Year: 1867

complete and his apprehensl0ns having toucned
his intellect, he made haste to escape from
spectacle of woe which he could not prevent.
IL is stated of him that during the last session
of Congress- "One of ms peculiarties was an
"mcontrollable desire to speak at great length,
Gin the most melancholy strain, on every politl-
zeal question that came up in the House. lie
"firmly believed that this country was on ITS
"way to perditionD Mr.. Hise has given SAD
but indsputable evidence of his sincerity; but,
fortunately, great many people VINO
are afflicted as he was, and who are
perfectly certain that the days OF the land
are numbered, are very far from intending
suicide In spite of their weary woe they eat
and drink they make speeches. and they run
for Congress, and even when they are beaten
they take no thought of hempen consolation
Sometimes an entire political party lives In des-
pair, moves in misery, and has its being III APP
prehension. The present generation has mao
large experience of these political ByrOns, ana
during the critical years preceding the Rebel
lion, and during the Rebellion itself, they man
aged to do more mischief, probably, than they
intended 1t was these lachrymose people who
made the idea of secession seem IN
eyitable to the North and duty to the
South. They predicted so loudly and so
lengthily that the Slave States would not
tolerate Mr.. Lincons election that, when ne
was elected, the Secessionists were ashamed to
remain quiet. 1t was from our platform and
pulpit mOurners, from the weepers pious and
the sobbers political, from highly respectable
men in loyly frame of mind that the States
originally seeding received the impression
that secession, boldly undertaken, would be a
safe game, and that "COnfederacy," once on
it's legs might defy even the forces OF nature
to disturb its perpendicularity. For 1t Is
noticeable that the men of melancholy, In the
event of a revolt never for moment seemed
TO suppose that it could possibly be put down.
Secession meant ruin. In any possible civil
war the North must be wOrsted. IL
Freedom and Slavery went to loggerheads,
it was always Freedom who was
to get the worst of it, and it was always
Northern prosperity, commercial and social,
that was to be permanently blighted. All the
good things of life were to be reserved for the
traitors but we were to become finally ana
completely insOlvent; great munlcipallties-
New York and Boston, st. Louis, Cincin-
natl, and Chicago-were to shrink into neon
siderable villages and while the South sent
all her cotton to Lancashire in British bot
TOMS the winds would play doleful dirges
through the shrouds of our great commerciai
navy, rottng piecemeal at our rotten piers! IL
is the end that crowns the work We have
seen what we have seen.


To the lamentations of the COpperheads dur
ing the war, and to the tears with which they
bedewed every bulletin of victory or defeat
with rigid impartiality it is needless for US to
allude We would not, indeed, consider TINS
subject at all if we did not think that at all
times in this Republic, and especially at TINS
moment, a frame of mind directly the opposite
of that which has proved so disastrous to poor
Mr.. Elisha Hise, hopeful energy, a salient
bravery, and an indomitable spirit OF trust
fulness in our own heads, and hands,
and hearts, should be sedulOusly culti-
waited by the citizens. A nation can generally
do what it thoroughly believes it can do, and
all history proves that even a little unreason-
able arrogance is not without its uses. 1t was
religion in the best days of Rome never to
despair of the Republic. The absurd notion
that one Englishman can overthrow two war
riors of any other nationality is at the bottom
of the British Empire. A faith IN positive
and indissoluble Union, in its possibility and
its perpetuity carried us triumphantly over the
red tide of Rebellion and gave our Republic
newer and nobler chances, and more brilliant
opportunities of greatness.


1t is during the triumphant repOse that fol-
lows this political storm that men ealing
themselves Democrats" but who are really, In
the narrowest sense of the word, Eacuonlsts,
begin to dictate the terms upon when mere
after the United States may continue 10 Oe
nnited. 1t is remarkable fact that these
threats of something extremely dreadful do
not come from the South IL is the Man III
the White House who plays Ezekiel. 1t is the
Secretary of State who would leave this great
country at the mercy of Policy" 1t is an
Administration called into life by Northern
votes which bids Northern voters beware! Ii
was the johnson missionaries in Connecticut
who said that, if we did this or failed to do
that if we gave votes to Black loyalists, or II
we refused them to White traitors still walow-
ing in treason, something dreadful would come
A new war, further waste of money, fresh
bloodsbed. increased taxes, and, possibly, the
Dissolution of the Union No. 2! We have here
the kev.pote of the music TO which we shall
be expected to dance during the next Presldeh-
tal canvass. We are to vote against the bogus
Democracy if we dare As the combat deep
ems, the mourners will go about the streets, or
ply the frequent handkerchief upon the plat
form. The hearts of many will sink into their
boots, and they will quite forget that public
Justice, having saved us once, may possibly DO
40 again If these gentlemen have any notion
of committing suicide, they might as well do
80 before election after


We entreat the Opposition" if there be
| - 80 ,.;,a rs tbair views their arguments