. The story of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. -ference had been stilled by the knowledge of Americandetermination and freedoms wonderful success ; the Eman-cipation Proclamation of 1863 cleared the atmosphere andelectrified the world. The schemes of Louis Napoleon,who sought to lead the powers of Europe into intervention,recognition, and perhaps, as he suggested, even moreactive measures, were beaten down by the hammer-blows ofGrant and the magnificent patience and persistence of Lin-coln. Russia returned a decisive and instant refusal; Ger-many bought United States bonds with pe
. The story of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. -ference had been stilled by the knowledge of Americandetermination and freedoms wonderful success ; the Eman-cipation Proclamation of 1863 cleared the atmosphere andelectrified the world. The schemes of Louis Napoleon,who sought to lead the powers of Europe into intervention,recognition, and perhaps, as he suggested, even moreactive measures, were beaten down by the hammer-blows ofGrant and the magnificent patience and persistence of Lin-coln. Russia returned a decisive and instant refusal; Ger-many bought United States bonds with perfect confidence,and was obstinately bent against the cause of the bellig-erent Confederacy. All parties and classes in Europe,wrote Mr. Adams in 1865, areresolved on a strict neutral-ity; and John Bright, in the fall of 1864, wrote to CharlesSumner, to re-elect Mr. Lincoln will be to tell Europethat your country is to be restored and slavery destroyed. That announcement to Europe and the world was madein November, 1864. Abraham Lincoln was re-elected 260. ABRAHAM LINCOLN From Bradys Originai, Photograph New birth of our new soil, the first A merican HOW LIBERTY AND UNION CAME. 261 president of the United States by two hundred and twelveelectoral votes against his opponents twenty-one, and by aclear majority of half a million in the popular vote. Seldom in history, said Emerson, was so muchstaked on a popular vote ; I suppose never in history. It is not wise to swap horses when crossing streams,declared Mr. Lincoln in the quaint, homely, direct phrasethat the people loved. No swapping was done ; the war was to be fought toa final and triumphant end ; and that end came when, on theninth of April, 1865, General Lee surrendered his armyat Appomattox to General Grant. The South had foughtnobly, persistently, valiantly. Against ever-increasingodds ; against the growing hostility of the world; againstprivation, suffering, disaster, and loss, they still fought on,and only gave up the
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