Victories Alone Cannot Enforce Peace

[ne extract tho followiug eloquent passage from a recent ablu speech of Hon. R. 0. Winthrop :] - No, it is the civil policy of tho governmont which Gen. McClellan is relied upon to cbaDgo. It is the civil policy of the administrador) which imperatively demanda, to be ehangcd. We believa that this civil polioy of the administration has prsvented all our military sucoessea iu the past from eliectiug the great end for which we are contending - tha only end for which wo could constitutioually take up arms. We believe that this civil policy - if anything the aditiinistration has reeently done can be called civil [Laughter] haa been calculated to drive those States finally out of the Uuion, instead of being iidapted to draw them back to their old allegiauee. [That's so. Cheors.J We believe that this civil policy has tended to breathe a spirit of dcfmnco and desperation into the breasts of every Southern man and womari and child, that it has rendered tho work of our owu brave soldiors a thousand fold harder to be achieved, and has thus fur given thera only a barren and Irnitless victory, whenever they have succeedod. Who is thore wild enough to imagiue that mere military triumphs can accotnplish that great consumrnation ot Union and peace, which is the dcvoat wish and prayer of every patriotic huart ? [Appluuse.] Why, my friends, wo may go on conquering aud to conquer, mouth after month, and year alter ycir ; we mav overeóme armies ; wo raake tuka possession of citiea; we rnay devástate wholt; territorios and regions of counlry; we niiiy make a solitude and cal! it pea 09 ; but the restoration of the uld JUnion of aur fathers, with all the States u their j, sonstitutional relations to the general Ojoverument, and all our stars on the fulds of our country 's flag, will require something more thau auy mere forcé of ürros can effect. [Applauso ] NobotJy saw this more cleariy, or admitted it nore frankly thau President Lincoln limsolf, when he dechired so emjihatially in his inaugural : ''StippOise you ro to war, you caur ot fight alwaysj and vlion, aftcr much loss on both siiles and . & jí-ÍL. yon ot'asc h'gliting, tLu idéntica]