Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-05-11
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sibIe English Views.

INV o. tHthCnntOmm-kGn-
sible English Views.
While the English nobility and cotton
Lords, and most Of the London papers have
been dccrying the Union cause from the com.
mencement Of the rebellion, the working
men have almost universally been our warm
friends. The Newcastle Chronicle,an organ
of the bone and muscle Of British society,
thus sincerely rejoices over the downfall of
the Confederacy:
GRANTS GRAND VICTORY.
Richmond has fallenl The great strone.
hold Of the Slave Power, tho most form;ds.
Bile fortress in the world the city that has
resisted for years the operations of armies
thousands strong, has at length succumbed |
to the perseverance and strategy of Ulysses
Grant This crowning feat Of a prolonged !
and bloody struggle was ccomplished on the |
I'd OF April, and the Southern Confederacy |
presents to-day the singular spectacle of a |
Government without a capital, of a nation |
without center, OF leader without home,
The mudsills OF Northern society the sweep
ings of Northern cities, tie despised
mechanics of Northern homesteads, organi |
zsd by boatman and led by a newer of
wood, have not only beaten the soul and
strength OF the Southern cause but shat
tered at blow the last hope of a daring
oligarchy. The desperate valer Of Lees con.
hiding troops availed nothing against tho
steadiast zeal of the soldiers who had been
born to work and had learned to win. The
greatest prize ct the war was at stake-the
very existence of the Confcderacy depended
on the battle; yet pride of Southern man
hood broke in unavailing effort against the
/ nh af A
victory more complete than any that has yet
been won, was achieved on that Sabbath
morning, and Richmond fell an imperial prize
to the ablest captain the war has produced.
| The public had been prepared for this
glorious result; we ourselves had ventured
to expect it; and yet the news has come up
on all almost as surprise. Long DELAYED.
yet long expected, the fall of Richmond was
announced on Saturday to a wondering,
incredulous, but thankful public. -
The Chronicle then gives long account
of the battles which compelled the evacua-
tion Of the rebel capital, and concludes as
follows:
We have special right to rejoice at this
happy result; for VIC have all through main
tanned that the North was not only Just in
the conflict, but able to sustain il. We
could not see, as others seemed to see, that
Slavery was less crime because the slave
owner called it divine and we did not
permit ourselves to be deluded by the soph-
lsms OF Spence or the rhodemontads of "A
Roebuck. We refused to acknowledge the
virtue OF slavery because the slave owners
conducted their campaigns with skill aud
fought their battles with bravery. We pre-
ferrad to be faithful to the cause of hherty,
while many around us were beguied by the
transient successes ofa desperate olgarchy.
We were on the side of the Free North from
the first, and we became more and more at
taehed to the Federal cause as President
Lincoln developed his grand policy of aboli-
tlon. 10 us 1t seemed that there could
scarcely be but one end to a struggle in
which freedom was graphing with slavery
But we claim no credit for foresight. We
claim only credit for consistency and the
right to rejoice. And allwho live by indus
try have good reasons to rejoice that the
most gigantic, tho most audacious conspiracy
against the rights and liberties of labor has
been utterly overthown The blood that
has been shed, the misery that has been sui-
fered, have happily not been shed and suf-
Tered in vain. America has won in four
years OF war glory greater than the Gov.
ernments OF Europe ever attempted to ao-
u.
Let 1t comfort us that the guilty design OF
establishing worse than Roman barbarism
has been definitely defeated, that the great
} est curse nation can endure has been
deliberately cast out, that a swoetcr, purer
destiny for America and for mank ind has
been won by Anglo Saxon valor to be sus-
taned by Anglo-Saxon strength.
VANISHED INTO rhIN AIR. a
The London Army and Navy Gazette, ed
tied by Russell, of correspondence memory,
says:
These great events have swallowed up or
Overshadowed all others. d Thore is no news
from Sherman, only rumor that he was on
the move. There is no news Of the pro.
gress OF the column moving from East Ten
nessee. There is news from Alabama that
Federal force was couple of marches in
advance Of Eastp0rt; and there is news that
Candy and the fleet were rec prizes with
Mobile. But the great fact is the defeat Of
Lee army; aud it is justly considered that
this defoat is decisive ofihe issue OF tho war
What that issue would be we have never
doubted, and our readers know that wohave
never miSlsd them With Only one army
in the field, and that weak one, it is
impossible that organized resistance can 10
prolonged. When Lee is gone, Grant and
Sherman and Hancock and Thomas wil,.be
able to march where they please. II The
dream of q slave rower has vanished into
thin air. ~ Ga a7 & rrt
~ HM E9 ga. eeel E.eaN
4 ri NEW BIRTH OF THE REPUBLIC.
The Lond on New says: ,aayn... .,..
The republic is now brought to new
birth. Hitherto it has been laden with a
curse. That curse, instead of being thrown
off by the fathers of this generation, or by
their sons, was tolerated; and naturally it
generated more SIM, both in those who cher
shed it and in those who had not courage
to deal with it. They have suffered at last
in proportion to their palteriug aud their
weakness. Compelled at length to choose
or to reject slavery forever, the mass of the
nation has adopted the right course, and
secured new and botter life fer the repub-
lie. In doing this the nation has determin-
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