Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-22

IN rUcuIJ
ye proposition all adverse to the good cause while pirate
ships have BEEN permitted to depredate on our commerce.
tneh now the best historic instances testify favor of FREQ
uon ana now ul intervention of every kind whether by
prefer Of mediation or otherwise becomes intolerabe
when It's influence tends TO the of that soul
less blessed republic built the hopeless and
everlasting bondage Of raceand especially how Great
Britain Is sacredy engaged by all the Logic OF her history
and all her traditions unbroken lineage against any such
unutterabe baseness then how all the Christian Powers
constituting the family OF nations firmly bound to set
their faces against any recogn ion Of the embryo Govern
ment OF rebel savenongers, ON two grounds first, be-
its independence il fact established and Sc
condy because if in fact established it's recognition
Is impossible without criminal cOmpl city with slavery;
and lastly how these same Christian Powers firmly
bouId by the tw0od against any concession
OF ocean rights to this hideous p.etender.
It only remains that the Republic should lift itself to the
height OF Its great duties War s hard bear with ito
was O. its pains its wounds, ts funerals Blu. in this
we have not been choosers We have been challenged to
the defence OF our country in this sacred cause
crush SLAVERY There is alternative. Slavery began to
combat saking It's life. and determined to rule die
That we may continue fremen there must be saves
that our own security 10 linked with the redemption Of
Blessed lot amid the harsbness Of war; to WELD
the arms and deal the blows under which the monster will
rurey fall Ibe battle mighty for into slavery has entered
the Spt OF Evil II is persls'e0t for such gathered
wickedness-cOncentrated, arou,ed and madentd-must
have tenacity of life which will yield az once. Bat
night will not save 1t now nor time either.
That the whole contained in slavery NAV be seem
not only in The acts Of the National Government but also
n the confessions of the rebel savemongers Already the
throughout the whole rebel region care and hpncefor-
wari shall be lree" and in order to give tho fullest
surance OF the rrevesbe character of this sublime edc
he has further announced that the Executive Govern
ment OF the United States including the military and naval
authorities thereof viii recognise and maintain the free
dom OF such persons" Already enlightened commits
sion has been constituted to consider how these throngng
freedmen can be best employed for their good and
the national defence And already the Of Africa
msered soldiers of the Union have put forth discipline
and bravery not unworthy their fathers Of old when
the prophet Jeremiah sad, Let the mighty
i0rth the Philippians that handle the shield - and still fur
ther BY their statute by their appearance in the ranks
and even by the unexpected testimony of sanitary stats
tlcs according to which for every black soldier disabled
by sickness there than ten whe thus making
army health OF the black ten times that of the
white by all these things they have shown that the Fa-
Their OF History, who is earliest classical authority,
was rot entirely mi taken when he spoke of Ethiopia
the most distant gion the EARTH whose Inhabitants
are the talest most beautiful and most longved of the
human race" But if these acts Of the National Go
vernment were less significant all doubt il removed by
the rebel saVemoEgers themselves who in Satanic auda
city, openly that slavery the end and sim Of the
Government which they seek to establish that every
blow which struck by them struck for slavery There
lore, 10 battling against the rebellion battle against
very Freedom the growing inspiration of armies
and the just inscription of banners. BY this sign
quer Such war il not IN any just sense war Of subju
CATION, but war OF IberEtoE-n order 10 the Re-
pubic from petty ogarchy Of task masters and to
tour millions Of human beings from cruel oppression.
Not to subugate but to berae the object of holy
war And Yet ltsh statesmen, forgetting for the
ment all moral distinctions, forgetting God who will not
De forgotten gravey announce that must fail
Alas individual wckedness too often successful but
pretended nation, sucked in wickrdness and Boosting in
Wickedbess-a new Sudom, with all the guilt OF the old,
waiting to be blasted and yet Ia its efirontery openly
seeking the fellowship Il Christian Powers-is doomed
To defeat federation Of such pretenson is practical
Atheism. Chronology and geography both offended
by It, Pey stands aRhat In this age Of light and in
countries Boosting cyiz on there can be place for
IT. barbarous peniptenaries As We'll expect crocOdles
crawling the pavements of London aud Paris the
carnvoous IDOLS o Africa installed for worship in West
minister Abbey and Notre Dame.
Even II the republic less stroag yet am glad to
believe that the rebellion must fall from the ESSENTIAL im
possibility at airy such wicked The responsible
ties Of the Christian Powers would be increased by
weakneta Behind our blockade there would be a moral
blockade bshnd our armies there would be the aroused
Judgment of he civilized world But this account
can we hesitate This not the time to stop Forward
Forward! Thus do l. who firm ry pleaded often for
peace, now sound to Bat it because in this ter
ribs moment there other way TO that sir and
solid peace without which there will be endless
Even On economic grounds, it better that this
should proceed rather than recognise any PARTITION which,
brginiug with humiliation involve the perpetuation
:" armhents and break out again in blood But there 10
something worse than waste o money! il is waste of cha
racter Give me any peace bat liberiine peace In
other days the imm eloquence Of Burke stirred
against reaicide peac, But peace fouadcd on the
killing of king is not bad peace founded the
XII ng OF liberty nor the saddest scenes Of such
peace be 80 sad the daily lie, which s legsized by
slavery queen the scafold is not ptiu sight
as W man the auct block. Therefore say again,
Forward Forward
But while thus steady to purpose at home, must
not neglect that proper moderation abroad which be-
comes the Of strength and the noble
OF cur The mistaken sympathy which foreign
Powers now beftow upon savery-or may be the mis-
taken acknowledgements the plausible Of q
tralty, which they pr fess, will be for them
than for us. For them it will be- record of shame
which their children would gladly blot out with tears.
For US it will b. only another obstacl vanqu he'd in the
battle for citi ztton where qnh ppiy false trends
mingled with open Even il the cause shall
s'em for while mporilltd from foreign Powers yet our
duties are the less urgent II the pro be great
the resisance must be greater; there be any
retreat Come veal or this is the place for to
sand
know not if Republic Ike ours can count even now
upon the certain friendship of any European Power unless
IL be the Repubc Of William Tell The very name 10
Hwelcome to The full-bown representatives OF old Eu-
fopr who forget how proudly in modern history,
Venice bore the title Of Ser nissima Rpabica 1t will
be Tor US to change all this aud shall Our
cessfu example will be enough Thus far we have been
known chiefly through thstvita force which slavery could
only degrade but not subdu- Now last BY the death
" slavery, will the Republic begin 10 I've For what lie
without liberty retching from ocean TO an eem-
ing with pOpulsou bUuhuI in resources of all kinds and
thce happy universal nlraRchsemcnt it will be more
than couqIeor Nothing too vast Tor ts nothing
too minute Tor its Triumphant oyer the fOulest
wrong ever inflicted after the boodi"s war ever waged,
1T VIII know the nh ely Of rgt aud the ban,y OF peace,
prepare Always 10 uphold the ce aud to cultivate the
other strong in ito mighty stature, hltd with all
the funess life md cnVcroi vi pm Ply OF Ie-
nowD il will confess that domiaion Is OF value which
does contribute to human happ Born in this
latter day. aud the chilli Of s struggles, without
cestra claims but r vi ali the ages viii sand forth
TO the dignity II man, aud wherever any member