Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-09-26


journalists who argue that our struggle with the
rebellion is hopeless and unreasonably prolon-
ged. He cites numerous historical precedents
to prove that we have accomplished greater re-
suits in sixteen months than England, in alli-
ance with all the powers Of Europe, was able to
achieve in twenty three years, while battling
against the French. The following are some of
the prccedents which are cited BY Mr. Everett:
"If we except the victories of England at sea
and the conquest of the maritime colonies of
Frunce-the results of the naval superiority of
Great Britain, and which may be compared TO
the almost uniform success of the naval opera
tions of the United States, the war against rev =
olutionary France presented for nearly twenty
years an almost unbroken series of reverses; Of
leebly conducted, aboitive,and sometimes fright
fully disastrous expeditions such as that against
Walcheren, on the part Of England, and shame
ful defeats, territorial partitions and dynastic
oyertuns on the part of her allies In fact, the
historian Alison not inclined certainly to magni-
lfy the prowess of France, nor disparage that OF
England and her allies, after naming the gallant
British officers who led the storming parties al
the assault Of Cindad Rodrigo, ON the nth o.
D January, 1912 (just twenty years from the in.
a vasion of France by the Prussians) enthusias.
tically excains, with the exploits Of these brave
t men BEGAN the fall of the French empirer
r " But the Union forces, it is said, ARE con-
stantly retreafing constantly defeated, you are
outnumbered and outgeneTaled again we tell
you it is wicked to carry on the war; your cause
Is hopeless. Is it more so than that of the allies
when the Duke of Brunswick was beaten back
from the heights of Vamy in 1899; when the
allies were defeated and the Duke of York dri-
ven from Dunkirk by Houchard in 1893. 'an
event. says Alison, which changed the whole
face of the war from the German ocean to the
| Mediterranean sea- when Jourdan cleared Rel
UlUm of thp allied f,rcac in
coalition was dissolved by the peace of Balse in
40; when, IN 1896, the first marvellous cam
palgh OF Bonaparte commenced in Italy, which,
alter series OF victories unparalleled in mod
ern history, ended in the treaty of Campo For
milo in 1872 Is our cause less promising than
that of the allies when the British navy their
right arm, which seldom struck but to conquer
was paralyzed by the great mutiny of / 1917 and
the Bank of England suspended specie payment
not to be resumed for twenty years, when in
1888 the rebels, sustained by a French auxiliary
force, defeated the English army and establish
ed provisional government in the heart of
| lr III nd; when in 1893 the Duke of York at the
close OF the sixth year Of the war, evacuated
| Holland, with the fragments of the greatest
force which had been fitted out from England
during the contest thus breaking up the second
coalition, and confirming, says Alison, in a sig
nal degree both on the continent and at home
the general impression, that the English sold
iers had iTevocably declined from their former
high renown
| as our cause as hopeless as that of the allies
when Napoleon IN loOO, running the gauntlet of
\ elson's fleet, returned from Egypt overthrew
the Directory, raised army by stamping his
| foot on the ground, burst the passage of St
Gothasd, recovered Genoa, gained the great VIC
tory of Merengo, and thus enabled Moreau to
move forward TO that of Hohenlinden, and COM
PEELED Austria to sign another treaty of peace at
Lunevillef Are our prospects darker than those
oi England when, at the close of the first decade
OF the war, she dismissed the pilot that wealth.
cred the storm, celebrated grand apotheosis OF
lmbecility in the person of the Addition min
lstry, and patched up the peace of Amiens, with
out the attainment OF any one of the objects for
which ruinOus war of ten years had been wag-
ed? Is our future less hopeful than that of the
allies, when this short-lived truce was broken,
and the Emperor Napoleon, having held the
entire arms bearing population of England on
foot for months, to repel threatened invasion
broke into Germany in 1906, shook the wretch
ed Mack and thirty three thousand veterans out
of Ulm by the fear of his name struck the terri
! hc blow at Austerliz, which laid Austria for
third time at his feet, abolished the Holy Ro-
man Empire, and broke the lion heart of Pitt?
Are not our chances of final success at least as
good as those of the allies the following years,
when Prussia was reduced to the dimensions of
! a province by the overthrow at Jena, and Rus
sia tanned and subdued at Eylau and Friend
land, was content to accept the peace of Tilsit.
| "Did the prospect brighten for England when
Junot in 1903, marched with a French army
through SPAIN established himself as conquer
or at Lisbon, and drove the house of Braganza
into exile beyond the sea; when all that was
effected by the auxiliary forces of England was
the convention of Cintra by which that French
army was sent home in safety, and the British
generals who negotiated it (Sir Arthur Welles-
ley among the rest) were recalled in disgrace to
Enplau19 TTnva t,-oa ator- {,
couragement than England, after the disastrous
retreat of Sir John Moore from Spain-his no.
ble army demoralized by his flight, which was
preci pitated TO such degree that casks of dol
lars were abandoned and rolled down the noun
tains. That retreat was conducted indeed with
Roman fortitude by the gallant commander and
crowned with glory by the heroism of its close,
although in the words of the national historian,
sort OF despair seized upon the public mind of
England, when the news came that the British
army, instead of making Napoleon prisoner in
the heart ofSpain, was expelled, after a disas-
trous retreat, with the loss of its general from
the spanish peninsula. Napoleon a prisoner
in SPAIN
Scarcely had the retreat of Sir John Moore
commenced, when the tidings being brought to
the French Emperor, then in SPAIN that Aus
tria was preparing for war; he rushed back tc
France, raised an army, marched on Vienna
which capitulated on his approach, and after
HupNihuWoh ouuBSlcS anu peFlls on the IAN
ube, gained the decisive victory of Wagram
which laid Austria for fourth time in the dust
lffortune seemed, about three weeks after the
battle of Wagram, TO smile upon the cause oftht
allies in Spain, by the victory of Wellington a
Talavera, SO honorable to him and the British
arms, that transcient smile was soon changed t.
J her wonted frown. For the best of military anc
political reasons, Lord Wellington abandoned
Spain, withdrew with his army into Portugal
| and entrenched himself within the three fold
E lines of Torres Vedras.
'We are told indeed that the inauspicious aul
unfriendly tone of the British press represent
: the feelings neither ofthe government nor of
, majority of the people of England, and this Their
is reason 10 believe. The steadiness with whicl
Lord Palmerston has resisted the clamors 70
intervention, and the rebuke administered b.
Lord Russell 10 the blockade runners from Mas
sau, who, after violating every principle Of tn
law of nations, have the effrontery TO deman
D the protection due only TO honest trade an
much TO the credit of those ministers and the gov
, ernment of which they are the heads. We can
not perhaps much wonder that the public pres
of England, with few honorable exceptions,
, in this respect, so little in harmony with III
|, temper aud policy of the government, when "
4 remember with what terocity the conduct Oft the
: own generals aud the policy of their own ru
= ers was assailed in the war of the French revolt
J. ton. We foreigners certainly cannot expect
: he more handsomely treated than their ow
ministers, their own commanders, their ow
= country, during the various fortunes Of the gre
, contest over which we have Just cast glance
d The editors of the daily press, says Colonel N
i'll ,ofora,,ca q, 10 con Vantfo, ~ N,.t.