The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-04-27
South Carolina to the Front.

We agree most heartily with the
New York Ecening Post that 1.-THE
time for argument against war has
gone by that rightly or wrongly, We
are in for it, and that it is now our
duty "to bring the struggle to an
early and successful termination.
can unsuccessful war would be far
worse thing for the United States
than successful one, and war Of
one kind or other we now must have.
The President has issued his procla-
nation calling for one hundred aad
twenty-five thousand volunteers, and
South Carolina should furnish its full
quota, whatever that may be, and re-
spond to every call that may be made
now and hereafter upon it for men
and means with which to prosecute the
struggle.
We shall do all that we can to sup
port the Government at Washington,
the navy on the sea and the army in
the field in their efforts to achieve
victory for the American arms. The
longer the test of battle is delayed the
worse it will be for u.s. Instead Of
waiting for SIX weeks before making
an advance on Cuba, as suggested in
the dispatches on Saturday, the ad
vance should be ordered in six days
we wish it would begin in six hours.
What the country wants now is that
the business shall be finished with the
least possible loss of time. When
the demand for war was being urged
with frantic earnestness by the jim
goes at Washington, it was said that
the United States would whip the
fight in twenty-four hours. That was
six weeks ago, and we are told now
that six weeks more Of preparation
will be required before the army will
be ready to invade Cuba; and the
President has issued call for volun-
teers to serve in the United States
army for two years unless sooner dis
charged. The time limit is too great,
and, now that we must fight, we want
to get through with it. If the strug-
gle shall be carried over into the next
commercial year, the losses to this
country are beyond calculation.
No one will question the perfect
"loyalty' of the New York Tribune
to the Government and the old flag,
and what it says will probably be ac-
ccpted as sincere, as follows:
The Nation is rot enthusiastic ia
the common and baser sense, over this
war with Spain. 1t has not wanted
the war. 1t does not want it. 1t has
tried every honorable means of avoid
ing it. Even at this late moment it
would welcome means Of averting it.
But the war is being forced upon it,
and it meets it, not with wild enthu-
siasm, not with rejoicing, but with
sadness at the dire necessity, and yet
with absolute confidence in the justice
Of it's cause, and with that serene self
confluence that is the best assurance
of success. -
We agree witk the Tribune that the
country does not want war and would
welcome means of ayerting it; but
we do not agree with it that the war
has been forced upon it, except by
Congress and the newspapers, and that
there has been any sufficient cause for
it; but right or wrong, just or unjust,
it is here and it must be waged by the
United States with only one object in
vicw-victory, with only one spirit
animating the people-sacri6ce, with
only one watchword-duty. Only one
result is possible, aud South Carolina
must have its proper place in the pic
turc; not in horse play for the benefit
of children; not in newspaper Mysteries,
and official windmills, but in the ranks
and wherever there is fighting to be
done. The sooner is over the better,
and no efforts should be spared to end
it before the opening Of the next con-
mcrcial year.
This war with Spain, as we have
said, will not be like the war in this
country more than thirty years ago.
The only interruption of our ordinary
vocatons will be in our foreign trade.
There is no North or South in this
struggle, except as it shall appear in
results. after the conflict is over, but
the whole country, all the States Of
the Southern Confederacy and of the
United States, are equally responsible
not for the occasion Of war, but for It's
success. The present business is
fighting. The harder and hotter the
fighting the sooner the restoration of
| peace and good order to Cuba and to
our own country.-Ne,os and Courier.
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