Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-05-28
THE WAR AT A DISTANCE.

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country, under date of the 9th inst as follows;
CATER centuries of bloody troubles and dis
unibn. Italy is again almost reunited, and will
soon be entirely so. In the meantime it PAINS
NV heart to see that YOU are dissolving your
great ration into fragments, and initiating
civil war May God avert from you such a
calamity p Ii the brave Italian had stud
led the American question as faithfully
MS he has devoted himself to the uni
ty of his own heroic nation, he would
regard our present struggle with exuIta
tion and not with pain. But he has formed
his estimate Of the government, and matured
his grefs for its woes, upon the assumption
that it still depended for life on an ettete and
nowerless administration, and not upon the
affection of brave and loyal people for their
country as sacred and enduring as his own.
He has seen, to be sure, one after another OF
the mutinous states throw off its allegiance to
the government, and take possession OF the
federal property without which the govern
ment could neither maintain its integrity
or resist assault. Perhaps, too, seeing the i'm"
punity with which, for nearly five months, the
process of disintegration was allowed to go
on, he construed the silence of the govern
ment into confession of its heplessness, and
the activity of the rebellion into an assurance
of its controlling power. But since the 10Th
of ApriI,-when the patriotism of the country
was first tested,-a whole generation OF
flla m
pie. If Garibaldi could see them to-day
two hundred and fifty thousand of them in
arms, and ready at any moment TO march TO
the defence of our ark of the covenant, against
the infideIs to republican liberty who assail it,
and two hundred and fifty thousand more pre-
pared to follow with unfaltering step if they
should be slain-it would set his brave eyes
aglow with the assurance that the ideal
government for the oppressed OF all the
world will rise in triumph from its fiery
trial. 1t is an advantage not lightly to
be counted, to have brought the two civil
izations of this republic into a contest, wherein
the weaker and the worse must fall. But the
great and incaculable encouragement rests
by divine justice has upon its side an army of
operations which no enemy can surpass in
numbers, strength, endurance, or courage, and
an army OF the reserve, greater than any
in the world. They have felt the injuries in.
fcted on the country as a personal wound.
The assailants having appealed to the sword,
they respond with alacrity, and for no holiday
service. The mode of warfare adopted by
their enemies, though adding nothing to their
courage, have made them more exactng in
their demands. Powerful enough to select
their own time and their own field for battle,
tlH~c. will never accept of a partial victory,
nor oEFr easy terms of peace to an enemy
who seeks to accomplish by riot and assass.
ination What belongs 10 honorable warfare
Terms of amity which would be accorded 10
a magnanmous foe, will not be thrust upon
an enemy whose first exploits are in the line
of piracy and murder. Grown TO an appre-
citation of the. blessing of constitutional liberty
which they never knew before, they will
maintain them till trcacherous and seditious
foes are not only vanqushed, but extermina-
ted. That is the only hope of the republic.
The soil which they have numbered belongs
to the highest civilization which is possible to
the nationality that covers it. Eyes of pairi
OTIS, and of men who love liberty, which, have
watched us from the worlds distances with
anxiety and pain, need only to watch, with
patient hopeful courage, to see the lin
gering barbarism of the continent pass away,
and in its place temples "worthier of the God
ascend"