The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1861-06-05
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@Forbearance of the North

One of the subimest spectacles this
world has ever beheld, deeply fraught
with moral significance, says the Phil
adelphia Press, is the exalted and hon.
orablc magnanimity of the Northern
soldiery, as exhibited in every step OF
this memorable national conjuncture.
If Southern statesmen and politi-
clans were not hopelessly abandoned,
to most deplorable judicial blindness,
they could not fail to discern it, and
to ground their weapons of rebellion,
and return to their homes like good
aud loyal citizens, to puruse the avoca-
tions of peace and industry
Beginning with Fort Stump er, how
patient and forbearing was the Gov
eminent toward the misguided Charles
tonians, exercising towards them the
gentleness exhibited by an over-indul-
gent parent towards hayward and
spoiled child I! Had Government been
so disposed, the redoubtable Beaure-
gard could not nave laid one stone upon
another, in the erection of his often
sive batteries, but the hot shot and
she'll of the gallant Anderson would
have dispersed him and his rebel band
as chat is scattered by the rhde blasts
of the whirlwind the Government,
however, forbore waited patiently
and long, expecting that right and
reason would resume their umpire
and, alas at last fell a victim there
TO its own noble generosity.
The same is true Of Fort Pickens.
1t was in the power of the United
STATES officers to have broken the egg
of danger while in the process ofincu-
baton, and sent the rebels bowling
over the sands of Florida. But, here,
too, they have been dealt with as kind
" as any fond nursing mother ever
dealt with pergerse and angry prog
eny. So that, if Bragg and his rebel
band shall now take Pickens, they
will owe it ten thousand times more to
the generous indulgence of the United
States authorities than to any courage
or proves of their own.
Look next to Baltimore. Had the
South been in the place of the North,
under such aggravated provocations,
her unoffending citizens barbarously
murdered in the streets, when they
gained the ascendency they would
have raked such city from pillar to
post, leaving not one stone upon the
other to tell the tale. But behold the
generous and humane forbearance of
the North With entire possession of
the city by its troops, and with Fort
McHenry commanding its every street
and house, it remains to this hour unin.
jured and unmolested. Nay, more
than this. 1t has become the happy
recipient of unnumbered favors from
the hands of the very men whose COM
panions were slaughtered in its streets
Glorious Victory ! worth more than a
Thousand battles, had they even equal
ed Marathan and Waterloo
Then, again, look to Alexandria,
A brave leader of the n 1rthern troops
is basely assassinated at mid day, for
no other offence than the removal of a
hostile flag under the very shadow of
the Capital of our country. The COM
radeS of the fallen hero martyr, by
thousands, hold possession of the city,
with its immense public and private
resources, and at their mercy are all
its streets of handsome houses, accom-
modating more than eight Thousand |
souls. Under such a provocation,
running like burning liquid over every |
fibre of the soul, what would our
Southern brethren have done? We
hesitate not to say, they would have
reduced such place, rendered men,
orable by such deeds, to ashes, before
the setting of the sun. But by the |
sublime magnanimity of Northern |
troop3, Alexandria still stands, and |
if its citizens will only cease from its
wicked rebellion, they can return to
their .0mes and not hair of their
heads will be injured.
These displays of the magninimity
and forbearance of the North, when
its brave troops have had it in their
power to upturn the strongholds of
the rebels, as with devastating plough
shares, we point to with feelings of
mingled pride and exultation. With
the irresistible logic of incontroVerti-
BILE facts, they refute the affirmation,
so assiduously piled upon the South
ern mind, that the Northern troops are
nothing more or less than so many
Cloths and Vandals bent upon invad-
ing their country, and plundering and
pillaging their property A baser
and fouler misrepresentation was new
err conceived or uttered, and we must
be greatly in error if the masses of
the South do not soon discover how
egregiously their ambitious and de.
signing leaders have betrayed and de-
oaiuad thew ood ;e tbau IL MT turn