signs of hesitation, then a shout of
exultation will go up, throughout all the hosts of rebeldom, and
bonfires and illuminations be kindled in every Southern city,
hailing our divisions as the sure harbingers of their success. We
must stand by the President, and send up to him, and to our brave
armies in the field, the support of an undivided sentiment and one
universal cheer from the masses of all the loyal States. The stern
realities of actual war have produced unanimity among our soldiers
in the army. With them the paltry contests of men for political
power dwindle into insignificance before the mightier question of
the preservation of the national life. Coming into closer contact
with Southern men and society, the sentiments of those who looked
favorably upon Southern institutions have shifted round. They have
now formed their own opinions of the proper relations of the
Federal Government to them, which no sophistry of the mere
politician can ever change. Seeing for themselves slavery and its
effects upon both master and slave, they learn to hate it and swear
eternal hostility to it in their hearts. Fighting for their
country, they learn doubly to love it. Fighting for the Union, they
resolve to preserve, at all hazards, the glorious palladium of our
liberties.

'I believe this infernal rebellion can be, ought to be, and will be
subdued. The land may be left a howling waste, desolated by the
bloody footsteps of war, from Delaware bay to the gulf, but our
territory shall remain unmutilated--the country shall be one, and
it shall be free in all its broad boundaries, from Maine to the
gulf, and from ocean to ocean.

'In any event, may we be able to act a worthy part in the trying
scenes through which we are passing; and should the star of our
destiny sink to rise no more, may we feel for ourselves and may
history preserve our record clear before heaven and earth, and hand
down the testimony to our children, that we have done all, perilled
and endured all, to perpetuate the priceless heritage of Liberty
and Union, unimpaired to our posterity.'

And in this fervid utterance of our warm-hearted Governor, the free
choice of a free people, let us consider Illinois as expressing her
honest sentiments.

A WINTER IN CAMP.

I was painfully infusing my