Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-01-30

Correspondence o. the Fremont Journal
bdtor Ffoznont Journal Dear Sir:--If there
be one thing that is ale in itself entirely out Of
place and superlatively foolish II is this; THAT
we can never whip the rebelt, and may as well
compromise first as last" Itisalaw in philos-
ophy that the light end Of the scale kicks the
beam, and It is just about as consistent to say
that it does not, as to say we can never whip the
rebels.
All that is necessary for us to do is to place
the war on such footing that we can invoke
the alliance Of Heaven and go ahead That the
issue is uow such footing in the main there
can be no doubt and that we have the means,
aud that our soldiers have got the pluck, aud our
generals tho capability 10 lead them on and
grind this huge rebellion to powder there can be
no question. But we mus. have patience; not
expect great battle every day nor every week
The fighting in this war has been greatly in ex-
cess of its strategy. In casting glance back
wards over the history Of this war we see soue
bad policy and grave mistakes, but when we re-
member that so vast an army had TO bo created
out of new MATERIAL and that Congress aud the
President, as well as the generals and soldiers,
had TO learn the art of war, it Ia really asonish
ing that so much has been done with so few mis-
takes. Aud as to our Navy, history nowhere
furnishes so brilliant career as it has already
| won. 1t would now seem To be the best policy
to shape the war so that il can be continued un-
til the job is finished up in a thorough manner.
The rank and file of the army can now be re-
cruited from the contrabands not only 10 make
good its waste but also the present enlistments
as they shall expire. Indeed it would seem to
| bo the IN nf follv IN ma nla A
iher drafts from the whites of the free States,
while the stalwart aud acclimated blacks were
| left IN idleness No more men eau be spared
from the North without serious injury to every
department Of business. And as to the question,
'Can good soldiers be made of Africans?" let
jackson, Perry aud McDonough of the war Of
1912 answer
A return of our soldiers to their industrial
avocations would greatly augment our present
resources while the blacks would require less
pay and less ratons, for knowing the Southern
mode of living they could be subsisted on the
enemy. We herein see what a great reduction
this course would afford to the expense ofcarry
ing on the war.
One great fact stares this nation in the face =
that is this great rebellion has got to be put
down, and that effectually, we cease 10 be a
nation. For if JEFF. Davis & Co., triumph, OF
what value is our homes, our property, or even
our lives more than that Of slavesY Where
WOulu De our SCHOOL houses, our Tree press, our
free speech aud our free lives7 The main pin-
ciple on which is predicated this gigantic rebel
lion which has already crimsoned the soil from
Baltimore to Santa Fee, is not that capital should
own black labor, but that the condition Ofevery
person that labors should be that of a slave !
If any one doubts this, the ethics of John G.
Calhoun will prove all | say. Fight then is our
mission; and from it there is no escape. But
says one, yes, I might say AZ the Yallandigham
and Seymour democracy, ''our difficulties might
be settled and the war ended by foreign media
tion arbitration" Let one be deluded by
this false plea, for who does not know the prn-
ciple that governs arbitrators which is simply
dividing up between one party and another
| Foreign mediation, disguise it as they may
means nothing less than separation of the
North from the South; aud a division of this
nation is its annihiation. Who clamors for me-
diation? Why, our Seymour and Vallandig-
hamites, because their cause is jeff. Davis cause
which is the cause of ihe cotton lords of Europe
also. Why do the Masons and Slidells and
| Yanceys find such welcome audience before
Emperors Lords and Preniers2 Because theii
cause is a common one. But says one "if you
refuse mediation France and England will ac-
knowledge the independence of the South. =
Then their mediation is only pretext, and il
they wage war without any other object than the
dismemberment of this Nation, then in the name
of Israel's God will we go up against them.
Yes, We will cover every sea with Monitors, and
make these United States into one vast Fortress
and in the name of Liberty which animated our
Revolutionary Fathers, for the Constitution they
gave us, for its insignia, the glorious old Stars
and Stripes, for the birthright of ourselves, the
/ inheritance of our children, in the name of one
hundred thousand slain soldiers who are hardly
cold in their graves, of Humanity, of Justice,
and in the name of the Lord of Hosts we will
fight on, and fight ever until other nations shall
know that our cannon can not be provoked with
impuDity, and until the sun shall not go down
upon a single slave nor traitor from the Allan
tic to the. Pacific, and that from all this broad
land shall go up one universal shout, @The nigh
Of Dcspotism has come, the ddycf UniversR Lib
ertg daipnethF' W. j. Q.
| Haskins, O., Jan. 26th, 1868.