Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-04-14
From the New York Herald, 18th inst.l
TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN DEM0CRACY-NO Wa
It'll IN, 40 IN,
WITH FRANCE OR ENGLAND.

WITH FRANCE OR ENGLAND
General Lee has surrendered That is the news Of
the hour-the supreme Of century and have
now moment to think seriously and calmly the du-
ties devOved upon by the termination OF the rebel
lion Il is only the privilege but the duty of victors
10 be generous, by such course fresh laures are
added TO their fame and their ascendancy firmly
established. powerful people, who have gOTiOusly
attested strength than adequate for every need
can well afford 20 treat their yanqushed domestic enc.
mics with the splendid lenency exhibited in the terms
Of surrender proposed by General Grant and accepted by
Cen Lee, while regarding with silent derision or ig
norng altogether the foled efforts and hopes of all their
foreign foes Our great popular struggle, now virtually
closed finds with vast interests in both sections OF our
reunited country demanding prompt attentions but with
no revenges 10 be grstifed any inclination quan
der time in the costly luxury Of obtaining retrbUtcn
for bygone injuries. Over the of the South let
veil be thrown forever while for the wrongs inhc ted
us during the past four years by the governments of
France and England we can best obtain satisfaction
BY showing to the oppressed population of those
countries how superby contemptuous Of foreign inter
ference-how grandy msgnanimous 20 the misled and
chasened children Of orr househoid-the ruling de-
mocracy of this continent can prove in their hour Of tr
umph II Is by example Of the everncTeasing pros
pery and grandeur Of reunited country, acting on
The aspirations necessities and impulses Of the French
and English masses that the unwise and unjust policy
Of their respective governments In favor Of the al
most exiting oshed Confederacy can be most efectua
lv punished-these governments In their blind hatred
of our free democratic system having established pre-.
cedent in granting begerent rights to the rebelous
to their own existence They surely Of all othersony
existing by legitimacy and divine tight-should have
been the last recognize and abet any instruction
anst organized national authority and least Of all an
insurrection against government as absolutely free and
equal to all sections and classes as was, and shan mere
after be- our own. If for alleged wrongs OF anticipation
or frivolous theories pride certain States OF our Union
were justified in rebelling against government under
which all had equal right and proteCtcn-ther action
receiving the approval Of the French Emperor and the
active sympathy Of the British astocracyhow will the
account stand when the oppressed French and british
populations rise up against the intoersbe political op
pressions and physical prvatons under which they now
groan and from which their only present hope ofescae
is by emigration to this generous land
The struggle have just brought to an END mas NOT
been in the least understood abroad nor indeed has It's
full pupOrt been revealed TO any but the most thought
full and far-sceing of people, Earl Russell de-
cared to be "a contest for independence by the SOUTH
aud for empire on the part of the North than which
is impossible to conceive frame any sentiment OF equal
brevity containing so gigantic Our struggle mas
not been for empire nor evenin any strict sense
for the constitution will il be found, when closely
scrutinzed war declared carried on by the regular
machinery of government for the yndcation Of ~
national authority. This war has been peoples war LOT
the maintenance and supremacy Of the peoples nghs 70
govern hemselves-s war as much FOR the true n4ALsSN
Interests Of the Southern Of the Northern Pecp;e
snd having for ~ Asin object 70 reanfn ana eeeee
ish oHoe ed sOcTsrnoe bat NE VII Of hs vs.