The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-11-18

Is THE WAR "ALM0sr OvER.''- Every week
since the war began every Abolition office holder
and newspaper advocate of the Administratinn's
negro policy has literally assured the people that
6 the war is almost over.o
The precise truth in the matter Is Just this Re
store the Government to honest and patriotic hands,
and the war then in fact would be +" almost over"
COntinae the Administration In the hands of these
men who are fighting for the subjugation of the
States aad the abrogation of State Institutions,
and the war is 10 be RELENTLESS and perpetual.
A military victory here and there does not end
the war We may take Charleston as we have ia
ken Norfolk we may eake Mobile as we have ta-
ken New Orleans; we may take all the Southern
strOngholds; and that Is but the very beginning OF
a war OF abolition and subjugation. The man does
not live who will ever behold the end of the war,
and the construction of Union upon the p,inci-
pies of the sectional party which now rules eyer
us. Those principles can never command the pop
uIar assent of the South, and, until that popular
assent is giined there is and can be no peace and
Union.
What have we doneo The war has been fought
for nearly three years We hivc loaded the ma
tiOn down with sorrow and debit Hundreds and
thousands of our brave and patriotic men have
been slain. Aud yet it is Gods truth that The Gov
efnlnent can command less free will support in the
Southern States to- day than when its armies were
first hurled against the enemy. Every month Of
war, under the proclamation and for subjusatinn,
has tended to cement, perpetuate and traditional
iZe hatred Of the North in every southern house
hold; End as to everything which makes real
Union and real peace, We are farther OIL from
the goal to day than Two years ago.
The sooner the people get rid of the shallow and
fatlaciOus notion that conquest means Cnion-that
snbjugatOn means peace--lhe sooner shall we re-
gain the lost blessings Of a real Union.
We have now some military victories. We have
conquered Norfolk, but there Is no Union there
We have subugated New Orleans, hut there Is no
Union there. We have reduced Vicksbnrg aud
Donelson, and subjugatea various other cities aud
towns, but OF them are re annexed 10 The
Union. We have siMpIy suhngat.d men who
hate US and our policy. Even where our arms pre-
vail, war, perpetual war, stiil exists The order
which reigned In Warsaw when the Russian ehiei
tain proc aned the subjugatioa OF the Polish capi
tai. and the peace we have gained rs the peace "f
Poland aud Hungary under Bussian and Austrian
power-a peace % be hated alike by subjugatior
aud subjugated.
we might have had military success with Union.
We mis li have captured cities, and restored them
Whole States might have returned 10 The Union,
and have sent their representatives 10 Washington
We see none of these results now. The Admin
fstra,inn stands at the door clubbing back every
State which would re unite with Us under the
Constitution. Ii ia restoration of the old Union
which the Administration breads. II hates the
old Union, because with its restoration petishes
forever the Administration and its party Free
mans Journal.