Show advantageous R results esulto of the present struggle that there were notwithstanding our vehement N che assertions to the country somo some few points about tho the administration admi nitration of our affairs M 1 a nation and a great many abar characteristic of our country as such that might have hare bees improti improved ad by a eba change tige or even dropped to the iho groat benefit of all parties concerned will ni ia I 1 not u wo C presume be now denied for a moment by candid men the present contest has alian changed oed all of these matters so far as they pertained to tho the government and we observe with pleasure that under the late course of treatment applied by armed treason our countrymen are rapidly recovering from most of the blemishes which NN aich clung citing to our reputation as ai americans the united states government has heretofore been too iceal it was strong 7 enough in war as witness the revolution nc and the war of 1812 but weak and vacillating i acil lating in the exercise of its authority over its own citizens and bt ands blands at this lay day as the only government on oil this earth under which while in a state of war her bar own citizens can unmolested talk plot disseminate ani and foster black treason how often have we not nude made treaties with foreign nations guaranteeing them against a arcq armed expeditions from our shores shores from which we were either cither powerless to protect them or still worse unwilling to keep our plighted faith cuba nicaragua agnia and sonora can all bear witness to the strict faith with which we INC kept our treaties N with ith spain central amai america ica and mexico I 1 we have sown gown the wind and are now reaping the 11 whit right ha have c we N who ho never kept a solemn ti treaty caty w when hen our own interests intel ests or lust luat of territory stood blood in the way to complain if now other cou antiles measure out to us its the samo same nic asure which wo we one once meted to them we must be bear ar in mind too that our tone toile was never that of conciliation and that among tile tho governments of tho earlb we made but a very ry scanty number of friends if any certainly late events do not provo prove that we possess any superabundance of tho article and unfortunately we 1 C need friends fric ildi at this time not the physical and material but tho the moral support afforded by such snell cill in Chiist christendom endom shall we rind find another government in which tile the monstrous ious abomination of polygamy would have been allowed to exist in the open light of day for an instant yet in our country it has has existed and exists ft on tile tho executive to tho the humblest citizen bein being aware of tile the fact and thon though 11 laws bo be enacted a against ainest it tile the idea seems to be that laws which are arc not or cannot be earned caniell out had better belter ile never iver be made as it better belter to have no law thin a law daily and violated and practically ally so fir as our citizens are concerned we hope and hillst that tho time tillo is past when wo we could be called th alio gaseous Gas cons from our in tolerable and constant con stint boasting the days we mittit or of buncomb buil comb speeches spread eagle or orations atOlls 1 and I fulsome trashy talk on the fourth of july over our vat to everything ever thought of bettyl beffie arc happily past or at least will rill be with this war in our overgrown boyhood such weaknesses might light be tole tolerated but n grown gron up lip as w we now are arc such snell twaddle dlo would bo be simply silly with treaties tte aties faithfully y observed slavery abolished law laws i faithfully and promptly executed ont and the ww war has made us see sea the necessity ity for all those these wo we shall pie as a government go ern ment aspect asp a spectacle Ct CIO of sublimity and as individuals have ill ti eason to bo be decorously proud of the laud land which gave us birth and the it which protects us arld and en ell forces for itself |