84     THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



needs their practical application no less now
than then. Therefore it is that we believe they
are destined to triumph after all.
  Underneath the surfaoe scum of corrupt pol-
iticians, semi-traitorous military leaders, sor-
did capitalists, and a host of blatant yet blind



and wicked men in private life, the great deep
of the Amerian heart is as pure and cler as
of old. The storms of the Rebellion will lash
its quiet waters into fury, by-and-by, dash
that loathsome, poisonous scum upon the rocky
shore, and again relect the face of God.
  It should not be forgotten, however, that
God's working, in social and political reforms,
is not usually alone, but rather in co-operation
with good and true men.  It is not for us to
say quietly, shAh well, Providence will do as
seemeth to him good; there is no need that we
trouble ourselves about the result." It is ours,
with God's help to make the result what it ought
to be. God always most helps those who most
help theniselves! And this is why the rebels
have had the best of it, thus far in the war.
They have been in earnest fromfirst to lat, ana
always. They have each forgotten their own
selfish interests-4he body of the people, we
mean-have sacrificed everything they had,
whether of property, of family ties, of person.
al confort or of life upon the reeking altar set
up by the minions of Treason, and to-day, b)
virtue of the consistency and infernal heroisn
they have shown, challenge and secure a sor
of admiration from even those of us who hati
them as the worst enemies of God and man
Verily the children of darkness are wiser that
the children of light.



  That we should hope to triumph on behalf
of th- Government, while we treat as cbild's
play the most sublime and momentous tragedy
of war cver enacted, is worse than vain.-
Without money, without clothing, and often
without food, and poorly armed, they give
themselves to the work as though earth and
heaven hung upon the effort of each soldier.
With everything that money can purchase or
the tender sympathy of friends suggest, we
fight or refuse to fight, as though the chief end



if all our movements was not to hurt the en-
emy!
If we much longer continue in this jamble
if political feuds and scandalous speculatiens
and embezzlement, with only a slight admix-
ore of real, earnest war upon the enemy, we



Lre sure to fail of the object of the war; and
what's more, we shall deserve to fail and to be
lamned for it too.
What then i the remedy?  It is two-fold:-
First, the Administration must leave off its
itory telling and prepare for a real war. And
o that end the President, while he guards with
ealous care the rights of the people, must
nake short work of both imbeciles and traitors
in the departments and in the field-putting
no men into places of high responsibility, nor
allowing them to remain there, unless they
promptly give evidence of capacity, loyalty,
and power. Good Heaven! if General Jack-
son were in the Presidential boots, how he
would squelch with a single stamp three-fourths
of all the officials connected with the army-
brainless, soulless fops, in fine kids, with noth-
ing to recommend them but rich, persistentand
impudent relations and friends! There must
be true men of capacity and energy in the
country, if not in the army, who are kept out
of their true places, because the positions are
already filled by ambitious semi-traitors and
fools. God help the President to find them.
  We do not censure the President. 1e is as
just as Aristides, and as true as Washington to
the one purpose of his soul-the s mlvation of the
country. Nor has he greatly lacked wisdom as
an administrative officer. His steps have, in



the main, been well advised, and in the light
of history will doubtless appear wiser than
now. He only lacks promptness of deoision,
strength of will, and that fire of soul which
should be the inspiration of the army and peo-
ple, the terror of the enemy and a sure har-
binger of victory. But that man wre a marvel
who should at the same time be a Washiagton
* and a Napoleon. It is such an one whom, we
need to-day-the Napoleon to annihilate the
I enemy, the Washington to give back to his poo-



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