A Vivid Picture Of The Result Of This War

Some fifteen or sixteen months ago, in au address delivered at wi Eastern city, a well-known orator and public man ezclaimcd: "I will not speak of the oost of this war, though you know wc shall nevor get out of it without a debt of at leust $2,000,000,000. I will not remind you that debt is the fatal disease of Repub lies- the first thing, and the mightiest to uudermine Government, and corrupt tho people. The great debt of Englaud has kept her back in all progresa at least a hundred years. Noither will I remind you that, when we go out of tbjs war, we go out with an immense disbaudpd army, an immense niilitury spirit embodied in two-thirds of a million of soldicrs, the fruitful, the inevitable sourco ot fresh debta and new wars. I pags by all these, and lying within those causea are things euough to make the most sanguine friends of free institutionf) tremole forour future. "Ï5'4t lef me remind you of another tendeney of the timos. You know, for j instaoe that the writ of habeas corpus, ' by whioh Government is bound to I der a reason to the Judiciary before it lavs it hands upon a citizen, has been called the high water mark of English liberty. The present Napoleon, in his treatise on the Knglish Constitution, calis it the germ of Euglish institutions. Lieber says that with tree meetiügs liko tías, au(La free press, are tho three rqentg vyhich distinguían liberty frotu despotism, aud all that Saxon blood bas jaiped in tl-e battles and toils of two Gi;ndrecl years are tbese tbree thiogs. - NoWftoay, eyery one of these - habeas corpus, the rigbt of free meeting, and free press - is annihilated iu every square mile of the Republic. We live to day, every one of us, under martial law or mob law. The Seeretary of State puts into bis Bastile, with a warrant as irrespousible as that of Louis, any man whombe pleases, and you know that neither press nor lips may venture to arraign the Qovernment without being silenped." This is an eminently truthful picture of our present condition, and it well portrays the dangers of the futuie. Of all at 'ias been said on the subject, we d. not believc that the faets were ever so ably condemned and o boldly oxpressed as by the autlior of the above remarks. pe ooutinued: ''We are tending with rapid stridos - you say, inevitable; I don't deny it, necessrily; [ don't quostion it - we are teuding to tbat strong üoverument which frigbteued JefFerson; toward tbat unliiaited debt, t!)?,t endlesg army; we have already thoge Alien and Sedition Laws, wliieh, in 1J98, wrepked the Federal party, and summoned the Eemouratic into esistence. For the first time qo the continent we have passports, which even Louis Bonaparte pronounces useless and odious. For the firsf time in our history Government spies frequent our great oities." Now, who do our Kepublican frieuds suppose held up thi? political niirror to the (Jovernmep't? Wbat distinguished Copperhead did it? Was it VallandigT hani, Thomas If. Seymour, Horatio Sevmpur, George E. Pugh, Fernando Wood or D. VV. Voorheis? Was it Brooks, Wall or Medary? Jh ! they pannot guesa - their coujectures are at fault. We will teil them: It was