The Shasta courier., 1862-04-26
What the War win DO.

The people have been SO much engrossed
In the current topics Of the pending conflict,
for the space of the last year, its accidents,
incidents, reverses and triumphs, that no
thought has been had of what will be the
position of matters when the war is over, a
period now, unless all human Judgment
grievously errs, not considered as remote
Our citizens have gone earnestly into the
work before them, to stop the rebellion, and
have taken no thought of the republic beyond
the day when treason shall have been stamp
ed OUT Eearlossly they have warrcd for the
country, .andlst the consequences, whatever
they might be, take care of themselves. No
driveiing intellect or feeble arm has coped
with this rebellion. Our nation has shown
just that strength needful to suppress the re-
volt, and no more. Deepen and-strengthen
the conflict an hundred fold, and we firmly
believe that VIC could rule the battle them
Evolved from tho great struggle will be is
sues and questions now scarcely alluded to,
which are to be submitted to the popular
Judgment for settlement, when the war is
over BY some means it will be made thence
forward clear that on the Constitution there is
no debatable ground. What that instrument
means, in its declarations of States and
Federal rights, will have just one definition,
and no more, and that will be so plain and so
universally known and understood, that no
capacity can fail to comprehend it. We may
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more secessions. Concerning this, at least,
there will be no future dispute
In thousands of other ways the war will
produce the most stupendous consequences.
AT the time of the breaking out of this mad
revolt, the sun shone nowhere upon people
so prosperous and happy as the citizens of
those States now in rebellion. Peace sat en-
shroaed'on her myriad hills. while her hand
maids, Prosperity, Virtue and Happiness.
dwelt in the valleys below. No cloud as big
as mans hand obscured the clear horizon,
in any direction. The ports were filled with
busy commerce, and toll found its due and
fitting recompense. Dwell for moment on
this picture, and reflect that the great masses
Oh tnc people were as iuysti anu patTlotlc Us
they were prosperous and virtuous. Now
Rehold the change that one short year has
wrought. Saddening? There is hardly be.
yond the walls of hell spectacle of greater
sorrow. Red handed war stalks through the
places of quiet, so long and so dearly loved,
and the scene of blank desolation and ST.
lence that broods over the sunny hills, is un.
broken save where the glcam of bayonets
flash for moment in the sunlight-save
when the deep monotone of the cannon's
boom strikes, as it were, the funeral peal of
the uniyerse-save when the scream of ago
ny bursts from the lips of some frightened or
tortured loyalist. Mover again can we lie
as once we were. The South will find that
however the contest terminates, her sons are
ruined, and that long, dreary years must
elapse before they can ever be prosperous
people. Penitently let them study the les
sons of patriotism, and know that breaking
up great go, ernments is no holiday pastime,
and that there is abroad in this fair land an
aarnest loyalty, prepared to do or dare all
things before it will permit the Republic to
be overthrown.