Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1863-01-27
Signs Of Peace-spcakins out in the North

For the first time since the signal Of
war was given by the booming of can
non at Fort Sumter, We discern some
CLEANS OF hope that there is prospect
for termination of hostilities. Though
Lincoln's army is greater now than at
any former time, yet there are signs
which indicate very plainly that his pros
poets for conquering the South were
never so gloomy as at present. In vari-
Gus parts of the North, palpable signs OF
coming storm, which will soon beat in
al1its fury upon the Lincoln Admins
tration, have recently manifested them
selves. The "pitiless storm which beat
upon the devoted head of King Lear
was as balmy and gentle zephyr from
spice Islands, compared with that resist
less storm of popular wrath which will
soon beat with fury upon the head of
the fendish mailman who is recklessly
running the ssmachine" Of the United
States Government, and crushing be-
meath its wheels the liberties of his own
people. Though he has an army of one
million of men, yet he is quaking with
fear and his knees are knocking togeth-
er, like Belshazzar's at the feast, and for
a similar reason, for he sees the hand
writing upon the wall which denotes
that he has been weighed in the balan-
ces and found wanting. He needs no
Daniel to interpret the characters are
legible, and he becomes the Interpreter
of his own doom. He feels that he
Yields barren sceptre; that his efforts
have been vain; that he is disgraced in
the eyes of the whole world that he has
gained nothing save an Immortality of
infamy; that he has destroyed the tenn
pie of Liberty, and acquired more in
famous fame than Erostratus for the de-
struction of the temple of Diana of the
Ephesians; he feels that he cannot "es-
cape history" which will present him in
his true character as anaOaasta'asa7a hOrreaa-
dem, the slayer of Liberty, and enemy
of the human race Those whose mouths
he would muzzle, if he were not afraid
of arousing the sleeping wrath ofhis own
people, are now speaking out in bold
terms their condemnation of his policy.
They are now holding him up to the
derision and indignation of the people.
They have placed him on the pillory of
public scorn, where he remains the OBJ
ject of ieers and taunts-he is wounded
to the quick, but dare not raise his hand
to stay the scorpion lash of his pitiless
criticisers.
In New Jersey, in New York, in II
linois, in Indiana, and even in Ohio, the
people are beginning to speak as free
men in condemnation of the wickedness
and crime of the war which the Lincoln
Administration is waging upon the
South They are beginning to appre-
-ciate the fact that the South cannot be
conquered, and that the continuance OF
the war will only have the effect of de-
stroying all hope of liberty at the North.
They now see that, whilst Lincoln is pro-
Tossing to emancipate the slaves of the
South, he is making slaves of the free
men of the North He cannot raise an
other army, and his present one cannot
effect the purpose for which he summon
ed it to the field. Volunteering in the
North is now dead, and the Western
States will not submit to another draft.
By next June, fifty regiments of the two
years volunteers, his best soldiers, will
march back home, as their term will ex-
pire at that time. The Western States
now sec that it has been converted, on
the part of the Administration, into a
war for abolition, and not for the pres
iervation of the Union as it was, and as
they desire it to remain. Lincoln has
built his house upon the sand, and the
and the storm now rising will soon
sweep it away, and the rainbow of peace
will braid the brow of the storm cloud.