Daily national Republican., 1863-03-16
A Patriotic Voice from the Southern
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Those OF our citizens who are located in
foreign countries are deeply exercised In regard
to the war for the suppression OF the rebellion,
and the most earnest appeals come from Ameri-
cans in distant lands to the patriots at home,
to push the war 10 a successful conclusion.
The following burst of patriotic feeling, elicit
ed by the heartlessness of English, French and
Copperheads, appears in a private letter writ
ten by an American gentleman, native of
Ohio, from Valparaiso, South America, to a
friend In Washington:
Extract from a Letter IOrittsH Jy dn American
Gentleman, a RdtiVe Of Ohio, from Valparaiso,
South Ameried, dated February Isl, 1853, 10 a
Friend IN Washington.
"The steamer which arrived yesterday from
Panama brought us the intelligence Of the de-
feat of Burnside at Fredericksburg. 1t has
east a deep gloom over the hearts OF every
loyal American here. The English and French
and disloyal Americans are chuckling hugely
over our misfortmes. ! get so mad and ILL
natured sometimes, when | hear them discuss
ing our affairs and mlsrepresentlng our cOun-
try, that make them swallow some of my un-
palatable truths. The Chillans and Germans
all sympathize with us, but the English and
French are all against us.
"I have faith that the rebellion will be
crushed though our arms have met with disas-
ter and defeat. II 10 impossible for the revolt
ed States TO withdraw from the Union, that
question being subordinate TO Fixed and immut-
able laws, those being physical and geographi-
cal disabilities 10 separation, which are no
more capable Of removal than the Andes can
be quarried from its base by the miners pick.
Who shall fix the frontiers VIII the inhabi-
tants OF the great and sturdy West-of those
States which lie In the valleys Of the Mississip-
pi, Ohio, and Missouri-giye up the navigation
Of those great arteries Of commerce, or consent
that New Orleans, sitting by the mouth of the
Father of Waters, shall belongto a hostile ma
tiOn What madness has entered into the
brains of men to induce them 10 believe that the
great American Republic, whose power reaches
to remotest nations OF the earth and whose in
fluence measurably shapes the policy Of every
civilized nation, will ever consent to a separa.
ton Of her territories No; the Union will be
re-established, not that Union In which cruel
injustice and oppression, for many long years,
sat in all the high places of the land, but q
new Union, fashioned after the one formed
| by the Fathers, but still more perfect
| This terrible war may swallow up ouI
dearest friends, 1t may open graves in the
| very paths we walk, 1t may I'LL the land
with sorrow and mourning, but still, from ID
ghastly burrows a golden harvest for good will
| be gathered by coming generations. IL hat
been through the bloody sword and scimitar Ia
all ages ofthe world that God has poured upOr
mankind the blessings OF expanded knowledge
aud a higher type OF civilization. Why shOulC
we escape the terrible ordeal which all the ma
tions of the earth have had to pass through
| Have not great wrongs grown up In our ma
tiOnal life Have we not Knocked at human
rights and made sport Of the weak : And Goo
Is now netting out our punishment. belieyt
J this war will not end until slavery shall hayt
ceased TO exist In our land. My heart to-day
is oyerhowing with sorrow for my poor, strick
en- country. Traitors have sought with bloody
hands TO pluck out the keystone of the arch
but, thank God, Il was builded and cemented BY
the blood Of patriots, and no ruthless Invader
hands can ever pull 1t down. ! hope and FRA!
that the next steamer will bring us here bette
done"