The Howard union. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-15
NUMBER 1.
REASONABLE VIEWS AND sUadEs.
TIONS.
From the Richmond Whig.


/ The war Is virtually over. No saue
man will deny this. The last remaining
military organization Of the South Of any
consequence east Of the Mississippi river
disappeared with the surrender Of john
ston. There is no need Of dissimulatien
far better to meet thugs as they are than
indulge in false hopes. Confederate arms
have been overthrown, and the Confedera-
cy, as q military power, has ceased to ex-
ist. Its government has been dispersed,
and we must look beyond the Mississippi
to find even its leaders:
Painful as the result may be to the hopes
Of many in the South, there is nothing In
it to reflect upon the spirit ana courage Of
the. South as apeople. For four long years
the North and South, with courage un-
paraleled in the history Of the world, have
contended against each other in battle with
varying success, until at last the South, as
her great and illustrious general remarked
in his farewell address to his army, has
been forced toyield 10 Overwhelming num-
btrs and resources" Surely there is moth
ing dishonorable in this. II is the fate Of
war let us accept it as such as becomes
an honorable people. The man would be
a fool who, when peace is declared or is i'm
pending, after bloody conflict, consents 10
rail about the causes Of the war against his
former adversary; who descends to crimi-
nations and recriminations who INDUCES
in epithets, or who seeks to keep inalighi-
ty alive. To act thus would be to exist in
perpetual confusion to lapse into barbar-
ism +; to lapse into state worse than war.
War has been called purifier and civil
izer, when carried only to certain point.
Certainly the legitimate use Of civilized
warfare is to secure a larger amount Of
peace than existed before its outbreak
From this elevated stand point, as il strikes
us, all wars should be viewed, whether
civil or foreign, We are not 10 relapse into
old quarrels and prejudices. The object of
oil human society is order in other words,
regularity and peace.
We must forget all mere pa, ty now; par
ty,whose excesses have eliminated in war.
Away with such seeterianism as would di-
vide American sentiment when il flows 10 .
, ward peace. He who proves himself to be
demagogue, narrow trickster, in this
/, orisis, must be summed by all true men.
We must look to the teachings of Chris
tianity, TO our hearts and consoences, and
follow only the lead Of such noble states.
manship as is thus inspired. 1t matters
not aoho has proposed this or that measure
! looking TO restoration, or conGscation, or
u amnesty, and the like whether "Repub-
: lican," or Democrat" The great ques-
}, ton must be, What is the measure propos
. ed is il wise, safe, humane, just ?
= The North cannot show its wisdom to a
" greater extent than by being generous aud
magnanimous in its hour Of triumph, moi
u can the people Of the South better display
;. their wisdom than by submitting, witt
:, promptness and grace, to the inexorable ant
y irrevocable decree Of war. The Southern
y y Confederacy may now be numbered among
. the things of the past and it is the duty o
:, every Southern man and woman to appli
a themselves, without delay, to meet the ex
- - isting state of affairs, and bring about a re
,e storation Of the Government as speedily a.
:, possible in that manner best calculated e
al promote the interest and happiness Of th'
:, people. To this end let President John
- son labor, and should success crown hi
:. =, efforts, he will entwine around his owl
lo brow wreath of evergreens more unfadin
I, than ever encircled the brow Of militar,
a' hero.