The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-05-17

The War 10 Over.
Thank Heaven the war ic over. It il
Virtually, II not literally at an end. Tn
surrender of the rebel General Johnston t,
Sherman completes the dissolution of every
thing like = formidable military organization
in what war called the Southern Confed
eracv." Kirby Smith and "Dick" Taylor
still have commands, the one in Texas and
the other somewhere in Alabama or Missis
sippi, but neither possesses force that car
be termed important, and both are under.
stood to be ready to negotiate for their own
security. The intelligence Of Johnstons 4
collapse, after that OF Lee, will doubtless
expedite their pacific proceedings. Here
and there, too, are bands of guerrillas, who
still commit depredations alike on friend
and foe, under the pretense Of chivalrous
devotion to Southern rights, but they will
soon be disposed Of. A proclamation Of
outlawry against them, with rewards offer.
ed for their heads, will be in order as soon
as the regular armies Of the discomftted
"Confederacy" shall have laid down their
arms, and sudden conviction will then
overcome every guerrilla of the unwhole-
ness of his vocation.
The war is over. With no more soldiers
in the field; with no pseudo government to
exact even an unwilling obedience; with
their dismayed leaders fleeing to Europe to
escape tho "wrath to Gomez" with their
smoking homes, their desolated tons,
their hungry wives and children and their
over. crowded cemeteries staring them in
the face, the Southern masses will be too
happy to return to their national allegiance
the moment an amnesty may be proclaimed
the moment an opportunity may be Of
fered them to pursue, once more, the paths
of peace and industry under the protection
Of the broad wings Of the federal eagle.-
They have had enough Of Calhounism and
its doctrine of ultra states rights. They
have had quantum sut, of the meretricious
beauty of their scheme of Southern indie
pendence. They have tasted ad nauseum
Of the waters Of that "last ditch" in which
they proposed to luxuriate until Northern
arms, Northern courage and Northern re-
sources were exhausted. Defeated, humil
lated and disheartened, they will have no
feeling left but that Of intense dislike for
the men who led them into the rebellion,
slaughtered their sons, ,beggared the state,
and expatriated themselves to enjoy abroad
an opulence acquired at the expense of
their dupes. They will entertain no pecu.
liar vindictiveness towards President John
son because he is indisposed to exercise
much clemency in relation to the chief TO-
menters Of our late "fratricidal Strife"
provided he manifest . willingness to accept
the repentance Of the Southern people,
With the termination of the war, therefore,
We may confidently look for reconstruct
ed Union, far more homogeneous in its
material and far more ind,ss, llble in it,
nature than the original republic. We may
look for nation which, having successful
ly stood the grand ordeal of civil commo.
ton that skaters to pieces al feebly con.
s,itut,d communities, is prepared to enjoy
a new lease of honorable and vigorous ex
stence.
The war is over, and we confess that
President johnson appears to be singularly
fitted to carry out, as its chief f-magistrate,
the manifest destiny" eliminated by his
lamented predecessor Of the new Union.
Perhaps it was decreed, in the wisdom Of
Providence, that Mr.. Lincoln, having done
his allotted share in the great work Of regen
Grating our country, should give way to
another instrument Of the Divine will more
exactly qualified, by nature, to complete
the unfinished task in all it's majestic pro.
portions. At any rate, his late speech to
the Indiana delegation presents him in a
character so gratifying to all conservative
minds, that We unconciously recognize in
him . worthy disciple Of the old fathers of
the republic. He neither believes in the
self destruction Of states nor in the undue
Capitalization of political authority. He
opposes with equal decision the two ex-
treme principles, that of ultra state rights
and that Of ultra national rights. He re.
CARDS the machinery of state and federal
governments as one harmonious whole, not
as antagonistic operators. Moreover, he
seems governed by . truly earnest desire
to conform all his actions to an honest con.
struction of the constitution, and by SIM
cere ambition not to his own interests espe
cially, but those of our common country. To
such man we all owe, irrespective Of par.
! tisan inclinations, patriotic support. To
sustain such man, should he act as he
speaks, the whole nation will resolve it
self into Loyal League" and the only
strife between Democrats and Republicans
will be to demonstrate which can, most ably
and most disinterestedly, aid him in his
efforts to replace the United States in its
proud position as the "model republic."-
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