crisis. The responsibility of the
Administration was immense. The President met it nobly. He took care
that a sufficient military force--not under the control of Governor
Seymour, but of a well-tried patriot--was present in New York. He
carried out the draft there and everywhere else. He crushed the schemes
and hopes of the traitorous conspirators--more guilty than the rebels in
arms-and gave a demonstration of the _strength of the National
Government_, as grand in its majesty as it was indispensable to the
national salvation in this crisis and to its security in all future
time. The Government has triumphed in the quiet majesty of its
irresistible force over factious and traitorous opposition at the North,
springing from treasonable sympathy with the rebels, or, from what, in a
crisis like this, is equally wicked, the selfishness of party spirit,
preferring party to country. More than this, it has triumphed over the
dangerous and destructive notions on State sovereignty, which traitors
and partisans have dared invoke. It is impossible to overestimate the
importance for the present and for the future of this victorious
assertion of the _supremacy of the National Government_.

SUMMARY REVIEW.

In a review, then, of this gigantic struggle, we have every reason to be
content and confident--no reason to bate one jot of heart or hope. The
triumph over Northern treason, achieved by the force of the Government,
has been followed by a moral triumph at the polls, no less grand in its
significance. The country is not oppressed by the stupendous expenses of
the war. The money is all spent at home. It stimulates the productive
industry of the country, and the nation is all the time growing rich.
The rebels have been disastrously repulsed in two attempts at invasion,
and do not hold one inch of Northern soil. One third of the States
claimed by them at the outset, are gone from them forever: Maryland,
Missouri, Kentucky, are securely in the Union; Virginia we have cut in
two--nearly one half of its territory, by the will of its inhabitants,
now constituting a loyal member of the Union as the new State of West
Virginia--while of its eastern half we securely hold its coast, harbors,
and fortresses, and a considerable number of its counties. Tennessee is
ours, and cannot, we think, be wrenched away. We have New Orleans, and
the uncontrolled possession of the Mississippi river--cutting the
territory of the rebels in two, destroying th