The weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-07-21
--latest, Opinion Of the Lon
!. don Times.

! CON LI!nSS.
We are an outspoken people, and make no
secret Of our conclusions, but there is nothing
10 those conclusions 10 which any citizen of the
Union need object. We lave been surprised
at the abrupt extinction of the war, but not
more SO than the Americans themselves
Whatever may have been our speculailons or
symnathies, we rejoice that the work OF carn>
ace is at al, cud We cordially recirroca'e
the expressions of alnty which reach Us from
America, and shall not be d!sbeiieved i'll our
professions Of desire for permanent peace. For
the rest, we ci.n only ~a;t. We. can see npsIl-
ing OF the future, nor will we pretend to believe
that the revolution is over On the contrary,
we see that it is but hair t:ais,rcd aud that
America will certainly ucver be the America
:y5ss the past !. Bat it may well be sometilinns.
BETTER: ;r!A he tbi5t osa+aycFttsit hay Sate IS
ef,tccd from its-soil and one snbirct OF conten-
;,ion is removed. THE -pQs;lion---ton- Vi caeh
S;cTC (.t' ;!c Union III cc!atlou l." tie "ho!e Ia
now defined aud established, II Not IMPROVED.
Then the people have learned truths an(! un:
learned talIaciies, besides UNDERGOING that iu>
.structiyc. experience which war seldom fills 10
,3y;eld. We expect, iuGced that the .tmericans
ot the future will dc more like Ot!:e: people
saad less like their former selves.
I'VE wilk not attempt to flatlcr them.
They knox well enough what VIC thought
Of their civil War, and they will be rr"'"pt to
comprehend thas ouv judgment !slnal''s iusns-
pens. still. In !, t.w words; they have Won
won against the expectation OF the whole
world-Ju What they have won rcn's'ns yet
to be seen. The result is probably within
their own control: Upon their policy 1t will
depend whether the South becomes again
aulacamatcl with the North, or survives only
as Il bemsh and burden to the republic.
The work of reconstruction may be More try
ing than the work Of suhjugation. The pres
cnt policy of the victorious administration 1t is
easier to comprehend than to approve We
can we'll understand that Americans, after
learning to their own cost what lnSarTeciiou
means, are: beginning to entertain a new idea
of it's character; nor arc We surprised lat tue
deuunciations now launched against the crime
of treason; but the Government oil Washington
should remember that between acts OF treason
and civil war there is recognized distinction,
and that if the discrimination be logically
somewhat difficult, it has in this instance been
made practically easy. The people of the
North know full well that this contest between
them and their fcov-citizens of the South
has, indeed. been civil war, and nothing less.
We need not appeal to the gigantic. proper.
tious of the conflict, for the actual conduct OF
the strife on both sides furnishes evidence In
abundance. The beligefents did observe the
rules of war, the icaptives were considered prs-
oners of war, and treated as such. If in the
heat of the contest any act contrary to the
laws of war was committed, it was palllatcd or
explained. In fact, at the very moment that
the Federal Government is bringing the Con-