Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-04-23
s.. HOWARD, Publisher.
From the N, Y. Times.
HON. EDWARD EVERETT ON THE WAR.
ADDRESS BEFORE THE BOSTON UNION CLUB
ON THURSDAY, APRIL 8.


ON THURSDAY, APRIL 8.
Hon. EDwARD EvERETr delivered an
,oration before the Union Club, of Boston,
Of which he has been chosen President,
at ITS first meeting, on Thursday last 1t
is one of this great orators greatest pro-
rductions and its magnificent rhetoric,
impregnable logic and lofty patriotism,
,eptitle it to rank with the masterpieces OF
the first great master of oratorlcal and pat
riotic eloquence. The grafton is of great
length, and the exigencies ofspace compel
us to omit his argument overthrowlng the
postulates of the rebel chiefs, as well as
those parts bearing upon the history of the
Crittenden Compromise, and the necessity
of unity in support of the Administration.
But some passages are so appropriate to
this day and hour, and to the proposed
Union demonstration, that we cannot re-
frain from quoting them. After few in
troductory words in reference to the On-
ION Club, he opened
THE struggle in which the Government and
loyal people OF the country have been now for
nearly two years engaged, IS one ! neeu scarce
say, of almost uneXampled magnitude, attend
ed with all the difficulties, the sacrifice, the al
ternations of success and failure, which are IN
cident to a contest of such stupenduous dlmen.
sions, Scarce ever have there been arrayea
against each other, on 6eld Of action SO vast
forces so numerous at an expense SO great WIN
such profusiOn of material supplies and lnanclal
resources, and, what is infinitely more import
ant with interests SO momentous at stake Inc
scene of the conflict coeXtensive as 1t Is with
tn j., settlements of the United States this SIDE OF
the Rocky Mountains is but little inferior IN eX-
tent to Europe the Military forces IN array
and amply supplied with the material OF war;
are as great as were ever placed in the field in the
wars Of the French Revolution the sea coast
held in rigid blockade by our navy IS more eX-
tensve than that actually bockaded by the navy
of Great Britain, during the war our armies
and navy, owing to the character OF our solulers
and seamen and the higher standard OF comfort
in this country are sustained at greater expense
than those of any other service, and the opJects
of the war are nothing less than to prevent a
great and prosperous Union of States, under one
Constitutional Government from being broken
up into wretched fragments; TO protect the or.
eanc life of mighty people, in the morning Oh
their national existence, from the murderous
and suicidal blow aimed at it ; to rescue the
work Of our revolutionary and constitutional
fathers the greatest political work OF human
wisdom, from ignominiOus ruin, and TO hand
down this peerless inheritance OF pubic ana prl
yate blessings unimpaired to our posterlty
Compared with these objects, how insignificant
the scene, the operations, the objects OF the re-
cent wars in Europe, and how unimportant tnelr
results The late Italian war had for lts opJect
nominally to drive the foreigner beyond the alps
and to give Italy to the Italians, while It's real
object was to restore the military and political IN
fuence of France in Europe, and at least as far
as Italy is concerned, annul the treaties oil Vlena
But all Italy is not equal in extent to New ork
Pennsylvania and Ohio the Austrians still hoic
Venice and the best half OF the Lompardo
Venetian kingdom France is still lntrehched at
Rome, the very heart of the Peninsula, and the
exiled dynastics are awaiting the next turn OF the
wheel of political fortune, for those revolutions
in Empire which shall restore them to their Tor
mer capitals
The next preceding war had its ostensible ORR
gin in the struggles OF Greek and Latin Church-
es for ascendancy in the East its real object
was to check the progress of Russia in that quar-
ter-it arrayed half a million of men for the
destruction or defence of one fortress in the Cri
mea. The Act of that contest came not from
hell, and let slip the dogs of war to settle the
question whether the French or Russian wee
Consul should keep the key of the church-built
upon the spot where the Prince of Peace was
born. The war was fought, hundred thousand
families were clad in mourning-Russa still
holds the Crimea Sebastopol has risen from It's
ruins. and which Vice-Consul keeps the key of
the Church of Bethlehem, few persons in Chris
tendon out side of the three Cabinets know or
care.
And then the great war of the French RevO-
lufion which hpuan with the in VaSi0n of France
by the Prussans in 1892, and ended with the ex-
lie of Napoleon to st, Helena in 1915, which,
more than any contest in modern times, Iesem'
bles in the vastness of its theatre and the mag
nitude of the forces in array, the contest IN
which we are now involved how insignificant its
issues compared with those here at stake The
Allies under the lead of England waged the war
to check the progress of the French Revolution
and eventually to restore the Bourbons. The
Bourbons are still in exile the French Revolu-
ton is enthroned at the Tuileries, and many OF
its political maxms have passed into the pubic
law of Europe, The French, on their side,
strove to overturn the remains of feudalism in
Europe, to destroy the political influence and the
maritime ascendency of England, and to supor-
dinate the continental Governments to France
In the year the federal Constitution went in
to operation in the United States the great
political consumption of the design of Provi-
dence in the discovery and settlement OF Amer
lea ; the happy frame work of some Of the wisest
and best men that ever lived intended to effect
the extension of civilization in the shortest
possible time, over vast continent lying In
astate of nature 10 provide city OF refuge
i9r the starving millions of Europe to prepare
the way for the civilization and chrstianization
OF Africa by the return Of portion OF her child
rem from the house of bondage, and to combine
upon scale Of unprecedented magnitude, the
home-bred and freside blessing Of small States
and local administrations with the security--in-
fuence and power of a great empire. For sew
enty years it has been working out these great
results 1t has conferred upon the rapidly in
creasng population of the country degree of
general prosperity never equaed ithas welcom-
ed the surplus and suffering multitudes of Eu-
rope to the enjoyment of q state of well-being
never before vovcbsafed by Providence to the
same extent to the sons OF men and notwith-
out the imperfection and woes, and am sorry
TO add, the wrongs which attend all human things
the incidents neither ofrepublics nor Of monarch
les, but Of our common frai humanity. 1T has
conferred upon more than two generations an