Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-04-29
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Though now victorious, und possessed # means
which wili ensure successful d-:ense through tho
vrar, maily citizens Of tho Coniedera y "re "p-
y, e,sed with tho inslpnchsly roticctoh, THAI MOTH
ing uor; indicates the end oi The var. They see
10 tho future lolg waste OF fighting. esa noth-
iux beyond It. They see no exit. NO one can
now say hy waat means this ~ar Can be conciua'a.
Europe will not raise in!er to prevent us con
t,nuntisu. The Northern people, nor and tnen'
s,em discorlant and disuni'ed, but when 'tc q'es-
ton of pcace or more war is tnsted,' The vast
majority su oports the war. Tao Northern Gov
prhlneut will OF course, cever agree to any terms
OF ueace-they dare not. II any successor 10
Lincoln is elected, it will probably bo one Of his
own party for he aud they nov control olaction :.
How, then, it is often asked, is this war to emu
We do Not profess to be better able to ansTer
the question than those who ask it. Indeed It ID
quito impossible nur to imagine either the precise
means Ly which peace will be brought about, or
tn limit tie duration OF the war. Tho causes
which can put term to this struggle arenot now
visible, nor is there glsam of light Though the
| lurid cloud that covers the horiScn. Yet We do
not share the melancholy anlicipations OF the fu-
turc which affect many Of Our fellow citizens.
| All things sublunary have an end. Violent dis
eases s.s the shortest. 1t is quite impossible that
an effort so extreme and exhaustive US this now
mad. by tho United States houla last many Year,
The war has not yet been felt by the resources oi
that country only because it's elects hsve been
procrastuGted " clever use of credit But
they will only fell the more heavily vixen credl
is exhausted; and nothing has limit moro hxec
than credit.
Nor is peaco rccessarily tho further Of because
it is out Of sight. The sce2cs of war ahift more
rapidly than those of the theatre or ri"gie Ian
t,rn Who can have forgotten how very Otter
the prospect rs chsngcd within tie last two
years? Tt,cc or four months ago, tho prohabil
ties Of speedy cessation Of hoStiiisiet appeared
TO be great. They disappeared as swiftly as they
came, and their place aas filled by what secmet
the certainty of q long war. Now it promises u
be intermnable; but it is not impossible tina
this promi,o may be broken by the events OF ar
hour.
Tho end of the 6rst American revolution nere
nppoa, cd to be more remote than in the few week
which preceded tn. capitulation OF Yotxtowa
Wsiting to Governor PoSnal q. tho time, DR.
Frankn uss,l Lhe following expressions:
az wish most heartily. with yoa, that this &C
cursed var was ut Al end but despair Of soc
ins it finished iu my time"
Three days later ths Intelligence of Cornwali'
surrender, Immediately recognized as the Tirtua
) conclusion of tho struggle, was received ana
writes to John Adams in Holland thus:
Most heartily do 1 congratulate you On tn
glorious news. Tho infant Hercules has mo-
strangled his second serpent"
a lesson may be fairly drawn from this sinSs
lar incident. Tho frs. revolution is fuli Of trait
resembling those of tho present convulsion, an
the termination OF the one may not DC less sudde
and unc1 pectod than that of the other. In tn
summer the War will come to its crisis -Riot
mord Exominor.