The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-10-03
The London Times on our Dit.
- ficulties.

The Recognition Of the Confederate States BY
England an Erample for the North. I
The continual tale ofdefeatand calamity will
not tend to excite enthusiasm in the new re-
cruits who are to fill the ranks SO terribly
thinned by the war. A second advance South.
ward, it may be predicted, will not be underta-
ken with the same spirit. as the first. All the,
circumstances of, the war are changed. TheA
troops are not volunteers: the conflict has nd
''ninety days" limit: the enemy is IN terrible
earnest, and fights with skill and discretion as
we'll as courage. 1t is a more serious business
altogether than it was at first believed. No
delusions are possible now. The part of the
population that furnishes the successive armies
has begun to see that a conquest of the South is
impossible. They refuse to enlist for the work,
and are forced into the ranks by the threat of
CONSUMPTION.
The part of the people who can fight by dep
uty will begin, perhaps, to recognize something
of the difficulty when they are forced to pay
the bill the war has already run up, and to
calculate whatever another year of conquest"
must cost. They will begin to recover from
the intoxication of the revel when they arrive
ut the SOLDERING moment of the reckoning!-
And it is we'll for mankind that the passion for
conquest is sureto be checked at some point BY
its cost, both in bread and gold. A period ar
rives when national pride must yield and make
the best terms; and a way is sure to be found
by which the national honor can be reconciled
with peace.
1t seeks consolation in the very bravery and
obstinacy of resistance, or affects to discover
that it was only beaten by the powers of nature,
by climate, by distance, by mountains and riv-
ers, or by disease, OF in fact, by anything that
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conviction of the impossibility Of an enterprise
is arrived at, provided it is abandoned with as
good a grace as may be. 1t would be better,
taking should be recognized at the outset.,1+
Yet when an invasion has consumed large
armies, wasted millions of treasure, and at the
end of the first year of the war leaves the inva-
ding power in doubt whether it is not really
in danger of attack, the future of such q con-
fict may be calculated from the past.
The time has arrived for a compromise
ofsome kind; the wrost settlement of the DIS
pute cannot be so fatal as the war. This Was
the conclusion forced on the British government
at q period, the history of which is taught in
every American school. The North might add
its present experience to the lessons of its
school books with infinite advantage. The
American c~olonists were ''rebels" in the be-
lief of England, as the Southern citizens are
''rebels" to the government of Washington
We thought our national interest and our ma.
tional pride were involved in suppressing tha
revolt by arms. We were stiff necked in the
matter as a people, and the government was
under the influence of the most obstinate
Of kings. s
We kept up the war for years, and we are
still paying for the blindness of ourgrandfath-
ers, Yet England had to yield all, ~ &C
knowledge the independence of America, and
to let the British crown sustain as it could the
loss OF its brightest jewel" To our surprise,
we soon found that the jewel was not so much
missed; that as for our material interests, they
were rather improved by the change-that we
gained more by good friends than bad subjects.
We now look on the issue of the conflict with
satisfaction. But England then, unlike Amer
lea now, had a few wise and moderate men
who saw the impossibility Of conquering thete-
bellious colonies, and courageously opposedth
popular clamor, foreseeing the inevitable end.
Lord Chatham called on the House of Lords
''to instruct the Throne in the language of
truth" to whicha people might now listen with
advantage. 1t was one of the worst periods of
the war; our Popes and McClellans had failed.
The army was in a desperate condition.
THAT army" said Chatham, ''can achieve
anything but impossibilities; and I know that
the conquest of British America is an impossi-
bility. You cannot, you cannot conquer
America! What is your present situation
there? We do not know the worst; but we do
know that in three campaigns, we have done
nothing and suffered much''-words that ex-
actly describe the condition of the North at the
present moment. Our King, Government and
people had to yield to the force of c%ircumstan-
ces These say mostdistinctly to the Unionists,
"You cannot conquer the South" And the
Americans will have to obey their stern mont
tor as we did before them.
From Harper's Fsrry.-Two car loads
of negroes arrived in this CITY vester-