Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-04-27
The, Duration. of the War.

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The impression generally prevails, says
Che Richmond Whsg, that the campaign on
which We are now entering IS the 1ast-that
the death 'grapple has come,S and thsSstrug.
gle must soon be over. The army makes
no calculations. With grim humor and gay
defiance worthy Of the cavalier stock from
(which they come, our soldiers volunteer for
nforty years or the war; But civilians
indulge themselvesi in 'speoulations; the fail.
ure Of which cannot affect men who make
none. Whether the fourth year of the war
will be the final one depends mainly upon
the incidents of the campaign. We leave
out of view the possibility Of other things
always possible-such, for instance, as the
long delayed, but inevitable, financial crash
at the North, of which the upward tenden-
cy of gold there, in spite Of all Chase's
thimbleSrigging, affords improving prospect
the counter revolution that has been
hoped for, and of which the lateaoutbreak
| in Illinois is prophetic.-foreign interven.
tion, rendered more likely of late by the
hostile demonstration in Washington to-
wards the European arrangements for Mex.
loo we leave these out of the calculation,
and speak only of military contingencies.
If the campaign is successful one to us,
it will almost certainly end The war, though
it may not bring Immediate peace-peace
settled by treaty and declared by proclama.
ton. We do not see how it, is possible for
the enemy, if. at, the end Of four years. of
such gigantic combat as We have had they
find themselves no further advanced towards
their object than they now are, to stand up
before the world and insist upon continuing
the contest, We donot see how the world,
without shaming the civilization and COM
mon sense of the age, could permitit
What is most to be fearsa, all in fact that
is to be feared, is that adeantage of such
apparent Importance may bo gained by tie
enemy as will afford. them pretext for CON.
tinuing the strife, and will e2sble them yet
while longer to practice Upon the credu.
lity Of other countries. This would give
them little longer respite from the humil
iationsof admitted defeat, tad the more ter
rible consequences they ~ills have to face
among themselves, when "a appalling fact
strikes the mind of the masses that all this
bloody and wasting war, this frigbtful sacri-
fee of human life, the blood and tears and
anguish of whole people, the nightmare
of national debt, the prostration Of national
name and rank, the corruption Ct public
morals, the subvsrsion Of general industry
and the ruin of private fortunes have been
in vain, have been wasted and lost-and all
thsonsh' theAeoa.riaaaoa f-asss ee-kaaVish
politicians. - Lincoln and his men will post
pone their day of reckoning as late as pos
sible, and t6 that end will protract the war
as long as any pretext that will delude their,
people can be found. If, by force of num-
bers, they gain anything amounting to an
advantage this year, or by the art of lying
can make it appear they have, they will be,
probably, able to carry their armies over in
to still another campaign. 1t becomes,
therefore, our chief duty, as we'll as our
highest policy, to strain every nerve to de.
feat them in all their attempts, and to see
that, at the end of the campaign now open.
ing, they are less favorably circumstanced
than they.now are Let this result appear,
and we may confidently count on the prac.
tical ending of the war with the expiration
of the fighting months. Of this year. Our
noble armies, We aresure, will do their duty;
the people must do theirs, by taking care
that their armies lack nothing that can con.
tribute to their efficiency. a,.'.i