8 The war must be prosecuted with vigor until we are victors in the contest, and able to dictate the terms on which it shall terminate. But we must, at the same time, use every means to strengthen the ties which bind the Northern States together, and establish our nationality on too firm a basis to be uprooted by faction, or shaken by disaster. We shall then be secure against the worst evils, those from within, and have little to fear from the utmost efforts of the foe without. For this purpose the concurrence of men of all parties is requisite ; the country cannot be saved unless Democrats and Republicans unite for its preservation. The existence of parties is inherent in, perhaps essential to, free government, and we cannot reasonably expect the Democratic party to give up its political organization, and come forward as adherents of a Republican Administration. But we may ask, and the country has a right to require, that their opposition shall not exceed those limits which are consistent with the safety and existence of the nation, and shall not be guided and controlled by men whose chief aim is to sow the seeds of discord and disorganization, and destroy that Union of the loyal States, in one Government, which is our only safeguard against anarchy and civil war. Ringwalt & Brown, Printers, 111 and 113 South Fourth Street.
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