, 1863-08-17
PIT OUT TIE FO0T~LIGHTS.

It is MI over With the rebel cause in
! England. The drop scene has fallen, and
shut out the actors, and the play, for ever
1t vas very exciting play whilst it last
ed, and commanded the whole nation 70,
Its audience. It had plenty Of friends, and
plenty Of foes, and the more tragic parts d
It were loudly applauded on the one hand
and sincerely mou1ned over on the other.
Everybody acknowledged the great ability
Of the actors, and not few thought that
the play would succeed, and become or
ganic in dramatic history. But those who
looked deeper than the surface, who saw
beneath the gewgaws and the tinsel. and
Judged the performance on its merits,
doubted its claims from the very first act
Of the representation. It was inhuman,
and diabolical in its plot and character; It
sought to defy treason, and to throw the
garb Of religion and patriotism over the
most monstrous violations Of moral law, the
obligations Of citizenship, and the rights
and liberties Of mankind. It was impossi-
BILE, except with those whose conscience
had been blunted by long participation in
political crime and proaigacy-to exalt
theme like this, involving as it did such
enormous guilt, and deliuquency-into the
regions Of human sympathy; and there
were many who denounced it from the
first and called upon the Government to
discouutenance its pretcntious, and upon
the nation to protest against it as an insult
offered to free people,
It Is true that their appeals to the Gov
ernment were Of no avail, and what is
worse, that the Government By, and
through every instrumentality at its COM
naand, helped the actors, and extolled the
play; but they did this at the peril Of
popular violence, and the risk Of being
branded BY the whole nation as infamous.
as the aiders and abettors Of scheme for
the decentralization not Of English society
alone, but Of the world.
Their persistency, even to this honr
in course OF action so utterly opposed to
the feelings and traditions Of the English
people, has at last covered them with thu
infamy which they challenged, and
brought upon them the derision and CON-
tempt Of mankind.
They have found that in spite Of all their
efforts, and their connivance with the
plans and purposes Of the rebels-in soite
Of the aids which they lent them in Enrlish
dock-yards to build pirate vessels tn nrev
upon our commerce, and the inso1ence
with which they have dared to treat our
own Government struggling with rnirhtv
rebellion that it was not within the ranc-
Of their power-great as it confessed1v u
either to compel their own nation to r..
cognizc the blasphemous PRINCIPLES unon
which the rebel drama is founded. or IN
sustain it in the face Of God. and ciy;1;zau
ton, against the persistent and indop,i-
table armies Of the Republic,
Tie intelligence Of our recent victories
has fallen in their midst like bomb-shell,
destroying their hopes, scattering the enc.
mics Of freedom, and driving them to des-
pondency and despair. It will scatter
also, many sasacious Diplomatic scheme
with which the chief potcntates of Fnrona
have torn anns;no, +,a,salros 5n.;.~ r.
nsst twelve ,nont1,s nard;nr ~ $780,, - ~
the rebellion There il no7r mr. IN 49,
1ond mr. in Franca onu hon. e.. - 20