The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-07-18
Latest Opinion of the London Times.

we are an ouispokeu people, and make
no secret of our conclusions, but there
is nothing in those conclusions to which
any citizen of the Union need object.
We have been surprised at the abrupt
extinction OF the war; but not more so
than the Americans themselves. What.
ever may have been our speculations or
sympathies, we rejoice that the work
Of carnage is at All end. We cordially
reciprocate the expressions of amity
which reach us from America, and shall
not be disbelieved in our professions of
desire for permanent peace. For the
rest, we can only wait. We can see
nothing of the future, nor will we pre-.
tend to believe that the revolution is
over. On the contrary, we see that it
is but half finished and that America
| will certainly never again be,the Ameri-
ca of the past. But it may well be
something better. The blot of slavery,
at any rato is elfaced from its soil and
one subject of contention is removed.
The position, too, of each State of the
Union in relation to, the whole is now
defined and established, if not improv.
ed. Then the people have learned truths
and mlearned fallacies, besides under
going that instructive experience which
war seldom fails to yield. We EXPECT.
indeed, that the Americans of the future
will be more like other people and less
like their former selves.
We will not attempt to flatter them.
They know well enough what we
thought Of their,cvii war, and they will
be proud to comprehend that our judg.
ment remains in suspense still. In a
few wwords, they have won---won against
the expectation of the whole world-but
what they have won remains yet TO be
seen, The result is probably within
their own control. Upon their policy
il will depend whether the South be.
comes again amalgamated with. the
North, or survives cnly as a blenlish
and burden to the republio The work
OF Reconstruction may be more trying
than the work of'subjugation. The pre-
sent policy of the victorious administra-
tion tits easier to comprehend than to
approve. We can well understand that
Americans, after learning to their own
cost what insurrcetioD MEANS are begin.
ming to entertain q new idea ofits char.
acter; nor are we surprised at the de.
nunciatIons now launched against the
crime of treason; but. the Government
of Washington should remember that
between acts of treason and civil war
there is recognized distinction, and
thatif the discrimination be logically
somewhat difficult, ithas, in this instance,
been made practically easy. The people
of the North know full well that this
contest between them and their fellow.
citizens of the South has, indeed, been
civil war; and nothing less. We
need not appeal to the gigantic proper
tions oftEe conflict for the actual con.
duel, t,oftho strife on both sides furnishes
evidence in abundance. The belliger-
ents did observe the rnles of war, the
captives We're considered prisoners of
war, and treated as such. II, in the
heat of the contest anyact contrary to
thelaws Of wartwas committed, it was
palliatedor explained, In fact, at the
very moment that tie Federal Govern.
ment is bringing the ContcderateiPresi,
dent to trial, one ofits own generals, the
serylsoldiefs who captured Richmond, is
proclairning to tho world that the
Isnatches, tsieges and battles of the
armies of the United States. in distance,
datstion, resolution, brilliancy and result,
dim the hstreof worlds past military.
achievements. We Will hot stop to
measure tile truth Of this panegyric, but
the very pretepsion is enough to show
that the contest which eanabe so describ
ed was a mighty war and not n mean
rebelhon3 and that the leaders of the
South are not captured traitors, but con,
qnered enemies NJ 4 - .
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