Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-09-22
VINO WE'RE RIGHT ,

Never for moment ulu we uesphlI VI 'hV
Republic in the great struggle which she
has Just passed through. We had fears
and we had also faith-faith in the justice of
the cause, and faith, yea, sublime and un-
faltering trust, in the Being who was guild
ing us to issues as grand and glorious as ever |
beckoned nation to duty and to victory
There were Others too who believed in the |
triumph of truth, Justice, and the rights OF
man, and that the American Union,-the
best living exponent of these principles, and
its strong pillar of support, if not its very
corner er-stpne,-would triumph in its fearful
struggle with tyrannical and blood-thirsty
traitors.
AT home, those who had faith in the
Union, and were willing to stand by the gov
ernment in the dark and trying hour of
struggle for life barred their bosoms to the
storm of war sent their dearest friends to
the field of conflict and death, loaned money
to the government when it needed money as
well as men, took care of the brave boys in
blue when sick and wounded, and what was
by no means the least important aid, backed
up the government by their votes.
In England such champions as Johl
Bright, Richard Cohden, and the nob c
worlSingmen of Lancashire, in Franc .
the gifted De Gasparm and many ot.-
er noble and liberty-loving men of Eu-
rope and other countries, stood by our cause
with unwavering faith, and defended us
from the aspersions and the plottings of odi
enemies. The Emperor of Russia, of Aus
tria, the King of Sardinia, and other
crowned and uncrowned heads, (except the
crown with which nature encircles the brow
of her true and noble onas) treated us with Il
just and dignified courtesy, spake words of
cheer, or rendered us more substantial aid.
God bless every man, woman and child,
at home or abroad who thus stood by the
Republic in the hour of its peril-when its
failure indeed, would have cast shadow
over the brightest hopes and the noblest as
pirations of mankind, if it had not actualyre-
versed the wheels of progress for centuries.
Lift up your heads friends of the Union
and of Liberty Now is the hour of your
triumph
Well may the pulse of every patriot beat
high, and his heart leap for joy. Well may
the oppressed lift up their heads, in this and
all lands and thanking God, take courage.
and look hopefully and joyiully forward to
the 'good time coming and which has to
many of them already come
For this war has been not merely for the
integrity of the Union and the liberation of
10000 600 black men, but for the race, in this
and coming ages ourexample andiniluenct
will shine out upon and bless the nation,
like the sun, and no tyrant can hide or shell
ter himself from its bright and piercing rays,
any more than he can, from the blazing light
OF the luminary of day.
But there were those who did not believe
in our success. Some of these WisAcd IL.
success, as they said, but had NO confidence
in the idea that we could dcheiJe it. VIII
many OF this class, there was not confidence
enough upon which to found even a hope.
They very kindly advised us be resigned
to the results of the inevitable, and trim ou
future expectations, and the good Ship o
State, for the first port we could enter if in
deed We could make port at all, instead {
going to the bottom.
But there was a very large class, som
said they constituted a majority not only i
Europe but in this country, who condemne
the war, opposed the government, ridicule
ourmilitary achievements, and said we coul
never conquer the Rebels till dooms.day.
The leader of our enemies and calumni
tors in England, and we may say in Europ
was "The London Times" With few e.
cepuons Kings and Rulers were against IL
Cabinet Ministers plotted our overthrow Ii
der the guise of smooth words ard velyc
fingered diplomacy, and members Of Peril
ment ndimperial contractors made speech
and built ships to destroy u.s. But all the
things combined aside from kingly DOW
and influence, did not injure us so much
the opposition and systematic abuse oi 4
Times-a paper that is farmore in its ole,sei
and far more potent, in iniuring those who
it opposes, than in helping its friends
Notwithstanding the faithful and patriot
friends of the Union, were not frightel
from their duty and their confidence. ~
some affected TO despise the voice of t
Thunderer it did us great mischief and d
voked the bitterest feelings towards 10
nal that had no excuse for its course-c
tainly its shameless abuse-but its blindne
or its innate meanness.
But the marked feature in the ISLANDERS of
Times, and the one that was caught up n
echoed by its imitators everywhere, W
that the North Gas they called the goye
ment and the loyal men who supported
could never conquer the South-the conf
eracy was fixed and iEreversble fact
Union was forever gone-and all blood Il
treasure poured out in its defence, "
wasted, and worse than wasted, and COZ
answer no possible end but to CRAFTY n hi
for blood and the havoc of war which
Americans seemed to possess in comm
with other savage and semi.barbarous
tons
1t called upon the Sovereigns of Europe
interpose, to prevent us from destroying ct
other, and choking the earth with the BIZ
of the slain. But the declaration "They
never conquer the South" was its fayorite o
and as OFT repeated as that of the Ron
Senator Carthage est delendus"." r
was the Alpha and Omega of its teachil
and preachings When the Thunde
growled in this strain, all its echoes took
the chorus and said at is even so-the I'm
is gone forever"
This being the text, context, and body
the discourse, the prophecy of our cert
destruction having gone forth-the assert
must be made good, the prediction ful6lle
Hence it Systematically, and with the n,
nnscrunnlnns recklessness md li...1 :