Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-21

| by this uiii:u enough flying squadronS
coming to t.iis country across the At
lantic to throw into panic every city on
Our American seaboard.
The wars Of the crusaders were only
to regain an empty sepulcher; the Ma
poleonic wars. with their 10000
slaughtered men, wero projected ard
carried out to nppcase the ambition of
one man; of tho 50, 600, 900 slain in
jewish wars, and of the 10000, 600
slain in wars under Julius Caesar; of
the $50, 900, 900 slain in wars with
Turks and Saracons of the $4,000, 600
slain in wars Of Xcrxcs; of the 90, 000,
900 slain III wars of Justinian, aud the
32, 600, 0O0 slain in the wars of Genghis
Khan, not one uan was sacrificed by
mercy, but in this MISREPRESENTATION
war every drummer boy or picket Or
gunner or standard bearer or skirmisher
or sharpshootor or cavalryman or artil-
leryman or engineer who falls falls in
the cause of mercy and becomes mar
tyr for God and his country.
Spain VIII Be Free.
Another alienation of this war is
that it is for the advancement of the
sublime principle of liberty, which will
vet cngirdle the earth Not only will
this war free Cuba, but finally will free
Spain. By what right does dynasty
like that stand, aud n corrupt court dom
mate people for centuries, taxing them
to death, riding in gilded chariot over
the necks Of beggared population?
I There are 10, 600 boys i'll Spain growing
up with more capacity to govern that
nation than will the weak boy now in
the Madrid palace ever possess. Before
this conflict is over the Spanish nation
will be we'll OH toward the time when
constitutional convention will assem-
BILE to establish free government ill.,
stead of the WORKOUT dynasty that now
nfllicts the people. The liberty of all
nations, transatlantic us well rs cisat-
lantio, if not already established, is Oh
the way, and it cannot bu stopped.
Napoleon III thought he had SUCCESS
fully driven tie principle out of France
when, Oh the I'd day of December,
1851, he rode down the Champs Elsyees
of Paris, constitutional government
seemingly crushed under the hoofs of
his steed. But did it stay crushed? Let
the batteries on the heights above Sedan
answer, and tho shout of $50, 600 con-
uuering hosts and the letter of surren-
der to Emperor William tell the story.
"Sire, My Drother-Not having been
able to die in the midst of my troops, it
only remains for me to place my sword
in your majesty's hands. l am your
majesty, your good brother, Napoleon.
Sedan, September, 1870" That mon
archy having fallen, then the French
republic resumed its march.
Another alienation Is that the war
opens with q great victory for tho Unit
ed States. 1t took our government four
years to get over the tiasco at Bull Run.
A defeat at the start of this present war
would have been dishcartening to the
last degree and would have invited for
eisn intervention to stop the war before
ANYTHING practical for God and human
ity had been accomplished and would
have prolonged the strife, for which we
are hoping quick termination. In the
most jubilant manner let this victory
of our navy be celebrated. With the
story of the exploding battloship fresh
in the minds of the world it required
no ordinary courage to sail into the
harbor of Manila and attack the Span
ish shipping. That harboa crowded
with sunken weaponry Of death, to en-
ter it was running risk enough to
make all nations shiycr. But Manila
is ours, and the blow has shaken to the
foundation the palaces of Madrid, and
for policy's sake the doubtful nations
are on our side. For Commodore Dew
ey and all who followed him let the
whole nation utter its most resembling
huzza, and more than that, let us thank
the Lord of hosts for his guiding and
protecting power. Praise yo the Lord
Let every thing that hath breath praise
the Lord. -
A War For the Right.
Another alienation is the fact that
in this war the might is Oh the side of
the right Again and again have liber-
ty and Justice and suffering humanity
had the odds against tbcm. 1t was so
when Benhadad's Syrian hosts, who
were in the wrong. at Aphek came up
on the small regiments of Israeli who
were in the right, the Bible putting it
in orc of those graphic sentences for
which the book is remarkable, 1.-The
children of Israel pitched before them
like two little fochs of kids, but the
Syrians filled the whole country" 1t
was so in the awful defeat of the Lord S
people at Gilboa and Me5iddo. 1t was
so recently when gallant and glorious
! Greece was in conflict with gigantic
Mohammedanism ard the nayies Of
Europe lowering about the Bosporus
were in practical protection Of the Turk
ish government fresh from the slaugh-
ter of 100, 600 Armenians. 1t was SO
when in 1916 the 10 colonies, with no
war shipping and few undrilled and
/ poorly clad soldiers, were brought into
! contest with the mightiest navy Of
all the earth and an army that COM
manded the admiration of nations. 1t
was so when Poland was crushed. 1t
was SO when Hungary went under. 1t
has been 60 during all the struggles
heretofore for Cuban independence. But
now it is our powerful navy against a
feeble group of incompetent ships,
crawling across the Atlantic to meet
GUY hotillas which have enough guns
b send them as completely under as
!,hen the Red sea submerged Pharaoh 8
army. 1t is SO in these times, when on
" few thousand Spaniards at most
can reach our hemisphere, and we 60
out to meet them with 1875, 1000 armed
men, to be backed up speedily with 5Oo,-
600 more if needed. We do not have to
ask for any miracle, but only fair shot
at the ships headed this way and time
enough to demolish them. This is one
of tho cases in the worlds history
where might and right are shoulder to
shoulder.
Doom of Spain.
Another alienation is in the fact