The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-11-01

Mcclellan was before Richmond, each had
the destnies OF the nation in his hands. An
overwhelming defeat of ther of their great
armies would have brought them to TERMS
To take Richmond, or to open the Mississippi
riecr, would have ended the rchclliop bur
by the long respite Of the last summer the
rebellion has new lease of lie. A ucw
army, one of the finest and best armed N the
world, has been collected in the Southwest.
g Why don't Mcclellan move strait down to
Richmond 2" said he. " Why don't they re-
iniorce Grant, move him down to Columbus,
and then to Vickslnrg, and thus open the
Mississippi river' Why don't they do some
thing Why do they lie sill and GLOW the
Contcdcracy every advantage they could pos
slbly ask for' When see the resources and
the determination of the North, cannot see
how it can help triumphing, but when watch
its pusillanimous and timid policy, its halt
ings and delays, its uncertain and wandering
movements Of the vast forces of its command,
it seems not improbable that the brillancy
and rapldidity of the South will ultimately
prevail, and achieve some sort of scpara-
ton" Il was urious-I; WAS almost new
rcvclation-to hear Southern man (for he is
still Sou'herl in his pr ia Ices and sympathirs
"a mans judgm ent cannot aln avs rule hm,)
man who has an actual personal inside &C
quaintance with, and experimental know ledge
OF this rebellion is causes and resources,
| talk precisely as those at the North do who
want the rebellion crushed. He has been all
his life Democrat I asked him if he should
vote with the Republican party if he resided
in Il Northern State, and he said he should
not only do that, but should Join the army.
He said, or rather l said, and he assented
to it, that tho only safety for the country was
in national unity, and the only hope for ma
tional unity was for the North to prevail in
this war. No compromise or arrangement
was possible the country must be conquered
Southern ideas mist be oyorruled f.; Demo-
cratic Institutions had never had fair play in
III the South; mu2zlcd press and an aristo-
crazy were never elements Of a true Demo
ciacy. The North must colonzc and cnlleht-
en- the country. The quicker the South
makes npits mind 10 succnmb, the better il
VIII fare; for while at the beginning Of this
war tie North SIN :tl: kindly towards the
South, there was passion Of hatred growing
up there which would be as much more cn,,ur-
ing and incxora5le than Southern hatred Of
Of the North, as the Northern nation is nor,
stable and persistent. Separated, we should
be eternally quarrcl!ing; there could be no
peace between us like the Kilkenny cats
there Would soon be nothing left Of us but a
lew struggling tails; we sk"uld fall an easy
prey to some strong and gasping foreign Pow
er, which, fresh from long rcposc, should fall
upon us, exhausted and painting with the con-
iiict of years. But what will be the value OF
conquest or enmity, he said, if both parties
prolong this war 10 point of pxaustation p
Our salvation is not only in crushing the re-
bolilon. but in crushing it immediately.
Slavery must go, has gone, indeed. Slave
property will never be Of any value AGAIN.
He told his constituents long ago that the
only guardian Of their slave property was the
Constitution Of the United States. If they
spurned that, they kicked away the only sup
port on which it rested. The whole world
WAS against the system and il was only the
reverence of the North for the Constitution
! and laws that prevented them from joining in
the universal crusade Of Christcudom against
slavery.
lie thinks Hallcck an able man, but slow
He thinks he made a great mistake in not
marching directly on Corinih after the BATH
Of Shiloh. He does not know, as | do, that
there were reasons which, when known, viii
be at least partial Justification of Halleck
course On that occasion. He thinks that the
last battle Of Grants at Corinth aud the
liatchie, was the finest thing ot the war, and
he says they are all afraid Of Grant because
they know he is a fighting man. He thinks
that Antietam was a grea, victory, and that
Mcclellan is great general, but hardly a
match for Lee. He said, what have often
thought, that our generals, on both sides, look
on this war more as tournament at arms,
among old college classmates, than as a war
in earnest; and that they are actuate(l not go
much by earnest patriotism as by spirit OF
personal rivalry. He thinks, as do, that the
people Oh either side are worthy OF both lea
dcrS. | suggested that the people, both
North and South, had SO long suffered them
selves to be ruled by mere partisans. by cor
rupt, mean, self-sccEing dcmagogues, that
they had not only sullied their own purity
bluntcd their sense OF Justice, bit had low
cred the standard Of political virtue, until,
at last, 1t Fad become an utter lmpossibility
| for them to command the highest abilities in
their service. The virtue Of the people is
like that of woman the moment she SUI
ters herself to be TITLED with she becomes a
harlot, and it only requires a little patience
and dextcrity to make her the scorn OF the
upright, AID put her at The mercy of the
highest bidder In our day, as we'll as in
. others. successful politician must almost
necessarily have about him some admixture
Of baseness.
He said that The policy Of our government
| in allowing citizens to buy cotton, and thus
distribute gold through the South, was per-
tecily incomprehensible to him. 1t supplied
the Confederacy with that which they most
want money. All the cotton, be thought
ought to have been seized by the Govern
ment. If it had not been for the blockade,
it would long ago have been taken by the
Confederate Government.
asked him if the Presidents PROCLAMATION
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