The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-07-02
Peace not to be Made but Won

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We take the following striking and emf
nently just views Of the duration Of the war
from discourse by the Rev. DR.. Bellows
entitled THE War to end only when the
Rebellion ceases"
s'The question for loyal men is not phes
but hoD the war is to end. They have NO
question that the war is to end when the
Rebellion stops, be it one year, five years
or our natural lives.
While there is any uncertainty of feelin e
on this point-any hankering for peace OF
compromise and concession, we shall have q
war protracted by indecision, debate, divis-
ion-more expensive. more dangerous, and
more bloody without the least chance oi
the base peace that is so meauly desired,
but also without any chance Of the victor.
ious peace that is the sole possible termina-
ton of our struggle. Let us bo but as one
man in our solemn determination to sue.
ceed at all hazards and at any cost, and we
shat have unity, energy, econmy, decision,
in all our councils, and swiftness and GER
tainty in our success. And this feeling I
verify believe is already nearly assured.--
The most gratifying and encouraging aspect
in our affairs has been the courage. constsn
cy. and cheerfulness of our people, during
a long period ofslight apparent success
The Nation has begun to lean upon its own
purpose; to find support in its own heart
and conscience to be guided by its faith
and resolution, and 80, to take its daily
food, whether in the bitter herbs Of delay
and failure, or in the manna and quails of
progress and success, with equanimity and
resolve. Dark and stormy days may be in
store for us, but they will not be remembe r
ed in the mighty joy Of our final victory =
That triumph is as sure es the harvest that
never fails. 1t IS mere sum in arithme-
tic. 1t does not even depend upon victor
les. Our enemy loses strength by every
success, as much as by every defeat. Eight
millions of people may gain victory ev.
cry month against twenty millions. and If
the twenty millions are merely con slant to
their purpose, few years ruins and exter-
inmates the foe in the midst of his success
es, by sheer exhaustion OF men and resour.
ces. Thus the loyal cause is steadily VIC
torious, even when baff1sd and beaten in de
tail. To wait is to conquer. The longer
our forces are in the field. the more obsti-
uately they are resisted, tho larger the force
we are compelled to bring to the war, the
more completely we are driven to overru
every acre of the enemy's area--the more
thoroughly and completely do We disinteg-
rate his country, saturate his barbarous civ
ilization with ours. carry our customs, our
temper, and our industry into his territory,
and take moral possession of his soil. His
stout resistance, successful skirmishes, do
but familiarizs US the nero with him and
him with US. / can not even regret that
his stubborness is continuation il he bent
before our blast, we should have passed
over him with less effect. The war is by
its duration. and its thoroughness prepar-
ing the South to make possible part Of
free country. You can not plough the
yielding sand not plant it but the tough
mari may be broken up, spite Of all resis-
tance, ifohly oxen enough are put to the
yoke! We have exen enough. and by the
grace Of God, We mean to plough the
Southern cotton-felds with the heifers of
freedom and SOW il with Northern wheat.
War is the only culture our Southern waste
admits Of By no other tilAge can it be
added TO the area of cultivated American
And by no discipline, short of
that which is suffered by the North, in its
costly sacrifices of hlond and treas nre and