The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-09-17
TTcuty.Five Years Of War.

Horace Greeley, after bordering the matter
for a month or two. concluocd last week to
support the reelection of Abe Lincoln, though
he admits that under his management the
war will last fwsm.yJsrs gears. Schuyler
Colfax. contemplating the war from the same
stand point. thinks it will last about to the
close of the present generation, which agrees
substantially with the computation OF Greeley.
Greeley and Co'fax do not make this com
putation in the way of badHase. but are IN
earnest. and mean il. The war they contend
is and ought to be for the destruction OF slav-
erv. and this involves the total dismantling
of the constitutional framework of the south
ern states rs now constituted, their reduction
to territories. the roofing ont OF their present
Foundations. and the substitution of new popu-
lations that shall be antislavery in sentiment.
But will Il generation be lon" enough to do
this in? The rebels who are nov battling no
longer against the constitution and Union,
for the<a. under Lincoln ideas. have passed
away. but fjgi their state rights, as they once
enjoyed them under the constitution, and
their very existence rs populations, have sons
growing up, and a battle for existence such
as Lincoln has made theirs, viii doubtless be
~I:riuestll",l from bleeding sire To son.
And like the war in Circassia, may continue
for ages. Certainly one generation never saw
the end Of such 4 war III any country or age,
and Will not see it here.
Contemplate for a moment, what Lincoln
undertakes 10 90. Suppose the armies Of the
south are oyerthrowu-that Hoods army,
now . strongly entrenchcd" g miles below
Atlanta, Is again attacked BIZ Sherman and
Oycrhrown: that Lee is driven from Rich
mOnd. Mobile taken. Charleston occupied,
and Wilmington captured-is the war over
is that the end of new lovies. the wind up of
the draft? Not muchl The next process
then IN order will be to abolitionize those
states. TO DO this, military governors must
be placed over them. is now the case in
Tennessee, louisiana ard Arkansas. Each
of these governors must have an army Of
from 10000 u 10000 men to maintain his
present inadequate to maintain his authority
over onc-fortic:h part Of the smallest in popu-
luton Of all the rebels states but one--lr
kansas This will take in army Of 100000
men for Guard and garrison duty alone. for
every town and hamlet from MARYLAND TO
Texas must be occupied. And then the mat
ter viii proceed in this way. The property
Of the rebels VIII be confiscated-sold for .
song to northern Yankee spectators. who viii
Try to occupy the plantations from which the
rebels are driven. Experience down the
Mississippi has shown how ,his business viii
work. The oustei posse-sors Of the soil will
prowl through the country rs guerilla or rob
Der bands. ana 4 Yankee. to retain peace
able possession Of his dcmcsnes. viii need
about a regiment of soldiers to = plantation
say man 10 an acre. 70 hold il. -Aal this
state of things Greeley and ColEx t,ink need
last only 70 the end Of this generation! Hut
!, taat ipag enough? The child Of the mex:
generation. taught b. the mother on her knee
u hate the vaulee As the foe Of nj race, viii
h, be more placable than his father was?
The man j. a fool, then. who ;-aagines
that the draft for 30, 600 next Monday IS TIE
last. f Lincoln i reelected. To keep up an
army OF 5)).o)o ono year men. to carry
ont to its logical conclusion the Lincoln
''pylicv." will require an annual draf. Of 5y3,-
O0g men e.. the next - vcars.