Year: 1864

a. We can but refer, in cursory form, to the
existing outward relations of our country, as


further indicative OF that goodness which is de-


signed TO lead US TO repentance, and which-if


practically recognized and suitably improved


must issue in inealcuable benefits to ourselves


and TO mankind. A change has come over the


spirit of those dreams in which foreign govern


ments INDUCED as to the certain severance and


dissolution of the Federal Union. Even conti-


mental despots treat US now with more than


their wonted courtesy. Our British mother has


recovered somewhat of that natural affection


which seemed well nigh extinguished in her ma


ternai bosom. We must not Judge her wrong


Her nformers and advisers are to blame for


much of the vacillation that has marked her


councils and her acts. These acts and councils


have ever run counter to her deepest and most


cherished instincts. She is now speaking once


more the dialect of freedom, and we may calcu-


late, with seeming safety, her restoration


from that strange insanity which led her TO look


with ill-dlssembled satisfaction, on the expected


Acknowledgement and virtual destruction of the


eldest and noblest of her daughters.


Europe at large is undergoing a process of
rapid education in the science of government,


which has been, and will yet be. greatly aided


by the current history of our land. The un-


precedented and astounding marvels of our fl
nanclal policy are correcting and fixing the at
tention OF statesmen in every part of the eastern
hemisphere. Great as has been their astonisb-
ment at the abundant resources and ready sacri-
hces of the people of the Union, their wonder
Will increase beyond all previous bounds when
they read the stirring appeal of our truly noble
Secretary of the Treasury to the people, follow
ing the demand of the government for half a
million OF recruits! We have not yet contracted
any foreign loan. We have not hired, on public
account, any foreign mercenaries. We have not
withdrawn an ambassador from any court of
Europe. No ambassador from any court of Eu-
rope to Washington, has been recalled by his
own government. Peaceful relations exist be-
tween US and all foreign powers-not excepting
Mexico itself, which, as "a Republic, is still rep
resented in our captal-and all this whilst not
a single official delegate from any nation is
found in Richmond, unless there be there some
seclet emissary from the treacherous Napoleon
or his plastic agent, Maxmilian. The confeder-
acy is sustained by foreign loans contracted, for
the most part, on the bas of precarious returns
of produce, and still more precarious specula-
tons as to what is isabsurdly called the independ-
ence OF the South We have won at last the re
spect of foreign nations. None of them thinks
of US or treats us as less than equals. There is
a cautious and studious abstinence from such
diplomatic language and governmental acts as
might even seem to breathe an unfriendly feel
ing towards the Republic. The people of the
Fatherland, who have been always intimately
and sympathetically with us-and the people of
other lands, SO far as they understand the real
origin and natural issues of this war are
every where speaking out their congratulations
on our success and their hope of our speedy tri-
umph.


twill not be our triumph only, but that of
humanity, Of liberty, of good government
the world There is no speech nor
language where the story of this great and fierce
rebellion will not be heard In every land where I
despotic rule, or custom acting with the force
of rule, imposes fetters upon those who are
born free and equal, this story viii awaken the
spirit of liberty, and give emphatic
warning to all who shall attempt TO make op-
preston the pedestal of power.


''kbenezer Hitherto the Lord hath helped /
US. Hehath not dealt with us after our sins, nor
rewarded us according TO our iniquities. Had
he not been on our side, when men r ase upagainst
us, then they had swallowed us up quick. when
their wrath was kindled against us. Then the
waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone !
over our soul, then the proud waters had gone
over our soul. Blessed be the Lord who hath not
given prey TO their teeth. Our soul is escaped
as bird out of the snare of the fowler, the snare
is broken and veal escaped. Our help is in the
name of the Lord who made heaven and earth"