Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-06-16
Our neighbor OF the Racine Advocate

Our neighbor OF the Racine Advocate
says among other things:
"Peace has its ills and they are many -
They must be cured, for the world will not
bear them much longer. They must be
cured, and war alone will heal the scankers
of a long peace and calm world.'"
What the ills of peace are, we do not
know, for the world has had too little of it
~ enable US 10 judge accurately. We may
form some idea however, when we find that
in peace the arts and sciences flourish, the
mass ofmind becomes educated and expands
and rises, wealth and comfort abounds and
becomes general, virtue diffnses itself, thro'
all classes, and the government assumes
and maintains just and healthy character,
while in war the opposite Of all this takes
place. The few seeds Of virtue and ntell.
gence that short era Of peace has succeed
ed in sowing are ruthlessly trampled TO the
earth and crushed, vice reigns supreme in
all its hideousness, the ma So of mind is
brutied and degraded; the substance of
the many is taken by the few; the many be-
come in effect slaves, and all that the good
heart desires to live for is bloted from the
earth. There are in reality the two condi-
tons, vet we find that war is advocated 10
cure the ills Of peace. Would it not be
we'll 10 reduce the matter 10 mathematical
PRECISION. Doubtless it can be ascertaned
just exactly how many years of peace the
world can stand at a time; let us declare
then in our fundamental law that war shall
take place at such specified periods as shall
be found necessary TO cure the ills of peace.
What is the condition Of all Europe now.-
Wars have never ceased there, and in the
best of European nations the face of all So
ciety is covered with slavery, misery and
degradation. Do we desire this condition.
Certainly state DIVA will bring us to it.
1t may require it long continued, but the
shortest one will do It's share. When we
are struck il may be necessary to punish
the aggressor. and compel his good behavior
but as to settling any disputes by force of
arms we will never believe it necessity
There is no grievance, nor i'll but which can
be better cured. In nine cases out of ten
a people who take up arms to resist tyrrany,
but the better prepare themselves as the
victims ola new ,yrant. The degradation
which war brings in its train debases the
mind to condition incapable of selfgovern-
ment. Let moral warfare be waged a.
galnst wrong. This is a strife which lifts
up and expands the mind, and when a vic
tory is Won as ii must and will be; the peo-
pie are capable ofentering upon enjoying
and improving their new condition. That
we as people did rot fall into anarchy and
lis consequent evils, at the close of our
revolution, we attribute less to the character
of the people, than to that of few dcter>
mined and enlightened patriots, whose
strength OF mind even The horrors of war
could not corrupt. But we cannot pursue
the subject. In war every thing works to
evil. In peace even seeming evils are
continually working TO good, and we are
sorry 10 perceive in free and enlightened
America in the nineteenth century, the ne.
cessity of war advocated.