Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-07-11


 truth that. this Is $ great war, no childish play. war in which men on both sides are slsillful, courageous, srtong in their conf dence of right, and of which the end Is iaie distant. and visible only through the smoke of battle and across fields of thousands of our dead.
 We hear some men say again that he wlsD sluiulSs from war, who Is willing to mako any sacrifice to avoid war, is a ttai- tor.
 It is a great mistake to suppose that a bloodhound is courageous dog. The men who have plunged ns into this war, who have hallooed on the people, are mon that have wisely stayed at home. Anl ! part of the plan to cover up their own want Of :oarage, isto keep up the cry ofwar. The re 'elsin the South who planed the dissolution # the Union, who advocated 1t in congress and in the newspapers and on the stump, are the men who nave taken the field, wnlic the northern editors and congressmen and senators who opposed compromise, who ct us drift into this war, nay, who dragged Is into it, and are at home making contracts tO SuPPiy diluf opoiOo, oitt cor' at every man who ventures to remind hem of the evil they have brought on the country. or suggest remedy for 1t. Weask again what do they expect? If the president Is right, if the judgment of i'm partial Europe is right, if the opinion of cool dispassionate men among as i, right, then we must meet these questions between the North and the South before the end shall be reached. Do you adopt the bravado Eve must let them go eventually, but we must thrash them hrst?" No man who believes in such policy, is fit to be an American citizen, or for any situation out idle the walls of an insane asylum. What .hen will you answer when man and God ,hall demand of you an account of the hor TOTS of war, its blood and rapine? "Oh, | we thrashei them, and 1t was worth all the | blood and horror to be able to say tllatp Can 1t be that there are hnman hearts ready to make such an answer?
 But "we will never let them go," you say. They must be conquered, snbjuga- ted and governed"
 Will you appeal to history, to experience: 1 Was nation of so many millions of civil ized men ever conquered in one, or ten, ol ! hundred years? Or admitting that you can conquer them, have you counted tho 1 cost? We will not pause anl consider the vanishing of all the promises that we shoultI have brief, bloodcss campaign. We will | sit down as sane men and ask each other how many lives, how many agones it will cause and cost? Why last night, more than million of the mothers and wive, md sisters of this land lay dreaming rest less dreams, or watching with strainin2 eyeballs for the coming dawn.
 Yet all that you hope to accomplish bJ it may possibly be accomplished in anothe way, at a cost of no sish-no blooi Ter men could be found to-day iE the land, tel noble trust worthy men, not unfit to be sue cessors of Washington and his illustriou contemporaries, who would together devise an honorable, noble American, chri,tait method of ending this hideous, fIatricida war They would fail if they were answera ble to any party, orcique, but iianswerabi only to God and postciity, they wouI' do that which would make them remember ed in the roll of history, "till the trump Q the judgment angel
 But that might end the war! That miSh prevent our exteflnination of the South
 That might return us our brothers and son in the strength of youth, unhaimei, an better still, without blood on their hands That would be ''masked batteryl" l