Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-01-11

nav IL be presumed the war will endf Whom the
South has gained the end for which she has SO long
struggled in vain-when the North shall be sx-
hsusted and there will be none to faunt those
manifest destiny, stars and stripes" to the free
and favored breeze Of heaven Butt is the North te-
surely as the Souths We may read that New York
was never livelier, never more business like her
prosperous citizens never accumulated money fast
er never reaped such immense profits speedier
than now, through an Illegal indirect traffic with
the South; while their mercenary armies are de-
uging every loot of land with the best and nobest
of Southern blood Verify, it's q strange way Of
blime heroism in the field while home our wives
and daughters sweethearts and mistresses aaunt
their extravagant nery send the proceeds of many
fine bale of cotton to their plethoric Golfers and
deluge the hated land of the peregrnatng and nqui-
sitive Yankee with golden shower of coveted goldl
So far as exhausting the material with which the
federal armies are supplied that is simply an ex- |
pioded fallacy. appeal then to our people, from
the centre to the circumference of this once blese
and smiling land if there yet remains the slightest
hope, the remotest possibility of this war terminal
ing through mutual blood letting? This entrench.
ed system of modern, or rather American warfare,
is one which even under the most favorable that is
to say the most sangunary circumstances, is pecu-
liarly indecsive, tedious and barren Of present or
wa
merical strength will not allow confronting the
foe on open, unprotected battle6elds. But he has
ever at his ready command the same infailible re-
sources and not slow to avail himself of the pos
sible advantage The result is species Of warfare
which tires the patience even of the most pblegmat
G and never result in any thing decisive it car.
ried on until the very crack Of dooml
Besides, let US fight ever so stubbornly, and all
the important points of the irrepressible conflict
must ultimately be settled by negotiation. 1t is
contended by those who, perhaps precipitated
the war upon the American people, that We of
the South, are in no condition just at present
to negotiate. That We have, in q word, the simple
alternative only confronting US to 6ghtl Let the
North withdraw her armies; let our territory re-
main intact and innocent of hostile tread let Grant
raise the seige of Petersburg, Sherman embark his
azure hosts for some Northern port; Abe Lincoln
raise his effective paper blockade, and then we will
negotiate. l have invariably noticed that those
who set up such preposterous claims are in the en-
| joyment Of some sinecure where Yankee shell do
| not shrek, missiles whistle, or bayonets clash;
where the duties are light and the pay secure;
where there is occasion for sleeping exposed to
the foul dew under the broad canopy Of heaven with
! single blanket, or where the danger and hardship
of life the trenches is not their daily experience!
This cannot be terminated by barren victories!
| The scorching lambcnt flames of ruinous warfare
may waste and absorb the last resources of the land
in devilish strife, but the end will be then as far
removed in the dim perspective As at present
Something must be yielded on either side claims
more reasonable must be set up; less intense and
bigoted seifinterest must become the order Of the
day; or else we will have not only the moral graft
fcation of seeing the North irretrievably ruined,
but also be swallowed up ourselves in theghastly
and devouring whirlpool Of blasting war. As
contingent tendency or finale of this war dread its
approach to the character of mere parlizan strife
each mans hand raised against his nsighbor; life,
property, helpless infancy and decrepit old age,
our fragile sisters alike insecure; depending for
| their very existence on the fluctuations of those
brutal passions which will then have become
Our crimson types as people. If persisted in
the war can never come to sudden end, even
under the most fortuitous circumstances. Its last
quiverng throbs and dying pusations will be gasped
forth hen this country will be to all intents and
purposes utterly desolsted perfect wilderness /;
q desert of blood and crime!
1t is, in effect, too painful to cast the saddened
eye down the terrible vista Of the dark and gloomy
future. There is no true man, one having the best
and dearest interests of his country Immediately at
ment in advocating the opening of negotiations at
once. Will paltry contemplate, and supercilious
pride prevent from following the course SO obvi-
ously pointed out by reason and true religion If
so, shudder for the future fate of the American
people. should consider them as having unfor.
tunately inherited most decided tendencies to bar
barism; as in fact, but little elevated even at@he
present above the purely savage and most ferocous
Of the human race.
Lest however, draw too tight reign on their
vanity, will drop the curtain, only exposing to
public observation the autograph of
MOULrRiE