Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-04-01
FROM THE SOUTH.
THr wAs 70 co o.. KvEx rHorsH THE sovEEs
xKSr oIvKs rP AND HOPE "a CONVERSATION
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might arse between natOualltlcs, Dot that II "a
var upon a race. in which the liberty. the prop
erty and the life OF each individual are at stake
In such ordinary wars az we have referred TO. il
is the prcrOgaiive of rulers 10 say not only who
shall take part 10 them. but when and on what
conditions they shall terminate. When they are
satisfied the people, whether citizens or subjects,
acauescc But in our case the war being waged
not more against the government than the com
munity-sgsinst the people, collectively and in
dividually-And the all OF each separate man
being invoved-ihe citizen does not discharge
his full duty by awaiting and simply obeying the
orders and the cause of the government. IL is
true that We have ln,rusted to certain autbor
tics the management and the direction Of the war,
but only that the individual contributions and eI.
ertions Of EACH in resisting his enemy, may be
made more efectual by being combined and
welded with common design. What each man
may do beyond the mere demands Of the
thorisies upon him. is as much duty as TO re
spond 10 those denands--since the enemy is the
foe of each individual man. and is doing all he
can Cor each individual mans destruction.
Taxing this view Of the war the correctness OF
which cannot be denied, we conceive that it il a
very inadequate appreciation OF the interest each
man has in the issue. and Of the reciprocal obi
CATION Of each TO each never 10 give way, for any
one TO say, az has been said of late by one from
whose trumpet a less uncertain sound should
have come, 81 have always held that We ought
to maintain the struggle for independence so
long as there is hope of success. The general
| in chief and the president OF the confederate
states, as the highest military authorities are
| best able to understand our resources and pros
pccts While they have hope 10 the contest, il
| seems TO me that we should do all in our power
to strengthen their hands Is that all? Is il
that We fought to maintain the struggle. not
that we mustf And only while there is "hope
of SUGGEST" Why, what hope is there without
success; and why not fight on, even in despera
ton, after hope had failedt Would il be better,
hope having failed. 20 yield or become slaves or
| fall, sword in hand. fighting for freedom? Is
| there no echo, in our day, OF those words of
| never dying hope. Of neyer-doubting courage.
that stirred the souls of fathers in their day
day of uial-"Give me liberty or give me
DEATH"
| Can hope ever die in high and valiant hearts.
when the issue il success or slavery Or. If the
hope of success must needs give way. would it
| not, in such minds. be followed by the hope OF
martyrdom in the cause and would not that hope
still urge TO the conflict? In the last hours of its
| session, the House of Representatives was
| thrilled by the words, tremuous with age and
earnestness, of gray haired patriot from Ten
| nessee who declared that for himself, his deega
ton and his state, the issue, perfectly compre-
hended, and deliberately accepted. was indepen-
| deBce humiliation. In those words the reso-
luton of an intrepid and fiery soul found utter
/ ance-resoluton which, If il were shared by all
| our public men. would stamp the assurance OF
our success W IT'D the seal OF fate. To such ma
! lures il does not "seem' that they should "
| do all in their power 10 strengthen the hands OF
Others so long as those others have hope" but
instead there is the present. all consum ming
omnipotent purpose to fight il out TO victory or
death. as their own fight. involving all that i:
dear to them. and regardless of what the general
in chief or the president may think of " our
resources and prospects. Such men only are
the fit companions of so grand and momentous a
cause as that which involves the fate of whole
race a. noble as the southern race has shown it
self to be. Alas that here should be any, look
ed 10 as leaders in il, who cannot exalt them.
selves to this high ground
Consulting military authorities" and looking
to resource" as question 10 military science
it might well have been doubted whether the
struggle in which we are engaged should ever be
undertaken. Military science is, in the main,
the science OF mathematics. Ii deals with ma
terial forces, and il teaches that two bodies com
ing in collision. the lighter and weaker must
give way to the heavier and the stronger. One
of our most distinguished generals. in a treatise
on the art of war" commences by saying: 1.-THE
whole science of war may be briefly defined as
the art of placing in the right position. at the
right time, a mass Of troops greater than your
enemy can there oppose to YOU" That is the
whole science of war consists in being stronger
than your adversary. Tested, then, by the sci
ence with which highest military author-
ties" most familiar. the southern states being
far below those Of the north in men and resources
for war. should never have engaged them. As a
military problem to be decided by the teachings oil
books and schools. there is no telling when militia.
~ men NAV decide that there is ground foi
hope
To the military critic IL may seem that we are
not only inevitably doomed, but that we arc
now whipped. III so, we repudiate military au
thority in the matter; and we should repudate il
with our whole mind, soul and strength, even
though the illustrious and venerated general-in-
chief should give the weight of his great
name TO the opinion We should still counsel a
people who. knowing nothing of the axioms and
principles of war art. would know never
theess, that they had means, and muscle. AND
manhood remaining-that they had homes to de
fend from destruction. wives and sisters anC
mothers from pollution. children from lives Of
wretchedness. degradation and slavery we should
stil counsel such people TO resist. to the las
man who could raise an arm, had il strength
enough only 10 take his own life, and thus eX
tinguish the race As a military question. we
may be whipped, may be so already Who
knowsl
Nedo not pretend TO knowledge OF the con
illusions which are reached by studying war as
science or an art. No military man, We ar,
glad to say. has ventured to assert that We srt
whipped. or to predict that we will be- But w
DO know that as question of fact we are no
whipped. and we do believe with the intensity OIL
perfect conviction that we never will be. Nor
ally, politically, as question of human capabil
ty. as a question of humanity, as one involving
the future of the Hottest race on earth, as ques
ton shons upon and Illuminated by examples o
successful herosm in all ages and lands, we d.
know that we are not whipped aud We do believ'
We never will be. And on these accounts, snG
in these respects, we will never leave il TO NOR
tai man, how hghsoever he may be on military
questions, and however we'll acquainted with on
resources and prospects, to say when the con
ties, shall be abandoned For il can never b,
abandoned without worse ensuing than war, ever
we're il ten-fold as oneroG. and cslamtous a. thi
warts
rHT NEGRO A. ANELIokArED BIZ sLAyLRY-ABOII
ZION TESTIMONY.
From The Richmond Dispaeh.l
A great deal Of superhuous enthusiasm j
wasted by the northern newspaper correspond
ents over the fine qualities and attributes of thi
negro race a. il IS found AZ the south All tn,
} complimentary things they say of these African
afford US no rev ideas and II their object is 4
irritate and provoke fall faf short OF the mark
These creatures were brought here barosrisns
such "a they are nov they have become unde