The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-12
TIE PEOPLE OLE AMRRInA.

tioDs of the world, for freedom Itself, they
thanked Gcd for the severity of the trial to
which He put their sincerity, and neryed them
selves for their duty with an inexorable WILL
The President was led along by the greatness OF
thelr sell-sacridcing examples; and as cnlld IN
a dark night on q rugged way, catches hold of
the hand Of its father for guidance and support.
he clung fast to the hand OF the people, and
moved calmly through the gloom. While the
statesmanship of Europe was scofing at the
hopeless vanity of their efforts, they put forth
such miracles of energy as the history OF the
world had never known. The navy of the
United States drawing into the public service
the willing militia of the SEAS doubled its ton
mage in eight months, and established an actual
blockade from Cape Hatteras to the Rio Grande;
in the course of the war it was increased five
fold in men land lin tonnage, while the inven-
tive genius of the country devised more effective
kinds of ordnance, and new forms OF naval
architecture IN wood and IRON There went into
the field, for various terms OF service, abouttwo
million men; and in March last the men in SER
vice exceeded million; that is TO say, one of
every two able-bodied men took some part in the
war; and at one time every fourth able-bodied
man was in the field. In one single. month, one
hundred and siXty-iYe thousand were recruited
into service, Once, within four weeks, Ohio
organized and placed in the deld forty-two regi-
ments OF infani1y--nearly thlrGy-siX thousand
zen; and Ohio was like other States in the East
and in the West. TIE well-mounted cavalry
numbered eighty-our thousand; OF horses there
We're bought frs and last, two-thirds of a mil
lion. In the movements OF troops Science came
instance out of many, an army twenty three
Thousand strong, with its artillery, trans, bag
gage, and animals, were moved by rail from the
Potomac to the Tennessee, twelve hundred
miles, in seven days. In the long marches,
wonders of military construction bridged the
rivers; and whenever an army halted, ample
supplies awaited them at their ever-changng
Ease the vile thought that life is the greatest
OF blessings did not rise mp. In six hundred
and twenty-five battles and severe skirmishes
blood flowed like Wate". " streatled over the
grassy plains; it stained the rocks; the under
growth of the forests was REQ with it; and the
armies marched on with majestic courage if2m
one conflict to another, knowing that they were
fighting for God and liberty. The Organization
OF The medical department met its infinitely
multiplied duties with eXactness ana despatch.
AT the news of battle the best surgeons
of our cities hastened to the field, to offer
the Jealous aid OF the greatest experience
and skill. The gentlest and most refined
of women left homes of luxury and ease,
to build hospital tents near the armies, and
serve as nurses to the sick and dying. Besides
the large supply Of religious teachers by the
public, the congregations spared to their bro
theirs in the field the ablest ministers. The
Christian Commission, which expended five and
a halt millions, sent four thousand clergymen,
chosen out of the best, 10 keep unsoiled the
religious character of the men, and made gifts
or clothes and food and medicine. The organi-
Zaton of private charity assumed unneard-of
dimensions. The Sanitary Commission, which
had seven thousand societies, distributed, under
contributions to the amount of fifteen millions,
in supplies of money-a million and half in
money from California alone-and dotted the
scene Of war from Padncah to Port Royal, from
Belle Plain, Virginia, to Brownsville, Texas,
with homes and lodges.
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
The country had for its allies the river Missis-
spp, which would not be divided, and the
range ofmountains which carried the stronghold
of the free through Western Virginia and Ken
tucky and Tennessee to the highlands of Ala
bama But it invoked the still higher power of
immortal justice. In ancient Greece, where SER
vitude was the universal custom, it was held that
if a child we're 10 strike its parent, the slave
should defend the parent, and by that act re-
cover his freedom. After vain resistance, Lin
coin. who had tried to solve the question by
gradual emancipation, by colonization, and by
compensation, at last saw that slavery must be
abolished, or the Republic must die; and on the
first day Of January, 1868 he wrote liberty on the
banners of the armies. When this proclamation,
which struck the fetters from three millions of
slaves reached Europe, Lord Russell, a country
man of Milton and Wilberforce, eagerly put him
self forward to speak of it in the name of man
kind saying, at is OF very strange nature;"
"a measure OF war OF very questionable kind;"
IAN act OF vengeance on the slave owner" that
does no more than "profess to emancpate slaves
where the United States authorities cannot make
emancipation reality" Now there was no part of
the country embraced in theprocIamation where
the United States could not and did not make
emancipation a reality. Those who saw Lincoln
most frequently had never before heard him
speak with bitterness of any human being; but
he did not conceal how keenly he felt that he
had been wronged by Lord Russell. And he
wrote in reply to another cayiller:-"The eman-
cipaton policy, and the use OF colored troops,
were the greatest blows yet dealt to the Rebel
lion. The job was great national one; and let
none be sighted who bore an honorable part in
it. hope peace will come soon, and come to
stay; then will there be some black men who
| can remember that they have helped mankind to
| this great consummatlon,'
RUSSIA AND CHINA.
| The proclamation accomplished its end, for,
| during the war, our armies came into military
possession of every State in rebellion. Then,
| too, was called forth the new power that comes
| from the simultaneous diffusion OF thought and
| feeling among the nations of mankind. The
| mysterious sympathy of the millions throughout
the world was given spontaneously. The best
writers of Europe walked the conscience of the
| thoughtful, till the intelligent moral sentiment
OF the Old World was drawn to the
side of the unlettered statesman of the West
| Russia, whose Emperor had Just accom-
plished one of the grandest acts in the course
| of time, by raising twenty millions of bond
| men into fTeeholders, and thus assuring the
growth and culture of the Russian people, re-
NAMED our unwayering friend. From the
oldest abode of civilization, which gave the
first example of an imperial government with
equality among the people, Prince Kung, the
Secretary OF State for Foreign Affairs, remem-
bered the saying OF ConiUcius that we should
not do to others what we would not that Others
should do to us, and III the name of the EN-
peror of China closed its ports against the
war ships and priyateers of 'the sedItious."
CONTINUANCE OF THE WAR.
The war continued, with all the peoples of the
world tor anxious spectators. It's cares weighed
heavily on Lincoln, and his face was ploughed
with the burrows of thought and sadness: With