Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1865-03-23

undertaking, are with. the separationists
| 0 ur amy has done all that brave men,
could do. No soldiers have ever fought
| better. They have, in the main, been
! ably commanded; But brave as they are,
and Bile as have been their commanders,
they csailllot overcome Representatives,
/ The externination of the Southern people
lis an imppssibilily.sx The failure of success
! proceeds from the fact thats eight or. ten J
million lenple, lighting upon their own
soil, are ally & match for eighteen nil
| lion whose armies have to be transported
vast distances and at frightful expenses TO
the scene of actor. Time and space
/ Fl ght upon the side Of the. assaileq, and
well make up for the difference in num-
| bers. seSs'tf s. 80 81 - '+SA1'<
So much forthe mere physical differ
erces that attend the war upon our part.
It has been waged for seour years upon a
| scale the magnitude OF which has. astonsh
ed the world. Armies SO immense were
never brought into the field by any civil
| lied country of three times our popu a.
ton. The experiment OF war has been
fully tried, aud has resulted in widening
| the breach twas intended to heal, and II
| has we'll been denoninated In the Chica-
90 plaGtosrn "a failure" It is useless for
gentlemen TO deny This; they may point
to the territory that has been apparently
won, andsthe victories hat we bave gain
led, but what resa - have followed! ! The
victories have beeIi barren and yllnprodac-
| tive of good, and the territory wonsis real
" nothing but the ground sonr< brave soi-
| diers stand upon, and which is commands :
| ed by their guns. The wave .'f the hos
tile population divided by the invading
Il
aud the feelings OF the people are more
more thoroughly united for separation
coumeuced None Of the. Consequences
! have followed, the capture. ..ot. Y cksburg,.
lsAtlanta, Savannah and other points,, that
! we're anticipated by the advocates OF the
! present policy, and it is equally certain
| thar a simlHr disappointment. would fol-
low the capture of Richmond, Charleston,
and other strongholds yet in their possess
1 sion. The war is ostenslbly waged to
preserve intact our political institutions !;
! it is, in fact, destroying them. Instead OF
aabeing calculated TO prevent future changes
and revolutions, it eis5, really begetting
them Those whosdesire to preserve ex-
1 istipg conditions of society and be spared
! future revolutions should use their infiu-
ence to bring the war to a speedyqterntina-
tion tits unsettling every thing. 1t en-
( gendering discord and bitterness where be-
fore there was concord and harmony 1t
is developing opposition'o interests where
before there was supposed to be Funiforml-i
| ty.x 1t is creating sectional Interests, diff
| fsrences and aBinosi ties, in addition to
those heretofore existing 1txis issin,nlti-
plying the genius of a terrible social
| Change and revolution. = The most radI-s
cal, oluai ionary and disorg, sniGzing doc,
trines have been brought into vogue by
Ithewar; doctrines which sweep away the
a'hcle fabric of our II rstitntions. We are,
III fact, " ibrating between anarchy and
despotisln. Some Of the questions already
growing. out OF. the. war viii be impossi-
| Die to settle, and may prod uce evils scarce
nv Interior to the war ITSELF The -rnost
| hatefuI elements Of discord andstrife have
now fairly entered athe "A nlerican body
lapoiitle, and he wonld be wonderful ma
gician, indeed,wh could cause them to-
be- sex xoncised. IL tes ss:. 49,,
The experiment now being tried at 80,
| fearful - ssacrince of blood and treasure
viii in, the end demonstrate to the world
that confederacies cannot be held togeth-.
ferby the mad policy OF coercion. Sow.
eersfnents deriving their inst powers
from the consent OF the go uerHed, and, ex..
Isisaiagt toniy irs theahearts ard saffecfiofs