The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-09
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Let us bear our fate like men We dared look
the result in the face before we begun the un-
dertaking, now that the result is upon us let
US remember that there is even more courage
in manly endurance than is there in facing
artillery, in marching barefooted over snow or
in fighting with empty stomachs vastly supe-
rior numbers. The result of defeat is to
leave us at the mercy of those by whom we
have been defeated 1t is to them to dictate
terms. Ungenerous though they may be, but
still theirs is the power Nothing that we can
do can arrest their course, nor should we ex
pect that course in the first flush of victory to
be very generous or free from irritation At
the close Of the war Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS was
charged with completely in the assassination of
Mr.. LINCOLN, and in that hour of passion many
were found ready TO believe the charge. To-
day Mr.. DAVIS is as much hated at the North
as he was then, but who can now be found
willing to believe him the accomplice of an
assassin. Mrs. SuRRATT was hung for COM
plicity in the crime. To-day many among the
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cence- WRIT was hung for cruelty to priso-
ners at Andersonville and no man in the North
at that time could have been found who believ-
ed in his innocence. To-day the truth is be-
ginning to come to light with regard to the
treatment of prisoners. Time is doing its
work. Passion is cooling, irritation is subsi-
ding. When the day comes, as come it must
when the North will see that its own strength,
its own safety, its own prosperity, its own liberty
is intimately interviewer with the strength,
safety, prosperity and liberty of the South,
when that day comes and not until then can
the South hope to have her condition amelora-
ted. 1t is certain that reaction will take place.
History would be false to itself if it does not.
1t is certain that the day will come, when the
calculation will be made by the North of the
cost of this war both in blood and treasure,
costing as it has in blood the flower of North
ern and Southern YOUTH costing as it has in
treasure enough to mortgage in the words
of WENDELL PHILLIPS "every right hand
in the country, from the cradle to the grave,
for generations yet to come" With this cal
culation, will come also the question, "was
this war made to enslave our brothers or to
perpetuate the Union framed by WASHINGTON
and ADAMS, JEFFERSON and HAMILTON, MADI-
SON and JAY, PINcKNEY and HANCOCK; born
through the travail of Massachusetts and South
Carolina, and baptized in the blood of North
ern and Southern brothers-with Northern
armies commanded by WASHINGTON from the
South and Southern armies commanded by
GREEN from the North With this question
will also come these other and more important
questions, appealing not to generosity and to
sentiment but to sef-interest, the prime mover
in the affairs of men-if we deprive the South
of its liberty, will we too not lose our liber-
ty?-if the South shoul1 perish or suffer,
would we too not perish or suffer?-are there
any geographical lines on the map of our com
mon country stating where liberty should end,
and despotsm shall begin. When that day
comes the reaction will take place and liberty
will be again restored. Until then we should
wait. It is not for us to resist the current.