Year: 1862

Recent events must forcibly recall to
the minds Of all how contrary 20 the
expectations Of the insurgents has been
the result Of that arbitramont of arms
which they were so swift 20 invoke this
day just one year ago, when Gen. Jeffer-
son Davis ordered Gen. Beauregard for
mally to demand the surrender of Fort
Sumter, in full prospect of the hostilities
that must follow such a summons To-
morrow will be the anniversary Of that
fatal day on which one formerly wearing
the uniform Of soldier of the Republic
opened fire upon recent comrade in
arms from nineteen batteries, which the
forbearance of the National Clover Ament
had permitted TO be built in menace Of
its authority, because, in common with
the loyal people of these States, il could
not bring itself to believe that the origi-
naiors of this civil strife would take the
terrible responsibility Of rashly exchang-
ing the resorts of patience and peaceful
discussion for the short method of the
sword in settling political controversies.
Yet, equally unawed by the Divine male


diction which aflirms that they who take
the sword shall perish by the sword, and
unrestrained by sentiments of loyalty or
national brotherhood, the authors of the
political situation created by secession
were also the first TO take appeal from
the laws of the land to the law of barba-
ric force as an element in human affairs,
and, having challenged the Government
TO this dread issue, cannot now shrink
from accepting the verdict of the wager
of battle .n


The military events of the hour, as
they accumulate upon us, seem only more
and more clearly to bring out that solemn
verdict to the effect that this Union can
never be rent in twain by the violent
hands now lifted against its integrity.
The conviction is deeply impressed on
every rejecting mind in the loyal States,
as it soon must be on every Southern,
that the military trial has already re-
suited in the clear demonstration that
the South cannot make a successful reyo-
luton by an appeal to arms. The tide of
battle. crimsOned, alas! by the blood of
brothers, who, but for the alterations of
this unnatural conflict, would be brothers
in heart as they are and must be in line
age, rolls swiftly on, and threatens 10
sweep away at an early day the last yes-
tige Of armed resistance TO the national
authority, at least in any formidable
! proportions, AS is suggested by con-
temporary, we must expect that reyerses
may occur at certain points, but in the
main the work will, in all human proba.
bility, go on from success to success
And this because of the Overwhelming
| power which the Union has brought e
bear Instead of the varying fortunes O.


nearly equal contestants, il one is SC
great and so strong as to present to The
other the hopelessness of resistance, no


only will this war end, but it will alsC
end it in a way which is much easiel
forgotten by tho weaker party thar
would be alternate victory and defeat il
battles The more rapid our"militarJ
successes, the more firm will be the basis


on which to reconstruct the fabric of so


cial and political order in the sccedeC
States. When farther opposition is seel
to be hopeless on The part of the armed


insurgents@WhO now control these States


the people who have been the deludeC


victims of their tyranny and usurpation


may be expected to assert their just ant


legitimate supremacy.-Nat Intelligence 2