The Semi-weekly Shreveport news. [volume] (Shreveport [La.]) 1862-1864, 1862-10-14
''Truth is stranger than Fiction. IS

devoted to advising the people to be
prnctual in attending a meeting call
ed by the friends Of the President
{ Lincolu) to sustain him in his late
proclamation, admits SOME facts, of
which We supposed the whole North,
Mong ago, were aware. The editor
was so.enwrapped i'll his subject that he
commenced with the sublime, and end
ed in the ridiculous.
The italics in the following extracts
are ours, and we direct particular at
tention to all such, as they are &C
acknowledgements our readers will be
pleased to notice.
We have put into the field nearly
three quarters of a million of men :
we have expended q thousand million
Of dollars we have lost 100000 to
$4,000 precious lives, and what
have we accomplished After rayy-
ing successes, and mary 3chiats, we
have at last brought around to the
point from which we originally set
out and tie rebellion IS as far tram
being conquered as whcn Mc bugfc first
Sounded tOurDsS.
That the patriotism of the country.
lately drawn upon for an additional
six hundred thous and otour veoman-
ry, admits Of no further draft upon
its resources that the finances of the
country, exhausted by the drain, are
without instant success for which we
cannot reasonably hope, if we judge
Of the future by the past, in daily
dungcr Of collapse. which will make
tn. further prosecution OF the warim-
possible except upon terms and con
ditions TO which our people would
submit only under the domination Of
military force
That the masses, tired Of the fi-uit-
less struggle in which "c hare gaincd
M adrantages, would protest that
the contest had progressed tarenouch,
and th"t even at the cost of dishon"r,
lit mast close and that the threaten
ing ofthe disloval portion Of our
Northern population. made bold by
the impunity that they have enjoyed,
would at last take on the form Of &c
tual resistance 10 the authorities, and
inaugurate civil WAY at home.
What we could not setin prospec-
tive is plain III the retrospect ; and we
do not eyaggerate the facts.
In the following paragraph the ed
itor eulogises Lincoln, thus
1t was reserved for the President,
himself Il derout 6elierer in the ettica-
cy of morai prtmc,pleS. to recommend
to his countrymen Il practical illustra-
ton of the fact that ideas--,noral
agencies-not bayonrts and the APP
pliances of Il barbaric age. rule the
world. With the trusting faisA ofo
child, and patriotism that is above all
praise, he has, by the proposal to do
justice tn tie oppressed, called the Al
mighty to the aid Of the Union cause
We cannot doubt the result. With
our whole heart we endorse, approve.
Justify and defend his act.
The editor thinks that the mere
fact of the issuance of that pronunci-
amiento, has already virtually decided
the war. and says:
We wait but the advance Of our
arms and the expiration of the days
of grace, to hear the victory declared
for God and the Right. When that
day comes and this nation stands be-
fore the world purged of the crime
that has made it odious in the sight
of men, the name Of -ibrahom Lincoln
will take its place in our country's
history, side by side NTH the purcst.
nOblest and most honored Of orr race.
AT once the aariour and liberator of
the nation, his memory will go down