19 pact, the integrity of the country. It is sad that it has found so little support in Europe, and especially in France. 'They relied on us—in us they placed their trust—and we have abandoned them as if the sacred words of Country and of Liberty no longer awoke a response in our hearts. What has become of the days when the whole of France ’applauded the young Lafayette, as he buckled on, his sword in the cause of America? Who has imitated him, who has recalled that glorious memory ? Have we grown so old as to have forgotten all that ? What will be the issue of the war ? It is impossible to foresee. The South may succeed. The North may be divided and exhausted by intestine strife. The Union is, perhaps, even now, but a great memory. But whatever may be the future, or whatever fortune may attend it, the duty of every man who does not allow himself to be carried away by the success of the present hour, is to sustain and encourage the North to the'last -—to condemn those whose ambition threatens to destroy the most perfect and the most patriotic work of humanity—to remain faithful to the end of the war, and, even after defeat, to those, who will have fought to the last moment for Right and Liberty. EDOUARD LABOULAYE.
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