things—justice, mercy, political integrity, patriotism before this Juggernaut; clamorously crying out, "Great is the Union" of which we had made to ourselves an idol.

We could not bear to have our national prosperity interfered with, and felt ourselves bound to maintain the Union, without reference to that which could alone make it of intrinsic value. So we consented to remain a living body tied to one that was dead; and becoming more and more foul and corrupt from the contact. At length the dormant spirit of a true patriotism was awakened, and it said: "We have given enough to slavery; we will not meddle with what it has; but we will bestow no further favors upon it; it shall have no more free territory to defile. We have long worn its yoke; now we will stand up in our own freedom." Slavery replied: "Then we curse and defy you. If we cannot be your masters any longer by compromise and submission on your part, we will subdue you, if possible, by the sword." And the North accepted the challenge. The heart of the nation was aroused by a true, patriotic impulse. God grant that this may bear all before it.

We have little sympathy from other nations; none from that with which we are kindred in blood and language, except, indeed, from her

working men; who alone suffer severely from a failure of the cotton supply, consequent upon this civil war. God bless them for their noble refusal to join in a petition to the British Parliament for intervention. They know full well that the cause for which we are contending, is their cause also.

Yet this is the same England so vociferous, hitherto, in her denunciations of slavery; and her denunciations of us for being its abettors. She even gives aid to our slave-holding enemies. But we fight for God and our country; and if we are true to Him and to it, the "wrath of man shall not prevail against" us.

Alas! for the reverse of the picture we have given of Northern patriotism-men in our midst, absolute traitors, ready to betray as noble a cause as men ever lived or died for; so that, loud as was the open menace of our enemies, formidable as is their front, our hidden foes are still more to be feared-selfish men at home sympathizing with the cause of the rebels, because forsooth, the material prosperity of the country receives a severe check-men who would submit to any degrada tion; to complicity with any crime; to have a large portion of their fellow-men doomed to bondage in perpetuity, rather than pay a higher price for tea, coffee, cotton, or broadcloth; rather

than be taxed, even moderately; rather than have a mill wheel stopped, or a factory closed-men who make merchandise of their country's exigencies; who, when she has been robbed, stripped, threatened with bankruptcy, incurred in defence of her very existence, steal from her, defraud her, and propose to themselves nothing higher or better than to fill their pockets at her expense.

Seest thou a son secretly admitting the midnight assassin and burglar into his father's house? Pretended patriot, but traitor at heart, "Thou art the man."

Seest thou a son ready to sell his father into slavery, in order to promote his own personal and private interests? Selfish sympathizer with Southern traitors and rebels, "Thou art the man."

Seest thou a son imposing upon his father by fraudulent bargains made for his own gain, or secretly abstracting from his desk the money that in his straitened circumstances he can ill afford to lose? O mean, wretched haggler in bargains which bring gain to thee, and loss to thy country, “Thou art the man."

Alas! that there should be quartermasters who intercept and sell, on their own account, clothing and bedding contributed for the comfort of soldiers; sutlers who make them pay enormous prices for necessary articles; surgeons and nurses who inter

cept and appropriate to their own use nice food and delicacies provided for the sick in the hospitals, or who are hard in manner, or cruel and negligent in conduct towards them; commissaries who exchange the excellent provisions furnished to the army by our Government, for inferior articles, putting the difference of value in their own pockets; officers who are indifferent to the comfort of their soldiers, and take no care of them-not treating them as men and brothers, though engaged in the same holy cause as themselves-officers who inflict barbarous punishments, who are made savage in temper and unjust in dealing by intemperance; who gamble with their men on pay-day, and win from them their hard earned wages; who sometimes reduce them to the necessity of pledging their wages before they are paid; who even take from the discharged soldier his coat and his blanket, compelling him to go without proper protection from the cold, and sell them for his own benefit.

Thank Heaven that in regard to all, or most of these classes of men, we may hope that the offenders are in the minority. These, however, are dreadful enormities. They shock our moral sense ; they mortify our human pride; they make us feel that the human race is still on a very low plane of existence; they greatly abate our national selfsatisfaction. We say nothing of vile political in

triguers, who would sell, not only their country, but their own souls, for office or influence. Theirs is a den of iniquity we dare not enter. History will one day lay it open, and bring its dreadful secrets to light.

Yet with this large abatement, there is still a well, a fountain of pure patriotism in our midst, enough for perpetual diffusion in the hearts of the large mass of our people, who will never cease the cry "God and our country" until the cause of both is established. How can any one doubt that our cause is the cause of God, who believes that he is on the side of truth, and right, and liberty. Of course it is the cause of all men, and especially of all working men; of the classes among whom Christ was born. We are not fighting for ourselves only; but, if you will admit the paradox, for those against whom we fight for our brethren here and everywhere; for the European, the Asiatic, the African. It has been said that the contest we are engaged in, is but the continuation of that in which Magna Charta was extorted from King John; and it will go on until all men are indeed brethren, dwelling together in unity of right, unity of interest, unity of good-will, unity of aspiration.

Be then good patriots yourselves, and train your children to be so. This is the best work you can do for your country, viz., help to fill it with