Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-11-25
Gbgt6th Abtrrtistt,
BIZ sIaIKtEs, DuRlsoE & co.
Is,the Wsrs &C Alrost Overa''a

Every week sine, the wal began, every
Addition otice-holdor and Newspaper .adto-
cafe of the Administrators negro poiisy has
literally assured the people that" the war is
! almost over"
TIE nrseise truth in the ~nsster sJust THIS
po,tnr. IN, Government TO honest ann pa,
tr;ot;e hands, and the wsr then IN fxct Wou.u
ha>aalnost, over Continue the Admins;
tra,;,.n IN the hands Of these men who are
ssh,;no fn. the subju q tion, of the States anu
.Sa .hn,o,t;on of State institutions, ana the
10 - be RELENTLESS and perpetual.
= military victory here and there does not
.ndthe war. W. may take Chariesson as
. va .bsre taken Norfolk NE may take Moo,le
= 10 J,aye taken New Orleans ; we may take
Ill The Southern s~tronghplds, and that's but
~. verv bepinningofa War of abolition and
.sni;,gat;oo. The mshsdoes1otshSe-who will
= SSbold the end Of the war and the con-
;s,;nn~ off, Union upln the principles OF
the section.l party which nov rules over US.
Those principles can never ou'nAnd the pop
n,ar assent ef.the South. and, until that pop
mar assent is gained, there 10 land can pe,ho
peace and Union.
Tbstshave we done? The war has been
fongbt for nearly th~reeyears. We haye toaded
.tbe ,a,ion down with borrow and debt. Hun.
dres,. and THOUSANDS of our brave and pattlo'
tic men have been slain. And yet 1T ia GODS
,rn,b that the Government car. cointnsnd less
S,s.N,;II.support insthe. Southern States 10,
aSy- tSan, when its armies were tfst hurted
sgs;ngt the enemy. Every month OF war,
-nnder tho proclamation and for s%ubJagat'on,
bns tended to cement, psrpetuate and tradi'
1910. batrsd Of the North in every South
ern household and as to everything &sica
makes a real Union and.a READ peace, we are
strthsr off from tie goal to-day than two
years. ago.
{: The sooner the people get rid of the shal.
Tow and fAllacious notion that conquest means
p.ace-the sooner hhall we regain the lost
blessings of . real Union.
We have nov solne military victories: we
have conquered Norfolk, but there IS I'm
ion there. We have subjugated New Orleans:
int there is no Union there. We nave reduc.
ed Yicksburg, and Donelson, and subjusated
garious other cities and towns-butn none OF
tben are r~e-annexed, to the Union. We have
Simply subjugated men who hates us and our
.,olicy. Even where orr arms prevail, war,
rnerpetdal war exists. The orderwmc relens
N ,bs,e localities ia the order which relgned
in Warsaw wheithe Russian chieitain pro-
claimed the subjugation'u Vt thePo capital,
md tbs asace we nave gained is the peace oil
Poland and Hungary:uudsr Russian and Aus,
trisn poger.a peace to DO hated alike by SAD
lugator and subjugated. -
We might Aaye had military success with
U,,;on. we might have captured citit'esi aud
,es,ared them. Whole States lnigathageTe-
,nrned 8 ths Uaion. and have sent their rep
rcssnt,tiyes to Washington. We see none
OF tEese results now. The Administrators
stands at the door clubbing back every State
which wouldre.unite with US under the Con
sti,ulion. IL. is restoration Of the OLD Union
which the Administration breads. 1t hates
the old Union, because with its restoration
ueri.hes foreeer the Administration aud Its
Isarty.-Freemsu's Journal.