Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-10-10
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the following renal kable passages which
worthy of particular attention at this time
The military errors Of Essex were prob
ably in some degree produced by poliIiea
timidiiy. He was honestly, but not warm
ly, attached to the cause OF the Parliament
and neat % great defeat. he dreaded gred
rictoyy. lIampden, on the other hand, wa
for vigorous and decisive measures,
He had shown that he knew, better
than any other public man Of his time, iiov
10 value and how 10 practice moderation
BIT he haete that he essence Of arar Is RIO,
leace, and that moderation IN war is imJe'
ciaB."
If we were to make any application oil
the essential truth of this extract, TO the
experience Of our own national contest, we
should take care, at the very outset, to re-
strict it from any sweeping inference as to
political parties hitherto existing. Those
parties have TO great degree lost their
identity since they passed under the shad-
ow of this mighty crisis; and in regard to
the conduct OF the war, men are rather
ranging themselves according to their natu-
raj temperament and general convictions.
Hence we see Republicans, even high in of
flee, who are charged with over-lenency in
their ideas of the prosecution of the war,
while Democrats ike Dickinson, Tod, But
Ter, McClernand and many others, are adj
vocates of the most vigorous policy. These
may constitute the exceptions rather than
the rule thus far, but there is no need of
seeking to establish any rule at present,
discriminating between parlies--the princi-
pie embodied in our quotation being the
main thing.
1t is undeniable that the essence of war
is violence" The attempt TO fight battles
on peace principles, TO strike with a contin-
ual anxiety lest we strike too hard, never
can succeed, and never ought to. 1t is the
mixing up of incongruous things, and the
result is both to demoralize and undo those
who try the experiment, and TO provoke
the contempt of the enemy, who profits by
it. But in war like ours, suddenly brought
on by fellow-citizens, and urged against
Government which, like charity " is not
easily provoked, thinkeih no evil" this for
bearance was natural at first, and not dis
But now that the thorough
paced malignity of the conspirators has
been unmasked by the bloody experience
IF sixteen months, and every man who Las
Eyes to see knows that we must either crush |
hem or they will crush US, there is no ex-
use for not giving them war in the perfec-
ion Of its horrors. Nothing but the hui
name restrictions of Christian civilization
n whose behalf we are fghting-should
init our exertions till this iniquitous revolt
S subdued.
! o this end we want more unity among
he officers of our army, and that zeal which
ONES from the conscious devotion Of united
learts to great cause. But as our army,
mike the establishments of Europe, is but
temporary off-shoot from the people, and
II the while sustained by the same life
Hood. the people must come together in a
more intelligent, disnterested and hearty
support of the war. And upon what basis
can they so well do it as upon the support
Of the Executive of the United States the
peoples chosen agent and director in the
of this great cyisis2 To what
purpose is it TO put men upon the watch
tower, if their signals are not to be needed
Or what win other commanders avail, if
the Commander-in-C Chief is disregarded?
But President Lincoln has shown himself
personally worthy of the confidence and
support to which his position so Justly en-
titles him. IF there were, then, no striking
ly apparent grounds for general union in
support Of the new policy indicated by the
recent emancipation proclamation, it would
claim the respect and best wishes of ALL
Boston Journal.