The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-04-13

saved? What explicit terms, short Of de.
gradation and dishonor worse than death,
have been proposed to them? What secu-
rlty (inn"cent and guilty, y that they should
not De treated as conquered people, and
subject to whatever yoke their naughty vic
tors might please to impose upon thems II
would be madness TO expect that men who
had taken up afms so defantly and strug-
gled so couragcously as the South have
done, should thraw them down and submit
to their conquerors, especially when they
had so little to hope and so much to fear.
The only hope can be, and this now, to my
mind, Is the fantest possible, is in change
Of system.
Reverse all these absurd and pernicious
measures that for three years have charac-
terlzed Northern legislation; for il the con-
frdenee and affection we have lost is ever to
be regained. it can only be By giving the
South The most undeniable proofs that we
wish not TO oppress them; that we are will
ling to remove every ground Of complaint,
and 10 afford the amplcst security for the
enjoyment Of all their constitutional privi-
ledgrs 10 the future. waive all questions
Of authority and right. With nearly mil
lion Of men slain or rendered useless. with
a frightful debt Of thousands of millions,
increasing at the rate of two millions
day, aud national ruin and bankruptcy, the
inevitable consequences Of this dreadful
war, peace. speedy peace, should be our
object, and to accomplish this. a repeal Of
those obnoxious legislative acts is demand
ed, which are an insurmountable bar TO re-
Cancellation, and have lost Us the conf
dence aud good wall of those who might
have been really kindly disposed towards
rus in the South. What greater folly can
there be than to expect to force a people
into friendly union with you, to entrus st
their rlghts once more into your hands, and
submit their property and lives to your
Government by desolating their country
and spreading famine and death over their
land: And what are the laurels acquired
IN this destructive warfare: We have sub
dued not their armies, but the small re-
mains Of their affection to the country.
their reverence for its laws, and their con-
fidence in its generosity. Neither the men
IN power, or the mere pensioners Of the
hour who now cowardly sustain them and
their policy, ever attempt to reason from
the analosies of history. We told them at
the outset Of the impractibiity Of their
task, and we tell them again that their fai-
lure in the future will be even more stu
pendous than they have been in the past.
Ignorant Of the actual resources Of the
South. they supposed that three months
blockade would starve every man. weman
and chlid into submission, and that an army
Of $4,000 men would be sufficient TO con.
quer and hold the entire Southern region.
We told sthem that they would want mil
lion Of men. and spend thousands Of nil
lions. and yet only be upon the edge Of
their fearful enterprise. Nearly two mil
lions Of men have been called for, and over
two thousand millions spent; and who is
there, having the slightest ssgacity, that
does not know that to-day the rebel armies
are more defiant and dangerous than ever.
aud NAV prctiact the war FOR years, TO the
utter aud complete ruin OF both sections.
The pubic credulity, however, is sill un-
bounded, aud il will 90 on trusting AMI bo-
ing betrayed. suh,s been foe the last three
years. BY sct Of knayes whose onl, ebjesi
is to fstten upon the public plunder 'ha,
such wars engender. and to rise in the scale
Of wealth as their couatry's homer and pros
perit, SINKS. The day will come, however,
when a betrayed people will take ample
vengeance upon the mock patriots who hare
deceived them 10 their ruin. There never
yet was civil war that Was not followed
by counter revolution, in which ample |
atonement was demanded for the crimes, !
and from the criminals that had sngendsr-
ed it. These men may escape, being in
auenced By the effect Of logical conclu-
sions but, thank God, they canno, forever
escape tho penalties Of their infamous
crimes and expressions; and that hour is