Year: 1861

view OF the last seven months; will contrast the
events OF the day and the attitude of the country In
the last weeks of June with the events ana the
situation of affairs in the last weeks OF December;
will compare the state Of the public mind then,
vacillatng, weak, timOrous, aud unenlightened, to
the bold determined, vigorous and intelligent pur-
pose that now animates it, ho will see change
more remarkable than anything else IN our history


and far more portentOus than the boldest prophet
would year ago have yentured to forete 1t is pos
sbc that we have not yet exhausted all the wisdom
that may be gathered from that six months expert
ence; it is possible that marvelOusy rapid as the So
quence Of events has been, unexpectedly as effects
have followed causes they are to be matched, per-
haps more than matched, by events that are yet 10
come. Hitherto the providence of God has been
visible in the progress of affairs, and lie has
ruled the weakness the shortsightedness, and the
sefshness, as well as the wrath of man to praise
HIM. The pillar of fire by night and the
cloud by day were not more visible to the He
brews as they fed from Egyptian bondage, than
the hand of an overriding Providence lead
ing this people, for six months past, out oil
political servtude wh ch was fast growing to a
civil and social bondage. We frankly ayow our
belief in this, as the only explanation, of why we
have not again and again mlscarrled IN this Crisis
of our National life. There was wanting Tor
many months both among the people and their
leaders, forethOugnt, foresight, and faith, and
hardly week has passed when, as we look back
upon il, it is not marvellous in our eyes that we
were not overwhelmed by irrevOcablc disaster.
But neither lies, nor treachery, nor theft nor
treason, nor imbecity nor cowardlce, nor want
of wisdom, nor public nor private villalDy
have prevailed against the good cause; but We
have gone on from victory to victory, over COM
promises, concessions, delays, complications,
and frauds, till at length people, hitherto
divided, uncertain, timd, and uncomprehending,
have risen, as one man, with eyes anointrd aud
minds newly opened and have shaken themselves
free from all signs of lethargy and doubt with
the will and strength Of all aroused and angry
giant


But as hitherto we had failed to see that we
were about to enter upon new and momentous
epoch in our history, as we had failed to under
stand the character of that epoch let us at least
be sure, now that we are surrounded by the light
of the new day, that we stumble, aud blubder,
and are blind no longer. We trust that Congress
needs no word Of admonitiOn and advice, for Its
members are fresh from the people and under
stand the purpose and spirit by which they are
governed. If those gentlemen carry with them
one positive and fixed idea to Washington, it is,
we trust and We believe, not only that the dsy
r hut 4ha qvpn of tall M
compromise, has passed away forever. The less
talk Of any kind during the present session OF
Congress the better but talk Of that sort
is absolutely intoerable, and not to be en-
dured. If there shall be here and there
some poor foOl-poor fools are always about
eyerywheIe--whO shall insist upon offering and
reading his notable pan-plan as notable aud
timely as an essay upon the probable advantage
il would have been to the Hebrews to have
waited and built bridge to go dry-shod over
the Red Sea, instead OF wettiDg their sandals by
entering upon the path that the Almighty hal
opened for them through the parted waters
if, We cay, some unhappy creature shall insist
upon wasting a halfhour in that way, let it be
wasted, and then have done with him and it.
If there be anything that by common C cJnsent of
all men of oil sections and Of all parties can be
borne no longer it is the men aud the measures
that propose now to get out of our national
troubles in any other way than by fighting
out. The nation wish TO see the position
neither played nor patered with, neither
delayed nor daled with; but they do
wish TO see, first, every act Of the President
thus far in the war made legal, where that is a
necessary fOrmality; aud then they want men
and money provided for use-not for show on
paper not with reference to something to be
done in the future, not in case of certain con
tingencies, not with regard TO some possible sup
pOsisitious pOtebtiality-but for use, moo. In
these three little words lie, in the peoples minds
at this moment great force and meaning. They
want movement. Waiting beyond certain
point, is not in accordance with the Northern
character. 1t is only south of Mason and DIX
ons line that they have patience and leisure 10
wait for rigintiai crops. Northern staples grow
and are harvested in year. The North believes
thas the present crop of treason is ripe enough
to cut down, aud it thinks the cradles in hand
are enough, at least, to begin the harvest, and
they are resolved that there shall DO no un-
necessary delay.


Such is the duty Of Congress-to provide ample
means in men and money for immediate use.
We do not NEEDLE with details; we do not pre-
sumo to advise them how to go to work, what
sequence and direction to give to their labors
but we beg them to recognize the great fact
that the nation they represent is to renew its