Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-08-20
War-FieLdish Intentions of the North
 The Poisoned Chalice to their Lips.

' Wars Ot lnyaSiOn, where one peOpIe dellber> rately assail the territory ot another with the view of reducing them to submission to power ! alien and autagonistic are lnyarably unjust and unholy-are always conducted ID maieyolent and vindictive spirit-are certain, eventually, 10 call forth corresponding resistance, and to arouse the invaded finally to pitch where deoH, and death 0niy to the invader, is the determi~ nation Such results are, and should o., una, ! voidable.
 1 As the object of the invader is to take from ! the invaded all these rights and privileges those ! hopes and aspirations, those sentiments and | vmpathies the desires and actions of self gov | ernment, that alone makes IF tho lie of free ' men-so, when the victims of such atrocities realize the ruthless objects of the invaders, and ' the direnc5s of the fate impending. the in, yaded goadad to repel the invader by any and every means that can be brought to bear against thetn-no matter how terrible, how horrible, | how sangunarv 1t may be, 90 that t promises to stop the invader in his course; that t but les sens his number; so that t but retaates some l of the countless evils he would intiCt. As the 1 invader comes to despoiI, to crush, or to Slsy- so the invaded. by every instinct ot hnman na> ture repugnant to injustice and oppTes,ion will repel them by similar means, and will deSpoil, crush slay them opportunities offer. Wars for subjugation unmitigated evils They admi; of no palliation; they call forth des- perate and undyirg resistance. Conceived in Wickedncss and prosecuted without rne.cr, they r.n-t he, arar- Lau-- haan, av,d orer sill ha ! sisted to he death. No quarter-dhIch fG1- decth 10 dte jRrdder!-aro but the natural cries of humanity in such cases-they are the eftfc of the God given feeling of resistance to oppres- sion. The effects Of such wars, where the nve der is permitted 10 get much of a !oo!hod Is of necessity terribly disastrous. At times. immense districts entirely depopulateA. Even in modern times, large tracts have been left 50 desolate that one might pass from village 10 village, even | from city to city, without t.adug inhabitants. In one instance, in Europe during ;be last cen~ tnry, no less than twenty contiguous villages were left without A single man or beast iu many others the population died entirely out. anu in districts once studded with towus md cities, there sprang up immense forests.
 ! Now tha North, according to many of their ! own papers and the enunciatian of some of their own public men, entered on tho war now wag- 1 ing with such views Their declaration was, 1 and by the northern government aolc *. ' the ! South must submit to our arms. b. subject 10 l our rule. or we will make il wlderncs-.' T7i MgY the p01cer, the northern government would
 make the SGuN q GdSeTt t0-m0rrolr.' Rather | than fal to render the South RubSeryient 10 the | North, with hendlsh eXuttation would see 1t do> vastatcd, depOpaiatea. and throughout its length | and breadth only the abode of wild beasts and reptiles But, thank God their evil hearts are powcrlcss-and, like other ruthless invaders Of others rights, the probabilities are, tha; their wickedness will be turned as a punishment upon themselves.
 The fate of McClellans army; the sickness and casualties in all their arnies the lhickiy l increasing deaths from numerous causes every where among the invaders, lead us to believe that a righteous God Is puniShing them as such invaders have ever been punished. 4 few in.
 stances will suthce
 NerXes invaded Greece to subject t to bis { sway, with an army estimated by the best au'
 thorties at }, 20S,320 fighting notwithstanding
 the usual attendants, over G,000000. lu one
 year this vast multitude was reduced to 5000.
 900, and eventually of these only about 5 0Ut escaped destruction. So ended his attempt at
 suIjugatioa!
 France invaded Spain with altogether, ovFl GOO, 900 men, and was expelled in few year: with less than 50 000 survivors! And so ended
 this attempt at subiucatlon.
 Napoleon invaded Russia with 100000 Of inc
 best troops ever gathered together, devoted tt
 the fortunes of a leader whom they estaemat invincible. Forty thousand only escaped poor
 weary and broken down in spirit, one half .
 whom died within year. So ended that inya
 sion of an independent nation, hy the 'sre"tes
 captain of the aee.'
 Looking at these erampIes q Ma .fat3 q tE
 inrader, and in view Of the prospect now open
 ing within our own borders can we not Slvidil
 realize, even while we continue 10 Ii Eht our o"E
 |" battles of freedom, that the "way ot th
 transgressor is hard end that the controlling
 hand of the God of Justice directs the affairs .
 nations? Let us reverently bow to the fat
 .Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord-l will re
 payr'--JtckSon KisSi%&ippidn.