Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-11

America before Europe.
From the Home Journal)
No more eloquent defenler of our nation
ality can be named, either ut home or
abroad, than Count Agenor de Gasparin,
of France, Il wise and far sighted statesman,
Christian philosopher aud II scholar of
deep research and high culture. While
European writers and orators are more or
less unfriendly to our cause, showering in
vecuvcs and sncers upon us in our troubles,
thereby encouraging the rebellion, and
making it more ditficult for us to overcome,
de Gasparin, with words of earnestness
and truth, denounces the rebellion, depre-
Gates Intervention, aud upholds our nation
| ulity. His entire sympathieS are given to
the United States, and with an impassioned
fervor and depth of logic, which could
come only from Il warm heart and II sound
mind. he proves conclusively the strength
and Justice of our cause. The positions he
assumes for us are impregnable, his argu-
ments unanswerable, and the whole work
bears upon it the seal of truth. 1t deals
largely with facts, and displays a minute
knowledge ofalmost every event connected,
either directly or otherwise, with the causes
pertaining to the present crises in our at
fairs. FuTthor, it discusses the future, and
with prophetic eyes beholdS, through the
midst and darkness OF the present hour, the
reconstruction of the Union, more firmly
established, on the rock of the COustitu-
tion, and bound together by closer ties of
unity and love than ever before.
The essential idea OF Gasparin's work is
faith in principles. "Principles," he says,
"are interest; principles are success. Pol
icy lives on expedieuts; but principles are
t,Ia Il 10
" believes that the United States will come
out OF the war not only victorious; but
made much s,robger and greater, through
the fearful ordeal it is undergoing. In ar
raigniDg Europe, as unfaithful to the great
principles of Christian civilization, in the
position it occupies toward America, he
states the case with wonderful force and
clearness:
"Of the two great crises which the up
rising of the United States had to encounter
in the beginning, one. the American crisis,
is already LETT behind; its greatest ditti
culties are snrmounted, as | shall have
no trouble to prove. The other, the Eu-
ropenn crisis, is not yet ut an end; far from
it, although the incident of the Trent,
which was near destroying everything,
may have furnished the means of safety
by casting a sudden and bencticent light
ton caused by misunderstanding. 1t is,
therefore, most of all in Europe, and for
Europe, tnat the American question should
be studied to day. Europe has just made n
sad campaign. We had thought ourselves
justified in saying, without cXasperating
its chivalrous sentiments, that the cause of
the South would excite in it a hearty in
dignation; that this rebellion in favor Of
slavery would meet uaught but anathemas
among us; that the nineteenth century
would not suffer this single occasion to
be lost of seconding Otherwisei than by
words the most glorious work of modern
times. We were mistaken; the narrow pol
icy too often prevails over the broad. In
stead of entering frankly into the path OF
large sympathies, instead OF encouraging,
| instead of believing in good, which is one
OF the surest means of doing it, Europe has
chosen rather to be suspicious, to find
fault, to recall ole grievances, to gather up
new complaints, to treat, in fine, as an en-
envy or a suspected power, this youthful
government, sprung from a generous re-
action against injustice, and charged with
pursuing its redressal. 1t was first
necessary to love it, in order to counsel it,
and to aid it to become better. Supported
by us, it would have proceeded without
| bindrance 10 its end; not to immediate
abolition, as has been pretended, but TO
| certain abolition by the growing prepon-
derauce of the North, through the abro-
CATION Of odious laws, through the inevit-
able and progressive suppression of sla-
\ very, confined within a continually mar
rowing circle. On the day that 1t was
decided that 1t should no longer increase,
slavery would have begun to die, yet II
would not have died death of violence
gently, TRANQUILITY, by pacific and Chris
| tian means, the redoubtabie pFooIeu
would have been solved, for the common
safety of the North and the South the
! whites and the blacks"
In speaking of the two nations OF Eng
land, he thus graphically depicts each, and
foretells tile triumph of Christian Eng
land over its opponent.
There are two nations, say it to tue
glory of England. How many peoples are
there, among whom energetic reactions to-
ward good, are unknown! How many
counties are there, whose rivers hoW
smoothly down an even slope, where nc
block of grAnite ever falls to turn aside the
current! Blocks of granite have fallen
into the current of England! Ottenest
doubtless, the river turns aside, then de-
sceuds TRANQUILITY to the sea, while nolhlng
announces that an obstacle has disturbed
the flow of the waters. These are the
epochs of inertia, languor, and forgetful-
ness of principles; a policy than prevails
not more selfish, perhaps, than the policy
of other governments, but less attached to
forms. and more offensive, by reason. OF
Observation-Disclosures and bad taste. Bu'
Suddenly n reaction is wrought, grea'
moral truth comes to light, agitation BE-
comes diffused, superior force arises ~
onnosi,ion, to the power of habits ant
interests. Humanity then wins one oi
i'm victories. To-day, it is the abolish
ment of the slave-tradei tomorrow. !
will be the abolition of slavery; th'