had gained a victory!

Meanwhile it is a matter of no small import to observe that there has
been a vast increase in the mass of indorsement of General Hunter's
conduct compared to what there would have been a few months ago. However
it interfered with the general policy of the Executive, no one doubts
that as a military and local measure it was eminently wise. Sooner or
later it will be adopted--meanwhile what has been done has been
productive of results which can not be undone. The great cause is the
cause of God--and every struggle only aids it onward.

* * * * *

The London Times of May 10th contained a long editorial leader on
American affairs, beginning in the following manner:

'It will have been noticed as a singular feature of the American
quarrel, that no intervention is thought probable or practicable,
except in favor of the South. Mediation, in whatever form or under
whatever name it is to be offered, is universally taken to imply
some movement in behalf of the Confederates. So completely, indeed,
are the belligerents themselves impressed with this idea, that the
South casts it in our teeth as a scandal and a blunder that no
European arbitration has been yet interposed; while the President
of the Northern States actually proclaims a day of thanksgiving for
the deliverance of the country from 'foreign intervention,' which
he identifies with nothing less than 'invasion.' The instincts of
the combatants have undoubtedly led them to correct decisions on
this point, but the fact is not a little curious. We need not
dissemble the truth about certain prepossessions current in
Europe. It is beyond denial that, in spite of the slavery question,
the Southerners have been rather the favorites, partly as the
weaker side, partly as conquerors against odds, and partly because
their demand for independence was thought too natural to be
resisted at the sword's point by a Government founded on the right
of insurrection only. To these merely sentimental and not very
cogent considerations was added the more potent and weighty
reflection that what the Southerners had done no Power, whether
American or European, could succeed in undoing.'

The rest of the article, as the reader may recall, was devoted to
sneering at the North and in commending intervention; the whole being
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