Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1864-01-14

subiusation What may be Expected
compressed nationality shall never, by
Gods blessings, be designation tor the
States Of this Confederacy and while we
stand in armed and defiant resistance, 1t
may even be thought gratuitously y o1fen~
siye to enter upon an account OF that Inter
esting class OF communities, as II 1t could
have any possible relation to US and our
destinies. Yet in order that we may all,
with one heart and mind, continue to re-
sist to the triumphant end in order that
none Of the very towards amongst us may
ever dream of laying down those arms In
the delusive hope OF peace, until glorious
independence has been achieved, 1t may
be we'll to keep before our eyes tho miser-
able. shameful, but too sure alternative
Nothing can be more certain than that We
have before us either complete military
success in this war, or else the full meas
ure of Polands and of Ireland's grinding
oppression and emaciatlng humiliation.
Some weak minded persons, we are sor-
ry to learn, still soothe themselves with
the idea that if the worst should come, we
should but be reduced to the present con-
dition of kentucky or Missouri; in which
there has been as yet no sweeping confls-
cation of estates nor absolute extermina-
ton of people; and they fondly imagine
that. even if the country should fall entire
ay under the power Of the Yankee nation,
still the property and the rights Of them
(the weak-minded persons) might still be,
some how, saved harmlessly by some sort
OF base oaths, and pledges Of ''loyalty" to
the new masters. So dreamed many of
the Irish bofore the capitu' alton of Liner
ick and disbandment or exile Of the nation
al forces. 1t was not till after that event,
when the island lay really in the condi-
ton of conquered country, that the code
of sspenal laws" began to be enacted.-
There was then no army in the field to
which men, goadec by oppression, could
fly for refuge and for vengence. The war
was over, and only its fruits remained to
be gathered.
Now the Yankee enemy has hithorto
forborne from applying the law of con-
quest to Kentucky and other border States
simply because he knows that those States
are not yet conquered. The war (thank
God > is not over. Our Confederate ar
mics are still on foot, and on the banks of
the Rapid Ann, and in the gap Of Chicka-
naauga, not only guard Virginia and Geor
gia, but also postpose indefinitely the fate
of Kentucky and Maryland Ii the enc
my should now prematurely put in force
the policy of confscation and prescription
in those States, the effect would be only to
send their young men troopiDg to General
Lee and General ohnston. It must be
only after the submission of the whole
land-if our eyes should ever see that evil
day-that the Yankee nation can begin to
parcel it out as reward for the soldiers
No matter what might be the guarantees,
treaties, amnesties, capitulations under
which we should have laid down our arms,
pretexts would be instantly found for
evading them all, as in the case OF the VI
emma and Limerick treaties. N Q treaty be-
tween victor and vanquished ever binds
the former. and unless we are to suppose
in the Yankee nation some snperhurnan
virtue, some anjelic purity and benignity,
some grandeur Of soul heretofore unexarn !
pied, we may be sure that they would pro
ceed generally as the Russians and the
English did; with perhaps some ingenious IS
additions, for our neighbors are an lnven I s'
tive people. s & sss.s. s.,. ST. &.ssSs. !.
They would need all their ingenuity,
however, if they wished to improve much
upon the methods elsewhere tried with
such success. The grand object to be at