ageously in giving employment to a greatly increased number of
female teachers.

As to patriotism, let not the few bring disgrace upon the many. It is
true that scarcely a day passes unmarked by the discovery that some
grovelling wretch has been writing to the army to persuade soldiers to
desert on political grounds; yet as these disgraceful letters, as
published in the papers, give conclusive proof of the utter ignorance of
their writers, we must not judge the spirit of the State by them, any
more than by the louder disloyal utterances of men who have not their
excuse. Governor Yates speaks for the PEOPLE when he says:

'Our State has stood nobly by the Constitution and the Union. She
has not faltered for a moment in her devotion. She has sent her
sons in thousands to defend the Flag and avenge the insults heaped
upon it by the traitor hordes who have dared to trail it in the
dust. On every battle field she has poured out her blood, a willing
sacrifice, and she still stands ready to do or die. She has sent
out also the Angel of Mercy side by side with him who carries the
flaming sword of War. On the battle field, amid the dying and the
dead; in the hospital among the sick and wounded of our State, may
be seen her sons and daughters, ministering consolation and
shedding the blessings of a divine charity which knows no fear,
which dreadeth not the pestilence that walketh by night or the
bullet of the foe by day.'

Governor Yates himself, on receiving intelligence of the battle of Fort
Donelson, repaired at once to the scene of suffering, feeling--like the
lamented Governor Harvey of Wisconsin, who lost his life in the same
service--that where public good is to be done, the State should be
worthily and effectively represented by her chief executive officer.
There on the spot, trusting to no hearsay, Mr. Yates, while distributing
the bounteous stores of which he was the bearer, ascertained by actual
observation the condition and wants of the troops, and at once set about
devising measures of relief. After Shiloh, that Golgotha of our brave
boys, the Governor organized a large corps of surgeons and nurses, and
went himself to Pittsburg Landing to find such suffering and such
destitution as ought never to exist on the soil of our bounteous land,
under any possible conjuncture of circumstances, however untoward and
unprecedented. Without surgeons or surgical a