The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
From the Hamilton (ohio) True Telegraph
What Has Been Gained bv the war.

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What has Been Gained by the War.
About seven hundred thousand men have
been sacrificed and some four thousand
mitlions OF dollars have been spent upon the
Aoolitlen idea of restoring the Union.
- "nst mas been accomplished by all this?
has State or a country been brought back
into the Union?. Has there been q sinole
| consent to the Union cause; in anv of the
seeded states? We have never heard Of
one. On the other hand, the war has adj
den tens of thousands to the Davis Gov
ernmeut in all of the southern states.
By glance at the map it will be seen that
the Federal forces have only penetrated
these portions of the enemies territory
which are traversed by Manageable rivers and
Rail- roads,
In point of fact, the intetior of the So
called Confederate States have not been
reached by the armies of the North, and
our humble opinion is, never will be per-
manently held by our armies.
If the South is to be subiugated and
held as conquered prisoners after the plan
OF Sum ner q Co., you must have a guard at
every mans door in all the seeded states
and have Provost Marshas Office at every
cross road. This will take more than {
million OF men for the next ten years. The
people of the North have yet to learn that
the pen of the compromise man will yield
greater influence in this struggle than the
sword of the warrior.
We have ruler who has tried to su blu
gate ten thinly populated States By over
whelm ing their borders with the male fghts
ing population of twenty four populous
States. The three first years of his Admin
istration he has spent in testing this delu-
sive idea. In his mad effort to accomplish
this; he has swept from the face of the earth
nearly one half of his fighting population
and will nigh destroy the constitution and
laws which he ptetends the war is to pro-
tect.
Had he red carefully the history 6f his
counterpart a fool who lived many centu-
ries ago who like himself thought he could
overrun the small state of Gree eece, by throw
ing into their territory two millions of rdeH
and met similar fate which now awaits
our Republican Statesman:
One Leonidus. with three hundred spar
tins, met the two millions of persons at q
narrow pass called Slyrmapoly, and check
ed th EN- to such degree that they became
hisheartened, and denloralized that they
accomplished but little afterwards.
Lincoln unlike Xerxes has had goodI men
to hht his cause gallant men, young men;
we may say, flower of the. nation. But in
one respect Lincoln and XerSes are alike;
they both allowed thieves, raiders, suttlers;
contractors, lottery men, gam blers, specu-
lators, stsck jobbers and all manner of COR
rupt men to follow in the wake of their ar
mics. Such system. would distroy any
army or any nation. Xerxes failed to con-
quer the states of Greece, and our Xerxes
will fail ia conquer the seeded states. We
ought to have another Plutarch to compare
the lives of Xerxes and Lincoln.
When the American people became anx-
iouus to have the Union restored, let them
delegate the old Democratic party to do it
by placing the power in their bands. That
party which gave birth to the Union in IT.
81 is the only party which cen save it now.
Unionisn1 and Block Repubficanism are
two words so Numerically opposed ito each
other, that they should not be spoken of the
same day.