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fsfaction Of most elevated needs Is forgot-
l. ten--for us thessucceBe Of Europe in America
would have been complete in .Amefica il, she;
nad manifested he1 natural synPathiee for the
evil Tie revolt proelstmed In the uame Of
slarIrY Eould hare known what 1t had to de-.
pend upon; 1T won1d hnve questioned itself
| whether, Of ITSELF it could be ahle to conquer
that achieved Independence fszdeptndanee: de
Jeass) Which should preeede and not fo}low off,
clal recognition, It is probable that, reduced
to these terms, the problem wonl have been
early decided, and the war would have been of
but short duration. In any event Til" South
would not have had ther ight to- say::"I hold
straight. Ipredicted that Iwould Yanqu:shhtr
prejuaices, and have done it; that would
done it, -
t.1n other terms, there Is neither good nor
e7i1-there is only interest,", rest yourselves
u on your interests and you viii succeed, will
even thow lit ia d refinement OF cur modern
timea} that In iu1molatfug your principles you
have admirably served them God save US
from having to imbibe such . lesson! We
would use it only too much to our profit.
There are, believe me, moral defeats which,
make their zn9rk in the destiny Of nations."
l. These passages do not follow each other
conse:1tiVelg IN NJ Gasparln,s book; but We
have selected them from different pages In
tue early portion Of the work, as being char
y
ard Of the high standard taken BY the e1o-
quent author, who, placing himself upon the
righteous platform Of principle, allows no
baser interest to warp bis views Of truth aud
Justice. There is an actual Eublimity in his
appeal to the moral sense Of nations-in his
earnest belief that peoples as well IS iudivid-
uals do rot live BY bread alone" and that q
national moral degradation is something even
more dreadful than q lost battle or campaign.
II. Gasparin Is highly Impartial writer
Tia t.171sr nh h.
tred Of peradious Albion, bnt, on the contra
~, openly expresses his admiration Of Eng
land and English Institutions. Otherwise we
might attribute to q national prejudice the
fact that be hrarti1y condems the course Of
the British government in regard to the Trent
-condemning it too in words Of burning
power.
TIE REAL BELL1GEREyT.
ave. now look into the past for the day
when the duel Of two fractions of the Anglo
Saxon race was about to commence, when
two free nations, two kinsn1en, we're about to
mutual enemies We will not forget so soon
the triehttul month of December last, The
vessel then crossing the ocean w1s no longer
the Peace able May flower, which In the month
arrived oa the shores Of Auerica, with its
purltans flying before English prosecutions:
Il was the vessel bearing the ultimatum OF
England
-1ud "A4AG ~ "ss 4Ao"tliG5 LIS way aiDnE,
While onr hearts were torn aud our imAgina.
tion atfrighted By the prospect of the great
moral and political disaster which Was about
to tall upon cur generation, the influential
Journals Of London took care to amply inform
us oI the character of the war which seemed
to them 10 BIZ 50 inevitable. It would le -
terrible wart It would commence bv the
recognition OF the South, by alliance with the
South, BY the certain triumph Of the South.
And while the report spread abroad that q
d1spatcE Ct Nr. Seward, written November 30,
a. the prtc.se moment when the Britannia cah
lncnt signed its own, was Of a nature 10 give
hope OF favorable solution, the Kofniug H5t
hastened to publish, in oficialIterms and sne-
clal type, the denial of this intelligence, which
"as nil the time true. They considered as
Al OF all thought Of insult, the declaration an
nouaclng that Captain Wilkes had acted With
out Instructions, and the expressed desire that
the question should be treated on both sides
In 2 conc5liatory spirit.
At that moment, deny it who can, there
vas with many of the English people 4 little
OF that eagerness which is manifested when
one wishes to seize an opportunity. England,
usually SO slow, acted with an unheard OF
haste. Never before have Iseen more strik-
ipE E commentary e on the words Of the apostle:
'Iheir feet make haste to shed blood
But almost every chapter Of this admirable
work is susceptible OF interesting quotation I
PartIcular1y Interesting and convincing is the
authors relutation of the e7Teurs accredifes-
the received errors in Europe in regard to the
cauzes Of the war; and quite rs remarkable is
the chapter addressed to Chrishans-one .
the. nobleEt antl-slayery sermons ever p.nned.
We ate not accustomed to associate French
men with piety; but Gasparin proves that re-
1igion and political philosophy can exist to-
gether even III 3 Gaul; and here is noble
recognition OF the services Of Christianity for
the cause Of liberty il ages past, and Of the
fact that it is also the hope Of liberty in days
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