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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
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