Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-06-20
What may be Expected.
We leave it to every faithful reader |

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Of its chief ends. Can the Southern peo-
pie, 50 terrib' y ignorant and infamcd with
malice--rnisguided by few men Of re-
markable talent who seem to control the
masses as if by magic, be conquered p
And if conquered, how long before the Sc
cession element again resorts to rebellion
for the benefit Of the pecul'a ar institution
If conquered, can the South be held loyal
by any means short Of Standing army Of
sufficient numbers to- eat up and wear out
the nations annual surplus? We answer
in our way, leaving the reader to answer
according to his own light: The people
Of the South never can be subdued until
the object of their thoughts and hopes is
wiped out; the cause Of the war must be
| removed-the relation of slave and master
must be destroyed, SO that slavery extern
sion, slave importation, fugitive slave laws
and other laws to protect slavery, slave and
oyerseer behavior, overseer braggadocio,
mobocracy, duelng, idleness, ignorance,
prostitution and amalgamation, all these
and the title-deeIs and baggage thereof
may no longer be cause OF war. present
or future. Peace upon any other condi-
lions can be but temporary, while the VIC
tories and yictors Of our armies can amount
to nothing but reproach from the mouths
of distant generations. Suppose victory
be won, the cause still remaining to pro-
woke new dissentions and wars, worse than
the old, and with the old slavery war debt
still hanging over our children, new and
more dangerous wars at their doors, the
cause being the same that drove the fathers
to mortal conflict; where then will the
children see cause to thank the fathers fol
a war which left in existence the same cause
that is to breed still more war; especially
will the children refuse to thank and lonor
the fathers when it is relncmE cred that the
fathers could SO easily have wiped ont the
cause, and yet chose not to do 50 because
Of bitter prejudice against freeing the ne
groesi The contest between slavery and
freedom is irrepressible, and the Union
cannot permanently endure, half slave and
half free; such are the ideas ofeyery Logic
al, well balanced mind in the country, as
confirmed by late enyents. History had
long taught such conclusions, but now we
have the times illustrated by engrayings
and illuminated With the blood Of loyal
patriots, all tnis f5r title page to the
next volume of our country's history
| Well, then a sequence to the logical reason
ing Of men of thought is, that slavery, the
cause of all this mischief with which our
country has had to deal for lifetime,
ought to be blotted out, and thus remove
the cause Of present and future wars, and
that there may be no more masters to re-
bel--no more slave States to secede.
But, how is this great work to be done |?
Civil and constitutional government can
not do tat least will not; had we SUI
preme court as fairly devoted to our coun-
try and liberty as it is to disunion and
slavery, decision would soon be forth
coming wiping the whole institution out of
existefce; but this is out of the question,
so deeply rooted is pro-slayery prejudice
fixed, even in the bosoms Of protested anti
slavery men.
Then what power can STAY the monster
cause of war? We answer; the War De-
partments Of Government.
Let Gen. Scott, Secretary Cameron, Gen.
Butler and other general heads Of war see,
as they will soon see most clearly, that the
rebellion can only be suppressed by calling
on the only true union men Of the South,
the negroes, to enlist with the regular army
and fight fer their freedom and their coun-
try's freedom, and then but a willing
scratch Of the pen is needed to make all
free; this can be done just as consistently
as to receive fugitives into the army and
set them to work as Gen. Butler has been
doing, And, this will be done-by Proc
lamation Of Gen. Scott, very soon we are
thinking, for instead Of cooling down, the
South is growing hotter and every day less
Liable to yield. This would put a speedy
end to the war Of course, and also sure
end to the cause. This viii be emancipa-
ton through necessity, not choice, and
therefore every man may still think as he
pleases about slavery and blow against ne
gro equality and negro rights, and yet be a
good democrat or good republican; all
may thus approve the deed but abuse the
necessity, while the abolition fanatics will
be equally satisfied all approving, yet di-
yersity reign as before. Then let the gov