The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-09
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beaten rather than tax their broken energies
to make any further e3ertion.
Governments that are wise will recognizes
this law of humanity, which no government
can set aside or repeal. The symptoms of
approaching exhaustion will be watched
with anxious solicitude; for people may
become so depleted and enervated by an
aggressive war as to be unable to rally, for
defensive one.v Than such a state of
things nothing can be more melancholy or
disheartening; and an Administration or q
party which, in the blind pursuit of its own
ambitious ends, forgets the; irrepealabls
statutes which regulate the human char
acter, and forces the people forward into
such condition, coma mits the greatest crime
of which an unwise ruler can be guilty. As
The people of the United States--North.
are beginning to manifest an indispositioR
for further war This is fact to which
as it is admitted by the journals of the Ad-
miuistration party-we do not deem it i'm
proper to allude. 1t is true that these jourL
nails charge this indisposition upon party
action. They pronounce it factious and
reasonable. and do not hesitate to point out
the individuals through whose machinationS
especially this state of feeling has been gen.
Grated. The question wheth er this feeling
is the effect of party agitation or of the
spontaneous action of the popular mind;
dsgusted with the costs and perils of war,
disappointed with the results, dissatisfied
with the present and apprehensive for. the
future, is one of the most momentous char
acter It may answer temporary and q
Larty purpose to attribute 20 it factions
origin; but if we could be permitted to have
any iinflu uencewith the party of the Admin
istration, or with the Adm inistration itself;
we would beg them to look carefully, and
see if there is not NJ ore in the indications
to which we allude than can fairly be placed
to the account of any party agitation that
has taken place. It may be worth while to
consider whether the party agitation has
not grown out of the feeling, rather than
the feeling out of the agitation. A mistake
in this m after may be productive OF the
worst consequences: may not only be fatal
to the party that m axes it, but be produce
tive of vast general misfortunes. ~
1t is evident that we are approaching the
limit of the abilty-we mean the moral
ability-of the people of the North to sup
ply the means to carry on the war. We do
not attach much importance to the little
physical resistance which has been, herd
and there, interposed to the administrative
acts of the Government, except, as they are
indications. From such as these, in them
selves, the Administration has little to fear.
But general reluctance is inertia; and that
inertia has moral force which is the hard J
est of all things for Governments to over
come. When the people generally dissent
from the policy of the Administration, they
have no need of arms, nor even of ballot
boxes, to make themselves felt: the all per-
vading thought, the universal will, consti- +
tutes an unseen power that governs, in spite
of arbitrary acts and military array to en-
force them. To compel the people by mere
arms to carry arms against another people
is thing surrounded by too many dlthcul-
ties ever to be successfully accomplished.
The feelings to which we have alluded
as existing among the Northern people sars
not confined to the members of any partic-,
ular party. Although more distinct and
general in one, every day supplies new eyiG,s
dences that they are becoming more and
more prevalent and active in the other:
Several of tn administration, party, and
those among the more prominent and in
fuentia!. give evidence of partaking in
them; and the more rational and disinteresi
ted the man, to whatever party he belongs
the more carefully he will be fou nd to have
pondered upon the possibility of the arrival
of the condition of things which we have
endeavored to describe. We might point
also to. the course of the m;nistration it
self, as contemplating on the part of the
President and his immediate advisers the
danger of an exhaustion of the energies
and patience of the peoples, shown in the
hesitation and reluctance, with which drafts
are ordered, and taxes, long since provided
for by law, levied and collected; and prov-a
ing TO every intelligent observer that their
policy in the prosecution of the war against
the enemy in trout has been modified and
DETECTED by apprehensIons of a failure of
the people, if too strongly pressed, to sup
ort them in the rear. ,.e.-.- ,.,..s
This is a view of our national affairs
which, it seems to us, is worthy of serious
consideration. Let us look at those from
whom the cry of extreme measures and ex.
treme sacri6ces-for driving the people into
the war without regard to their wishes, and
bringing them TO the condition simply of
implements to subserYe the purposes of an
Administration which they would fain
make arbitrary and absolute-principaIlv
Fanatic:sm and interest are the
two elements by which they are pervaded.
The social theorist, who would drive man
by force to accept his plans for the reeener-s
alton of mankind, the man holding and the
man seeking Office, and the Contractor
Take away these-whose clamors are inf
nitely disproportionate to their numbers-r
and the cry of war to the last extremity
would be pretty effeetually silenced. Then
would be heard the real voice of a people
tired of war, fearful of its consequences,
and anxious for a return to that state Of
tranquil prosperity from which We have so
unfortunately, departed. as rT
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