The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-06-03

can take their revenge upon The women Of
Mississippi through a. scare Of unprotected
villages. q
In all this the damage falls exrlusively
upon our people theproit is all for Them !;
their families are undlsturbed in their
peaceful homes; their factories and stores,
their looms aud workshops, are full and
husy their husbandmen till fhe ground I'M
peace, with none 10 make them afraid and
white they shut out from US the commerce
Of all the rest Of the world, they absolutely
monnpolize our foreign trade.
Then ronles the question. how soon will
they tire Of This war: When will they
think IL time 10 make peace! And the an
swer must be neuer. Never, while our
country is the whnIe theatre Of ile s,rus.
gle; never, sU long as We permit Confede-
rate women aud children to be tortsed aud
bulifd aud beggars,l by rascal anercena-
ries, while we neither make our enemies
feel at home what war is, nor retaiate up
on their people who are made prisoners.
the outrages done upon our helpless nnn
fcombatants; never, while we buy and use
everything thai The Yankee m,kes for Us.
and sends 10 u through pretended block
sde at preiended.risk, al MS own price ;
never, while they can remain on the otlen
sise all AROUND, b"th by land and sea. and
chsase their own time and place for attack
--nsccr.
Yet 30 war can last literally for ever.
/ Something or other will as,nredly bring i;
u an eud d, last either foreign 'ntersen-
i ton, after We have been - weakened hat
! England aud France can dictate their own
terms fnr the prace they will sell Us; Or
else our very WEAKNESS and exhaustion.
| We NAV tire Of winning victories upon the
present >ysiem They wilfney.r tire Of sus-
tain.ng such defeats. On the present plan.
the struggle may las far twenty years
Y Yet We ~ nat. Up 10 tue present time,
/ complain of the. cub,luct II the war by onr
auihael,irs aud generals. We have not
j onis ike test troups, bit the best leaders
+ that lls cuutlnrut has vet prodaced. MI
the glory is ours; lhr siury Of every kind,
both III heroic achievement and III patient
endurance aud luf5esrance. Ous record
will be truly noble one We have PROV
eil, more ihan sufficiently, that wc have
sought Ia do no hurt TO nuf enemies. but on
fy to defend our own cherished rights. and
protect our pwn homes even the lew mod
crate and measured examples in the wav oi
retaliation adopted BY u, taye been slow.
ly. reluctantly forced upon nur chiyairoas
President by the obyinns necessity ot
guarding our people lrnm unman!y Outrage
by the unly influence which can act upon
so base an enemy-namely, lear. Tie
Confederate Government and pe"ple have
horne and forborng much aud lung, u the
vain hope that our fnes would, il mi ielent
al least grow weary. IL has seemed A. i
we we're trylng how muchgf our sulerng'
They could bear, and there is no limit "a
their endurance.
II surely must be plain at las; that inl'
/, to be war OF determination. Snpner oI
Later ~ have 10 accept itnpon thls ioat.ng
RI Pennsylvania are rich farms and cts.
aud there il irewoad in PhlddriphIa !,
vii 20 hard upnn Southern n'iicer> ahd
soldiers TO enter upon tits horrible Kind q
warfare bur yet W mn-t conquer peaer
~r mus clear 4 palh II II through ileNasta.
iion aud carnage. and lhe ta'ags Of peace
toll larms and hOnr.Iesds, aud the shriek'
ard agonics of cts ID rontlagratlon. or
unr avn ground wc will never win that 81
mach lnngei Tor peace. We must make iht
Toe long Tor il, or il will never come.
. - Tho only uther alternative IS submission
reconstruction, nlamy. These noble States
with their noble people, will be oppressed
nationally" forever. We shall live slaves
we shall die slaves, after begetting slaves
to propagate slavery and shame from gene
ration to generation.
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