The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-11-10
A sENSIRIE VIEW.

A SENSIBLE VIEW.
Under the caption "Three Hundred Thousand
More" the New York Daily News makes the fol-
lowing comments on the late proclamation of Pre-
sident Lincoln:
After nearly three years of active warfare, the
Government proposes to create an additional mill
tary force, IN itself sufficient in numbers to meet
the exigencies of ordinary warlike occasion.
This formidable display of numerical strength ar
CUES well for the of the Republic but at
the time it suggests most painfully the terri
bic nature of the task that taxes the energies
of the North. Judging from the immediate past,
the events to promise future of unprece-
denied horror and desolation. There yet some
sanguine fanatics who make the Presidents late
proclamation the renewal of those oft repeated and
unfuIflled predictions of the speedy overthrow of
the Confederacy. Experience should have taught
them how vain It is to measure prospective militia
~ success by the recruiting sergeants progress /;
but they build upon their hopes. and take no
counsel of realities with every fresh call for vol
unteers, We may expect the wornout prophecies to
be paraded before the public.
| When seventy thousand men answered the first
call Of the President, the oracles asserted that
force abundanty sufficient to crush the rebellion
| in its cradle. We now contemplate the necessity
Of host of nearly one million to arrest the threat
ened discontinue of Federal arms, and yet the
prophets cling to their text and point to the ever
recedfng goal won. They forget that the spirit
OF resistance intensifes in proportion the means
of compulsion multiply. AS their estimate Of
Southern endurance erred in the beg inning and
erred throughout every phase of the struggle,
there is good reason. to believe that it will to
the end
The swelling of the Federal ranks to whatever
extent it may be possible carry does not coerce
the memorable fates They will trace the history
of this War at the dictaton of higher power than
that which reigns at Washington. The despots of
ancient Asia, In their attempts to subdue the Gre
clan States invaded first with two hundred thous
sand men and afterwards with million but it
CHANGED that the more formidable host was the
most easily repealed and the most thoroughly des-
troyed. Napoleon was never so utterly discomft-
ted as when he had exerted his utmost influence
to bring all the military elements of France into
the field. The army that persisted amid the SHOWS
OF Russia was the mig htiest that ever marched un-
der the Imperial eagles
But ii We cannot estimate the result of military
movements by the numbers of the combattants, it
is not only possible, but unavailable, to realize
the enormous drain that the support of such vast
armies make upon the substance of the country
1t Is not within the power Of the mind to compute
whether they shall achieve victory or undergo
death; but very plain arithmetic teaches, with
appalling certainty the cost of their maintenance
will lmpoverish the land. One million Of men,
transferred from productive INDUSTRY to the labor
OF destruction, will accomplish the financial ruin
of the North more solely than the political submis-
sion of the South When, also, we take into ac-
count the blood that must be shed, the suffering
that must ensue, the private griefs that will &C
company the general misfortune; when we reflect
upon the bitterness and hatred that must inevta-
bly, be engcndered between the sections, whose al
most entire active manhood is engaged in desper-
ate conflict, the call for 800, 600 more agents of
contention suggests the confirmation of an irrevo-
cable antagonism Of sentiment more forcibly than
any hopes of friendly Union.
"A political companionshp that requires to be
enforced by million of armed cannot be
claimed illustration of sef-government The
resistance that, after three years strife, must be
confronted by such an unprecedented military ar
ray, gives evidence of 40 intensity of feeling that
can never be accommodated, upon compulson, to
the Intention of the United States as constructed
by our fathers. 1t is marvellous that the people
OF the North do not instinctvely comprehend the
absurdlty of seeking to bring together discordant
elements by intensitying those qualities that rem
der them dscordant. raging fire is to be sub
dued, and they heap combustibles upoa it, Ha-
tired, distrust and. jealousy are to be calmed and
they employ the incentives to those passions
They desire to reconcile people, and they persist
In those deeds that canoe! every hope of reconcile
alton. What madness more r6icufous-if it were
not SO frghtful-as the spectacle of enlightened
men struggling like demons to whip their fellows
into concord and friendship! Welding the i'm
plements of hate to build structure of amity and
love- The 900 more will enable the North |
to shed certain measure of Southern blood. |
Will that appease the Southern antipathy? They
will help to fill more Southern graves. Will that
inspire the survivors with affection for the sayers.
The more desperate efforts to compel the South
to our political embrace, the greater will be its re-
pugnance to the already loathed connection.
HARD TINES Notwithstanding girls in New
York appear to meet with but poor success in
their efforts to secure ap increase Of wages. The
umbrella of that city recently struck FOR an
advance Of two cents per umbrella, but they met
with so little encouragement from their employees,
that they endeavored to effect comprise by reduc
ing their demand to cent. But even in this
they did not succeed, and all obliged to
return to their work except few, who still hold
oat. -
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES ABOUT
GEN. BRAGG.-The Chattanooga correspondent
of Mobile Tribune gives the following summary of
the result of President Davis visit to -Bragg's
army:
A great deal of gossip and military scan. mag
has been written about the Presidents visit here
10 reference to The settlement of certain difficulties
which are supposed to exist among the corps and
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