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[443] through the army. Slavery was losing its last hold upon the North, and the star of Hope, which had hitherto sent but feeble rays through the clouded air, was to give place to the full-orbed sun of Liberty. The leaders of the Rebellion saw the rising tide at the North swelling against them, and they began to display a vigor and determination, which, desperate as their cause might seem to impartial and well-informed observation, were to indicate how fearfully the agencies of a bad cause may be multiplied, as they are marshalled for the final conflict, which gives the last energy to despair.
United States Publishing Company, 1874.
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