Here, in this city, and over this land, North and South, 1 fear we are feeling—and will ex perience still more mournfully—the wisdom of this prophetic warning once uttered by Mr. Burke : "When bad men combine good men must associate,else they wili hill or.c by one, •in unpmied sacrifice in a eoatemptibte strug gle."

The question you propose I can answer con fidently - for, in leaving the bar and entering