The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-04-16

luF the Dystanners 10 speculate IN ,hp naturai
development of the struggle. Ia show that
we are not exaggerating its chaotic ,enden.
eies, We need only refer to the very able lot
ter If correspondent, who undertakes u
interpret the Southern prospects aud symna.
thles. The amicable separation which soma
good people talk of, he asserts to be neither
possible nor desired. The North would not
be content with less than all the Border
States, leaving to the Confederates only the
seven or eight original seceders. But were
this their object, they would still have to
garrison Virginia with an army out Of all
proportion to their resources, and, even so.
they would feel the Union at an end. They
would lind 1t impossible to get on without
the trade Of the South and slavery would
thus be more recognized than ever, more
odious, and more fertile in quarres. Sepa-
ration, then, he holds to be neither possible
nor wished for, so long at least, as the North
has any fight in it. But, whatever may be
said Of the difficulty Of conquering the
Southern States, there Can be no doubt OF
the ability Of the North to keep up the war
~ one fashion or other. What, then, is the
alternative 10 which we are to look, when
conquest is impossible, when union, in the
form we have seen it, is impossible, when
success on either side is impossible, when
peace IS impossible. when war itself, as it is
now carried on, is impossible, phen euery-
Thing Is impossible, except something that
does not come under any Of these heads. and
that is beyond all presen, reckoning or rea-
sOnable expectation.
What is this but to ayow that the Fedora.
ton itselfis impossible? The principle has
beentriedaud found wanting. The Southern
States will not submit to the Worst of all bon.
dages--a tyraat majority. The Northern
stSses can neither conquer nor c0nciliate,
nor win BY any method. So the appeal is to
war; and the war, il is admitted on both
sides, must werk itself out to its legitimate
results. The question is M longer whether
the North will conquer the South, but what
the war will lead to, and what state of things
will superfene upon the present. The most
far seeing discover nothing in the prospect
but guerilla warfare, and devastation. This
Is simply to admit thar. the statesman having
failed, the cause Is now ii the hands ot the
-g-4,v-. Ii 4 is-ifsage i Is in the hands OF
the soldier who sees The dark end of TfUsrU-
ton instead OF Us brghi beginning. Tins is
not the age ID which French monarchy is
breaking up, Or republic is inaugurated,
bar in which French empire has been re-
stored aud r. established. h is an age IN
rhieh strong monarchy ishe fashionable cure
for Democratic disorder.
Europe has just congratulated Italy on the
acquisition winch philosophers wanted for
t,,,, ..ts.se,l ~ tIa indapanJant Ctatas ltieh
la'eiy existed, INSTEAD OF the theocracy Which
Romp pguleSses 10 give, instead Of Mazzini's
repahhc. lhe Western States Of Europe
have, al least, tile credit Of Offering Mexico
constitutional monarchy instead Of a re-
pabIicaa constitution, winch has had no ex-
istence except ~ alternate anarchy and tles-
pnti.m Iais d an age 81 reaction, Tor tchich
Democracy las 10 thank hseE. Tile Dicta-
tor, The Emperor Or the King is everywhere
snpeiceding the iarces ol the Consul or tie
PAPER sCheme Of the lawgiser.
When We are told that everything else il
Impossible in America, aud thar politics are
absorbed in the chance OF war and the genius
of the commanders, then, indeed. we see The
beginning OF the end But that end is not
lhe one desired by either North Or South,
nor even by Us who louk on. Il cgnnoI ~
for our interest that military ad'enturer
should possess the iairest regions OF Noftt
America. even though that were better tilaa
anarchy. But il is the haven towards when
the great American commonwealth seems
now drifting. tits possible. That y ea'.ge'
when everything else is confessed y oe im-
possible.