The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-08-21
Is the War almost Over g
From the Ml!wauk &c News


Every week since the war began, every
abolition Office holder and newspaper ad.
vocate of the administrations negro poll
cy has literally assured the people tha;
''the war is almost over"
The precise truth in the matter is Just
this: Restore the government to honest
aud patriotic hands and the war then in
fact would be ''almost over Continue
the administration in the hands of these
men who are fighting for the subjugation
Of states and the abrogation of state in
stitutiops and war Is to be relentless and
perpetual.
A military victory here and there does
not end the war We may take Charleston
AS we have taken Norfolk; we may take
Mobile as we have taken New Orleans
we may take all the southern strongholds,
and that is but the very beginning Of war
of abolition and suljugstion. The man
does not live who will ever beh old the end
of the war, AMI the construction of Tn
ion upon the principles OF the sectional
party whica now rules over Us. Those
principles never can command the popu-
ar assent OF the south, and until tha, pop
uiar, assent is gained there is and can be
no ps.ace and Union.
What have we done! The war has
been fought for nearly three years. We
have loa,Ied he nation down with Sorrow
and debt. Hundreds and thousands OF
our brave ano, patriotic men have been
slain. And vet, it 5 Gods truth, that
the government cal c'mmand less free
will support in the So,. States to day
than when its armies were trst hurled
against the enemy. Every month OF war
under the proclamation and IL. s1hJuga-
ton has teuded to cement, nerpetnrte and
Ira1itiona!iz9 hatred of the North in eve
ry Southern household, and AS to ever,-
thing which makes a real Union and real
peace, we are father of from tie goal to
day than two years ago.
The sooner the people get rid Of the
shallow and fallacious notion that conquest
means Union-that suhUsalion means
peace-the sooner shall we regain the lost
blessings of real Union.
We have now some military victories
We have conquered Norfolk, but there is
40 Union :here. We have suhjugated
New Orleans bat there is no Union there.
We have reduced Vick>burg and Donald
son and subjected various other cities and
towns-but none of them are re-annexed
to the Union. We have simply sutiugat-
ell men who hate Us and our policy. Even
where our arms preyai, war, perpetual
war, still exists. The order ahich reigns
in these localities is the order which
reigned in Warsa" when the Russian
chieftain proclaimed the sutjueation of
the people of the Polish capital, ard the
peace we have gained is the peace of Po
land and Hungary under Russian and Aus
trian power-a peace to be hated alike
by suhjugator and suEjngated
We might have had military success
with union. We might have captured
cities and restored them Whole states
might have returned 10 the Union and
have sent their representatives 20 Wash
ingion. We see none of these results
now TIE administration stands at tie
door clubbing Jqck epery state whjrh w2uM
rcupite ,oih as under the coasltution 1t
is restoration of the Old Union which he
administration dreaGs 1t hates the old
Union. because with its restoration per
lshes forever the administration ard lis
party.
The war, therefore, will be " almost
over when democracy is triumphant in
the states and in tie nation when the
doctrine Of the Crittenden resolution aran
prevails in Congress and cabinet; when
the constitution is again suprems in the
national councils aud in the affections of
the people. Until then there is TO be no
peace, no rest for the weary foot Of the
soldier no hope for the yearning heart
Of the patriot, no restoration, no order,