The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-16

ly driven the principle ontof France when
on the I'd day Of Deoember 1851, he rode
down the Champs Elysess Of Paris, con-
stltutional government seemingly crushed
under the boots Of his steed. But did 1t
stay crushedi Let the batteries on the
heights above Sedan answer, and the shout
of ESQ, 900 oonquering hosts, and the letter
of surrender to Emperor William tell the
story. "Sire. my brother, not having been
able to die in the midst Of my troops 1t
only remains for me to place my sword In
your majesty's hands. lam, your majesty,
your good brother, Napoleon. Sedan, !
September, 1870" That monarchy having
fallen, then the French republic resumed
its march.
A Good Beginning.
Another alienation is that the war opens
with great victory for the United States.
1t took our government four years to get
over the fiasco at Bull Run. A defeat at
the start of this present war would have
been disheartening to the last degree and
would have invited foreign Intervention
to stop tho war before anything practical
for God and humanity had been accom-
plished and would have prolonged the
strife for which we are hoping quick
termination. In the most jubilant man
ner let this victory Of our navy be cele-
brated. With the story of the exploding
battleship fresh in the minds Of the world.
itrequired no ordinary courage to sail in
to the harbor of Manila and attack the
Spanish shipping. That harbor, crowded
with sunken weaponry Of death-to enter
1t was running risk enough to make all
nations SILVER. But Manila Is ours, and
the blow has shaken to the foundation the
palaces of Madrid, and for policys sake
the doubtful nations are on our side For
Commodore Dewey and all who followed
him let the whole nation utter its most re-
sounding huzza, and, more than that, let
us thank the Lord Of hosts for his guiding
and protecting power. "Praise ye the
Lord Let everything that hath breath
praise the Lordl"
Might Allied With Right.
Another alienation is. the fact that in
this war the might Is on the side of the
right. Again and again have liberty and
justice and suffering humanity had the
odds against them. 1t was so when Ben
hadad's Syrian hosts, who were in the
wrong, at Aphek came upon the small regi-
ments of Israel, who were in the right,
the Biblo putting 1t In one of those graphic
sentences for which the book is remark
able, "The children of Israel pitched be-
fore them like two little flocks Of kids, but
tho Syrians filled the whole country" 1t
was SO in the awful defeat of the Lords
people at Gilboa and Megiddo. 1t was 60
recently when gallant and glorious Greece
was in conflict with gigantic Mohamme-
danism, and the nayies Of Europe hover
ing about the Bosporus were in practical
protection of the Turkish government,
fresh from the slaughter of 100, 900 Arme-
mans. 1t was SO when, in l776, the 10
colonies, with no war shipping and few
undrilled and poorly clad soldiers, were
brought into contest with the mightiest
navy of all tho earth and an army that
commanded the admiration of nations. 1t
was so when Poland was crushed. 1t was
60 when Hungary went under. 1t has
been SO during all the struggles heretofore
for Cuban Independence But now it is
our powerful navy against feeble group
of incompetent ships, crawling across tho
Atlantic to meet our fiotillas, which have
enough guns to send them as completely
under as when the Red sea submerged
Pharaoh's army. 1t is SO in these times
when only fow thousand Spaniards at
most can reach our hemisphere, and we go
out to meet them with 1875, 900 armed men,
to DO backed up speedily with 800, 900 more
il needed. We do not have to ask for any
miracle, but only fair shot at the ships
headed this way and time enough to de-
molish them. This is ono Of the cases In
tho worlds history where might and right
arc shoulder to shoulder.
- Crime Must Be Punished.
Another alienation Is In the fact that
such an atrocity ms the destruction of 266
lives in Havana harbor III time Of peace
cannot with IMMUNITY be wrought In this
ago of the worlds civilization. The ques-
ton Us to who did that infernalism is too
well settled to need any further discussion.
But what small crime 1t was compared
with the systematic putting into their
graves Of hundreds Of thousands of Gu
bans or leaving them unburied for the
buzzards to take care Of! If Spain could
destroy 900, 900 men, women and children,
the slaughter of 266 people was not very
great undertaking. But this one last deed
will result in tie liberation of Cuba, and
tho driving of Spain from this hemisphere
and the overthrow of that government,
which will soon drop to pieces II it does
not 60 down under kombardment Of in
suited nations.
There was danger that the long con-
tinucd oppression of our neighbors in Cuba
might DO continued from generation to
generation without sufficient protest on
our part and tho pronounced oXecration OF
people on both sides of the Atlantic, but
that bursting vUitano of destruction in the
harbor of Havana fired tho nation and
shocked the whole civilized world. All ma
tons will learn that such an act cannot be
repeated without the anathema of all
Christendom. As individual criminals
must be punished for the public good, and
we have for them courts of oyer and ter
miner and pcnitentiaries and electric chairs
and hungmans gallows, go governments
committing high crimes against God and
humanity must be sGourged and hung up
for the worlds indignation. When in
punish waters our battleship, looking
after orr commercial interests md intend
ing nothing but quietudo, was hurled into
demolition and the men on board, without
time to utter one word of prayer, were
dashed into the eternal world, the doom
of the reigning house Of Spain was pro-
nounccd in tones louder than the thunder
which that night rolled out over the sea.
God Is With Us.
Another alienation is tho fact that we
hayo God to go to in behalf of oil those
of our countrymon who may be in especial
exposure ut the front, for we must admit
the pcris. 1t Is no trifling thing for 10O,-
600 young men to be put outside of home
restraints and sometimes into evil COM
partnership. Many Of the brave of the
earth arc not the good of the earth. To be
in tho same tent with those who have 10
regard for God or home, to hear their holy
religion sometimes slurred ot, to be placed
under influences calculated to make one
reckless to have no Sabbath except such
Sabbath as in most encampments amounts
to no Sabbath at ALL to go out from homes
where all sanitary laws are observed into
where questions of health
arc never discussed, to invade climes where
postlence holds possession, to make long
marches under blistering skies, to stand
ON deck and in the fields under fire at tho
mercy of shot and shell-wo must admit
that those thus exposed reed especial care,
and to the omnipresent God we have a
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