The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-04-28
Avoid War.

- The New Y York Herald, and sundry other
papers of that ilk, are advocating war
with England. They claim that such war
could not fail to be of great advantage 70
tue United States. Their cagcrness Tor Inc
Tray has strongly suggested to the minos oi
! thinking men that they are more engaged III
counting the profits which such wal
| would bring to them than the DAMAGE IL
would inhict upon the country. just re-
covering from the prostrating effects OF a
! long civil war which taxed every energy OF
both sections of the Union, the United
States should avoid any war which the
honor of the nation does not necessltate.
! Nothing is so damaging to the true interests
of nation as war. 1t may produce
an initiation of finances, which will by many
be mistaken for prosperity, but the inevita-
BILE result. reaction. must come, and that re-
suit will be worse condition OF affairs than
ever. Politicians may argue and sophists
may explain, but the experience oi every
nation shows that war damages in every
way the interests, industries and prospects
of the countries it visits. America is just
recovering from the effects of one war. That
| it has injured every class of society and
every business interest is well known to every
man of common sense How then can we
be benefited by another and still more cost
| ly WARP Two wrongs cannot make one
right, nor can two wars make one
blessing. 1t would be bad enough
to talk about war if we were in con
dition to fight, but to advocate a war be-
fore we can rely upon OR own countrymep
to aid us is the extreme of folly. Let the
Journals of the country affect to disguise the
| fact as much as they may choose, but every
| statesman in America knows that the South
cannot be relied upon in the hour of danger.
| The moment the government is embarrassed
the same men who tried to disrupt it before
will renew their attempts What does the
New York Herald know of the real state of
affairs in Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, or any of the States lately
in rebellion9 Not one thing. 1t is as igno-
rant of the true feelings Of the South as it
is of the political economy of Japan.
We tell the government and the people of
the North that in the event war they can
not count upon the assistance, or even the
neutrality, of the South. The rebellion is
crushed but not killed, and its leaders but
wait their time to renew their struggle.
They have submitted, it is true, but not, as
they declared, in good faith. The leaven
of rebellion is still at work and leavens the
whole lump. Copperheadpapers may de-
clare, and copperhead agents may aver, that
the people of the South are well disposed to
the government and ready and eager to
support it, but all such declarations
are deliberate and wicked lies,and those who
utter them know it, and do so for
some evil purpose. Throughout the
South the feeling towards the government
is one of bitterest hatred, and the powerless
ness of the rebels but increases their venom.
Children are trained up to hate the United
| States government, the United States flag
and the Yankees" and everything posi-
BILE is done to keep alive sectional hatred.
! To talk of conciiating the rebels and re-
claiming them by kindness is the veriest
folly. Nothing but new class of inhabi-
tants will ever render the South loyal for the
next hair Century and the Democratic papers
! know it. About one-sixth of the whites and
all the colored men are loyal to the govern
ment and to them must the interests of tho
South be confded. In peace, all viii go
well, for the evil-disposed are impotent for
harm. But the moment the government is en-
broiled in a foreign war. and unable to crush
sedition at home, that moment will the rebels
of the South rebel again. Let US have no more
talk of foreign wars, but let every Repub-
lican paper North and South, do all in its
power to discourage a waf whose result no
earthly power can fOnsee. We warn
the Government, that twill find foe
at home. The true state Of feeling in the
South has too lcng been disguised, and we
now declare the truth that the Gov
ernment may know boy foolish, how
suicidal course is being urged upon it,
Let the government demand suitable apollo
gies from England or Spain-they will be
conceded-but let no pressure hurry it into
a war that is not absolutely necessary to the
honor of the nation. We give this warning
to the government, not to condemn the
Southern people, not from any partisan mo-
tives, but because duty to the government
requires us to do so. Be the result what it
may, we have done our duty when, after de-
claring the true state of the South, we saw
AVOID WAR. ....t,', F.
An act of the General Assembly ratified
the 18th day of April, 1868, makes it mis-
demeanor for any person to disguise his