and the Union, must make up their minds to take what the fortune of war gives them.  This rebellion should be bandied without gloves.  The North should permit nothing to stand in the way of a complete and permanent triumph.  As Northern property is all confiscated South; as Union men there are treated with the utmost barbarity; as nothing held by the lovers of the Union is respected, the greatest injury in the end to the Constitution and the Union is, an unwise clemency to armed rebellion.  In this death-struggle to test the vital question, whether the majority shall rule, let there be no holding back of money or men.  Dear as war may be, a dishonorable peace will prove much dearer.  Great as may be the sufferings of the camp and the battle-field, yet the prolonged tortures of a murdered Union, a violated Constitution, and Secession rampant over the country, will be found to be greater.  My third reflection is, that the main cause of our civil war is slavery.  It has now assumed gigantic proportions of mischief, and with its hand upon the very throat of the Constitution and the Union, it seeks its death.  The worst feature connected with it has ever been, that it is satisfied with no concession, and the more it has, the more it asks.  By the very admission of the chiefs of this rebellion, it is confessedly got up for the sake of slavery, and to make it the corner-stone of the new Confederacy of States.  The real issue involved by the rebellion is, complete independence of the North, the dissolution of the Union, and exclusive possession of all the territories south of Mason and Dixon’s line; or reconstruction upon such conditions as would result in the repudiation of the old Constitution, the nationalization of slavery, and giving complete political control to a slaveholding minority of the country.  This rebellion has placed the North where it must conquer, for its own best interests, and dignity, and the salvation of free institutions.  It must conquer, to command future friendship and that respect without which Union itself is a mockery.  Let the South see that the North can not be beaten, and the universal consciousness of this fact will command an esteem, and the useful fear of committing offense, that will do more to keep the peace than all the abject professions or humble submissions in the world.  Having found out that the North not only is conscious of its rights, but has the willingness and the ability to defend them, it is certain that the country will yet have as much peace, general thrift, and noble enterprise with the onward march of virtue and intelligence, as may be reasonably expected of any community upon the face of the earth.

Bone ornaments.

Silent the lady sat alone: 
In her ears were rings of dead men’s bone;
The brooch on her breast shone white and fine,
’Twas the polished joint of a Yankee’s spine;
And the well-carved handle of her fan,
Was the finger-bone of a Lincoln man.