White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-12
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us to persevere in the struggle In the
interest of human liberty. A Tory
government, headed by Palmerston
and Russell was in full and complete
control, representing the landed in
terests of the kingdom and its aris-
tocracy. 1t was a doubtful boast to
say that every blade of grass had its
representative in Parliament; where
millions of people were unrepre-
sented. Through the cabinets of Eu-
rope, Russell sent the message that
the Union was dead. and 1t was he
who notified Lincoln thai Great Brit
ain and France would act in concert
with reference to our affairs. When
we were struggling in the very
slough of despond, English %privateers
were preying upon our commerce.;
when We were fighting for the right
to exist as a nation, England was
lending aid and comfort to the
enemy-when we were seeking to
abolish slavery, England was schem-
ing to force it upon us-and this
from the government of a country
which has given the world Milton.
Hampden, Chatham, Burke and Fox.
lnClC Wtlt Out tHO ndtlOnS WIN GA
tended to the Republic their
sympathy and support-Russia.
whose Emperor had liberated
twenty million serf, and China.
whose Prince Regent, in the interest
of mankind, closed the ports of his
country ito the seditious."
Putting down rebellion, while
holding off foreign war. were great
er tasks than ever confronted an
American statesman. Singly, they
would stagger Courage itself-com-
bined, only the heroic soul could
rise to the emergency.
Throughout the terrible years of
the war Lincoln held Europe at bay
by a policy so wise and magnani-
nous that 1t finally won the admira-
ton of his antagonists. The South
was rash enough to strike the first
blow, and, for two years, Europe
witnessed the struggles of the fed
eral government to r~e-establish an
authority disputed by armed insur-
rection. In such a contest it could
not intervene without inviting a del
uge upon itself. When the war had
dragged itself through defeat and
disaster, until the patience Of the
North was becoming exhausted, and
the hopes of European Intervention
to stop a seemingly useless slaught-
er were about to be realized. Lincoln
struck the blow of Emancipation.
It's object was twofoid, first, as a
decisive war measure. to rally the
North, and to take the slaves from
the southern fields, and, secondly, to
checkmate foreign activities toward
interference with the prosecution of
the war. Nothing better was ever
conceived to produce far reaching
results in critical times. It's effect
was spontaneous and worldwide,
Immediately realizing the freedom
of a race and the applause of man
kind.
From the time of the issuance of
the famous proclamation, when Lin
coin wrote Liberty" on the banners
of his Army, the character of the war
became ennobled; it was being
waged, not alone to establish the
supremacy of the Constitution, and
the authority of the Nation, but to
give freedom to millions of men.
History may be searched in vain to
find where such a chance was ever
given to one man to confer liberty
upon an alien race. 1t is idle to be-
lieye that freedom can long be main
tanned by one people who deny the
same blessings TO another people.
In the final analysis, the measure of
the good we enjoy will be the
amount of good we do to others.
The law of compensation, under
whatever guise it. appears, proclaims
that what we do to others, we, in
reality, do to ourselves, whether it be
good or evil, right or wrong. And
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