Gardens; but a single lesion could not permanentlyreclaim the beast, and it soon relapsed into its native and normal ferocity. One experiment sufficed to show the power of the artist; no possible increase of value in the educated animal would have justified a prolonged and perfect training. You ask if we have gained any advantages commensurate with our efforts, or with the high-sounding phrase of our declared purpose. Let us look at this a moment. Suppose we begin with a glance at the other side of the picture. Has all the boasting, have all the promises, been on the Federal side? Did we hear nothing of the Confederate flag floating over Faneuil Hall ?—nothing of Washington falling into the hands of the enemy?—nothing of a festive winter in Philadelphia, and a general distribution of spoils in New York ?—nothing of foreign intervention ?—'nothing of the cowardice of Northern Mudsills, and the omnipotence of King Cotton ? Decidedly, the rebels began with a sufficiently startling programme. Let us see how far they have carried it out. As they were clearly the assailants, we have an undoubted right to ask what they have accomplished aggressively. We say, then, that, excepting in the case of one brief raid, the soil of a single Free State has never been polluted by the hostile tread of an invading force; that every battle-field has been within the limits of States claimed as Confederate ; that while the war has desolated whole States represented in the Confederate Congress, not an acre north of Mason and Dixon’s line has suffered from the ravages of the rebel armies. Was ever another scorpion more completely surrounded and shut in by a cordon of fire ? This is surely something, but it is by no means all. Have we accomplished nothing aggressively? We will call into court a witness from the enemy’s camp. Hear the recent testimony of a leading journal, published ift the Confederate capital: * * Richmond Examiner, January 20th, 1863. “It is not altogether an empty boast on the part of the Yankees, that thSy hold all that they have ever held, and that another year or two of such progress as they have already made will find them master's of the Southern Confederacy. They who think independence is to achieved by brilliant but inconsequential victories, would do well to look at the magni
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