The weekly union record., 1864-06-04
Results of the War.

aino-t "EOais %! lneir pft1odlces ID tnelr esli
mates Of the great war at present CONFUSING
the United States, they have been forced TO
reluctantly admit the unparalleled development
Of strength which has been made in both sec
tions Of the country. Ii has been this Ito them
fearful development which has set the English
( Government TO work (wbile claiming to be
governed b. strict neutrality to aid, in every
conceivable manner the Southern Confeder-
acy," in the hope that after al exhaustive war,
two separate governments would take the place
Of the United States Government, which has
been the terror of the monarchies Of Europe,
and at the same time the hope Of the lovers Of
liberty throughout the world By such diyis-
ion, after war on the gigantic scale which the
present one is waged. weakening, as it will. to
such a great extent. both sections, they have
hoped to be able 10 destroy nation which has
already grown to such formidable proportions
as TO overshadow aud threaten the despotsms
Of the world. This has been the hope of the
Government OF England and its satellites and
this has been the hope which has dictated the
policy Of the Emperor Napoleon in bis uncalled
for and unwarranied invasion Of Mexico. The
whole scheme of encouragement and aid to the
South, and the overthrow of the Republic Of
Mexico, was concocted and has been thus far
carried out with the one central and predomin-
ant idea Of ridding mouarcbical government OF
its principal stumbling block the United States,
thus giving the great despotic powers new
lease of life. The spirit of the age, they have
seen tends to the subversion OF monarchical
forms Of government and titled aristocracy, and
it is not at all strange that they have been
aroused to the exigencies Of the times, and the
necessity Of putting forth their greatest energies
and their most subtle and desperate schemes TO
destroy the American Republic-tbe great
nucleus around which the elements of Liberty
have been gathering for nearly century; it is
not astonishing that two of the btterest enemies
the world has ever seen, the Governments o!
France and England, have preserved at least a
tacit understanding and friendly agreement as
to their policy in regard TO the of rebellion;
it is not surprising that Napoleon should seek
an alliance with his hereditary foes, the Aus
trian BOurbons. When the question becomes
one Of selfpreservation, monarchism in Europe
and the world becomes unit. This is now
the issue presented to the civilized world
Republicanism and Liberty or Monarchsm and
Slayery-and we believe it will be settled, for
good or evil to the human race, before the
conflict now being waged shall cease.
1t has long ago bcen demonstrated tha! the
liberal-mnded people of Europe have sympa-
thized from the first with the Government of the
United States in its struggle for self preserva-
tion. The liberals of England have discounten-
anced all the violations of neutrality Of which
their Government and portion of their people
bave been guilty, and have expressed the most
cordial and hearty sympathy for our National
cause, while the masses of the people of France
have steadily opposed the invasion of Mexico,
and all action looking 10 recognition of the
Southern Confederacy. The people of the
United States will never cease to feel and
express their gratitude to the liberal statesmen
and writers of Europe who have defended the
cause of our nationality against its most dan
gerous foes. \ remarkable change has occurred
in the tone of the English journals aud maga
zines hitherto violent in their denunciations Of
the National Government, which is also graft
fyiug, though not calling for any gratitude on
our part. \ standard English periodical
"Bentley's Miscellany" for March, contains a
paper on the results of the war, which is widely
different in tone from the violent one-sded
articles which have heretofore appeared in that
magazine, and is significant of a marked revo-
luton in English opinion with regard to the
issue of the struggle and the ultimate destiny
Of our nation. We make an extract:
The war has created something great which will
survive the war. The United States were up 10
the present. only the material for a great power
but now they are one. When the civil is ter
minated, and if so by a victory of the North, the
Monroe theOry-America for the Amercans-wili
rise again in a different form. 1t will claim respect
southwar3s as far the Terra del FuegO, and
nOrthwards 10 the whaling grounds of the Melville
straits II slavery should be abolished in the South
by force of arms Will it be tolerated any longer in
Cuba With the evidently increasing liking for
wars and conqueSts, will the Americans be able to
endure foreign tollbarS at the north end of the ST.
Lawrence Bridge at Montreal And if, by that
time. the French have not evacuated Mexico will
they not be helped on their homeward route?
The future probabilities enumerated above
clearly account for the spasmodic and anxious
movements which at present characterize the
Governments of England, France, Spain, and
Austria. Ii anything would be calculated to
arouse in the breasts of the Peace Copperheads
the latent spark of patriotism (if it exists, the
action of these foreign powers in cooperating
with the Southern traitors to destroy our na-
tionality, certainly ought to call it forth. The
position assumed by this miserable faction at
the North-that of opposition to the war for
the preservation Of our Government-will con-
denim them to everlasting iniamy and execration
scarcely equaled by that of the conspirators at
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