Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-08-08

through, to cease making these foolish
experiments, proved so often such and
there will be time enough when we are
absolute masters of the situation to ne
gotiate in this direction.
Why, if we look at States lately under
the sway of the Rebels we see the most
persistent experiments entered upon, as
Memphis to learn how much of disloyalty
and treason the Government will tolerate.
Day by day we observe the most nicely
balanced endeavors TO keep alive that
disloyalty which has blighted the pros
perity of the States and deluged them
with blood, and which yields not one iota
of its pretensons except as extorted by
the sternest treatment Treaeherous, al
most supernaturally vigilant, it hides its
arms il nurses its evil hopes and its
smothered wrath, and madly laughs at all
talk of compromise except that which
would leave its tyranny unimpaired, and
the States themselves prey to the desc
lation to be born of its gratifed revenge
AS we have already said, the patriotic
men of the army, called upon so immedi-
ately to deal with it, begin thoroughly to
understand its character, even if those
more remote do not and to them we
must look TO deal with it Alright, Mis-
taking its tendencies in the outset, they
led of by scrupulous Difference TO its
: pretensions and claims, which begat for
them only the utmost scorn and contempt,
which fostered maleyolenee and has pro
longed the contest What mistaken for
bearance had to show for its fruits was
made plain by the Rebel raids in the real
of the Army of the Patomac, when treach
q cry and double e-faced wickedness were III
motion on every side to point the Rebel
= chiefs to where they might most readil,
+ fnd victims "Chiyarous gentlemen,
, dwelers on their own ample domains
g would not of course accept protection
and repay il with bascness in inviting thu
: murder of those who trusted them, ant
. yet, but for the final arrest of some score
p of such "Unon- men, 'neutrals," non
I combatants, within our lines, the Genera
: of the great army would never have car
!, ried TO successful result that gran,
manpnyre which saved it to the nation
h We hope, then, that after what ha
< been so often witnessed, but one purpos
Ii VIII Nv HluHlleSNtNi uhtl lllitl Is 10 emu In
e war by the shortest and sharpest metho,
r possible and admissible Let the natiol
/. determinately frown down all who pratt
Y of terms with the Rebels at time lik,
il the present let rulers and people enter
e tain no thought but how to get NOR
r troops at the seat of war US soon as it ca
d be done. The road to peace is simpl
IS and straight enough at last-it is Mloag
- successful tcdr We might wish it wer
it otherwise, we may deprecate the dire II,
O cessity, but the Government did not begi
: the war, and the people were dragged il
ii to it reluctantly, yet by sheer strengt
i. and earncstncss they must end it. Tai
" is exhausted peace" homiles of a
kinds are out of place until the peace ca
Of he commanded by the powers put int
. the field to do it; and the country fairl
Of realizing this as the true condition of IL
le fairs, and disposed in earnest TO fgM ft
J" it, we may have peace at our option.-
le Until this is so, we need not hatter ou
re selves with hopes of it, for temporizin
ii, system may extend the conflict indefinite
ms ly.