The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-02-04

"Midwinter," says the London Duly Netos
of January 3, "brings no pause IN the shock
and hurry Of war i'll the American campaign
and the same paper adds:
:. II the North still remains able to. keep up
| its armies to at least their present standard,
while the South cannot renew its regular for
ces, nor rouse the patriotism gifts members %
further sacrifices, it is evident that the end IS
at length coming within sight. 1t must not,
| indeed be looked for suddenly. A great and
| tried army like Lees cannot be suddenly DIS
| posed of by any opponent less than Napole-
| on. Even Hood may rally portion of his
! force and make stout fight still in the strong
positions on the Tennessee. But on the other
| hand it is impossible not to see i'll the accounts
| Of the fighting that now reach us, that knowl-
edge Of their fate has greatly altered the NOR
ale of the eontendng forces. There is at once
| dash and stubborn energy in the attacks OF the
Federals which were not traceable in their-iirst
! encounters, while the Southerners, whose Wild
er manner offlite, whose reckless contempt Of
death, and whose skill as shots gave them in
| the opening of the war n distinct superiority,
now ii ght as brave men do who are ashamed
| to yield, but who yet know that they fight i'll
vain. And those who are still with Hood gor
| Lee are, it must be remembered, the heartiest
who are left. They are those who doubted not
of success, and who shrank not from the dan
gers and suiferings necessary to insure it
When these begin to doubt, the end must be
|
| approaching.
i@But the facts we have been reviewing not
only show us the end of the war, but they open
to us a happier prospect of what will be after
| the war; The theory advanced by some Of our
contemporaries, that the North could never
hold the South, even after the Southern armies
are beaten frem the field, is plainly untenable.
| The fiery spirits will be gone, and those who
were too Indifferent to fight will certainly not
have energy to resist when the fights over
1t is to be kept in view that there is, after all,
no difference OF race, or speech, orlaw, to main
tain feeling Of hostility. There is nothing to
| prevent Northern settlers from amalgamating
| with Southern residents. The negro question
being settled, there will be nothing toniaintain
| q distinction between the two sections En-
gagged in the same pursuits, resorting to the
| same courts, electing member to the sanie leg
| stature, there will be nothing in this case re-
| sembling those in which q nation is overrun
and deprived of its rights by an alien Power.
| Southcrners will recover their rights by sub
| mission, they will stand on a footing of perfect
equality with the victors. We all know how
| rapidly, when the Highlanders of Scotland has
been dsarmed, they became among the most
loyal of their fellow subjects. Yet their case
was one in which there were fundamental dis
tinctions between them and their subjugators
not to be found between Federals and Confed-
crates. No doubt there will be an intervening
| period in which military law must prevail till
perfect'order is restored. Those who make the
pretence of acting as guerillas after the regular
war is over an excuse for numbering and plum
dering must be repressed by the firm rules
which in every country, and under every sys-
tenn of law, punish individual crime This will
be an inevitable concomitant of the period OF
transition from war to legality. But when the
foul dream of building up a Slave Empire is
over, there will be nothing left to fight about
and people who have nothing to maintain
dissension about, and who arein the enjoyment
of common rights, common liberties, common
privileges, will speedily unite to put down
those whose disorders will be only common
bane."