Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-06
The SnteIligeufer.
Our Friends In EnEIand.

weekly political and literary journals in
EngtsaG1d. ga1. zhsa 4Y heenIasf fsst friend of the
Union cause from the start In the dark
est hour it has never faltered. 1t has had
faith that Gfe5tOFssd MON isSdt freedom
to the slave, and it has believed that a
4 cause so important to the rights of man
must succeed. Its words of cheer have
been constant. aana on many occasions its
calm confidence and ,soher reasoning have
I dispelled the clouds Of gloom that depres-
sed O4r friends abroad.
| The Spectator of April 22d, is largely
I devoted 70 American matters and to the
fall of Richmond, an event for which it
nost profoundly rejoices. We copy q few
Of it's remarks: ERtHavT9
The great democracy has come we'll out
Of its hour of supreme trial. Through
four long years of defeat, and discourage
ment and FeVeFish effort, amid the execFa-
ious of its foes and the forebodinps of
many Of sfriend5I the Republic has fought
! on, opposing to the superior organisation
Of an oligarEhyJ Jtha strength which springs
Of freedom, and meeting incessant failure
with the Apglo-Saxen persistence, which
the world mistakes for vanity. And now
the game is won, and in it's first hour of
| triumph, with the smoke still lowering
l ever the field, and lists of itsz6esd not vet
made up, it is singing psalms to God,
| promising peace to all mankind, proclaimI
ing freedom to all slaves, and crying to its
/ rulers to issue complete and unpurchased
amuestie5. Tie emotion may not last,
! though We think it will, but the future of
= people whose uucslculating emotion in
the hour of defeat ia to boast of their in
| Yincibility, and in the moment of triumph
20 ask pardon for their foes, must be
grand one. Since the men of the barri-
cades shot their comrades for plunderine,
| democracy has given no sign so full of
PromiseAs the eondnet of the American
| people after~the fall of Richmond. 4 4
Great efforts are making in this country
by writers more Southern than the South
eruers to chow that Richmond is mereIva
point in space, that Lee advised its eyacu-
alton many months ago, that it's fall re-
eases the South from burden, and sets 1t
| free for defence suited alike to it's genius
| aud ns circumstances. But so was Sebas-
| top apoint in space, q mere fort at the
extremity of g vast empire, which when
the war ended had through most of its
provinces never seen an invader. So that
the best generals of the Gear recommend
ed the evacuation Of Sebastopot. But the
advice was not taken, and when the fortress
fell the P0werof BpS9iR fellWith il, for the
entire strength of 1the Empire had sbaeu
straiaed for its defence, 5000 men7had
persisted either before it's walls or on their
march to defend them,=aud when all had
failed the blow fell as heavily on Archan-
| gel and Tobolsk as on 1.-THE blood-stained
ruins" so many thousands of miles away.
Riehmoqd fsf1 waf the sseaseepol of the Con;
/ We do not know, in the whole range of
i history an incident more striking than
that recorded on Wall street, that sudden
i uprising of the latent Puritan feeling
through sllthe deposit with which money!
seeking and war have crusted it, the money
4 dealers in the very temple of Mammon
1 breaking out into spontaneous Tg De.t1,,
\ pouring out the only hymn familiar to e7.
cry Yankee child. The only hymn, but
not the only song; for the voices which had
Just finished the Old Hu1dredth followed
it with the rude strain which, better than
Hhlttier's songs or ,Garrison'sg speeches,
l ,lexpresses the full fervor of abolitionism in
movement Praise5to the Lord and free
dom to the slave-those were the thoughts
which came first to the hearts and lips
LOT one of the most corrupt sections
lof the American democracy. Their
tendency certainly will not be either to
blood or plunder, rather their danger is of
lenity amounting to weakness, of dis
Eposition to grant away some of their objects
IN the gladnessz of reconciliation. The
dream of their lives, the nation covering a
continent and Offering refuge for every
wrong, has been so close to their hearts,
that they seem ready to embrace the revo.
lutionists who shattered it because their
l 1aea Rl11 A.
possible. Their glsdpess ia almost infan-
tine in it's Observation-Disclosures, but thew have
reason for it. If they have lost scores of
thousands of children, and burdened them.
selves with European debt expended four
years In civil war and imposed upon them
selves the curse of a standing army, they
have enfranchised race more numerous
than themselves when they fought for their
own .fyeedomrreppved from-their.rcoantrv
stain which outIeighed all; 4he effects Of
her teaching, and taught the nations once
4 for all the grand lesson that, be the faults
of democracy what they will, at least it is
not weak. Other things fell on the 4th of
April beside Richmond, and among them
the belief that the few may once more hope
ITO govern the world in the interest of them.
lGselVes.
If we. haye made ourselves understood.
4 the reader will marvel with us at the aston
ishfng' skill with which the Federal Rener-
ais have used the immense forces placed in
their hands; and if we are not mistaken,
1.-THE military student viii m future years
turn again and agai6 for instruction to
the campaigns ot 1865! which abound in
examples of the art of making. war under
i theUeW' conditions torpedoes,
4 telegraphs, earthworks, rifed cannou-aud
which have given mortal bloV to the once
threatening Slave P9Fsr. s,,ITTEp
These extracts !thongh long. care we'll
4 worthy of q plaeesin our editorial columns,
as expressive of tie 6eistl thought of Eng.
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