Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-11-26

aud the return of harmony between the two great sections
Of the country. This opinion take to be entirely with
out foundation.
No man can depore more than l do the miseries OF
every kind unavoidaby incident to Who could stand
on this spot ard call mind the OF the ls ID and
Sd of July with any other feeling sad ioreboding OF
what would if should break out between North
and South has haunted through life, and led me per.
haps loHg tread in the path OF hopeless compromise
ia the fond endeayor to conciate those who pre-
determined not to be conciated But II Is not true, as
pretended by the rebels and their ympatbzers that the
war has been carried by the United States without en-
tire regard to those eraments which are eDoned by
the law of nations by modern CIVILIZATION and by the
ppirt of christianity 1t would be quite easy to point
out in the recent military history OF the Leading European
Powers acts OF violence and cruelty in the prosecution OF
their wars to which parallel can be found among u.s.
In fact when consider the peculiar bitterness with
which civil wars are almost invariably waged we may
Justly boast of the which the United States have
carried the contest 1t is, OF COURSE Impossible 10
prevent the awss acts of stagges and deserers or the
occasional unwsrranabe proceedings OF subordinates on
slant stations but do not believe there ia 10 all history
the record Of civil of such gigantic dimensions Where
little has beea done the spirit OF vndctveness as In
this war by the Government and commanders OF inc oh
ted States and this Notwithstanding the proVocaon gwen
by the rebel government by assuming the responsibility OIL
wretches like Quautrel, refusing quarter TO colored
troops and scohrgng and selling INTO slavery ree coiored
men from the North who fall into their hands covering the
with pirates and starving prisoners OF war TO deatn
In the next place if there any present who believe
that addition to the effect OF the military operations Oh
the war the confscaton acts and emancipation procama
have embtered the rebels beyond the possDty OF
reconciliation would request them to reflect tha inc
of the rebel leaders and rebel press was just as bit
ter in the first months of the nay before gun was
fred it is now There were speeches made III Con-
gress the very last before the rebellion so iero
cous to show that their authors were under the nu
Of real phrenzy At the present day there 10 any
discrimination made by the Confederate press 10 the AZ
ected scorn- hatred and contumely with which every
shade opinion and sentiment the loyal States
the bterest contempt bestowed upon those at North
who still speak the language of compromise and VINO
condemn those of the Administration which are
alleged to have rendered the return of peace hopeless
No, my friends, that gracious Providence which over
rules all things for the best, from seeming evil still educ
ing good has constituted natures that the violent
excitement of the passions IN one direction Is generay
followed by reaction IN an opposite direction and the
for the violence If it not II anger pro-
duced abiding anger if hatred caused undyng hatred,
rs inflicted and retalated OF necessity led To new re.
aatons with forever accommodating compound interest OF
revenge then the world thousands of years ago. would
have been turned into earthly hell and the nations OF
the earth would have been resolved into clans OF fnres
aud demons each forever warning with his neghbor But
ii is not so all history teaches different lesson The
of the i'll England lasted entire generation,
from the battle Of ST. Adams in 1855 to that OF Bosworth
Field in 1455. Speaking of the former, Hume says
This was the first blood split that fatal quarrel which
not finished in less than OF thirty years
which signazed by twelve pitched battles; which
opened OF extraordinary iercenes and cruelty is
computed to have coat the lives Of eighty princes OF the
blood and almost entirely aunhiated the ancient nobility
If England The strong attachments which, at that lme
Of thu kindred bore to each other and the VIM
dctive spirit which considered point OF honor rem
dered the great families impacable IN their resentmens
aud widened every moment the breach between the par
ties Such was the of things in England, under
which entire generation grew up; but when Henry
VII in whom the titles OF the two houses we're united
up London after the battle of Bosworth Field to
mount the throne he every where received with joy
accaatous ordained and sent from Heaven to
put epd to the dissensons which had SO long afflicted
the country.
The great rebellion in England of the seventeenth
tury after long and angry premontons may be said TO
have begun with the calling of the long Parliament l640
and to have ended with the return OF Charles H. IN 1861
twenty years Of discord conflict aud civil war; of MIS-
cation plumber havoc; proud hereditary peerage tram
pied IN the DUST nations. church overturned its clergy
beggared, its most eminent prelae put to death; mill
tsry despotism established the ruins of monarchy
which had subsed hundred years, and the egiti
mate sovereign brought to the block the great families
which adhered to the king prescribed, impoverished,
med prisoners of sold To slavery the West Indies;
word, every thing that embtter and madden
tending factions Such the state of th for twenty
years and yet by gentle transition but suddenly and
when the restoration Of affairs appeared most hopeless
the Of the bebeaded sovereign brought back to bis
fathers blood stained throne with such indispensable
aud universal ioy led the merry march to excalm
e doubted it had been his fault he bad been absent
long for he nobody who did not protest he had
wished for his return Ia this wonderful manner
says Clarendon and with this Incredible expedition, did
God put end to rebellion that had ragged twenty
years and had been carried with all the horrd crcum
stances Of murder devasann and parrcde that fire and
sword the hands Of the most wicked men in the world
lit royslist that is speaking could be instruments Of
ing drflcng and deormng Of the third BY hese remark
able steps did the merctu hand OF God this short space
Of time not only bind up aud heal all those wounds but
made the undscernabla respect of the
deepness. possible, which glorious addition to
the delverance."
In Germany the of the Reformation and OF Charles
V. in the sixteenth century the thirty years in the
seventeenth century the years the eighteenth
century not speak Of other less celebrated contests
tailed upon country all the Of Intestine strife for
more than three centuries At the close If the last named
NM off, aaya Arch rod save
villages Hesse aud found in them but human being"
More than three hundred principate comprehended in
the Empire, iemented with the fierce passions of proud
aud petty States at the OF this period the
castles Of rObber Counts frowned upon every htop
dreadful tribunal Oze the hearts Of with ter
throughout the land religious hatred mingled It's bitter
poison in the seethnQ caudron Of provincial animosity
but Of all these deadly enmes between the States of Ger
many scarcely the memory remains. There country
the world in which the sentiment Of national brother
hood il stronger.
In Italy, the breaking up OF the Roman Empire, so
cety might be said to be resolved into its original ee-
mens--iuto hostile atoms whose only movement was that
Of mutual repuson Ruthless barbarians had destroyed
the old organic aud covered the land with merc
less feudalism As the civilization grew up under
the wing Of the Church the noble families and The walled
towns fell msdy into conflict wi each other the secu
lar eud of Pope and Emperor scourged the land pro-
against province, city against city, street against
street waged Trmorsess against each other from Ia
Their to son. till Dante able to fill his imaginary hell
with the real demons Of Italian History SO feocous had
the factions become that the great poete xe hmsehe
glory &C his native city and OF his native anguagewas
by decree Of the municipal ty ordered to be burned alive
found in the city Of Florence. But these deadly eude
and hatTeds yielded to political influences the hostile