Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
The Policy of Peace.

purpose does not appear; but it,neverthe-
less points generally to the dawn of return
ing reason The gossip Of Washington
nswsmongers we regard with contempt
butt ,on the broad facts ofthe case,we must
conclude that Mr.. Blar's visit to President
Davis is but the initial step Of statesman ,
like policy, The appointments that may
be expected to follow from it, whether
or not they take from in actual negotiation,
will lead, we hope earnestly, to some more
irtellgible course on the part of the Cabi-
net than that OF the desperation Of blind
and bloody fury.
The Southern people insist on separa.
ton, with terrible earnestness. Their do
mestic affections they have already sacri
feed iu pursuit of that purpose They
propose now to give up for its accomplish.
ment an immense interest, that has found
deep root in their political passions. The
hates which their hearts have been infam.
ed by Federal atrocities, they stand deter.
mined 10 follow out, at even the cost Of the
sacrifice OF the institution Of slavery! If
the President be capable of rising superior
to the passions or the intrigues of faction,
he must learn to deal with the relations Of
the sections with a correct appreciation of
Of that astounding fact.
Slavery lies at the foundation of South
ern society. That system of labor is IN
tertwued in the Coufedcracy around all
the rights Of property. Prejudice and
pride hedge it round about in the South
ern soul. Attachment and duty have en-
grated it 10 the Confederacy side by side
with domestic affection. 10 pluck that
system from their hearts, to tear it from
the very base of their social organization,
, shows terribleness of purpose at which
even bloody fanaicism must stand ag ha It.
The South declares that she fights but
for her freedom. The sincerity of that
declaration, she proposes now to place un-
der the proof Of a sublime sacrifice. The
republicanism which made he. States free
and independents she vows between clench.
ed teeth to preserve at the cost of not on
ly her hearts blood, but by the sacrifice
of deep passions Of her soul. The fierce
determination placed thus in proof, will
> undoubtedly satisfy mankind that the issue
J of the war henceforth is one involving the
sacred right Of self.government. The Alb.
olitionist or the Democrat who in these
States, continues hencefroth to sustain the
: war, does so, therefore, in the full knowl-
s edge Of the fact that the States of the South
: can never be brought back save only as
Y conquered Provinces trailing at the heels
= of despotic Capitalization.
Southern emancipation accomplishes a
}, change in the struggle, materially. Sla
o very alone stands between the Confeder.
! ates and the employment in the army o.
o their black reserves. Two hundred thou,
i sand negroes, they are about to place i'm
Is medately in e-mps Of instruction. BY
n next Summer these men will have become
n a formidable army. With these, and the
l. white men that may be gathered up at th'
l. posts throughout the interior, the recruit
e ment of the Southern armies will have more
II than counterba!anced all the re.en force
'f ments likely to be obtained from Mr.. Lin
b coins current call. Fighting behind brast
lie works for two months of such a campaign
'r as that just ended, the economy of life il
h the Southern ranks will have placed then
Of still further in the ascendancy. Early
y march of last year into the Valley of tn
y Shenandoah, teaches us that the work Q
D. defamation having baen carried ou. upo
o Federal invasion, Lee will again throw o.
te his spare troops, by ordering an army of ne
OF groes to water its horses, next Autumn, i
IT, the Potomac, or the Susquehannah.
in Southern emancipation will not have ez
o, pended its material consequences mex
We year. The three millions of people mad
be by that measure basis of enlistments, wi
TX furnish an available force of about fv
be hundred thousand men. Two hundre
It. thousand Of these placed in the field, an
three hundred thousand had still in re
IS. serve, the resources of the South in mel
n, from their black reserves alone, are see
or to be enormous. Sixty or seventy thor
ne sand whites and blacks, Of the Confeder
he cy, pass annually into the military age
d. and constituting constant element of r
we cruitment almost equal in number to IL
IT, casualties of a campaign prove the suppl
ty of soldiers at the South to be practical
if lnexhaustabIo
sy Confederate emancipation extends
i'd significance to the cabinets of Europe,
The pride and policy of France stand col