y the map and the present
position of our forces with our resources, and not realize this. 'Hemmed
in!' is the despairing cry from Southern journals, which but the other
day insolently threatened to transfer the war to Northern soil, and to
sack New York and Philadelphia; and, with their proverbial fickleness
and fire, we find many of them half rebelling against the management of
Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS and his coadjutors.

This is all encouraging. On the other hand, we are beginning to feel
more acutely the miseries of war, and its enormous cost. The time is at
hand when the whole country will be called on to show its heroism by
patient endurance of many trials, and by _living_ as well as dying for
the great cause of liberty and Union. Let it all be done patiently and
without a murmur. Every suffering will be repaid tenfold in the hour of
triumph. Let it be remembered that as we suffer our chances of victory
increase, and that every pain felt by us is a death-pang to the foe.
Now, if ever, the Northern quality of stubborn endurance must show
itself. We, too, can suffer as heroically as the South boasts of doing.
It is this which in the course of events must inevitably give us the
victory, for no spirit of chivalry, no enthusiasm, can ultimately resist
sturdy Saxon pluck. The South, foolishly enough, has vaunted that it is
inspired by the blood and temper of the Latin races of Southern Europe,
and it can not be denied that their climate has given them the
impulsiveness of their ideal heroes. In this fiery impatience lies the
element which renders them incapable of sustaining defeat, and which,
after any disaster, must stimulate dissension among them.

It should also be borne in mind that the most direct causes of our
sufferings all involve very practical benefits. The Southern press
taunts our soldiers with enlisting for pay. Let us admit that vast
numbers have truly been partially induced by the want of employment at
home to enter the army. It is a peculiar characteristic of all Northern
blood that it can and does combine intelligence and interest with the
strongest enthusiasm. No man was ever made a worse soldier by being
prudent, any more than by being a religious Christian. Taunts and jeers
can not affect the truth. The Protestant mechanic soldiery of Germany
during the wars of the Reformation, the men of Holland, and the Puritans
of England, were all reviled for the same cause--but they conquered. God
never punishes m