The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-02-03
The Progress Of the War.

community as we'll as the North in gen
eral, was talking Of the war, the other
day, 10 an old party friend, who is a
staunch Union and war man. Mr.. COP.
perhead was fierce for Peace, but OF
course also pretended 10 be great friend
of the old Union and Constitution. He
wanted u convention of the States called
and the South humbly asked to come
back and take Der former status in the
Union, or additional guarantees given
her, If necessary. But" said his low
a! friend, "you have made your propo
silons for convention through BIGLER
and Brooks. VALLAND1CuAM and WOODS.
aud The rebels have spit upon them and
treated them with the utmost scorn.
JEFF. DAVIS says he would sooner enter
den Of thieves than come back into
the Union. The rebel Congress and the
rebel legislatures equally empha,ically
declare that they Will never consent to
reunion, and the Richmond papers, the
authorized organs Of that Government,
say that the people Of The Southern States
would not accept connection with the
North, even we should 90 to them,
and upon our faces ask to be their
slaves" And loyal Democrat read to
his Copperhead friend the extracts, or
others similar, which we published las,
week, upon his point. Now" said
loyal Democrat "you see your conyen
ton would amount to nothing. The
South won't come back without compul.
sion, no matter how abjectly you beg
What are you going to do about ii o.
Well" said Mr.. Copperhead, ue
might as nell stop the war, then, and lei
then, 90; ,ce can never conquer them, anu.
how"
1t is difficult TO realize whethe,
sucha man is more a traitor or mos; a COW
ard. We cannot whip the South, and
might as well give up first as last
That Is brave assertion! Twenty mil,
lions Of freemen cannot whip twelve
millions Of slave owners and slaves
TwenIy-nar States, Counting West yir-
glnia, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky.
and Missouri cannot whip eleven States.
Counting Tennessee J The loyal States.
with their ports open to commerce, with
their Internal trade active, with THEN
immense resources Of production, bo,h
OF food, ships, and munitions of war, can
not whip the rebcl!ious States, with lhei.
soil largely possessed by an armed enc
my, their internal communications large
ly interrupted, their rivers out Of their
control, their sea ports blockadei, their
producing power now, as always, limited.
and their producing class fleeing from
them . The North. fighting for freedom
and our glorious government, cannot
whip the South, fighting for a govern
ment based u1on the idea of Human
Slavery ! How do such men reason i?
Not in the light Of history-not from the
evidences of material and monetary re
sources-not from belief in or percep
ton Of. the irresistible power Of lust
cause. the mo,al power of a righteous
effort.
1t is true We have not made, and are
not making, the progress which every
loyal heart could desire Bat, looking al
the records Of other civil wars, insio
nticant in comparison with the macni-
tude OF this. have we no, made gratifying
progress ? OF the States claimed by
the SO called confederacy, we possess
Maryland-a large portion Of Virginia.
with her commercial capital, Norfolk
the whole Of Kentucky-rhe most Of
Tennessee, with her State and CONNER
clal cap'ais-the whole Of Missouri, now
indissolubly bound to the Union-,he
most important pant Of Arkansas--,he
great commercial entrepot Of Louisiana
and Of the South, New Orleans-and
have stable footing upon the soil Of
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor.
gla, Florida and Mississippi. All this
We have done in less than two short
years, while we have had to create the
army. the navy, the guns, the ships, the
munitions Of war, with which 10 accom-
plish il. All this we have done, too,
without apparently affecting the resour-
ces of the country in men and in produc-
ton. And all this we have done in the
face Of conscription law at the South
that has drawn into the Rebel army al
most every abb bodied man who could
be found within the limits of tie Conr-d-
erary-showing dat we have done il
against the utmost efforts Of which the
rebels are capable. And yet TO day we