Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-08-08
Greeley on a short war.

Greeley n short War,
The philosopher has rough way Of saying very diss
srssAble truths 10 his associates. Hear him:
IRON the New York Tribune JAY s.
THE WAR MUST BIZ SHORT.
Men and brethren, Il Gill no; DO to make long war
Of this The necessity which Europe realizes of obtain
Jog cotton and tobacco any rAethe general interests
of eommerce-the cries Of unemployed labor and Of
productve If not imperled eAptA will unite in demand
ing that this be made short war. Better employ 10
prosecutog il half million of men for sx months, than
half that number for indefinite periodbetier in every
view and for every end JEFF argues with some shre~d
ness that President Lincoln has virtually acknowledged
his Confederacy by calling out 90 many men to put II
down. But the presence for months Of Secession army
within days walk Of the national metropolis good
deal more to his purpose, and Ne feel that disunon
Congress meeting in security At Richmond while the sit
ting Of the National Congress at Washington menaced
6y an imminent hostile army will fearful moral
influence the wrong side not merely in this country
bat in Europe rebellion which months are required
get ready to subdue, gdes insensiby into revolu
ton. Fictitious rebellion ought not 70 be starved out
but stamped out And this Davis Co. be, must be-
IL the requisite energy Is guided BY the requisite ability
And be put down in Sry radically different way
"Not starred o 5ai stamped out - easier said than
done unless staB.psSs the way to effect the thirg
Then aud in that case Yankee inVincibiity beyond
question
The Philosophers arguments in favor Of q short
are very eoSent Protrsctsd 10 certain and univer
q. ruin to the North. is not very agreeable to the
South but il is ten times destructive to
mics than to Us. With patriotism and paper money
We can make shift TO keep the var Agoing al
most indefinitely. For one, decided for wsgng
IL etsrnAy unless have iHGsrNiiy for the past and
security for the future These people have invaded
soil robbed, burned and laid waste property and
murdered our people Northern Yankees who have
grown rich bv our lAbors Western Yankees who to
our bounty the rich lands that feed them have without
proYocation, desola.ed cur fields insulted women
and slaughtered our citizens there be peace
until IRE and sword have swept Pennsylvania and
Ne. England, and Ohio is converted into hO.ling vii
dsrnss.. We are As great friends of short as
Greslsy-a var sharp 6ercs erOciOus, ex,erminating
add relentless That ia the only which will guAraL
zee long peace.
The philosopher touches very sore place for Yankee
.scoupAeency when he audss to the proximity OF our
forces 70 the Federal metropolis aud the imminent dan
ger to that nest Of thieves That circumstance does tel
very much to the dscredit of the Yankee Government
10th 81 home and abroad-mOre perhaps abroad than At
home for there very shArp-syed foreign ministers
~ Washington .ho witness the daily and nightly terror
aud trepdaon of the Lincoln dynasty and cannot hep
seeing aud feeling sha, the metropolis itself trembes to
ito foundation. To European mind Capital in dan.
ger implies q very shAky Government. These gentle
men no doubt communicate to their own Governments
full accounts Of what they around them They were
involuntary eyerinesses Of the sfright and dismay
which psrvaded Washington the day after the battle
suS rout They the disoandsd regiments, saoele.s
and katess OF Aghted creatures who had asd from the
fight wandering about the streets Of the metropolis
They ssx the subIersiOn of all military discipline, and
ths s.ms marks Of CONSERVATION in the faces Of efSers
and men. They, too expected every moment to the
victorious egons Of Johnston and Besuregsrd the
panic stricken city result no. prevented By ths Fsds
raj forces out only BY the physical mpossbty of men,
after 6shtng ali day marching so miles to complete the
victory They nay have asO behind the curtain
old SCOTS impotent rsge and Lncolns hasty prepare
tom for instant light.
Al these particulars portrayed BY no Indifferent pens,
have ere this been eoaned over perhaps with delight il
London and Paris. They teach European Statesmen
th.t YANKEES buster aud svagger Aad pretenson are
sohug more than Chinese gongs; that Yankee Govern
aeus 4 very ricketty concern; and that Wd'hHgto",
9TH Lincoln and his fugitive cloak around him, Is no
IOaO.r The ssat of empire ~ the Ws'srH Sortd Lord
P.luer,tOu and Louis Napoleon have no doubt BY this
time sOntr.s.ed Stewards bullying dispatches with the
result q. Manassas sod they have less sagacy than We
suppose they do not comprehend the great fact that
.b's the Yankees are our superors in all mechanical
ooo,,v> noes aud can beat all the world except the
Chps.s ia buster and lying, the Vhiis Of the slave
haans SAT-, ara the tr.s Gentry and rsa! Masters Of
Ehis Continent
The misfortune is that the Yankees just far enough
removed from barbarsm be conscious OF our superior
ty and to be painfully sensitive 70 the huuiiatiug fact
Of their nferority Ii would be far better for their hap
pines, approaching their natural subordnaon, they
could be eonten, to oonhne their ambition within lis hm
is We should be spared the melancholy exhibition OF
these frantic and unaVsDg struggles Of poor Greeley to
break the bars Of dsstiny. The wretch is imPeled By
vague aspirations after something higher than the God
Of bis creation has permitted him TO reach. Stimulated
By hate and envy and ambition, he would vrestls with
Fate and subyert the order established by the Supreme
Being. But for this unhappy ambition, ensendered BY
physical prosperity and corrupt state OF society We
should not have seen this great IHs1rsetiOH Of the
Sorh against their natural lords they would have con-
tinued TO be employed and paid as We we're Wiling to
employ and pay them, for ministering to our comforts
and pleasures.