Winchester daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1863-1863, 1863-02-04
Communicated. I
WINCHESTER, Feb. 3D., 1868.

no advocates u cessation Of hOstilitics,
with a view, if possible, of reconstruct.
ing the Union and securing to tho
South its constitutional rights "a thing,
by the by, that will never be accepted
by the Lodfedcratc Statcs), rs we'll as
showing the immense efforts that have
been put forward to crush out the sixty
days rebellion, but TO no avail,
A SUBSCRIBER.
Twenty million people, and every
element of strength and force at COM.
mand-power, patronage, influence,
manimity, enthusiasm, confidence,
credit, money, men, an army and q
navy, the largest and the n0blcst ever
set in the field or ahoat upon the sea;
withEthe support, almost s%crvilc, Of
eveY State, county and municipality
in the North aud West; with Il Con
gress, swift to do the bidding Of the
Executives; without opposition any.
whore at homo, and with an arbitrary
power wh.ah neither the Car Of Russia
nor the emperor Of Austria dare cNcr.
cisc yet alter two years Of more ,ig.
orOuS prosecution Of war than ever re.
corded in history; after more skirmish.
cs, combats and battles than Alexander,
Caesar, or the first Napoleon ever
fought in any five years Of their mill.
tary career, you have utterly, signa'ly,
disastrously-I will not say ignomiu.
jouSly failed to subdu, ten million
4" rebeIs," whom you had Taught the
people Of the North and West not only
to hate but to despiso. Rebels did /
say Yes, your fathers were robcIs, or
your grandfuthcrs. He who EoW be
fore me on canvass looks down so sadly
upon us, lho false, degenerate and i'm.
beetle guardians Of the great Republic
witch he founded, was Il rcbci. And
yet, owho cradied ourselves in rebellion
and VINO have fostorcl and fraterul2oA
with every instruction in the moe
tecnth century every where th~rDU@npog
the globe, would now, t0rsOUth, mako
the word "rcbcl' Il reprOach.~ Ro1c'|
certainly they are; but all the persist
cnt and stupcndouS efforts OF The mOat
gigantic warfare Of modern times have,
through your incolnpetency and folly,
awaited nothing to crush them ont, ent
off though they have been BY your
blockade from all the world, and de.
pendent only upon their own courage
and resources. And yet they were TO
be utterly conquered and subduod in
six weeks, or three months.
Sir, my Judgment "a made up and
expressed from the first. | learned it
from Chatham "My lords, yon cannot
conquer America" And you have not
conquered the South You never will.
1t is not in the nature Of things posi-
bic, much less uo'ler your auspices.
But money you have expended without
limit, and blood poured out like water;
defeat, debt, taNation, Sc ,uIcherS, these
arc your trophies. In vain the people
gave you treasure, and the soldier
yielded up his life. Fight, tax, eman-
Icipate, let these said tho gentleman
from Maine (Mr. Pike, at the last Sos
sion, be the trinity Of our salvation.'
ISir, they have become the trinity Of
lyour deep damnation. The war for the
Union is, in your hands, a most bloody
and costly failure The President con.
tossed it on the 22d of September, sol.
cmnIy, officially, and under the broad
seal of the United States. And he has
now repeated the confession. The
priests and rabbis of Abolition taught
him that God would not prosper such u
cause. War for the Union was aban-
doned war for the negro openly begun,
aad with str0n2 or battalions than be-
fore. With what success? Let the
dead at Fredericksburg and Vicksburg
answer.
And now, sir, "a this war continue?
Whence the money to carry it on ?
Who're the men? Can you borrow?
From whom? Can you tax more? Will
the people bear it? Wait till you have
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