The mountain Democrat., 1864-08-20
Prospect OF Peace by subjugatiOn.

The Boston Courier, the old Whig or
gan and by far the ablest paper in New
England, speaks Of the prospect Of subju.
eating the South according to the policy
Of the Administration in the following
vigorous and practical Language:
Mr.. Secretary Stanton tells the Prcs
dent that "the recent successes which
have attended our arms lead to the hope
that by maintaining our military strength,
and giving it such increase as the extend
ed field Of operations may require, an
early termination Of the war may be at.
tanned" We thought that this pitiful
play Of deluding the public with the NO.
tion that the war was nearly over had
been played out it was. once poor joke,
it is now sad reality. The melancholy
fact is that the people will believe this
wretched nonsense, and are deceived and
caioled by it. They have been drugged
by falsehood so long that they have lost
al relish for the plain food of TRUTH They
believe only what they wish to hear
They will hear nOlhing but what's pleas
ant to hear.
The truth is, the rebellion was never
so formidable as it is to-day. A year and
q half ago there was no small amount Of
Union telling in the Confederate States !;
now, thanks to our radical and (anatical
Administration, there is not one jot or
title left. Once the war was against the
armies in the field, now it is against the
whole people; it is strange that we do
not see what an immense difference there
is between the two. The people of the
Confederate States see it, and they have
taken up the gage We have thrown down,
and they have shown, and are showing a
constancy and resolution which would
move our admiration, if it were possible
to see anything good in n slaveholding
Nazareth. The whole population, men,
women and children,are united and band
ed together by fixed determination to
achieve their political independence or
die. A resolute purpose like this makes
a weak people strong, and gives terrible
energy to one naturally powerful. 1t is
this spirit. this purpose, which makes the
rebellion formidable to-day.
And il any thing we're wanting to give
to the people Of the South the motive and
the cue for perseverance and persistency,
it is to be found in the resolutions of the
Republican Convention at BALTIMORE
These substantially speak language like
this 1--WE have no word of condition
or compromise to waste upon you. We
mean 10 continue this war till every slave
is emancipated. Our only terms of &C.
commodation are unconditional submis-
sion. You must lay down your arms, get
on your knees, grovel IN the dust before
us,allo US to select whom We will hang
and whom we will pardon, and make what
disposition we please of your lands and
negroes" Why, upon conditions like
these, the meanest, weakest, poorest Of
Gods creatures-a Coolie, Hottentot, a
Digger Indian, a New Hollander-would
fght to the death; and the people of the
South are the proudest, the most sensitive
on the point Of honor, in all Christcn-
dom.
And what are the "reccnt successes"
that breed ia the Secretary's mind such
airy hopes? Have we been successful
under Banks! Have we been successful
under Sigel? Is there any very brilliant
and decided success In Georgia? Grant,
after slaughter unparalleled in the an
mails Of civilized warfare. after loss of at
least sixty or seventy thousand men, after
marching on a bridge of dead bodies from
the Rapidan to the vicinity of Richmond,
Is now on the north bank of the Chicka-
hominy, beginning the siegc of the city,
under condition less favorable than Nc
Clellan began with it in May, 1869. III
there be anything here which betokens a
speedy termination Of the war, we are not
able to sec it. The reelection Of Mr.. Lin.
coin would ensure The continuance Of the
~ar. if it can be SO long kept up, for an
other four years; at the end of which time
We shall have a nationai-debt Of at ieast
Ave thousand millions Of dollars, and our
jurisdiction will extend over so much Of
the territory of the South as shall be in
the actual occupation of our armies. This
may be unwelcOms truth, but it is the
truth, for Ril that.