The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-11-18

late proclamatisn the renewal Of those OF
repeated aad uaful6lled predictions Of The
speedy overthrow Of the Cslfeaeracy. Ex-
perience should have taught then how vain
it is to measure prospective military sue-
cess by the recruiting sergeasts progress;
but as they build upon their hopes, and
take no counsel Of realities, with every
fresh call for volunteers, We may expect
the worneut prophecies to be paraded be-
tore the public.
When seventy thousasd men answered
the frst call sf the President. the sracles
asserted that fsrce abundantly Sufficieat to
crush the rebellion in its cradle. We new
contemplate the necessity Of a best Of near
ly one million to arrest the threatened dis-
com6ture Of Federal arms, and yet the
prophets cling to their text, and psint 10
the ever receding goal as wen. They for
get that the spirit Of resistance intensifes
in proportion as the means Of cempulsion
multiply. As their estimate Of Southern
endurance erred in the beginning and erred
throughout every phase Of the struggle,
there is good reason to believe that it will
err to the end.
The swelling Of rhe Federal ranks to
whatever extent il may be possible to car
~ It, does not coerce the inexsrabls fites.
They vilI tracs the history Of this war at
the dictstion Of higher power than that
which reigns At Washington. The dsspots
OF ancient Asia, in their attempts to sub.
due the Grecian States. invaded 6rst with
two hundred thousand men and Afterwards
With q million; but il chaacsd that the
mere formidable hest was the most easily
repelled and the most thoroughly destrsy1
ed. Napoleon was never 90 utterly dis.
com6,ed as when he had exerted his utmost
influence to bring oil the military elements
Of France into the field. The army that
perishsd amid the SHOWS Of Russia was the
mighiiest that ever marched under the I'm
periai eagles.
But If We cannet estimate the result ot
military movements By the numbers of the
cenbattants, IL is not only possible, but
unavoidable, to realize the enormous drain
that The support Of such vast armies make
upon the substance Of the country. 1t 10
not within the power Of the mind to COM
pute whether they shall achieve victsry or
undergo desthj hat = very plain arithme-
tic teaches. with appalling certainty, the
cost Of their maintenance will imPovsrish
the laad. One million Of men, transferred
frsm productive industry 10 the labor u
destruction, will accomplish the snancial
rain al the North more surely than the po-
iitical submission sf the South When.
also, We take isto account the blood that
must be shed. the suffering that must a.
sue. the private griefs that will accompany
the general misfortune; when we reject
upon the bitterness and hatred that must
inevitably be engendesed between the Sec
tions, whose almost entire active manhood
is engaged in desperate conflict, the call
for 10000 more agents Of contention sug-
gests The confrmstion Of an irrevocahle
antagonism Of sentiment moye forcibiy than
any hopes of friendly Union.
A political cempanionship that requires
TO be enforced by q million sf armed men
cannot be claimed ss an illustration Of self
government. The resistance that, after
three years strife. must be confronted by
such an unprecedented military array
gives evidence Of an intensity Of feeling
that can never he accommodated. upon
compulsion, 10 the intention OF the United
States as constructed BY our fathers. Ii is
marvellous that the people Of the North do
not pstinctisely comprehend the sbsurdily
Of seeking to bring together discordant cle-
ments By intensifying those qualities that
render them discordant. A raging hre is
10 be subdued, and they heap 'combustibles
upon il. Hatred. distrust and Jealousy are
to be eslmed. and they employ the incen-
tivo TO those passions. They desire 10
reeoneils Q people. and they persist in
those deeds that cancel every hore Of re-
concil,atios. What madness more redic-
ulous-if il we're not so fighful--as the
spectacle Of enlightened men struggling
like demons 10 whip their fellows into con-
rrrd and frsu~ Il ohi, AN.Nld.r. al q ,,,. - q.