The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-20

of Xerxes. Of the 90 00, 900 slain in wars
of Justinian and the 80, 900, 900 slain in
the wars of Genghis Khan not one man
was sacrificed by mercy, but in this
Observation-Disclosures war every drum
mer boy or picket or gunner or stand
ard bearer or skirmisher or sharp
shooter or cavalryman or ar~tilleryman
or engineer who falls falls in the cause
of mercy and becomes a martyr for
God and his country.
TT PRINCIPLE OF LIBERTY.
An her alienation of this war is
lat . is for the advancement of the
subli;. = principle Of liberty, which will
yet e@girdle the earth. Not only will
this var free Cuba. but finally will free
Spain. BY what right does a dynasty
like that stand, and a corrupt court
dominate a people for centuries, taxing
them to death, riding in gilded chariot
over the necks Of a beggared popula-
tion? There are 1000 boys in Spain
growing up with more capacity to gov
ern that nation than will the weak boy
now in the Madrid palace ever possess.
Before this conflict IL over the Spanish
nation will be we'll On coward the time
when q constitutional convention will
assemble to establish a free govern
ment instead of the wornout dynasty
that now affiicts the people. The lib
erty of all nations, transatlantic as
wei as clSdlidIIlc, IL not dlTedOy eS-
tablished, is on the way and it cannot
be stopped.
Napoleon III thought he had success
fully driven the principle out ofFrance
when or the I'd day of December, 1851,
he rode down the Champs Elysees of
Paris, constitutional government SEEM
ingly crushed under the hoofs of his
steed. But did it stay crushed? Let
the batteries on the heights above Sc
don arcuor ond tho chnt,f Of 050 0n0
conquering host, and the letter of sur
render 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. I
am, your majesty, your good brother,
Napoleon. Sedan, / September, 1S70.'
That monarchy having fallen, then the
French republic resumed it's march.
A GOOD BEGINNING.
Another alienation is hat the war
opens with a great victory for the Uni
ted States. 1t tool our government
-four years to get over the fiasco at
Bull Run. A defeat at the start of
this present war wOuld have been dis
heartening to the last degree and would
have invited foreign Intervention to
stop the war before anything practical
for God and humanity had been ac-
complished and % have prolonged
the strife for which we are hoping a
quick termination. In the most jubi-
liant manner let this victory of our ma
Wy be celebrated. With the story of
the exploding battleship fresh in the
, minds of the world, it required no ordi-
| nary courage to sail into the harbOr
of Manila and attack the Spanish
shipping. That harbOr, crowded with
sunken of death-tO enter it
yUa G VI1nnino o. a riCk nnIo fn n n Io oil
| nations shiver But Manila is ours,
and the blow has shaken to the funda-
ton the palaces of Madrid, and for
pOlicy's sake the doubtful nations are
on our side. Fol Commodore Dewey
! and all who followed him let the whole
nation utter it's most r~esOunding huZza,
and, more than that, let us thank the
Lord of hosts for his guiding n pro-
tecting power. Praise we the Lord!
Let everything that hath breath praise
the Lord"
MIGHT ALLIED WITH RIGHT.
Another alienation is the fact that in
this wal the might is on the side of the
right. Again and again have liberty
and justice and suffering humanity
a the odds against them. 1t was so
when Benhadad's Syrian hosts, who
! were in the right, the Bible putting it
in one of those graphic sentences for
"IlSI IlC OOOh * III NuOlC, Lie
children of Israel pitched before them
like two little focks of kids, but the
Syrians filled the whole country" 1t
was sO~in the awful defeat Of the
Lords people at GilbOa and MegiddO.
1t was so recently when gallant and
glorious Greece was in conflict with gil
gantic MOhammedanism, and the ma
vies of Europe lowering about the Bos-
porous were in practical protection of
tho Turkish government fresh from
the slaughter of 100, 900 Armenians. 1t
was SO when, in 1776, the Is colonies,
with no war shipping and a few I'M
drilled and poorly clad soldiers, were
brought into a contest with the might
lest navy of all the earth and an army
that commanded the admiration of ma
tiOnS. 1t was so when Poland was
crushed. 1t was so when Hungary
went under. 1t has been so during all
the struggles heretofore for Cuban in
dependence. But now it is our power
full navy against a feeble group of in
competent ships, crawling across the
Atlantic to meet our fotillas, which
have enough guns to send them as COM
pletely under as when the Red sea
| submerged Pharaoh's army. 1t is so in
these times when only a few thousand
S~paniards at most can reach our hem
iSphere, and We go out to meet them
with 125, 900 armed men, to be backed
up speedily with SOC, 900 more if needed.
We do not have to ask for any miracle,
but only a fair shot at the ships headed
this way and time enough to demolish
them. This is one of the cases in the
worlds history where might and right
are shoulder to shoulder.
CRIME MUST BE PUNISHED.
Another alienation is in the fact that
such an atrOcity as the destruction of
266 lives in Havana harbor in time of
peace cannot with impunity be
wrought in this age of the worlds
civilization. The question as to who
did that infernalism is too well settled
to need any further discussion. But
what a small crime it 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 of! If Spain could
destroy 2OO,O 900 men, women and chill
dren, the slaughter of 266 people was
not a very great undertaking. But