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Excerpt from Selections From the Triumph of the Union (La Victoire Du Nord Aux États-Unis)
It is-well known that it is-not our habit to' offer incense to victory - to applaud the conqueror. This is the first time it has happened to us for more than thirty years. It is very certain we shall not abuse this novelty, and shall not make a practice of applause. Let us then be allowed to day to abandon ourselves without reserve to a joy so rare, by connecting our present emotions with those days, too quickly passed away, when the charter of 1814, the enfranchisement of Greece, the emancipation of English Catholics, the conquest of Algeria, the creation of Belgium, came in succession to adorn _the young years of this century, _to rejoice and strengthen liberal hearts, and mark the stepping'stones of true progress. Behold, anew, after an interval too long, a happy victory. Behold, for once, evil subdued by good, strength triumphant in the service of right. On this side of the world, we have the singular and supreme enjoyment of sharing in the success of a good cause sustained by good measures and gained by worthy people. Let us then thank the God of armies for this glory and this happiness. Let us thank Him for this great victory which He has now granted, for the everlasting consolation of the friends of justice and of liberty, for the eternal confusion of diverse and numerous categories of those who take advantage of and oppress their fellow-creatures by slavery as well as_by corrup tion; by falsehood as by cupidity; by sedition as by tyranny.
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