The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-03-25

l. ioOt, hHu " mas otSu iSpSaeSu Hos VIII
throughout the length and breadth of the
land, but over the civilized world. It is
the last expiring gasp upon the field Of
carnage aud the FIRST query OF prattling
Innocence. /" WHAT'S all this for ," csmss
up from the emaciated form that keeps the
lonely night watches on the Rappahannock
and the Mississippi, is caught and re-
echoed BY the parched lips of the dying
soldier in the hospital where the. monster
death. rules and reigas. The lonely widow
whose husband sleeps where the battle rag
ed highest aud iercest. and whose ragged,
half-famished children clamar for bread
--whose woman's heart is breaking over
sufferings she cannot relieve--she too, pa
tient under her suiferings, accomplishing
and prayerful. asks, what is all this for \"
The mother whose sons have fallen aud
whose heart is desolate. whose troubled
soul refuses to be comforted. wonders as
the work Of death aad destruction con.
tinues, what all this is for and the whole
world being appalled, at the 6erceness and
bitterness Of our civil strife, so unnatural.
uncivilizsd and unchristian. exclaim. what
ian it all be forf
We can give but one answer, and il is
brief. For The niger. BETTER Thousand
times for North and South that the las:
vestige Of this interior race should have
been swept from the Continent than have
brought on ourselves all the untold horrors
Of this civi war. The Nnrth is Sighting
to elevate the niger and we are lighting IL
retain the niger aud defend our names
but who is being benefited by the etasiou
of blood : Not the North. for she has es.
tsblished dsspoIism over her people, ere.
atsd a debt that the tenth generation will
not see paid. and are on the eve, seeming.
". Of strife among their own people. Nor
the South, for her iairest fields are ,lesolat-
ed, our homes are plundered, our people
robbed Of property aud home, and SUBJECT.
ed TO untold .priyatlons. Certainly the ne
gre is not benefited BY the war. for he i,
exchanging kind masters aud all the com.
fnrts heretofore provided for him for state
OF ssmi-bsrbarism under the generous pro.
lection OF his Yankee brethren. Whai
then is il all for.
Reasoning men, North and South. pre-.
dicted in 1860 all the horrors aud suffer.
lings that now surround Us a. 4 consequence
Of civil war. Thirty odd millions OF whites
tearing each other TO pieces. aud all ior
four millions Of negroes. Did ever ths
world behold sach spectacle before
Lineois spoke trulv when he said. " ",
cannot escape history" TAe civilized
world will hold that depraved man and the
fanaticsl sgitators who act with him, re.
sponsible for the blood shed in this war
Lincoln Is right. lie will not escape his.
tory. nor will his administrators, his enau.
epsilon policy. his negro armies and other
acts Vt vandalism, escape the indignation
and csntenpt Of the christian world. Ii
not the life of a white man worth as much
as that Of nesrsi Why then slsy tour
millions Of whites in quarrel over these
creaturesi The South must fight as Ions
as she 10 Invaded, but no longer; and il
the North will consent TO let Us go, the de-
sire il %, great for peace that any terms
that are honorable will DC cheerfnlv &C.
cedei %. The power that rules II Wash
IngtOn can alone stop this war. and % that
Iposer the world now looks. Csrtainlv
tbey have had enough 10 satisfy thsm that
united South is not to be suLiugaied. and
that ~ shall never lay down our arms %.
al oar Independence is acknowledged
We are not Of those who abs,e tie North
as peiRg the sole cause Of the war. Wtek.
ed man Of bothsectiuns iabsred TO bring (,
On to accomplish self.h purposes. and
soansr Or later. in some shape. they vii
90 their reward but with that nov u,
hass nothing to do. W have declare,
our determination and shalt fight on. VI.
are tyr peace; psacr nsy. aud peace upoi
any t'rns ani with anybody - i does III
degrade ". Leave aIt New England and
W ore wiling 10 have peace with any anC
eysry boty else that will subscribe to tis
Constitution Of the Confederate States
The bis9I ofsiclims SIAN. the Suffering, ot
the nlilasd and wsuaied. and the waiIing,
Of the destitute. housrless and homele,-
err for peace. and the almost usi,ed voice
Of two continents ring anu will continue