selves--for lo! the sills which they buried are not
dead timber, neither do they sleep or rot--they were fresh saplings,
and with the reviving breath of spring and at the gleam of the sun of
freedom, they will shoot up into brave, strong life.

Let them talk, dispute, hem and haw, that will--we can not set aside the
great fact that in future our Government will be united in its policy,
great in its strength, and no longer impeded by the selfish arrogance of
a petty planterdom. Labor and capital are bursting their bonds--the
Middle Class of North-America which Southerners and Englishmen equally
revile, is becoming all-powerful and seeks to substitute business
common-sense for the aristocratic policy which has hitherto guided us.
It is no longer a question of radicalism, of poor against rich, of
lazzaroni and royalists, but of a new element--that of labor and of
intellect combined--the guiding-spirit of the North. And the question
is, how to best aid this element in its progress?

The army of the United States at the present day contains within itself
the best part of such free labor and intellect as is needed to reform
the South. That dashing and daring energy which gladly enters on new
fields, and loves bold enterprises, has streamed by scores of thousands
from the farm and factory toward the camp and the battle-field. There it
is doing brave service for God and for freedom. Every day sees martyrs
for the holy cause drawn from the ranks of these good and noble
volunteers. They die noble--ay, holy deaths, and as they die new
aspirants for honor step forward to fill their places. When the war
shall be over, it is to the army that we should look to revive the
wasted South, to farm its exhausted plantations and employ its blacks.
Is there no significance in the numerous anecdotes which reach us of
Northern intellect already displaying itself in a thousand forms of
restless activity? The newspaper before us states that General Shepley,
in New-Orleans, has threatened that if the bakers of his conquered city
do not supply bread more cheaply he will remodel their whole business
and employ bakers from the army. 'Bakers from the army!' Ay, smiths,
engineers, editors, and every thing else are there, amply capable of
reoerganizing the whole South--of tilling its fields to greater
advantage, of developing its neglected resources, of making the old,
desolate, lazy, dissolute Southland hum with enterprise. Let them do it.

_We_ may