Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-04-10
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Important View OF the Present Com
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IHuIIUIAT UoHeVpondence OF the New York Express.
WAeHINGToN March %.

Editorial Correspondence Of the New York Express
WASHINGTON, March 90.
| inclose the following for publication in the
EEpresS. Itcomes from one empbaucally what
he purports to be, "a Soldier Of the Union"
and from one who Is quite ready to give life and
Sll that he has in defense of 1t His recent
services in the South give force to his utteran
cee: EB
have been co forcbly struck, while lately
reacing 'kusselps Diary In India with the sim
gular applicability 10 the present condition of
our own affairs, of many OF the remarks made
by this distinguished Englishman, In comment
ing upon those OF India, that must really beg
of you TO obligo me and other devoted friends
of the Union, by republishing one passage OF
the book, herewith transmitted.
A perussl Of this passage cannot fail to sug-
gest to every reaecting mind the frequent
question, "How are we to deal with our rebels
when We shall have beaten them; how pacify
our distracted eouutryW
The question 10, ut this moment, one of vast
Importance, Of an importance not TO be under
rated Do we intend to repeat the harshness
and violence which, practiced In Missouri, con-
Verted the most loyal of all the slave States in
the Union into one vast secession camp--fOr
the period of one whole year arrested the march
during that time tho services of one hundred
thousand of cur troops who ought to have been
employed elsewhere; or shall we again make
trial of that wise and patient fOrbearance,
again exhibit something of the spirit of concil-
iation which preserved to US Kentuckj2
Soon our victorious armies may be expected
10 have overrun the South. What then2 We
cannot forever keep them there. Whether even
for another year we could do so is extremely
doubtful, for let us not forget that in less than
two years. time we were sick to death with our
paltry war with Mexico, and fairly begged, and
even bribed the conquered Mexicans to give US
peace, 80 eager were we for it, Peace, then,
we shall Want-pesce we must one day have
with the people of the seeded States; and to
obtain IL we must do something more than
merely scatter their armies and overrun their
country. How, then, may we hope to secure it1
Will 1t be by acts of confscation and violence
/ by policy of vengesnce-by letting loose
on them the snarling ours of abolition, the very
same that worried them into this madness2--
Shall we thus Justify their leaders and make
truth Of the very lie with which these deluded
them into rebellion? .-G
If SO, then may all hopes of restoring the
Union be at once dismissed; now and forever.
We cannot too soop, In such event, call back our
armies, and set about reducing our expenditures;
for, sooner or later, we should be obliged to do
this, and had better do 1t now, when, crown
ed with victory, we can, nj least, do 1t with
| honor.
Does any one doub. of this inevitable result2
Then must he believe In one Of two things,
each mpossible-either that the taxpayers OF
the North and West, who have not yet digested
the taxes OF this war, not even begun to do go,
mean, in all time TO come, toeharge themselves
with the support Of standing army of from
two hundred thousand to three hundred thous-
and men-or else, that the Southern leopard,
when once our armies shall have been disIand-
ed, will tamely submit to all that the malice of
the Abolitionists can inAict upon him, ar
| No statesman, no man of sense, none but an
Idiot or fool, could believe either. And,
therefore, when see men who call themselves
statesmen, and should at least be men of sense
advocating measures of which the certain effect
must be to iTritate the Southern mind, to vex il
to madness, to infame it to desperation--ne cas-.
ures which, destroying every lingering rem
nant OF Union feeling, must unite all parties at
| the South as one man, together, and convince
them that they have nothing to gain, but, on
the contrary, everything to lose by submission
when see this, it Is impossible for me to re-
sist the conviction that these men, whom will
not accuse Of being fools, are then enemies to
the Union and traitors-enemies far more dan.
gerous than the rebels in arms-traitors black
er, traitors with less excuse, than the arch
traitor of all, William L. Yancey!
A SOLDIER OF THE UNION.