Every day confirms the opinion we hazarded a month ago, that the present crisis, terrible and trying as it is to every interest--political, social, financial, and commercial, would yet, out of its very peril and importance, lead to ultimate good, just as an unexpected calamity sobers into seriousness the fickle and wavering of every class. Classes, as well as individuals, are too much given to trifle with great questions, and plunge others into positions of danger our of mere thoughtlessness.

The determined and ultra conduct of South Carolina and the Seceding States has brought the Republican Party to a sudden sense of the folly and wickedness of persisting in an abstract absurdity at the risk of a civil war, or else a disruption of our great Republic. Rhode Island has commenced retracing her steps by repealing her Personal Liberty Bill, and the people of Boston have plainly intimated to the Wendell Phillip fanatics, through the Mayor of that city, that they will not countenance any of those Abolition meetings, which would fire the Union merely to "warm an idea." The destruction of our Union, merely to rescue a runaway nigger, would be as absurd as the Chinaman who set fire to his house merely to roast a little pig. Every day brings the Philip drunk nearer the Philip sober, and we have little doubt ere Mr. Buchanan lays down his office, the extreme politicians of both sides will be overawed by that great and irresistible party, the conservatives of all sections, called into existence by the immediate presence of a danger that none except madmen can ignore. It is also more than probable that the apparent "do-nothing policy" of Mr. Buchanan will prove in the end as the wisest course that could, under the circumstances, have been adopted. The days of Jackson have passed, and it is not improbable that the dictatorial course pursued by him thirty years ago would, in the temper both parties were at the commencement of November, have precipitated events fatal to every hope of a reconciliation.

There seems to be settling over our public men a solemn sense of responsibility, eminently favorable to a permanent settlement of the only question likely to disturb the harmony of our Republic.