THE WISCONSIN FARMER.

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  ED1TORl.

VoL. XV.     MIADISON, OCTOBER 1, 1863.  No. 10



         and al owr Natve Land."
  It was a maxim Of the great Napoleon that
"God is usually on the side of the heaviest
battallions."  Buonaparte was right.  God
does help them most who most help themselves.
  We do not mean to deny that there have
been signal cases in the history of the world
in which the Almighty has, for a time, sus-
pended the operations of natural laws, and
signally interposed for the triumph of' the
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mised so much for the people of this continent
and the anxious, struggling peoples of the
Old World as it promises to-day. Groping in
darkness and defeat for more than two years,
the dawn of a better day than our young Re-
public has ever yet enjoyed is upon no.
  It may be that we have not even yet. drank
the very dregs of the cup of humiliation, and
that trials more severe and defeats more gall-
ing that any we have hitherto suffered await
us in the future, ere the angel of Peace shall



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words will permit, that God is not wont to al) have dethroned the demon of
War; bitt God
rogate or even temporarily set aside thie ;,,,has certainly, within the past
three months,
mutable law's by which he governs both the ;oticltsfed to its a new  nd glorious
hope
material and the spiritual worlds.  sis law Treason is surely doomed, and
only awaits
                                           with trembling the deep damnation
it deserves
is inexorable, and, no matter what our cause, -  anto   o   twatra-ti   
   led
or how much the good of mankind may de- -a damnation not piigatorial-it is
already
mand its success, it will only succeed in pro- enduring that-but final and
eternal. This
portion as they who have it in charge are true is as fixed and certain as
if it were a written
to their trust. If the American people and decree of the Almighty.
government had believed this truth, and, from  Nor is this all.  With an
unprecedented
the first, had acted upon its conviction, like a bounty the great Giver of
Good is filling the
government and people thoroughly honest and! lap of the North with such plenty
and pros-
earnest, there is little room for doubt that the perity as the world never
saw. Our mines
monster Rebellion which has despoiled the na- are yielding up their accustomed
treasure;
tion of more than two billions of treasure, of our agriculture is feeding
and clothing us as
almost a quarter of a million of lives, and never before, and filling the
world's granaries
shaken the temple of Republican Liberty to I with food; and our multiplied
manufactories
its very foundations, would have been crushed are teeming with a most wondrous
activity.
months ago.                               ! The nations of the Old World
are filled with
  But regrets are unavailing, except as they astonishment, and even we who
have known,
shape our conduct in the future; and, besidesor who thought we knew, the
inexhaustible-
                                         s   ness of the resources of this
ne* mighty em-
for the present, our notes should be those of pire, are ourselves compelled
to acknowledge
rejoicing.                                 that we had scarcely dreamedof
their immen-
The cause of American liberty never pro- I sity.



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