The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-14
ENGLISH PRESS on THE RECENT
VICTORIES,
THEIR IMPORTANCE APPRECU.
ATED ABROAD.
From the London Star, July 20.

From the London STAR July 90.
With deep, devout and grateful JOY we
publish to-day the news of victories that
are the heralds of a happy peace. Sell
dom, II ever, has it been the lot of the
journalist to announce on the same sheet,
two events OF such transcendant impor-
lance as the fall of Vicksburg and the re-
treat OF Lee. The glorious Fourth of
July has indeed received a glorious cele-
bration. In tens of thousands of northern
homes the birthday of American freedom
was being kept with mingled hope and
fear-with blended memories of Joy and
sadness, Of pride and humiliation.
Throughout New England and the popu-
lous middle States, and the vast north
west-in cities that date back from
our heroic seventeenth century, and
in great cities that have sprung
up within the memory of many living
men upon the site of world-Old forests or
on virgin prairies the Pilgrims
rock, and on the gold sown strand of the
Pacific-citizens ofthe great republic spake
with tumultuOus lips, as beneath the shade
Of laurels twined with cypress, of their
fathers legacy of freedom, and of the
deathly struggle in which their own broth
ers and sons were struggling for the re-
storation of that glorious heritage-the
Union sacred alike to liberty and law.
They know that on that very day the God
of their country and of their sires-the
God of justice and of mercy-had vouch-
safed to the commonwealth a great deliv-
erance. Their broken railways and
telegraph lines delayed the happy tidings
that on that same Fourth of July the
flag of the Union had been exalted over
the obstinate stronghold of rebellous
slavemasters, and the sun has risen upon
the greatest of their hosts in dire retreat.
What remains to be done or suffered
whatever battles to be fought or fortresses
to besiege-the armies and people Of the
Union may at least rejoice with unut-
terable gladness and thanksgiving, that
the boastful progress of the enemy has
been turned back and the very chiefest
of his defences broken down. * x Let us be
thankful, however, that even the legisla-
tive representation OF England is not in the
same humiliating position as some of the
organs of English opinion. How thankful
may the House of Commons be that Mr.
Roebuck was silenced in time For, al
though he had never chance of carrying
his motion, what regulations might he not
have dragged into the mire. 1t is bad
enough that even the glare of temporary
success should have seduced any of free
woman born into sympathy with the trea-
son of shareholders. How much worse
that men of political mark among us,
should be committed to the recognition of
a rebellion as hopeless as it is infamous in
object and in spirit!
From the London Times, July 20
The real lesson that should be drawn
from the political failure of these repeated
and mutual invasions is that the issues
sought are not to be gained by war at ALL
From the first the conflict was one of
questions and principles which can only
be settled by craftsmanship. National
madness has given them over for decision
by the sword, and it is now EVIDENT to the
world that fighting brings that decision
no nearer. Opinion has marked out
a frontier which armies cross in vain to
compel submission. Whichever side at
tacks seems destined always to fail
The South, constantly victorious in Vir-
ginia, is baffled when it passes North
Of the Potomac. Even the alternating
successes of the war, in the waste of life
by which they are purchased, proveit des-
perate, and the repeated failures on both
sides, for any purpose larger than de-
structive incursion, point as clearly as any
human events can do to q settlement of
another kind. The war may be continued
to mutual exhaustion, but it will never
mutually convince. Statesmen, if they
can be found, will have to take the whole
question out of the hands of soldiers at
last, even if the three hundred thousand
called for by the Northern Consumption
are enrolled, and killed in another two
years of miserable conflict. The cabinet
of Washington are not equal to their task.
Every crisis of affairs seems to elicit ad-
ditional proofs that they are in every re-
spect unfit to deal with the events passing |
around them The CLEAN Of success that
has fallen on the federal arms in the sur
render of Vicksburg, and the incidents OF
the second Maryland campaign, have ex-
hibited the President and his ministers
in a manner almost pitiable. With their
country torn almost asunder, and its soil
reeking with blood, they only find voice
to make poor and fippant election speeches.
When serenaded, as popular congrat-
ulation on the fall of Vicksburg, the Pres
ident made an address to the crowd that
" not even the friendly reports could invest
with dignity" The Secretary of War
" claimed the merits of retaining General
Grant in command, and consequently ofthe
victory achieved" He turned the event to
a elimination Of some of his colleagues
and a clarifying of himself. Mr.. STAN
ton made it a party triumph over the adj
vocates of peace by small sheer at the
90 copperheads." And Mr.. Seward crowned
the wretched display by something that
we record, but will not here repeat, for it
was simply blasphemous. That men in
such positions could so express themselves
1t such time is deplorable illustration
If the degeneracy of American rulers.
Horrible Discovery at Vicksburg.
A Vicksburg correspondent writes:
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