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

tended Investigations there will be perse-
vering efforts to obtain religious liberty
everywhere there will be powerful sym.
pathies in favor of the independence of
peoples. When Christian and liberal Eng
lnud rises when its journals and meetings
| begin to protest against great social iu-
iquity, we feel that this will not be pass
| ing and feeble desire, wcl-mehning ca
price, such as we have witnessed too often,
but fixed design which will be pursued
to the end with that manly energy which
delays discourage no more than reverses
< y The fact is, that of the
two nations which coexist in England, the
less good is the one which, for the past year,
hus directed or inspired the relations with
the United States. Distrust, refusal of sym
pathy, the theory of bclltgerents, neutrnl
ty coupled with indifference, thesadceasihg
discovery OF new grievances, the perpetual
threat of Southern recognition the passion
ate and in some sort eager exploration of
incidents which might lead to q rupture,
the far from touching resignation to the
horrible consequences which this rupture
would entail-such is what has been seen
among Englishmen under the guidance of
this first nation. What change since
the other nation has appeared! The vic.
tory, we have IL right to affirm from this
time, will belong to the England of the
Bibles to that which the Southern jour.
mails have dreaded and mathematical from
the beginning of the conflict. I'VE should
be sure of winning it, they said then,
through cotton and free trade, lOere ii not
for tie tanohciSm against SIdVerY which may
put check on the friendly disposition Of
the British government They were not
mistaken; to those who have examined it
without prejudice, Christian and liberal
England has never so far hidden itself that
they have not felt its presence aud foreseeu
its speedy awaking. This will be one OF
the strnDgest and at the same time noblest
struggles of our times. Tho cotton crisis
on one side, the Gospel aud liberty on the
other. Which will win? Ths answer at
first seems doubtful, but it will not long
seem so. The true sympashies go to the
North no one can longer contest it. Be-
fore everything, justice; before everything,
humanity; before everything, duty! Eng
land will not be made uu ally of Jefferson
Davis decidedly, this will not be done.
The South, which has diverted itself great.
ly on the score of philanthropists. is in the
way to learn at its expense, that their pow
er surpuSses that of the Times and Lord
Palmerstou."
In closing his noble defence of our
country, de Gnsparin utters these oracular
words:
"The chances of success appear to me
great in the United States; but ask tue
reader to render me this justice, that
have not waited to see them in order to
believe in them. l believed in them be-
cause believed in principles. ! greeted
from the first moment the uprising of u
great people, because | saw from the first
moment that this great people was under
taking great thing-thut it was fighting
for Justice and liberty. One always up
rises in this vocation.
"Others, know, have propounded the
problem differently. Will they succeed
Such has been, such is, such will still be,
dou ublless, the principal question. | an
not ignorant that the United States lack
to be approved ana applauded. good
cause to be evidently in the right against
the secessionists? No. They lack fwIL
succeSs Let them but triumph over the
South, and shall have no anxiety about
their Ienown on earth; there will be
crowds of people everywhere eager to eel
ebrate their virtues and greatness.
''Is this to say, that it is waste of time
to seek to establish unrecognized truths
to demonstrate, for instance, that slavery
is the true cause of the American conflict?
have been so far from thinking it, that
have written this large volume. Another
proof of my faith in principles.
"They are, in reality, so powerful that
we succeed in weakening them only when
we begin to veil them. The worshiPpers
of success know this, for they rervert ideas
in order to succeed in corruptng actions.
Every political error has commenced by a
moral error; if the Southerners had not for
moment persuaded Europe that slavery
was not in Ithe question, they would never
have extoried the title of belligerent.
"What force there is in justice! Tobe rich,
to be powerful, to be able, is to be small (;
to be great is to be the servant of justice.
Principles prevail as surely in social
struggles, as in the operations OF physics
and chemistry. 1t may take long, but it
surely happens ut the end of the reckoning.
"Whnt has elected Mr.. Lincoln What
has created the patriotic impulse of the
North? What has awakened the South ?
What has checked Europe? What yester-
dny prevented an impious war? What
will, perhaps, tomorrow constrAin the
South itself TO proclaim or suffer abolition?
! What has opposed an insuperable barrier
to interests, intrigues and malevolence?-
| What has given the Lancashire operatives
this resignation worthy of respect? What
has, in SO short a time, caused such great
progress in public opinion? What pro-
vides it with weapons in advance against
the possible return of the policy of inter-
vention? What throws obstacles in the
way OF the desire, Increasingly springing
up on our side the Atlantic, to cut the Uni
ted States in two? What? Justice.
"a just cause has something so triumph
ant in itself, that men dare not attack it
boldly face to face. They turn round it,
they affirm that it is not itselfi for if it
were, who would dare sustain the shock ?
"i speak, the reader will comprehend,
ofiust causes which have made their place
on earth, of those which are such in the
eyes of the world. History is full of just
causes which have waited, which have suf-
fercd, which have been PerhdiousIy trod,
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