The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-03-04
Have We Fought Long Enough
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To man, whose fingers are in the fire,
minute seems an age; and to people pass
ing through the furnace ordeal Of war,
twenty months seem like twenty years. In
| these twenty months nearly a hundred bat.
| lies have been fought. aud yet both sides
complain, because matters drag along so
| slowly.
In every war much time is spent in pre-
| pairing for important movements, in watch.
ing the movements of tho enemy. and in
| strategic mancuvers to secure favorable
combinations aud desirable positions; so
that, often months pass without a battle.
Ana the European nations, from whom both
| tcdcrals and Confedcratcs are descended
never yet showed a disposition to cry" quit"
SO long as they could make reasonable show
OF resistance Thus we read of Seven
Years War a " Thirteen Years War" and
II" Thirty Years War"
There are those who say we have fought
with the South long enough. And so we
have-too long, indeed unless we had good
reasons to take up arms at trst but allow
ing such good reason, we have not fought
long enough, because we have not vet
gained our object. Does no. the cry, {" i've
have fought long enough" come chiefly from
the lips OF those who would have fought on
the other side, had they livcd south of the
Ohio?
The men of &c bore the brunt nearly eight
years, to secure the beginning o /. our nation
allty. Are their successors so degenerate
rs to throw away that nationality, and give
up the experiment of free government in
America, because they cannot endure war
OF less than two years Are Anglo-Saxon
pluck and patriotism and power of endu-
rance, 80 soon played out2 Did our faith
ers pay too high price for our freedom?
And Will our children reproach us for saw
ing their birthright even at the expense of
hundred battles more? True. we may be
compelled to give over at last through sheer
exhaustion, but we have not done our best
| We know there is limit to tho power of
the rebellion; we know, too, that its re-
sources of men and money are much more
nearly wasted than our own. Why should
we give it up, when all for which we have
struggled, if attainable at all. is now
!auch nearer than ever.
Talk ofpeace! With whom shall we treat
for peace? Have we lost our memories
| is any loyal man so vcrdant and coniidng
rs to suppose that the men who so treach-
erously began this war by conspiracy to
| overthrow government which they have
sworn 70 support-such as Jeff Davis. Floyd
| roombs, Breckenridge. Yancey Slideil. and
Benlamin-are men with whom an honor
able treaty can be made. and by whom an
honorable treaty can he kept? They are
absorbed with the wild, ambitious purpose
oI founding great Slave Empire on the
ruins of American freedom and civilization;
| and they are sagacious enough to see that
such scheme can only succeed through the
humiliation aud subiugation of the North.
| When yOH tuh Of peace, yOU are pyOpoSi,ig
to moke these men he masters Of orr desiiHW.
! They tomt and dcnouncc the Northern
masses as only fit to be their slaves; md
9oH propose To prOre il true bVd cowr1tRV,
Serriie Surrender 10 the terms Heir h0n1h-
tineSS may dictate If there can be no peace
! but by giving up this continent to be ruled
and ridden by that gang of iillibusters and
pirates who have disrupted our National
Union, and made themselves the asSassins
of their country, then, in Gods name. let the
war rage on till we all be dead men.
One OF three things: \ peace which binds
the North in chains TO the victorious car of
the South: or, peace which gives the South
time to establish and consolidate a rocog-
hHed nationality, preparatory to another
war, III which the North would he ten
times more distracted and disabled than now;
or Il peace coming through the triumph of
arms, and the rc-establshment of Federal
authority over all the land.
What remains is, zee must .fght il OW or
do w0rSe. 1t will take time il will add
enormously to our burdens; it will impose
great suitcrngs; it will tax our knitted
strength and our highest wisdom to the ut
most; it may drain the blood of your hoart
and mine; but such is the price we must
pay for II nations liberty, its honor and
safety. And the future-blessed with pub
lic order and prosperous quiet-wilI say,
"Thesc are richly worth all they cost"
C. G. A.