Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-05-20

by this time enough flying squadrons
coming to this 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 G.000. 600
slaughtered men, were projected and
carried out to appease the ambition Of
one man; Of the $4,000, 600 slain in
Jewish wars, and Of the go, 900, 900
slain in wars under julius Cesar; of
the 1S0, 600, 600 slain in wars with
Turks and Saracens; Of the 80, 900, 900
slain in wars Of Xerxes; Of the 0,000,
600 slain in wars of Justinian, and the
32, 600, 600 slain in the wars Of Genghis
Khan, not one man was sacrificed by
mercy, but in this Hispanio-American
war every drummer boy or picket or
gunner or standard bearer or skirmisher
or sharpshooter or cavalryman or artil-
leryman or engineer who falls falls in
the cause of mercy and becomes a 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
yet engirdle the earth. Not only will
this war free Cuba, but finally will free
Spain. BY what right does a dynasty
like that stand. and corrupt court DOM
mate people for centuries, taxing them
to death, riding in gilded chariot over
the necks Of beggared population:
There are 10, 900 boys in Spain growing
mp 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 on toward the time when
a constitutional convention will assem-
BILE to establish free government in-
stead of the wornout dynasty that now
afflicts the people. The liberty Of all
nations, transatlantic as we'll as cisat-
lantic, if not already established, is on
the way, and it cannot be stopped.
Napoleon III thought he had success
fully driven the principle out Of France
when, on 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 il stay crushed! Let
the batteries on the heights above Sedan
answer, and the shout Of $50 600 con-
auering hosts and the letter of surren-
der to Emperor William tell the story.
"Sire, My Brother-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 alleyiation is that the war
opens with a great victory for the Unit
ed 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 for
eign 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 a quick termination. In the
most iubilant manner let this victory
Of our navy be celebrated. With the
story Of the exploding battleship fresh
in the minds Of the world it required
no ordinary courage to sail into the
barbor Of Manila and attack the Span
ish shipping That harbor, crowded
with sunken weaponry Of death, to en-
ter it was running risk enough to
make all nations shiyer. 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 resounding
huzza. and more than that, let US thank
the Lord of hosts for bis guiding and
protecting power. praise ye the Lord.
Let everything that hath breath praise
the Lord. "
A War For the Right.
Another alienation is the fact that
in this war the might is on the side OF
the right. Again and again have liber-
ty and justice and suffering humanity
had the odds against them. II was SO
when Benhadad's Syrian hosts, who
were in the wrong, at Aphek came up
on the small regiments OF Israel, who
were in the right the Bible putting II
in one of those graphic sentences fol
which the book is remarkable. 1.-The
children of Israel pitched before them
like two little f0cks Of kids, but the
Syrians filed the whole country. ~ II
was so in the awful defeat Of the Lord
people at Gilboa and Megiddo. Ii wa;
so recently when gallant and glorious
Greece was in conflict with gigantic
Mohammedanism ard the nayies ol
Europe lowering about the Bosporu'
were in practical protection OF the Turk
ish government, fresh from the slaugh
ter of 100, 600 Armenians. 1t was St
when in 1916 the 10 colonies, with nc
war shipping and few undrilled anC
poorly clad soldiers. were brought int
a contest with the mightiest navy OF
all the earth and an army that com
manded the admiration Of nations. II
was so when Poland was crushed. Il
was so when Hungary went under. II
has been SO during all the struggles
heretofore for Cuban independence. Bu
now it is our powerful navy against
feeble group Of incompetent ships
crawling across the Atlantic to mee'
,ur fotillas, which have enough gun'
o. send them as completely under al
Shen the Red sea submerged Pharaoh I
army. 1t is so in these times, when on
Iy a few thousand Spaniards at mos
can reach our hemisphere, and we 9
out to meet them with 1875, 200 arme'
men, to be backed up speedily with 500,
600 more if needed. We do not have
ask for any miracle, but only a fair she
at the ships headed this way and tim
enough to demolish them. This is on
of the cases in the worlds histor
where might and right are shoulder