The  scene  has  been  one  which,  day  by  day,
has  thrilled  us  with  emotion,  one  upon  which
the  Bancroft  and  the  Motley  of  the  next  cen
tury  will  linger  with  admiration.
Massachusetts  first  in  the  field,  as  in  the
olden  days  of  trial,  shedding  the  first  blood  at
Baltimore,  first  to  occupy  and  protect  the  capi
tal,  where  her  great  senator  was  stricken  down,
against  the  traitors,  whose  hatred  to  him  fore
shadowed  their  hatred  towards  the  American
Constitution,  of  which  he  had  been  the  faithful
and  eloquent  expounder.
New  York,  "  herself  the  noblest  eulogium  on
the  Union,"  following  close  behind  with  her
gallant  Seventh,  reaching  Washington  by  a
march  already  famous,  and  insuring  by  their
presence  the  safety  of  Washington.  The  New
England  States,  Pennsylvania  and  the  Great
West,  pouring  in  their  quotas  with  generous
rivalry,  and  our  foreign  population  rising  in
stantly  to  the  grandeur  of  the  occasion,  and
hastening  to  the  defence  of  their  adopted  coun
try,  present  features  of  strength  in  the  Ameri
can  Republic  of  which  the  most  ardent  of  its
eulogists  had  hardly  dreamed.
