Show IT WAS M MERELY RE Y AN INCIDENT 1 I About the most comical feature of the last two days is the assumed air of conviction cOll on the faces of some church Republicans and their organs that the American party is done for that it will never again assume dangerous proportions The They had better read the he words of Paul Paw Jones on a memorable occasion His ship was dismasted rent fore and aft with the the enemy and seemed in a sinking condition when a summons to surrender was made The reply was I have haye not yet jet begun to fight and he took the enemy into port before ho got through with him The tide ebbs and flows and at intervals comes in with a great clamor and bangs against the piles ander under un an- der the wharves but has no lasting influence Those are times when the moon has her horns out and aud up in her cold place in the ether believes she is a real world But the effect does not last and our friends the cuemy enemy enemy ene cue my must not confuse a mere incident with a real victory vie vic tory and should keep l in mind that as time is measured measured meas meas- it was but a brief period between Bunker Hill Hilland Hilland Hilland and Yorktown between Bull Run and Appomattox |