The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-27
GEORGETOWN, DEL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 81 1863


against it, find that hostile forces in ou
midst give more protection to citizens tina
they had when HOLMES and HINpMAN wer
here. 1t is true the JoHNsoNs tell you tina
General STEELE has imprisoned and oppresse
people here. Not word of truth in it. An,
they know it is all false. In a few months
when no more Confederate money can be in
vested, and nothing more be made out of tn
people, they will sneak back and claim hi
protection.
But we are whipped fairly beaten. Ou
armies are melting, and ruin approaches us
Will continuing this struggle help us ? Every
battle we might gain ought to wiring tears
from the hooFtS ve s~-~.-~--- -------
Just that much weaker, that much nearer our
final ruin. Anguish sorrow and desolation
meet us wherever we turn. The longer the
struggle more Of it.
Don't let yourselves be deceived with the
hope that the United States will abandon the
struggle. They can never do it. They have
toiled and spent too much to see the solution
of the problem, and not foot up the figures.
They scarcely feel the war at home. Their
cities are more populous and thrifty to-day
than ever. For every man who dies or gets
killed in battle two emigrate to the country.
Their villages and towns, their fields and
country flourish as fresh as ever. They could
sink their armies to-day, and raise new levies
to crush us and not feel it.
How is it with us? The last man is in the
field. Half our territory overrun. Our cities
cone TO wreck, people alone by the aged, the
lame and halt and women an" 9ii1-s.. s-.i
while deserted towns and smoking ruins, and
plantations abandoned and laid waste meet
rs on all sides, and anarchy and ruin, disap-
oo;ntment and discomfort lower over all the
land
Foreign Intervention.
You relv upon foreign intervention. Alas
and alas How many lives, hope and fortunes
have been buried under this fatal delusion
II has held us on to hopeless struggle while
the belt of desolation has girdled us closer,
and the sea of anguish and sorrow rises
HIGHER flushed with the tears of ruined and
bereaved ones. France will not interfere
IouIs NAPOLEON has at heart the building o.
the transit route connecting the two oceans
Ie .so;o hfesqp ppap TN this struggle until that II
cv on the ocean goes out before him, and the
whole commercial world becomes subsidiary
to him. To keep up this stauggle he Will de
lude us continually with false hopes, reekine
nothing how much we bleed and suffer.
even suspect the pretended loans to us II
France rest upon policy of this sort, anc
that he is at the bottom of it.
But if LOUIS NAPOLEON does propose to in
terfere and take us under his protection,
what then? Another MAxIMILIAN for US
for American? "Forbid it my countrymen
Forbid it Heaven p Our fathers threw OF
colonial dependence upon European crowned
head. 1t would be ignominious in us to g
back half century and more to accept wha
thew freed us from much less to risk des
not over us. So eager are some of our leader
for this interference that am told it is pre-
posed to give NAPOLEON Texas as bonus TO
his good graces and his kindly aid! And tn
Z" Lone Star" may be handed over by DAvI
at any moment, so far as he can do it. Th
thought ought to make the blood of ever
citizen mount to his cheek Whenever this
attempted / shall be one to meet the legion
of France, under the old flag, to battle for tn
sacredness and safety of our republican inst
tutions. But suppose he offers recognitio
alone? 1t is barren offering. Suppose b
offers it coupled with assistancef 1t come
too late.
DissensiOns in the North.
Have no hopes from divided North. 1t
on the surface. Scarcely goes to the bottor
of their politics, much less shaking the grei
masses of their determined people. Remen
her. too, that much of the South is with then
There is no division as far as fighting us
concerned. The mildest of them simply pr
nose peace by reconstruction. That rejecte
thew are to press us with redoubled energ
Let MS not after all our misfortunes, constr
the struggle between politicians for place in
a sympathy for ourselves. But how could tn
nropose peace? Who would bring the me
sageY To whom would it be delivered? Al
should the proposition be made and reject
! we are that much worse off for it. We mu
: propose peace, for we ought to know when.'
r have got enough of the thing.
t sl' h Negro Slavery.
. 1 am asked if Mr.. Lincoln's Emancipatl
P Proclamation will stand. Ifyou continue {
7 struggle, certainly. He has the physical for
; at his disposal to carry it out. If you cea
e now, YOU may save all in your hands, or col
promise on gradual emancipation. But let
t beseech you, the negro no longer stand In t
way of the happiness and safety offriends al
9 kindred.
/ The changes of sentiment upon this qu
n ton in the South have been curious. n
8 many years since it was by no means unust
e for the press and public men, as well as
IS the people generally in the South, to conce
e that Slavery was an evil, and regret that