hundred thousand men have been operating oyer half a continent, it is not known that single division or brigade has suffered from want of food or of warlike stores. It is true that there have been few long inland marches, and that great facilities are afforded by the command of the sea and of the navigable rivers but the energy and readi ness with which the river fleets have been or ganized seem to show that the Navy Depart mont can scarcely deserve the unpopularity which it has incurred. The vessels which have secured 30 many advantages to the North have, with few exceptions, been bought, or built, and armed since the commencement of the war. It is, of course, easier to provide vessels which can con. vey troops or carry guns than to prepare them Tor encounter with an equal adversary; but some of the ironplated boats have engaged forts with advantage. and in almost all instances the craft which has been employed has been found sufi- for the particular service. The force which cap tured New Orleans would have been respectable if it had occupied the entire attention of the government and yet, at the same time, federal vessels were swarming on all parts of the coast and along the course of the great rivers. It ap- that fifty steamers were engaged after the cap tdre of Yorktown in conveying Gen. Flank lin's division to oWest Point. New York probably finds t easy to supply the government with any amount of shipping, especially during the stagnatiou of foreign trade; but, though DO original genius may have been displayed in the combinations of land to use all the means at it's disposal justly earns a reputation for vigor.p 4dt F. aa:ig8 sleei1d