13 penetrate our souls with some more solemn sense than they have ever yet attained of the infinite import of the struggle. Our souls should get enough of it at least to silence faction, to hush complaint, to brace up our constancy, to inspire fresh courage, to light up with a heroic joy all that we do and all that we endure—enough of it to make us realize that as we now bear ourselves, we shall stand in history as the most beneficent or the most maleficent of human generations, and as the most faithful or the most false in the eye of God. MOTTOES FOR LOYAL MEN. A friend of ours in the country has put the following pithy and emphatic sentences on a card and nailed it on his front door. He suggests that if others would do the same it would be one of the most expressive demonstrations of their loyalty that could be given : “ The Success of the South will be the triumph of the WORST TYRANNY WHICH THE WORLD EVER SAW. TlIE SUCCESS of the North will be the establishment of a nobler freedom THAN THE WORLD HAS YET SEEN.”—[F. W. NEWMAN. “ My HOPES OF THE FUTURE WELFARE AND GREATNESS OF the American republic were never so high as in this, TO SUPERFICIAL APPEARANCE, THE DARKEST HOUR OF ITS HISTORY.”—[John Stuart Mill. [Resolutions of the Ohio Legislature.] “We will have no dissolution of the Union; “We will have no armistice; “We can fight as long as rebels and traitors can; “ The war shall go on till law is restored ; “ We' will never despair of the Republic.”
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