Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-07-17
The War Cloud Increasing.

Every appearance exists of an implacable war
between the Northern and Southern Confcderacics.
Civil wars have ever been the most bitter; aud
,hespresent though not strickly snch, partakcs of
thatsAnractcr enough to warrant us in expecting
NJ It's hnrsher features It il likely to he even
wurse than urdiunry civil struggles. For this is
10 mere " war of the roses involving succession
Of rulers only y;-ti is no contest Of Aings, with no
bles claiming ind. .mnity and serurity lit is no
strife of factions whose participants ul luok event
unlly to the perm 'nenry ola c"i.snUn government.
But it is :; war o: Glpminn,on, con;isca.iun, en-
pat-in:on, fyr,nny On the one slc,--ard Of self.
vindice,ion and sclrprcservaliUn Oh the other.
Hoaes had been cherished up to the late assem-
blinsSSft the United States Congress, TINT ra'iun"
counsefs might prevail to delay and inBly to
qurll this awful war. Butthese expectations have
been dispo!led MS with an angry gust Of passion; (;
And VIC huvc nothing nov tu anticipate but pro.
truced and bloody struggle involving nll that We
hold sacred aud valuable upon earth. The Con.
gress not only approves the course of ABRAHAM
LINCOLN fron the beginning, but dcclurs its pur-
pose to sustain him in the prosecution Of Lis hos
tile plans tu the extent Of the abilities aud re-
sources uf the States represented in that body 1t
is we'll known that the authuriic. Ofnllthe States,
properly belonging stll to the old confederation,
warmly csp"rsc the sume policy, and piUdge them
selves to use their whole power in its ail and fur
therauce. 1t is not duubtUd, moreover, that both
the Federal and the State authorities are backed
by IL tremendous war partynt the NUr!h,-not only
by the Republicans but By many Democrats, and
by that great uuthnking portion Of every popua-
Oh who rush umultuuusIy at the call Of govern
mcn:, especially when TINT government wrnrs the
scmJlancu ut an irresistible military power. True,
ut present pull uga;Est the powers that be; But
it i5to be eypcce'l that they will succu:ub belor.
tho mighty tempest which il now gathering anew
its energies for The work Of Iuin which it, ruling
spirits have sworn to accomplish. Indeed, having
the avowed determination uf the government at
Washington in view, nnd looking aso 10 the fixed
and immweable purlruse Of the Southern C"n-
federation, how are We To escape The arbitrrpent
iur more lit may be in hundred hard fought
io!d., i, iuay be in less hut, be il more
loss, the wrr is to all appearance as inevitable az
i, promises to he implacuhle.
There are prospects of reaction held outly some
f,ithful northern Journals, and we trust there is
truth in them. But these prospects are no, tu be
relied upon in car calculations Of the future.
There are also chances thn,the great European
governments will soon ster forth to stay the crazy
,lOspOti,m that incrfercs with tue peace and in
terests Of the whole curth. This toe, while We
may be permitted to expect it, should be excluded
from rcckouings.
The South is not wise, if she turns her eyes from
the glaring truth that the "Gaul is in the gate"
that the portals o. her freedom and honor and
prosperity are already beseised by as malicious
and perhaps as powerful foe as tho world Gun
uzhihit. And he is q too sunguinc sentinel, who
does not proclaim this danger in all its fearful
magnitude.