Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-29
THE DEsOLATloNs OF WAR.

We quoted some days ago the brief account
action which took place at Morton's Ford, on the
Rapid Ann, between the forces of Gen. Fitz Lee
and Gen. Buford, in which the latter was repulsed
and compelled to fall back to Brandy Station.
After this short recital the Enquirer added the
following :" In this fight Capt. VIM. B. Newton
WAS killed"
Such is the curt record bestowed on an an
nouncement which the writer must have known
was destined to carry sorrow to wide circle of
friends in the State Of Virginia. In the over
whelming public caamities that have befallen the
Southern section of our country because of the
disastrous war provoked by armed sedition, there
would seem to have grown up an insen.ibility, on
the part of some of the Disunion journals, to the
private sorrows which they called to record as
the terrible result of the issue prepared in great
degree by their teachings, and precptated by the
infatuation and violence of South Carolina And
yet we have the evidence that the domestic woes,
every where visible and confessed at the South,
are not without their effect in quickenipg the
invocations Of many for the advent Of that peace
which, in an evil hour for the South and for the
whole land broken by civil strife, eliminating
: in civil war When we reflect how many homes
at the North have been darkened by the death Of
those who have fallen in defence Of the Govern
ment, it is easy to calculate how much more uni
versa, among the sparser population of the South,
must be the sense Of private calamity resulting
from the carnage and waste of war waped on
Southern SOIL
/. The feeling that tie war is As hopeless as it is
disnstrous-a feeling especially inspired by the
sights and sounds of woe which meet the eye and
ear on every hand at the South, has elicited, We
observe, the following expression from member
Of the Confederate Senate, Mr.. HERsHELL v.
JOHNSON, who now represents the State Of Geor-
gia in that body, and who, it will be remembered,
was the candidate fer the Vice Presidency of the
United States on the same ticket with Mr. Douglas
at the last election for President of the United
States. Mr. johnson said:
"W hen s this struggle to end2 Shall we conquer the
North No, we have no desire to do this Shall the
that this will be ended till we are ali
by the cbassng haLd Of Providence and we are brought
back 10 the virtues OF foefahers Thousb our ar
almost every and woman 10 bathed in tears and cas
down with at the loss Of friend or kinsman
most DEAR Every besrtbstone is ref Of it's enjoyment.
by mourning and weeping and the walls Of sadness are
heard ell the land This 10 the chastsement God
Inflicted upon for departure from the paths Of virtue
THIS the leeson of the hour Then let return with
humility to the practice of those great virtues which oul
fathers cherished, and without which liberties
be maintained"
Commenting on these suPiria de profnndis
the Boston Post appropriately says:
The departure fr,m tile virtues Of our forefaibers
is 10 manner of Means confined 10 one section Of
c,uhiiy Let each section devote ielf faithfully TO self
ntotp, eton and consider its own share OF the guilt
work hat has batbed nearly every man and woman il
tears AID cnst them down with sorrow and let each
tove TO return to the great virtues which our father
cherished Then the work of the heart and mind will b
d,pe; and when there is the will, there certainly will
INDICATED The way to lift up this noble land from the se
Of botd H. which weers and gil every heart with tn
supreme joy Of peace"