n asked, but always by those faint-hearted ones
whose clamors for a disgraceful peace have added strength to the cause
of our opponents. The answer is so plain that it requires no
demonstration. There is but one remedy for so sore a disease, and
however severe it may be, however revolting to the tender sensibilities
of peace-loving men, the inevitable and inexorable MUST urges
it on to execution, and stands like a giant, blocking up every other
path. It is like those dangerous remedies which the physician applies
when the patient's recovery is otherwise utterly hopeless, and which
must result either in recovery or in death by its own agency rather than
that of the disease. Concession has been tried in vain, 'moral suasion'
has been proved to be of no avail. The South must be shown how entirely
hopeless must be every effort, in all time, to overturn such a
government as ours. They must be made to feel our immense superiority in
power and resources; they must be shown in unmistakable colors the
unconquerable might of nationality in strong contrast with the weakness
of sectionalism, as well as their own dependence upon the North; in a
word, every atom of resistance must be utterly and forever crushed out
by brute force. To no other argument will they listen, as experience has
proved; and this 'last resort of kings' must be exerted in all its
strength and proclaimed in thunder tones, even though its reverberations
should shake the earth to its very core. This done, and peace once more
established, the South must be, _not_ abolitionized, not colonized, not
Puritanized, nor yet oppressed, but AMERICANIZED. They must be
familiarized with those immortal principles of justice and freedom, to
which they have hitherto been strangers, which lie at the heart of all
national success among an enlightened and Christian people. They must be
made acquainted with the all-important fact that we are a nation of one
blood, one common ancestry; that we can never live at peace as separate
nationalities, and that only in unity and mutual concession and
forbearance can a glorious destiny be wrought out for our common
country. _Then_, not now, will be the time for conciliation on our part,
but yet conciliation never divided from the utmost vigilance and a firm
support of the doctrine of national supremacy, as opposed to, and
paramount to the iniquitous dogma of State rights. The people of the
North must first divest themselves of all prejudices, al