Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-07-11
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 "War;. says Hobbs, the philosopher O Malmesberry, is the natural state o1 man. Men are particles of creation 1T which the cumulative element was implant ed and exists essentially. The combativt principle is ineradicable in the nature O 1 man. His inclination to fight is as natnra as that of water to run down hill, and if ht i does not fight as much as the bulldog, 1t ii not from lack of inclination, but because reason, moral principle, policy, interpose to bar the qualification of his fighting in. .stinct. When these do not interpose the man fghts-fghts to right his wrong, to advance his interests or do his country service-and in each event to glut his in stinct for fight Indeed assault and resis- tance is the law of the world, from which no animal, no vegitable, not a grain oi sand is freed or fails to offer an illustration.
 Refinement may cover with the graces of cultivation; religion may seem to eradicate the rude fighting instinct of the human animal, but at the earliest proper occasion he is true to principle of his being, and springs with hot eagerness to the fray as if it were merry making. A tremendous l demonstration of the truth of the general proposition we have been making, is afford. ed by present events. Hundreds of thou sands of men, who never dreamed of ming 1 ling in fight, suddenly discover that it is just their taste, and spring with glad alac- rity to arms The meekest citizen shoul- ders his musket and pants with anxiety to use it. Thus the fighting instinct outcrops to the surface and betrays it's deep-seated place of deposit in human nature.
 With this fighting quality inherent, war is condition of humanity, or as Hobbs has 1t, the natural state of man." The heathen moralist and the christian religion ist may reason and denosnce with phioso- ! phic argum ,nt and text-sustained logic; may speak in strains of rhapsody of the golden era, when
 !" The war drum beats no longer
 l And the battle flags are furled.''
 But, dispite of all, war has been, is, and will be until the millennium comes, and mems natures are changed. We allow that ''peace is blessing" generally; but are not prepared to allow that " war is curse' always. We are disposed to think that a strong, hearty shock of war about once in fifty years is a healthy, wholesome thing for a nation. The cankers ofa long peace arc provelbial, and long continued peace and prosperity render nation lazy, corrupt, 1 degenerate and enervate. A long period of unnatural abstinence from war never fails to produce a generation of little men, of mean events, of paltry politics, of cor ruption, Of public cowardice and intellectu- al commonplace. Peace and prosperity an overflow of money, and goods and ma terial wealth, act on nations, as too much meat and drink and luxury on the minds and bodies of individuals What would be springs of energy and vigor, if consumed by corresponding effect, become the source of disease and death. Such men die by eruption and corruption, plethora and in1a- | nation; and while living are consumed by the foulest passions--by gluttony, lust and laziness. Nations are but numbers of men, and tue like causes produce like results in both Nations who are too full of pros perity, and who have submitted to degra- dation rather than encounter war, find their belligerant energy and their qualities of com bat turn on themselves.
 War, on the contrary, has been in every age the hot-bed of the first and the chief of manly virtues, and the grandest theatre for their exhibition has ever been found on the 1 field of battle. It is not for nothing that the entire species, all nations in each suc- cessve age, have given the brightest crown to the real victor, and awarded the supreme token of admiration to the genius and the courage which trimuphs in the greatest trial of rival aciW and opposing power.- Out of war alone comes the patriot who recieves the highest reward of his own and after times. Only after the thunder storm of war do nations show their finest quail ties, attain their noblest development and perform the greatest achievement of their i civilization. The shock of war rallies the rugged nervous strength of the people, brings out the sterner virtues, and quick ened vigor enables society to cast off the gangrene shackle of ease and purify its system of the noxious humors which have settled upon 1t from sheer stagnation.-- War makes the soft handed child of luxury exchange his ease for the healthy hardships of the campaign; 1t makes socicty-com- munities of men endure privations and look to something beyond their own comfort and proft--to think, reflect, feel in new channels of thought, reflection and feeling A salutary revusion acts upon the people upon the material and the constitution o society. It looses portion of the artih. cial fabric, and is in degree resolved back into its original clements of men and wo- men-men and women as men and women not men and women measured and clas. sified by means of social barriers. N
 LLusTRATIoS; PoLITIcAL.--Mr Lincoln attempt to carry the Border States toan abolition market reminds us of the trials of a countryman of Michigan in getting sever al things to market-related by the Detroit Free Press: A countryman, visiting the city yesterday, attemptedt to carry two pigs under one arm, coop full ofchickens under 1 fha nl bar nfa h onnf