Year: 1861

For the Spectator.
To William Frazier, Esq, Of ROckbridge.
DEAR SIR IL take this method of addressing
you upon the momentous questiOn.How CAN
THIS WAR BROUGHT TO A SUCCESSFUL AND SPEEDY
TERMINATION? 1t has assumed such vast propor-
tions, and is waged under such feelings of dead
ly hate, that all men now agree that it cannot be
expected to end till one or both of the parties are
exhausted. On our part it is a struggle foSna-
tional exstence-a grand and holy Revolution,
like that of our fathers for the maintenance of
civil and religious liberty. We have staked our
all upon the issue. We mustnRcceed or perish.
There is no middle grou11 can occupy be-
tween complete succ1 and Independence on the
one hand, or utter, rretrevable, eternal national
degradation and ruin On the other. If it takes
every man and every dollar in the whole South
to maintain cause, the sacrifice must be made.
The only important question therefore is, have we
the means of success within our reacho and if SO
how should they be enployel? L affirm that we
have those means-mcre than amply sufficient
OF men and money. We have more than quar-
ter of million of the best soldiers on the globe
now under arms, and led by Generals in whose
skill, education and bravery the whole country
has unbouded confidence. With such an army
properly sustained almost anything is possible Of
accomplishment.


The war will not end until the North is crush
ed. Even if the people there wished to abandon
1T, they will not have the power to do it for more
than two years. The Executive and the Con-
gress OF the United States dare not give up the
confess, or they perish. The people cannot reach
them at the ballot box, if they would, for more
than two years. Then to end the war we must
crush the Internal despotism at Washington
That can only be accomplished by destroying
their means of raising money, for without money
they cannot raise men, and without men they can
not carry on the war. The large cities of the
North are the great money centres that must be
attacked. Our Government must, therefore,
abandon its present defensive policy, and must
carry the war into the enemy's country. To do
this with the certainty of success, it would seem
that we should concentrate all our means and en-
ergies for speedy forward movement. To at
tempt the defence of border of 1000 and
coast OF 4,OOO miles against the lnroads of ma
rauding parties Of thieves and pirates, is to frit
ter away our strength without the accomplish
ment OF any permanent good. We must let the
border and the coast, except at a few prominent
points, take the chances of pillage and present
ruin. All such damages can be reimbursed here
AFTER. We must concentrate here in Virginia
3OO,O 900 men during the fall and winter-furnish
them with all that is necessary to the formation
of perfect army. We have the men now in the
field, and it is only necessary to assemble them
together. Then when early spring opens, let a
column of 100, 900 men move from Winchester
northward to Harrisburg, Pa, throw another col
umn of 1OO, 900 men across the Potomac east of
the Blue Ridge to occupy Baltimore, leaving a
reserve of 100000 men on the southern shore of
the river to menace Washington and defend our
own Ca"itol. The navigation of the Potomac
will by that time be cut off, ad the ssgrand ar
my' will be hemmed in Washington to starve at
leisure, or come out of their works into the open
field where we can always whip them. If they
don't come out to fight, leave them in Washing
ton to be looked after by our reserve, and push
on the columns from Harrisburg and Baltimore
lfoy o1x oI,oh;
York and Boston. Can 800, 900 men do all this ?
Who doubts it?


| This winter will do more for our success in
| those large cities than army could do. Star
vation will raise up allies for US there. The war
between capital and labour will break out when
ssbread Or blood' is EN- baZoned, as it will be, on
the banners Of the street MODS there. The ap-
proach of an army from the South will accelerate
the disintegration of society in all the doomed
cities Of the North, and their streets will flow
with blood, and their dark places be lighted up
with conhagratiOns before our cannon are placed


in battery On their suburbs. The millions of gold
III the vaults OF the banks and bankers of tt ese
great commercial centres are a rich prize for a
frantic mob whose wives and children are per-
fishing with want. Let us then adopt a policy
that will let loose this mob-unchain this fierce
lrabble upon the white cravatted, black coated
hypocrltes and money changers who have waxed
fat upon the spoil OF the sunny South through
long years of unjust and plundering legislation.


1t may be objected that anUasion is the error our
lenemles have committed, and we should profit by
their example. The cases are different. They
have invaded to subjugate and destroy an inno-
cent people. Our enslavement is their object.
and to resist cur people are all in arms. We
should go not to subjugate them, but to deliver
ourselves. sslndependence and peace'' would be
our motto as we advanced into their country, and
we should not find an entire people armed against
US. The despOtism at Washington once disarmed
OF its omnipotent and omnipresent power in the
N orth, public sentiment would find expression
there again, and peace party would spring into
existence with sense enough to see that war is
their ruin, and courage enough, when supported
by our bayonets, to declare for peace.


We can accomplish all this if Congress is made
up of the right kind of men, to undertake it al


once and with an energy worthy of the constitu


ency they will represent. Many of the voters Of
} our District believe that you possess the talents


the industry, the energy and courage to represent


us In the next Congress should be repre-
sented. That you comprehend the issues at stake
and have the nerve to meet them we feel conf.
dent. As one of the citizens of the District deeply
interested in the success of our great cause and
speaking what know to be the sentiments of MANY
others, believe majority, call upon you to
become candidate for Congress at the ensuing
election upon what know to be the ground YOU
and every other true man now occupes-a vigor-
Gus prosecution Of the war into the enemy's
country for the sake Of peace, till they become as
sick of fighting as they did on the day of


MANASSAS.