American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-07-12

humanity Protesting TO make war
against the slave trade, denouncing it as
piracy, and employing fleets for its sup
preston, it does net even revolt at the
unexampled, and atrocious, and anti
christian idea of government, boldly and
shamelessly declaring its only purpose to
be the perpetuation of human bondage,
an organized piracy, aud a systematic at
tack upon the rights of man. In its
anxiety to aid the cause on which its own
institutions are depending it hurries with
an indecent precipitancy into the recog-
nition of belligerancy, that will enable
it to serve the interest in which it dares
not venture openly to draw its sword, by
throwing wide Its posts to the privIteers
of the enemy, and fitting out its own
cruisers t. prey upon our commerce ON
the sea. Its governmental press, aided
by its hireling scribblers here, is pros
tituted to the base employment of show
ing the inevitable failure of our great
experiment, by maligning our brave de-
tenders, and libelling our sainted Presi
dent Its Ministers at our own Capital,
prompted by the same instincts, and SYM
pathizing openly with our enemies, and
equally ignorant of the people to whom
they are accredited advise their sover.
eign, and are allowed to proclaim here
openly without rebuke, that our career
as nation is at an end, and inwardly re-
ioice with them that a power declared
by Themselves to be too formidable for
the worlds peace, and too formidable to
be salely met either upon the sea or up
on the land, by their united strength, has
perished miserably ty intestine strife
the supposed inherent and unavoidable
disease of the Republics Of all times.
How great has been its error? How
disappointed all its hattering prognostica-
tious? How utterly has all its boasted
wisdom been contounded by events How
deeply does it now tremble in the presence
of the great fact. which it is yet reluctant
to acknowledge, that this nation, with all
the sympathies of the governments of the
world against it, has proved lis indestruc-
tibility, by trial which no European
State could have cutlived? But how in
cxpressibly grand aud sublime-what q
spectacle for men and angels, has been
the attitude of this people throughout the
fiery trials of these four eventful years
What theme for an epic such as Milton
or Tasso might have written the great
Republic of the Western Hemisphere
the worlds last champion-charged with
the loftiest interests that ever were com
mitted to the guardianship of men-bolt
ed around by enemies, open and secret
who were thirsting for its destruction
torn by intestine strife, and bleeding a
every pore-without the sympathy of an,
one of the ruling powers Of earth, anC
with no help, but the prayers Of the faith
full few, in all lands, who looked upon it
star as the last hope of the oppressed
standing alone like solitary rock in tn
t ocean, with the tempests bowling wildl,
around it, but hinging off the angry sur
ges which dash and break against its sdn
and bearing aloft with intrepid and u 9
, faltering hand, amid the wild ups'r Vi
: elemental war, the broad ensig.i u ou'
l Fathers-the pledge Of freedf ~ i3, uu.-
: versal man! If the euemie' no''Y
! now trembe in our presee' ~ % , no'
more from the dread o. 'esoI.'nen.' ;se.i'. i'sn
f which they feel to have Ien JuS.'y n,1' .L
: tied, than from an gnhiimn less;or of Of
G consequences of tht sIDlItno Jir leeslon u
t constancy and fait t@hG L! H l,lioe anu
persevering cour ~ r w oa,.a,t - e.'1"
: to the world, t'ouslou' d copteSV COM
n,omced nnda. circumstances the most ad-
luneo r".no onJ n''ecuted by the people them
!. Sel,ea Serso, anu W , a more than royal munf-
: oo.,Ss' Essentially their war, and the
: first in '9'' ''"' N''' Wv" ~ i''0s'" III
h zed.
: th3minent prudence and lofty patriot
: 4 of our great leader more strongly ex-
= lmplifed, than in the forbearance and
moderation with which he ignored these
transparent tevidences of unfriendliness on
part of foreign governments, aggravated
as they were by the most indecent person
al attacks upon himself Without per-
sonal resentments, and great enough to
despise abuse, even if he had felt it, he
knew that the success of our struggle was
the best answer that could be made to
those who wished us i'll. He is already
avenged in the only way in which his
great heart would have desired It. The
bloody catastrophe that hurried him from
our sight, has flashed upon the European
world with suddenness that has swept
down the barriers of prejudice, and ext tDr-
ted even from his enemies the confession,
that in him truly great man-of the
pure American type-of far-reaching sa-
gacity-of unexamped modesty and mod
eration,- fallen. The powers Of Ian
guage almost fail to convey their now ex-
alted sense of the high. .souled magnani-
nifty with which he has forborne to re-
spond in kind, to the many provocations
that have been offered He is pronoun-
ced by great authority in England king
of men'-not in the Homeric sense. as
used in reference to the Argive Chief
not because, like the wrathful Achilles,
whose ire was fruitful of unnumbered
woes, he was
impger, iracundus, ineIorabilis, aeer"
but because he was precisely the opposite
ofall these-peace loving and placable,
even to fault. 1t stands admitted, that
no word of his can now be found in all
his foreign intercourse, to convey a men,