The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-09

tration of the possibilities of political system
in which the people are theoretically and prac-
tically the primary power. If the time had
come for setting before the world by unequivo-
cal example the state and strength of nation
that had fairly made the experiment of popular
institutions; lfuhe world was at last ripe to be
taught the great lessons--whst system of gov
eminent bes. developed the wealth and power
Of country and people in peace, what sys-
tenn could best endure the violence Of war,
what system offered the greatest promise to
meet every requirement Of government in the
present state of civilization and knowledge
nothing could have taught it 80 we'll or have
amples as the rebellion and the terrible war
by which It was crushed out In the history
of this war we suddenly come before the Old
World as new people stepping forth from
the obscurity Of transatlantic isolation and i'm
pressing the age with new facts and new princi-
pies in war and in political philosophy that
spread, as the lightning moves, to the remotest
and dimmest corners of Europe and of Asia,
enlightening, changing, renewing the vitality
of the world, lifting up the spirit of the people
and giving the impulse that moves to freedom
the most dissimilar races from Turkey to
Japan.
Very properly, in view of the effect it was to
have upon the world, this war was in literal
fact a contest between the past and the
present-between force and thought between
the never resting progress from which all good
must come and reactionary effort. A moiety
of our social system conspired to seize the
government and make 1t machine to warp
and pervert the growth of the nation, or, failing
that, to establish new government and Or
ganize republic based upon African slavery.
For this cause the men who stood by 1t fought
with gallantry that will win the applause of
ages, indescribably splendid in all the heroic
virtues of courage, energy, fortitude, resolute,
unconquerable will. They also displayed the
highest types of intellectual power in the
genius of their generals, and the military
skill, the calm reason, the ready perception,
and the magnetic power Of leaders like Lee,
Jackson, Johnston, Hampton and the rest,
found ct employment in marshaIling to battle
hardy and daring people that counted no cost
of blood or suffering in the struggle to win the
battle they believed to be for the right. But
they failed-failed only because they had to
struggle against people the same in race
and spirit with themselves, but in greater
numbers and better array. The North had
more men and more money Its men were of
The same ancestry and the same breed, and
there were more Of them. Animated with the
same manly virtues, the same courage, the
same generous enthusiasm for the cause
that was dear to their hearts, the
same readiness to endure and to die
for the grand idea, and led by men
like Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Soho
field-msn of high intellectual capacity and
bred in the same school with the men who led
the Southern soldiers. The Northern soldiers
finally crushed their opponents by the mere
weight and succession of assault. Beaten
down in such a struggle, though the Southern
men lost their cause, they lost no honor as
soldiers, and they made for their achievements
a heroic history at which no man of generous
oCuSEAOheo JUL PVAhs eAO hhBCk VI AOptVuCn.
And at this all should rejoice, FOR it Is this
fact Of all others that now enables Southern
men to come into Northern cities and stand
side by side with the Northern men who sympa-
thize with them on questions that now agitate
the country without any feeling of inequality
or any painful sense of their failure This is
a guarantee that the union of North and South
will be as hearty, as earnest, as true in the
future as ever it was In the past. Happily
now these men have given up their false
ideas, have renounced their error and, acting
with the Northern people on all our great
social and public questions, we may see the
double power Of the two sections, the sccumu-
lated energy and force Of the whole American
people, pushing to their solution the great
problems Of national life with force that
nothing csn stay. A the electric telegraph in
it's constant marches brings nation after nation
into the community Of thnnght and makes
the world one In It's daily impulse, NO
shall see extending into every land the
influence Of our American example The
triumph of the cause o. the people IN this
great war has stirred already the heart Of
Europe; we have seen Il in England and Ger
many most directly, and Il 10 NOS without
effect in Turkey and even In Asia while on
the other hand we may safely say that If the
cause Of slavery had gained the victory il
would have retarded the emancipation Of
Europe full century.
II is to be regretted that neither Of the
great political parties that divide the country
understand the true historical import Of the
war. The republicans see In IL only fsct
that gave votes to the negroes and in these
new voters gave them deans to secure future
power-the pitiful party view; the democrats
ignore it-are afraid and ashamed to hear ite
namo That thev ohopId fool Tina in tho