Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-07-25

thu waste Of an ah-consAmNB - /
daiy under the pressure Of an ineAeOaO'e ana p0uy
increasing debt.
-. 20 all sensible men Of the North, II there be
- az Il is to the rest of mankind that nothing is to
Be gained and all to be lost BY its continued prOseou-
don. They can not possibly deluds thsmEelVS with
90 much a. hope that ourselves, any end can be
reached By them that win justify or compensate for
keeping their armies in the field day longer Indeed,
whatever they MAJ have nsansy dreamed in the begin
ming they must now know halthe most certain means Of
defeating forever their desire to reostAbsh the Union
4 70 continue the war Why, then, We repeat 90 they
not terminate hP The question s not more difficult TO
answer than the one which in every mind at the
ou,set--Why did they begin iIi Indeed, the sane
answer applies TO both
Ths object had Ia view BY the nacAnasors and man
ACRE In the initiation Of the war Ia that which st
IndsDoses do not inexorAbly forbid them, to per-
nit /, 20 close That object not to be found among
the prOIssssd motives for resOrtpg to hOstltie nor
even EmonR those which would be likely TO imagine
4 We Included ourselves Ia the corjectEre. For
strange a. Il may seem We believe it to be susceptible
Of proof hat the ruling induOsment to the one
thai only incidentally concerned ourselves. Il was set
Washington-a oonclaVe the most diabolic that ever
assembled on earth, and that had It's prototype only in
cha. which Milton imagined to have been gathered in
hell Afsr the EAl Of Lucfsr and his rebellOus follow
sr-thAs war sgainlt rs was Necessary to prevent an
ntsrneClne throAeu,ting in the North The facts are
known to senator OF 0onted1rAte State, to whom
they Wsrs sclosed Immediately after the meeting Ad
iourned, BY senator from New England State, who
vas not then fully prepared for the monstrous and hor
ribls ,ebsms. Seward, who was at the very time CO.
quoting with and esjOlng Southern Commissioners snd
others with the preenos that be desired peace above
al things and was strAning avery nerve 10 maina!ni,
attended thAt meeting, and was the leading spirit in
guiding lie deliberations and controlling its deeisiOn.
BE made perhaps for the 6rst time 10 his life speech
passionaisly in earnest He tod his fellOw-conspha
that Lhe Union end that in ils desue-
ti0a the greatest calamity that could beA the NOrh
had happened; that they, the Republican party, would
DO held responsible and brought TO fearful accom-. for
H. that It involved not only their continued party as
osndAncy and hold on power, but their lives and
prOpsr that the mlnSs of the Northern people should
be diverted from 4 contemplation Of the causes and
consequences Of the disruption; that nothing would
10 this but war upon the South that If they vAlusd
existsace fortune, position, all anything that they
we're or had, they must force the South into COLI
sion, ~, Ae.
The reasoning prevailed and the thing was settled,
and from that tms-befOre that time in fact, for
before LncOus Inauguration Fremont was sent abroad
for arns-Ssward, still fsguing to the South ardent
desire for peace, commenced secretly preparing for
war. He had the shamslessness afterwards 70 boast
Of ths, when be confessed in q speech at Washington
hat he eOntriVed matters TO force the Oonfsde
rate States TO Gre the arst qua at Fort Sumtsr The
whole continuance thus wrought out succolsfuly.
He had frightened the leaders i1lO Concurrence in
his sshsms by his speech in the eOnoave and BY
rlssing the garrison at Sumter, aud disgacing the
national AAg be had the Of appealing TO the pas
sons and sensibies Of the masses The war spirit at
once famed up Ike a magazine to which match is sp
Piled Doubtless the arch 6snd VII devised is all chuck
led the success Of his plot He saw that for awhile at
Least and perhaps Indefinitely he and his fellow knAves
were safe IRON The vengeance OF people who, upon
discovering how and BY whom they had bsen betrayed
would have torn him and them to pieces. Blu! it
not enough to begin war: Il mus. DO managed that
the var would lAsL To this end Il was essential, en-
the one side that the Northern people should not DO
permitted 90 they seemed intent doing, to overTun
/ the South by an avalanche Of Dumbers-and, on the
other that European powers should be prevented from
interpreting in behalf Of peao' maid of the South
Ths ast object attained BY hmi ing the number Of
troops permitted to march a. a;nst eleven millions Of
population to seventy-hVe thousand. The second was
carried By series Of "a schools, concessions bribor
bulyiBgs and other srls Of canning little short of
sAtauiC Of which the world viii perhaps never have an
Intelligent como ptiOn.
uTs.h a, oe At n,
Of which our information leaves Us no room for
doubt, there Is no difficulty in understanding why,
In spite Of failures and disasters uneXAmpled in the
history o. war, when grea.er power contendil
with smaller, the vOo1 Of the dynasty at Washing
ton is still for war No hope of eubjugasing US
animAtss them, but the necessity Of dsaiming
and keeping in subsection enemy at home
more to be dreaded than ourselves makes it a
natter Of selfdelenos that they should continue
30 wage t. That necessity is now even grea er
than at ArSt for to the accountability for dis
severed Union IL supsraddsd the still fright
fol responsibility for all the horrors OF the ITSELF
Lincoln and his party lake successful War-but
they c mot make peace. Under condition of
tAings need We expect tie to long as hey
hold power and are sbls BY cOuuptDg iutimi6stng
tle opposition 70 keep them down. That opposition
has been both blind and eOWardly or it would have
known that the only argument to agiOst the Wash
IngtOn eabA Sas the bsyOnet By joining their arms
70 shOss Of The South, they might long since have So
cured thelr liberation from the thrAldom they new
suffer and have rescued their eOnntFy from the doom
10 which it Is Fastening Az any time ys they may
DO this bat if they lack the manhood tempt, they
nay wait Ong before ths cunning dsFpots who now
10 Il OT-r them ana not in the violation Of toe lava,
the denial OF the rights AID The ruin Of h institution
tina. Onos made them Free prosperous and happy peo-
pie, viii have become ialOK Gated BY the dslitiS
Arl Of msrue as to drop insenaiby and Increasingly
from the seats Of power