Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-06-10
why the War Should be stopped.
From the N. Y. Frseman's Journal

From the n. Y. Freeman's Journal
Within two or three weeks it has hap
pened that evidences have accumulated
in our hands of "A different state of feeling
at the South from what we had anticipa-
ted We had come almost to accept the
chaff and fustian of the Bohemians of the
Richmond press-the pantalooned bipeds
at the South who stay at home and t,u,
war, instead OF going and fighting it out
like gentlemen are doing-we had almost
taken it for granted that this newspaper
vaporing was the universal sentiment of
the Southern people. Within two weeks
letters have come to us, and we have per-
sonally met more than one or two who
have fought with heart and soul in the
Confederate army. We have been start
led to find ho,c much reason Vallandigham
had for saying that it might not yet be too
late to reconstruct a political Union be-
tween North and South, if tue f,J!tting
could only be stopped for while.
1st- We learn that, in the army South,
as IN the army North, the overpowering
desire is for any honorable peacel
2nd. We learn that many, though only
Il minority, of the men of influence in the
army, are still Umon men, are wise
enough to see that, in a disrupted coun-
try, there is neither the prosperity, nor the
security, nor the glory, nor the liberty,
that the old glorious Union afforded
Sd. We do not leoum-for we kae.c it
betore-knew it by knowing our country
men-kncw it by knowing the nature of
.frcenae,a-that there will be no pari.y-
no sitting down to discuss or to mediate,
on future political relations, till the hostile
attitude has been abandoned
Gallant and brave men 1T the South,
are wishing, rs we wish, for an indefinite
postponement of further hostiities They
say that, while they will neper' yield to
coercion, they have not forgotten the
glories, or the happiness, of our common
past The r;,nting secession, eternal sepa-
ration fellows of the Southern press. are,
like the ranting, no-union- with slavery
fellows of the Northern press-mere wind
bags-,rrating not .fghtng-little fight in
them On each side, these fellows are of
no account. Every month, every dog of
hostiEties, is increasing the difficulties, and
diminishing the hopes, of those true pa
triots of the South, as of the North
There are, in reason, and in the con-
struction of these States, lately united,
potent, and ma jor reasons, for some re-
union 1t can, even yet, be brought
about. But, it cannot be by any unau-
thorlzod and monstrous agreement for
separation, on the part of the usurpation
that calls itself the Federal Government.
1t has no constitutional power 10 do any
thing of the kind, any more than it has
to carry on this unconstitutional war.
The solution must be referred to the scve-
raj States, and to their delegates selected
especially TO that end. One plan-the
true plan, is to be in no hurry about call
ing such Convention of States, but to be
in great hurry to stop the horrible
butchery, on both sides, and the horrible
stealings and other outrages that have
rendered the Federal armies stencil i'm
the nostrils of the civilization of this age.