Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-11-11
A Sensible View.

Under the caption, "Three hundred
Thousand More," the New York Daily
Neus makes the following comments on the
late proclamation Of Presi dent Lincoln:
After nearly three years Of active warfare,
the Government proposesto to create an lad-
ditional military force, in itself sufficient in
numbers to meet the exigencies Of an ordi-
nary warlike occasion. This formidable dis
play Of numerical strength argues well for
resources of the Republic, but.at the same
time it suggests most painfully the terrible
nature of the task that, now taxes the ener.
gies of the North. Judging from the i'm.
mediate past, the eventsto come promise a
future of unprecedented horror and desola-
ton. There are yet some sanguiue fanat-.
ics who make the Presidents late procla-
nation the renewal of those oft repeated
and untitled prediotionso Of the speedy over
throw Of the Confederacy. Experience
should have taught them how vain tits to
measure prospective military success BY the
recruiting sergsants progress; but as they
build upon their hopes, and take no'coun-
sell of realities, with every fresh call for vol,
unteers, we may expect the worn ont pro-.
phecies to be paraded beforesthe public.
When seventy thousand men answered
the first call of the President, the zoracles
asserted that force abundantly sufficient to
crush the rebellion in its cradle. We now
contemplate the necessity of a host of near
| " one million to arrest the threatened dis
comfture of Federal arms, and yet the Fro.
phets cling to their text, and point to the
reeeding goal as won. They forget that
the spirit Of resistance intensifes in proper
tion as the means Of compulsiQn multiply.
AS their estimate of Southern endurance
erred in the beginning and erred through
out every phase of the struggle, there is good.
reason to believe that twill err to the end
The swelling of the Federal ranks to
whatever extent it may be possible to carry
it does not coerce the inexorable fates.-:
They will trace The history. of this warat
the dictation of a niger power than that
which reigos at Washington. The despots
ofancient Asia, in their attempts to subdue
the Grecian States, invaded first with two
hundred thousand men and afterwards with
million; but it chanced that the more for.
midable host was the most easily repelled
and the most thoroughly destroyed. Napo-
leon was never so utterly discomfttedgas
when he had exerted his utmost influence
to bring all the military elements of France
into the field. The army that perished a.
mid the SHOWS of Russia was the mightest
that ever marched under the Imperial
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But five cannot estimate the resultsof
military movements by the numbers of the
combatants, it is not only possible, but nm.
| ayoidable, to realize the enormous drain
that the support of such vast armies make
upon the substance Of the country. It is
not within the power of the mind to com.
pute wiether they shall achieve victory or
undergo death; but a very plain arithmetic
teaches, with appalling certainty, the cost Of
their maintenance wiliimpoyerish the land.
One million2of men, transferred from pro-
ductive industry to the labor Of, destruction,
will accomplish the financial ruin of the
North more solely than the political sub
mission of the South. When, also, we take
into account the blood that must be shed,
the suffering that must ensue, the private
griefs that will accompany the general mis-
fortune; when we reflect upon the bitter
ness and hatred that must inevitably be en-
genGered between the sections, whose al
most entire active manhood is engaged in
desperate conflict. the call for 100000
more agents of contention suggests the con.
.frmation Of an irrevocable antagonism Of
sentiment more forcibly than any hopes of
friendly Union. sz es@
A political companionship that requires
to be enforced bya million of armed men
cannot be claimed as an illustration of self
government. The resistance that, after.
three years strife, must be confronted by
such an unprecedented military array, gives
evidence of an intensity Of feeling that can
never be accommodated, upon compulsion,
to the intention Of the United States as
constructed by our fathers. 1t is marvel
Gus that the people of the North do not in.
stiuctigely comprehend the abaurditysofI
seeking to bring together discordant ele-
ments by intensifyiug those qualities. that
render them discordant. A raging FIRE to
be subdued, and they heap combustibles
upon it, Hatred, distrust and jealousy are
to be Gained, ami they employ the incen-
tives to those passions They desire to re:
consile people, and they persist in those
deeds that cancel every hope Of reconcilia
tion. What madness more ridiculous-if
it were so frlghtful-as the spectacle of en-.
lightened men struggling like demons to
whip their fellows into concord and friend.
ship! Dealing deathblows to promote friend:
ship!. Welding the implements of hate to
build structure of amity and love! The
100000 more will enable the North to shed
certain measure more of Southern blood.
Will that appease the Southern antipathy?
They will help to ell more Southern graves.
Will that inspire the survivors with attec-
ton for the slayers? The more desperate
our efforts to compel the South to our politi:
cal embrace, the greater will be its repug-
nance to the already loathed connection.
ADVICE TO PLANTERs.-The recommen.
dation has been made, that the planters
should immediately take measures for win.