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victories, and assured to your country
the best chance Of prosperity and great

victories, and assured to your country
the best chance Of prosperity and great
ness.
ENCOURAGEMENT.
The letter closes with the following
brilliant paragraph:
Courage! You have before you one
of the most noble works. the most sublime
which can be accomplished here below
work in the success of which we are as
interested as yourselves work the sue
cess of which will be the honor and the
consolation of our time.
This generation will have seen nothing
more grand than the abolition of slavery
Tin destroying it with you you destroy it
everywhere,) and the energetic uprising
people which in the midst of its growing
prosperity was sinking under the weight
Of the tyranny Of the South, the compile
ity of the North, odious laws and COM
promises.
Now, at the cost of immense sacrifices,
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, uni
ted, powerful, you were sure to lose that
which is far nobler than wealth, or union,
or power.
Well, Europe begins to understand,
willingly, or unwillingly, what you have
done In France, in England, everywhere
your cause gains ground, and be 1T said
for the honor of the Nineteenth Century,
the obstacle which our i'll will and oor evil
passions could not overcome, the obstacle
which the ntrigues of the South could
not surmount is an idea, principle ia-
tired OF slavery has been your champion
in the Old World A poor champion,
seemingly. Laughed az, scorned, it seems
weak aud lonely. But what matters it !;
ere the account be closed, principle will
stand for something, and conscience, IN
all human affairs, viii 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 our
cause in Europe Your words have cheer
cd us; may ours in turn cheer you. You
have yet TO cross many dark valley -
More than once the impossiblIity OF sue
cess will be demonstrated TO you; more
than once, in the face Of some military
check or political difficulty, the cry will
be raised that all Is lost. What matters
it to you? Strengthen your cause daily
by daily making it more just. and fear moi
there IS . God above
". tcx,a for lat bgF4sa tho
noble future which seems TO stretch itself
before you. The day you emerge at last
from the anguish of civil war-aea yos
will surely come out freed from the obi
Gus institution which corrupted your pnb-
lie manners aud degraded seur domestic
as well as your foreign poiey-thst day
your whole country, south as well e
north, and the south perhaps more fully
than the North, viii enter upon wholly
new prosperity.
European emigration viii hasten to-
ward your ports, and will learn the road
10 those whom until now i, has feared 10
approach. Abandoned cultivation will
renew It's yield Liberty-for these are
her miracles-win resivify By her touch
the soul which slavery has rendered bar
zen.
Then there will be born uuto you q
greatness noher and more stable than tie
old, for in this greatness there will be no
sacrifice Of justice.
AGESoR DEGAsPARIs,
AUsusrfS CocHIS,
EDoUARD LABouLAYE,
(Member Of the Institute of France. }
HESRI MARTIN.
PARIS. Oct 81, 1868.