Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-01-18

10. 1865.
diers will be crying 10 vain for bread. We must
not shut eyes upon the dark future but prepare
10 meet its dreadful realities With earnest hearts
let us seek the great remedy for our national evils
peas! = 80
Mr.. Speaker, there is another question Of vast
importance connected With the policy Of fgAt-
ing out the spar, to which I have already briefly
alluded, but it deserves more extended consider
alton. II this war continues much longer our hber
ties will be gonel Everv one must see that with
rapid strides military necessity has advanced to
centralized power aud military despotism The three
great principles Of civil liberty "the right Of per-
sonal security Of personal liberty, and Of private
has just been asteunded with . proposition for
complete despotism, to put all men under tho con.
troll of the Executives, and let him detail them to
special serpice. This would destroy the liberty Of
the press and these glorious batteries which have
always been the terror of tyrants would b used to
batter down the bulwapks ofcivil liberty which they
have so long and so noRly defended. It is propo-
sed to detail legislators, and why hat like the
Rump Parliament, they may sanction the usurpa-
tons of tyranny. The Judges must be detailed and
thus become the plant tools Of power and like JEFF
freys win an immortality Of infamy. Preachers
must be detailed to preach the enets suited to the
political Sanhedrim, and if they depart from the
faith, their high commissions from Almighty God
will be revoked and they sent to the front to assist
in sending sinners to hell Professors and school
teachers must be detailed that they may teach in
their hornbooks the doctrine of psaeeabe accession
In biography they must teach that great chief is
the equal of Washington-that man who in the esti.
nation of the civilized world was ''the first in war,
the first in peace and the first in the hearts of his
countrymen."
In finance they must elucidate the new theory,
that the best way to sustain national credit is to
tax heavily and then discredlt the national currency.
In history they must show the striking similarity
between Sherman's triumphal campaign in Geor-
gia aud Napoleons celebrated retreat from Moscow.
In political economy they must be able to work out
the difficult problem-how nation can maintain
q long and wasting war and at the same time put
in the military service two-thirds of the aboring
population of the country. The poor teachers will
have very difficult task, their teachings will be
contrary to all humsn reason and experience, and
at variance with the laws of nature and of God.
Mr.. Speaker, upon this subject Of the public lib
erty history is full of solemn lessons and fearful
warnings. 1t teaches US that the night does not
more surely follow the day, than that despotism
moves in the footsteps Of continued war. The long
extended Pelopennssian war was the downfall of
Grecan liberty. The desolations of the plague the
famine and the sword humbled the pride and glory
of Athens and stern, conquering Sparta yielded
to corruption. The eloquence of Demosthenes could
not revive in the degenerate Greek the spirit of his
ancestors, and he became the willing slave of the
Macedonian conquerer, and bowed his neck to the
cruel yoke of Roman bondage. The civil wars of
Marus and Syla and Of the Triumvirates destroyed
Roman liberty, and the countrymen of Brutus and
Cato rejoiced when the splendid tyranny of Angus
tus rescued them from the prescriptions Of anarchy.
The patriots of the Long Parliament were as high
toned and as chivalrous men as ever lived in any
land or any age, and they had . just and noble
cause; but long continued war Frustrated English
liberty and placed an usurper upon the throne and
after twenty years Of suffering and blood the whole
country was wild with Joy when even prohigate
vAyabond and royal debauchee sat in peace and
security upon the throne of his ancestors. War
and revolution carried the Infatuated people of
France from under. the mild and equitable govern
ment of Louis XVI through the horrors of the
Reign of Terror, the commissions of the Consulate,
and the splendid and bloody Empire of the first
Napoleon, and at last they were subjugated at the
feet Of the Allied Powers of Europe, and the imbe-
Gle Bourbon again became their master. France
can never be land Of liberty, for it is the land of
blood and revolution-of the bastile and concier-
gerie-of massacre and the guillotins. Must we
learn no wisdom from the errors, crimes and mis-.
fortunes of the past? Must we rsenact the dark
tragedies Of historys Must this beautiful land of
ours, consecrated to liberty by the blood of our
fathers, become the home Of despotism, and tn Is
furnish to tyrants another mournful example Of the
incanacity of man for self government We must
stop this war if we would preserve the glorious
light Of American liberty which has so long blessed
suffering man IN every land THE "peace men"
may be traitors in the estimation of the "powers
that be, but they are not disloyal to liberty and
humanity-to God and their country.
+ Mr. Speaker, hava hastily and imperfectly re-
farred to some of our dangers and difficulties in
fighting out this war speedily and successfully. L
will now consider the magnitude of the task which
this policy proposes to accomplish.
We commenced this revolution with sisterhood
of thirteen States and We still have the represen-
tatiSes Of that number in our national councils.
We are determined to fight out this war and
have every thing in our own way, we can never
consent, with proper dignity and seKrespect, that
any of these beautiful sisters shall be dragged at tho
triumphal chariot wheels Of an insolent conquaror
We must exhibit the high chvalry Of the knights,
Grant of romance, and surmount every difficulty,
count no odds, and shrink from no danger in the
accomplishnentsUf our purpose How stands the
case? Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee are now
In the hands Of the enemy. Arkansas and Louis.
lana are almost gone half of the sacred soil ofthe
Old Dominion is now desecrated by the footsteps
Of the invader anda proud army is beeaguering our
capital. Inc Northmen has passed through the
heart of the Empire State and pitches bis tent
within the gates of her richest and most beautiful
city. The foe have strongholds in most of the
other States.. Texas alone is free from immediate
danger If this war is to. be fought out then these
States must all be redemeed by the blood of their
children. The old men and the boys must win
back the places which the bravest army of the
world were unable successfully to defend. Without
anavy we must clear tie Mississippi and its tribu.
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rebuild the forts that guard gates to the sea- and
we must destroy the proud Armada that now
prowls along coast threatening us with constant
/ peril. The prospect is . gloomy oae, but still
hope chat the wisdom Of our statesmen, Joined With
| the valor of our soldiers, may save the country
| from ruin.
What hopes do the war men hold out to an anxious