The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-02
THE DAILY REGISTER,
FRIDAY. ..s.Q:rL. ..ocToHBR 1863.
Signs Of Returning Reason.

We shall not despair Of the return of q
majority of the Republican party to their
senses, when we see evidences in one oi
their leading papers that even political
editors of the radical kind can see things,
after thirty months of war, in a more
rational light than before. Gradually, one
by one, the fallacies preached Of old to the
people by these false prophets are exposed
by the results of time and experiment.
These have taught us that, maugre slavery,
the people of the Sonth equal their nor
thern bretheren in; n;ingenuity, energy, per-
severance, manhood, self,deyoton, and all
the other qualities which 60 to. make a
great. noble and powerful people. We have
fought them, and the result would be mu'
tual respect. than which there can be no
better foundation for future regard and
friendship could we show them that we
ourselves possess, as people, the high
quality of magnanimity. But this to our
radical leaders, is thing not compre-
hended. They ought to realize, however,
how little it is for our interest to desoate
and destroy country with such resources
and such inhabitants, and that, too, Sec
tion of our own country. If they have
spark of real patriotism, they will reflect
that the ruin Of the South is, pro tanto, the
ruin of the Republic. America has vast
ed TOO much strength in civil war, but if her
rulers are not mad, they will not go on to
to utter exhaustion. We extract a portion
from an editorial in the New York Posi-,
which shows, as We said above, fuller ap-
probation of facts patent to US years since,
which the Post then denied or sneered at.
The Postsays, speaking of the numerous
drawn battles:
"This is curious in the history of wars,
where single action generally. or at most
a series of actions extending over the parts
of dav, terminates the campaign and
very often brings the war itself to a close.
Thus at Marathon, Gamma, Chalons, Ram-
lies. Austerltz, jena, Waterloo Solferino,
and hundred other warlike encounters, in
which the hosts of opposing nations were
pitched for trial of strength, the result CT
the conflict has determined the question.
One side or the other won the superiority
and maintained it for after years. No sec
ond DAYS battle was necessary to show
who had conquered on the first day. The
result was so pronounced, the triumph so
that victors and vanquished
were ike agreed in awarding the palm
But in our war it has been different, and
the soldiers on either side have seemed like
those tabled heroes of the Scandinavian
who repair at night by their
Jolly feasts the wastes Of the day, and 60
at it afresh in the morning
One reason Of this is q certain equality
among the men on both sides, who are OF
the same race and nation, and very much
alike in their physical characteristics. Be
tween French and Spanish, or German and
Italian, or English and Indian, there is
marked difference of character, which ap-
pears in their combats. If one is more
light and dashing than the other, be makes
a clean thing of it whenever he attacks by
surprise, and bears his adversary down by
the impetuosity of his charges; or if he
happens to be more sturdy and enduring
than the other, the very obstinacy Of his
courage renders his success sure. There is
a marked result either way, which does not
take place with US, because in the exact
of forces, and in the terrible
determination to win the mastery, neither
of Us will acknowledge himself whipped, or
indeed is whipped, until he is extnguished
Our battles, if they have no other results,
will beat Us into a reciprocal respect for ,
each others prowess and endurance"