Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-05-13
ALTERNATIVE.


a month ago. Gen. Hooker will 60 the way of Nc.
Clellan. Pope and Burnside-certan thousands of
soldiers on each side have gone the way of all flesh
and what thsng Our enemies can afford to sustain
defeats of this kind and are still making progress
towards the ultimate subugation Of the Confedera-
cy, because the war is still wagcd upon our soil,
not upon theirs. By all their disasters they lose
literally nothing at ALL gave the lives Of some mer-
cenaries, whom they can we'll spare. Indeed, the
business of their country-that is to say, the indus
try of the contractors and the production and sale
Of all sorts Of commissary and quartermaster stores
Ill this trade is even stimulated and improved by
IN occasional battle A great victory, to be sure,
would be still better for them than great defeat
bun either case there is vast destruction of stores
arms equipments, clothing; and the traffic Of the
contractors becomes more brisk. Our enemies do
net feel the war as they make US feel it. seeing that
tits not brought home to their doors; their towns
are not subjected, as SO many of ours are, to the
tyranny of hostile garrison and provost marshal.
Their women are not chased from their homes,
their. fields are not laid waste and. condemned to
sterilty by the destruction Of plows; the robbery
of pillow horses, the burning Of mills fences and
timber; their children are not dragged before an
ensmys military court on charge of wearing Union
colors; their railroads and bridges are not cut and
blown up; their ports are not subject 70 a con-
tinual blockade and occasional bombardment; their
citizens are not forced to take oath of fidelity to
the Confederate government; they are not forced,
as we are, to purchase their clothing from Confed
crate merchants, at three or four times the just
price; in short they are suffering nothing but dis
grace, military and moral dishonor; and they are
very willing to take that, and hold themselves well
paid for it 80 long as they know that in the midst
of all this, and in spite of all this, they are still
creeping forward, Creeping is the word) acre by
ia hxvyv sn9so
the material evils Of war. Our forces, wherever
they meet the enemy fairly, drive him back with
loss and shame yet on the whole, they are suffer-
ing nothing, and we suffering the whole. If the
war is to continue few years longer, upon this
principle, we shall have "lost all but honor"-and
they, shall have gained all with the same exception
Our people are too much disposed, after every
Confederate victory, to say to themselves, surely
ths is to be the last of it, the Yankees must tire
Of this frutless work in the long run; when they
find it vain to try to conquer the Southern forces,
then the "peace party" at the North will grow
strong, &c. &C. Any time since the first Manassas
routwe have been Aattering ourselves after this
same manner. Since then they have taken cheer
fully the carnage of the Peninsula, and the second
disaster OF Manassas, and the shameful repulses be-
fore Vicksburg and Charleston, and the fierce and
bloody vengeance Of fredericksburg, and the sauph
ter great and grim" at Aurfreesboro. And there
is not only no relaxation in the urgency and extent
and force Of the military effort to crush US, but a
constant systematic increase both in its strength
and in its terocity. The more those towards suffer
at the hands OF our men, the more they make our
women and children suffer at their hands. Lea
.thrashes them soundly on the Rappahannock i'm.
'meaiatey several defenceless towns in Tennessee or
%Nslss'ppf are gwen over to ruffian soldiery.-
;heaqregard drives them bowling from the ramnarts
OF Charleston; Immediately the screw Of their r.s.
81 provost marshals is frightened at Memphis and
nashville and helpless families are sent fleeing to
inc South. The men Of Mississippi trample them
I'm Inc mud before Vicksburg very we'll thew can
lake tne!r revenge upon the women of Mississinni
Through score Of unprotected villages.
'in;al this the dandge falls exclusively upon our
Peope: the profit is all for them their families ara
unaisturoed IN their peaceful homes their factories
ana stores their looms and workshops, are full and
oosy; lheir husbandmen till the ground in peace
mtn none to make them afraid; and while thev
shut ont from US to commerce of all the rest Of ,Ss
m tney absolutely monepollze our foreign traf1e
linen comes the question, how soon will thew tirs
ot TINS ~ars When will they think it time to NAL
Ys.Ses and the answer must be, neper. Never
while our country is the sole theatre Of the strno'
gle; never, 80 Dong rs we permit Confederate We
@ea ana children to be tortured and bulIed and
"seslea ~ rascal n,ercenaries, while We neithe,
.ns ou' ossaAes Aeea At home what war is nor re
1sl'ate upon their people who are made prisoner,
AUG outrages done upon our helpless non. combs
ssng never, : bile We buy and use everything thu.
ahe aansee makes for ms, and sends to ma the
Pfeseaoed bieekade, at pretended risk At b;
ON easees; never, Whale tbey can remain on tn
1nensise ~ round Doth By land and sea. and choos
$nelr own time and place fer attack-s,eoer.
LIZ no .ar can ;lastliteraay for ever. Somethin
or other vM assuredly bring It tn an end At last
either fecegn intervention, after wa have been a
weakened that England and Fsance can i,ct.ts the;
own terms for the peace they will sell Hs or els
oar very veariHess aad exhaustion. We NAV tir
m ~nnlng victories pen.the present syst.m the
,,... never tire OF sustaining such defeats On Ii
pun, me struggle tusy last for twenty gear
aet we 20 not Up to the present tiuae. comulai
ol the conduct Of tie xa~ bv .o.r .n,hc, it;es an
generals: We have net only r. ~. .r.,ons :,
sns 1ess leaders that the continent as vet ., pduce
Al the glory is ours; the glory Of e,.,v i;nJ ho,
"a heroic achievement and in patient e.,s,nr.ce i,
s M Our record will be truIS molly On
.nsse: proved. more than sutEcienfa '. That I
nave sougat to do no hurt to our enemieE INIT on
20 oeseao sns oEn shsrishsd rights end Trotect a.
s1n homes even The few moderate and ms..r.
ssoPse 70 the way Il retaliation s4opta d bv !
nave ossn SLOWLY. rslaetantly forced ueso our chi
assoHs Pssaidsnt BY the obvious necess;t~ ~ omar
S osr peeP!s from un,nanly outrage Er In. :, on
suee WHICH can act upon 20 base N an. NV
s~1s.Y, hax: The Copfaderate ,orsrn...st .
s'"pe nsye borne and forborns muah - ~