The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-01-14
Our Friends in France.

At the great meeting of the Loyal
National League of NV York, held on
Union Square on the 18th of April last,
an address to the celebrated French pub.
licists, Gasparin, Laboulaye, Martin, and
Cochin, drafted by the Loyal Publication
Society Of New York, was read aud adop.
ted with great enthusiasm by the entire
assembage. The reply to this document
has just been received and made public
in New York. 1t is dated at Paris, Oc-
tober 3lst, 1868, and is commenced by
an apology for the long delay in making
the response, resulting from the absence
of one of the signers. The whole docu-
ment, which is very lengthy, is animated
throughout by an earnest desire for the
utter defeat of rebellion and the triumph
of the anti slavery war policy of the Ma
tional Government. After explaining
some of the causes of the long continued
indifference Of the European masses to
the result of the American war review.
ing the reluctance with which the Ma
tional Government grappled with the
real issue Of the revolt-the overthrow
of the Union or the destruction of slave.
ry; showing the utter hopelessness of
the rebel cause urging unwavering feal-
ty to justice and right in the treatment
of the colored race; deprecating the en-
couragement of war spirit, to be used
in stimulating wars Of revenge or con-
quest; and encouraging to renewed effort
to defeat rebellion, the able and friendly
address thus reads:
Strengthen your cause daily by daily
making it more just, and fear not; there
is God above
owe 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 out freed from
odious institution which corrupted your
public manners, and degraded your do
mestc as we'll as your foreign policy, that
day your whole country, South perhaps
more fully than the North, will enter
upon wholly new prosperity. Euro
pean emigration will hasten towards your
ports, and will learn the road to those
whom until now it has feared to ap-
proach. Cultivation, now abandoned,
will renew its yield. Liberty-for these
arc her miracles-will revivify bv her
touch the soil which Slavery had render
ed barren. Ia ~ u. = = - r.
"Then there will be born unto YOU q
greatness nobler and more stable than
the old, for in this greatness there will
be no sacrifice of Justice
"AGENoR DEGAsrAR1N,
AUGUsTIN COCHIN,
as EDoUARD LABnULAYE, Member OF
the Institute OF France.
HENRY MARTIN"
All these gentlemen have rendered
distinguished service to our cause in
France by their writings and efforts. -
Our readers will remember that several
months ago, and on two occasions, We
devoted large part of our space to ex-
tracts from defenses of the National Gov.
eminent and the loyal North, from the
gifted pen of Edouard Layboulaye. 1t
is no small qualification to know that il
the ambition and power of France, in
the person of it's INSCRIPTIONS Emperor,
is against us, the learning aud intellect
Of that remarkable nation is wholly in
sympathy with us, and desires the com
plete victory Of Union and Liberty
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