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and Tory, or the still more bloodthirsty virus with 

 which the Slaveholders Kebellion has shocked the 

 world. Yet time, the great pacificator, has obliter 

 ated all the bitter feeling which these half- forgotten 

 contests engendered. With the death of the genera 

 tions that shared in them, it passed away ; and the 

 little of it that still survives exists only in the hand 

 ful of veterans who yet lag superfluous on the stage 

 of life. 



Thus the thick-coming future must be conjectured 

 from the clearly defined past. As all rebellions 

 come to an end, so will the present one. The nation 

 will be no more likely to tolerate its bloodstained 

 iastigators within its bosom than our fathers toler 

 ated the masses of the less guilty Tories. Though 

 this government has never executed a man for trea 

 son, yet it will seern to many that the gallows may 

 now come actively into use. Flight or the halter 

 will be the only alternative for leading traitors whose 

 hands are dripping with loyal blood. The former 

 will expatriate thousands. That secured, the na 

 tional horizon will be comparatively clear, and 

 amnesty for the masses will develop the germs of a 

 pacification. 



But it must be evident that time alone can make 

 it complete and permanent. Our habits as a people, 

 we know, will go far to hasten in the new millen- 

 ium. Commerce and trade, the modern humaniz- 

 ers, will rapidly reopen every channel now obstruct 

 ed. Collision of the scales and yardstick will abrade 

 a multitude of asperities, for with too many of us 

 the dollar is the only divinity to be worshipped. 



