Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-07-01
Peace Not to be Made But won.

We take the following striking anu EN-
inently Just views of the duration of the
war from discourse by the Rev. DIR. Bel
lows, entitled 1.-The War to end only when
the Rebellion ceases"
THE question for loyal men is notwhe1
but hO10 the war is to end They have no
question that the war is to end only when
the Rebellion stops, be it one year, five
years or our natural lives.
While there is any uncertainty of feel
ing on this point-any hankering for a
peace of compromise and concession, we
shall have war protracted by indecision,
debate, division-more expensive. more
dangerous, and more bloody-without the
least chance of the base peace that is so
meanly desired, but also without any
chance of the victorious peace that is the
sole possible termination of our struggle.
Let us be but as one man in our solemn
determination to succeed at all hazard and
at anv cost, and we shall have unity, en-
ergy, economy, decision, in all our coun-
ellis. and swiftness and certainty in our
success. And this feelingI verify believe
is already nearly assured. The most graf
flying and encouraging aspect in our af-
fairs has been the courage, -constancy and
cheerfulness of our people, during long
period of slight 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, ana so, to take its daily
food, whether in the bitter herbs of delay
and failure, or in the mamma 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 re-
membered in the mighty joy of our final
victory. That triumph is as sure as the
harvest that never fails. 1t is mere sum
in arithmetic. 1t does not even depend
upon victories. Our enemy loses strength
by every success, as much as by every de-
feat. Eight millions of people may gain
a victory every month against twenty mill
ions, and if the twenty millions are mere
ly constant to their purpose, few years
ruins and exterminates the foe in the
midst of his successes, by sheer exhaus-
ton of men and resources. Thus the 10y
al cause is steadily victorious, even when
baffled and beaten in detail. To wait is
to conquer. The longer our forces are in
the field, the more obstiEately they are
resisted, the larger the force we are com
pelled to bring to the war. the more COM
pletely we are driven to overrun every
acre ofthe enemy sarea-the more through
ly and completely do we disintegrate his
country, saturate his barbarous civiliza-
ton with ours, carry our customs, our
temper, and our industry into his terrific
ry, and take moral possession of his soil.
His stout resistance, successful skirmish-
es, do but familiarize US the more with
him and him with us. / can not regret
that his stubborness is continued-for if
he bent before our blast, we should have
passed over him with less effect. The war
is by its duration and its thoroughness pre-
pairing the South to make possible part
of free country. You can not plough
the yielding sand nor plant it; but the
tough mari may be broken up, spite of all
resistance, if only oxen enough are put to
the yoke We have oxen enough, and by
the grace of God, we mean to plough the
Southern eotton-felds with the heifers of
freedom and sow in the Northern wheat
War is the only culture our Southern
waste admits of. Byno other tillage can
it be added to thearea of cultivated Amer
lean ciVilation. And by no discipline short
of that which is suffered by the North, in
its costly sacrifices of blood and treasure
and in its loss of noble youth, could it ex-
plate its own errors and sins, and recover
tone and temper, faith in its primitive
ideas, and the earnestness and dignity of
its original love of liberty, truth, and hu-
manity.