Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-02-23

tneu, Iil NAoso SStf
meritei or not. is still very great. we onter'
tain no hostility to Gen. Bragg, we having
nothing in coynmcn with his opponeuts-ws
have onIy the best interests Of The country at
be,rt; end we earnestly implorc the President
zct to dam7en the enthusiasm Of the people,
and dishcartsn them this early in the sprirg
h the appointment OF Gsn. Bragg to any
important command, where he has NO superior
officer.
Tho question is often asked what VIII DE-
come OF the people of tho Confederate o'a'es
if they DO conquered It e -e':aFedsaa'onr
srer,ios cannot hold the lands they conquer,
nor toe people they capture. Armies as large
those used for conquest will be needed to
hold in quiet possession the results of success.
Large sums, il is said, will continue to be ex-
PENDED to control a turbulent population, and
to guard distant aad unwilling territories
An exhaustion, greater in the possession than
in the pursuit of victory, will proUtrato the
enemy, and, because Of the want of means to
secure by possession what has been won by
bassle, property will still DO preserved to The
people, and the social framework escape radi-
cal injury. They who reason thus ignore the
motives which inpel our enemies, and fail to
remember the lessons taught by similar wars
in the past. Conquest is the purpose; lands
property, gain the object. The Legitimate OBJ
ioct of war By the Christian code is tn secure
81 honorable peace, affecting, perhaps, extc-
,ior lines, but leaving interior interests end
domestic systeme as before. In such a WAT,
the a;G .~uisies, as stated, would exist. The
object being changed, tho difficulties disar-
pear. Had Napoleon waged, not merely u
var Of change Of dynasty, but one of eonquest
in Spain, and had mis- country held u surplus
nopulation, greedy Of gain and wishing new
lands, the dorin;ons of Ferdinand would soon
have become Frank, ard the army OF invasion
would not have been needed by the army Of
emiarants to retain the news possessions
VIXEN Pomp,y entered the same country,
conquered eiga: hundred cities and then re-
turnei," the republic, by torca OF the laws e
var, then recognized, had no difficulty il
holding and governing th.ir now lands aist
captures. Behind, and close to his army G.
eighty thousand, armed with the im?lementsof
wax. followed an army of em;grants h7e hua>
drcd thousand, soma say two million strong,
armed with the implements Of agriculture
commerce, police, and permanent government.
The cities bscanc Roman, the lands were d.
vided among tho citiz eas Of tho army Of emi-
grafton, according t. the 'agrariln law /; the
army of invasion waa safely Withdrawn for
new ccnquests, and Spain, instead of being en-
expense to her coaquoror, was . source Of
strength md revenue t. Rome. The mer1
chant, omigrans and land receiver son re-
lieye the regiments of the line, AMI Hinaoo5ten
aud Austra ala mako England rica. Wars for
conquest, supported by heavy population tlowr
Ing in to seize tie new possessions, are
cheap and eu.ichius. Wars to change dynGs-
Ties and 10 "~rectify boundaries" Rccare glory
and debt. BY tho old cole Of VAT, tho Re-
man sue ,eeded in al the world, tho Tartars
in Russia, the Moors in Spain, the Franks in
Fsaace, the Turks north I: the B,sphorus, the
Germans in Rome, Saxoas and N9rmans in
England, the Spaaiards in America, and the
Eos"s.. n India. BY the nov code, to which
oil Christians ere pledged, Napoleon failed Mt
Madrid, Wagra:n and Friadland. The Uni:td
States discard the prosens. and use the policy
NJ .he past. Taey possess a surplus popu!e-
ton, migratory, with no local attachments,
and greedy of now homes. The arny ofemi-
gratis, with twcIty. fold strength, will follow
the crn,y G. finvasion. Tho splendid INTELLECT
of Cssar, and the brilliant success Of Alaric
and Ats;i:a furnish l.y.l models to Mr. Sew
eri ana his procorsuls. The army of inya>
sion, four hundred thousand strong, can soon
be withdrawn, ana the army Of occupation,
four million in numbers, gathered from the
S.. Lawrence to the Mississippi, AMI distr:bu-
ted from tho Ohio to the Gulf, with police,
]unds, government, and national guards, will
.,cn secure quiet as complete as ever raigned
in Warsaw, and by loyalty aud the use ct
property chesply acquired, viii supply rove
nue to sustain public credit, and to meet the
exu,nditurss Of the army of invasion, which
has marched away to make new conquesss, or
to rectity cid boundaries.
Two modern nations still furnish guides
aaJ apologies. The vast army Of Cossacks
aav the fields. 1eap the harvests, and gail or
ia.o regiments whom The bugle s"unds h g
frat motto Of popular disturbance. The reeu'
lsr army muskot bags over the door of the
Cossaak's house while, with his axe, he is
telling the trees growing on the lands he cor
aaered. lie is true to his government because
it has given him o legal right, without price,
10 tho lands he holds. BE is fierce to those
be has despoiled, bccauee they ore living
witnesses that his title is held solely By the
tenure Of war. The Austrian army, sup-
ported by an agrarian law, which it Inherited
from u R;man ancestry, cultiTates Hungary
and dominates Hungarian. The Yankee far.
mer AID trader will be tho national guards
man, and the first murmur that rises from
the lips Of the oppressed will be the signal
for On army, drilled and brutal, that will
gather with ths ~quickness of thought, and for
tn, purpose OF murder. Motives as base as evar
moved Timour. Classic models and modern ex
ample urge our enemies to reduce US to C caste
belo. them, to se;zs ou- lands, and to make
us cease to exist as a nation. Their difficult
ties will end when our armies of defence are
scattered. Our sufferiagswiI then commence,
and they will be greater than have ever been
endured by a people since Spanin.d bled by
the sword of the Vaudal, and Rome was
sacked by the fierce soldier who came from
tie North, beyond the Disable. This is Our
Gate if We fail. T. can be avsrtcd only BY