which has combined and concentrated their power—­facts of the atrocious character of the guerrilla system organized and legalized among them—­facts exhibiting the efficiency of every arm of their military service—­facts showing the necessity of restrictions upon the freedom of the press in times of war—­facts revealing the demoralizing influence of the doctrine of State Rights in nullifying national fealty, and disregarding the sanctities of an oath—­facts which, if universally known and duly regarded, would stir the North to a profounder sense of the desperate and deadly struggle in which they are engaged than they have ever yet felt—­then my time and labor will not have been spent in vain.

THE END.