Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-20

those who smiled at the recital OF your
battles of 1861 You have learned but
too quickly to face death and to kill, and
what you have learned you will not I'M
learn. You will not return to your for
mer situation.
But while we do not expect again to
see your effective force at ten thousand
men, we do hope that effective forces
which are now numbered by hundreds of
thousands will not long be witnessed on
American soil
Couragel You have before you one
of the most noble works, the most sub
lime which can be accomplished here
below-a work in the success of which
we are as interested as yourselves
work the success of which will be the
honor and the consolation of our time.
This generation will have seen moth
ing more grand than the Abolition of |
slavery lin destroying it with you, you
destroy it eyeryghere), and the energet-
ic uprising Of people which in the
midst Of its growing prosperity was visi-
| bly, sinking under the weight of the ty-
ranny of the South, the completely of
the North, odious laws and compromises.
Now, at the cost of immense sacrif
ces, you have stood up against the evil;
you have chosen rather to pour out your
blood and your dollars than to descend
further the slope Of degradation, where
rich, united, powerful, you were sure to
lose that which is far nobler than wealth,
or union, or power.
1 WE'LL Europe begins to understand,
willingly or unwilliDgly, what yeu have
done. In France, in England, every
where your cause gains ground, and be
it said for the honor of the nineteenth
century, the obstacles which our ill-will
and our evil passions could not over
come, the obstacle which the intrigues of
the South could not surmount, is an
idea, principle. Hatred of slavery has
been your champion in the Old World.
A poor champion seemingly. Laughed
at, scorned, it seems weak and lonely.
: But what matters it, ere the account be
closed principles will stand for some
!, thing, and conscience, in all human at
fairs, will have the last word.
This, gentlemen, is what we would say
to you in the name of all who, with us,
and better than ourselves, defend your
cause in Europe Your words have
cheered us; may ours in turn cheer you !
You have yet to cross many dark val
ley More than once the impossibility
/. | of success will be demonstrated to you;
more than once, in the face of some mil
itary check or political difficulty, the cry
r will be raised that all is lost What
. matters it to you2 Strengthen your
cause daily by daily making it more just,
and fear not: there is a God above.
/ We love to contemplate in hope the
: noble future which seems to stretch it
! self before you. The day you emerge at
last from the anguish of civil war, and
you will surely come ont freed from the
: odious institution which corrupted your
: public manners, and degraded your do
nestle as well as your foreign policy
:. that day your whole country, South al
= well as North, and the South perhaps
} more fully than the North, will enter
> upon wholly new prosperity Euro
pean emigration will hasten toward youl
: sorts, and will learn the road to those
:, whom until now it has feared to approach
Z Cultivation, now abandoned, will renew
= its yield. Liberty-for these are her mira
II cles-will revivify by her touch the sol
:, - which slavery had rendered barren.
- Then there will be born unto you ,
= greatness nobler and more stable thar
- the old, for in this greatness there vii
. be no sacrifice of justice
- AGENoR De GAsPARIN,
= AUGUsTIN COCHIN,
- EDoUARD LABoULAYE, Membe
of the Institute of France
= HENRI MARTIN.
: Paris, October 81, 1868.