Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-08-26
WEEKLY TRINITY JOURNAL.
Our Four Years of War.

Our correspondents in all the great Southern
cities SO lately in the hands of the rebellion
continually tell of the joy of the Southern
people to be once more under the Stars and
Stripes. The telegraph runs from New York to
New Orleans. Steamboats, go down the Mississ-
ippi and never receive shot Every few days
there is Union Governor appointed or chosen
Tor some Southern State, and Northern men are
sending ploughs into the South, where lately
they sent PARROTS and twelve-pounders. All
these are the facts Of peace-the demonstration
that the war is over. Peace has indeed settled
on the land, and We contemplate in its COM
pleteness the terrible that has ragged for the
last four years. We cannot see, or perhaps even
surmise, the full effect that the war is to have in
the history Of this nation but the war itself,
the four years of action, we view aud con-
slider one distinct grand drama.
We may we'll question whether the world has
ever seen its equal in any respect 1t was hrst
beyond parallel great and real in its origin and
purpose. More than half the great wars that
have tormented the human race have been useless
and have originated in trivial and contemplate
causes. They began in the disputes OF royal Ia
yorites and paramours, or at most were questions
of dynasties, disputes of no real account to those
who waged the war but ours was TIE greatest
quarrel in which nation ever took up arms 1t
was the necessary collision Of two great systems
of civilization, for both Of which the same con-
tinent not large enough, and it was, there
fore, quarrel that could only be settled by war.
We fought to sustain human freedom our enc
mics fought to destroy it. This is so grand an
argument that all who go to war seek the prestige
it will give them. and as rule both sides pretend
that they fight for human freedom. Since the
French Revolution. when France stood to resist
the aggression of the sovereigns OF Europe, we
are the first nation that have in truth fought for
this glorious cause For nearly century
the only people that have been stimulated to
fight by the only just cause of war
Nor was tue war less grand in its Development
than its cause. 1t the universal movement
of Il great people and was, therefore, immense
as a display of power merely. All the soycrclgns
Of Europe opposed TO Napoleon agreed to put
million of men in the field against him but they
did it. Five hundred thousand men was
the total embattled power of all those nations
when the battle Of Leipsic was fought; and yet
this one free government actually put in the field
one million of men one side OF this great
struggle And with these million men it concen-
trated in four years the events that with nations
of less vitality scattered over twenty years.
The greatness of the means employed and of the
events crowded in the time are equally without
precedent. Never We're battles contested with
such desperate stubbornness, or won by more
magnificent valor and never was the succession
of great combats so rapid and so persistent
Europe saw in this only that the great battles
were not decisive, and held it up as a reproach
That grave error but one founded on the
narrow view that Europe has persistentv taken
of the whole war. The indecsivcness of these
great battles was only apparent and the effect OF
every battle came at once when the last one WAS
fought In the meantime that effect had been
kept down By the greatness and tenacty of the
fighters. In Europe battle is decisive when
one side is routed. Except Bull Run there
routs here. American soldiers can never be
so badly beaten that, and in this fact is the
one grand difference between us and Europe that
made the war such great tenacious and salts
factory fight
Equally wonderful also has been the develop
mcnt of genius-miltary, naval, political and
financial. We have gone through the great
stcugglc without foreign complications or foreign
loans Native genius also has enabled rs to
carry the military art to a higher pitch than it
has ever reached in any other war. Our naval
novelties have ast0nished the world with their
effectiveness in combat and our naval heroes
given new and grandcr examples Of wonderful
daring. And this great war is also without par
allel in the ur;G and horrible aspects of its last
events--in the fearful dramas of arson, piracy,
wholesale murder and assassination with which
the fendish PASSIONS of our enemies have char
acterized its close. There is Il feature of the
close that Europe will understand quite little
rs it does any of these and that, in fact will be
and it is that the whole country will be recon-
structed and once more grandly free and pro-
gressiye in less than year.-N. \. Uerdid
Is BAD FIx.-Thc editor of the Monterey
Gazette has been put up for the Office of County
AUDITOR because his paper will not afford him
living. lie says;
We are not long and zealously identified with
the county or its interests, though none have
been more industrious while we have been here :;
and we say, to its shame, that had the Union
party in this county done half its duty, we should
not now be reduced to the pititul strait of run
ming for office Ii the members of the party had
taken their county paper and contributed their
mites toward its support, we could have presen-
ted them with journal of which they might
have been proud
WE learn that as soon the dispatch reached
Acapulco, giving the news of the destruction of
our whaers by the rebel pirate Shenandoah, the
commander of the English war steamer Derasta
non then living in the harbor, sought an inter-
view with Capt r. c. Scott, of the T. S. steamer
Saranoc and informed him that he should set
sail Immediately with the Devastation in pursuit
of the Shendndoah and should treat the rebel
cruiser pirate. and capture her wherever she
might be found. He left port as his ship
COuIu De got unNer WHY
SHANE Little Delaware is getting into
bad repute. Her State Senate refused to pass
resolutions in honor of Mr.. Lincon's memory.
Referring to it, the Carson 4ppeal very aptly
saws -. The pillory and the whipping-post
relics of barbarous age worthy of existence in
such a State; and Salisbury is fit representa-
tive of her civilization. Pity she had not seced-
ed. that she might have been whipped into
dccency and good behavior.
4 FExrAx's OArH-A Fenian was arrested in
Liverpool lately, on charge of robbery. On
his person the following oath was found - /
now, in the presence of Almighty God solemnly
swear allegiance to the Irish Republic, now vir-
tually established to take up arms in its defense
at a moments notice and that ! will, to the
best of my power, defend its territory and indie
pendence and will implicitly obey the commands
of my superior officer. So helpme God Ion
don Letter.
JrpGE BINGHAM reaches this conclusion in his
great argument in the assassination cases, g that
Jefferson Davis is clearly proven guilty of this
conspiracy as is John Wilkes Booth, by whose
D,,.;, ;,n; ba al wound