Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-05-19
View of the Situation.

The news of the surrender of Lee ant
the assassination of Lincoln natural,
produced profound sensation in Europe
The English papers, with few exceptions
evidently believe that the cause of the
Confederacy is irrevocably lost, and are
content with simply offering their sym
pathies to Gen. Lee, telling him that al
though whipped he made very pretty
fight of it. Gen. Grant is grudgingly ad
mitted TO be "a man of greater force Of
character than any of his predecessors
The Londo0 Standard clings tenacously
to straw of hope that Johnston's army
may yet prolong the war, and says:
Johnston's army, unlike Lees, cannot
be cut off; it has free access to the rich.
est portions of the Confederacy it has
the whole resources of the cotton States
to fall back upon; finally, it can be trans
ierred to the raus-Mississippi regions,
where, with Kirby Smiths troops, it
would make up an effective force of 100,-
600 men, occupying fertile territory as
large as France and Germany together,
moi traversable by federal gunboats, and
no: to be blockaded by the closest line of
federal blockaders.
The Standard roundly abuses England
as the evil worker of all the direlul woes
that have befaIlen the Confederacy, and
seems to consider that the ruin of the
South will be stain upon England's
reputation as deep and ineffaceable as
the partition of Poland by Austria, Russia
and Prussia, which was quietly permit
ted without any interference by the other
powers of Europe. The Standard closes
its mortuary remarks upon the fate OF The
Confederacy as follows:
We have from the first asserted that
the South was fighting our battles; and
we do not hesitate to say that we regard
the disaster that has befallen Lees army
as an "untoward event." and one which
will not fail ultimately to exercise seri-
our influence upon our own imperial in~
terests. We have been false to our
principles, and neglected our opportunity.
We have been guilty of crime as wei
as a blunder, and assuredly we or our
children will have to pay for both.
The part which England has played in
this awful drama adds tenfold bitterness
TO the grief with which we regard its de-
plorable catastrophe. Every generous
heart must be wrung in witnessing the
death agony of gallant nation but we,
its nearest kinsmen, whose supineness
permitted, whose policy furthered and
FASTENED its destruction, have TO bear not
only the pang of sorrow. but the worse
orture of self-reproach. England (may
Heaven forgive her y has cast away the
loblest opportunity and been accessory
o the creates crime that modern history
ecords.
The news of the assassination evoked
extraordinary manifestations of public
nd private grief upon the part of the
English people. The sincerity of this
Exhibition OF sorrow upon the part of the 3
niddle classes and working population OIL
england, who have to large extent Civ.
II US their sympathies from the begin {
ing, may not be questioned but the r
ristocracy, who have from the beginning c
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nore regretful tears had the great rebel /
Davis been the victim, instead of noble i
abraham Lincoln. :