Unsuccessful War

.—Nothing demonstrated to me so much the incivism, and the sordid weakness of men, as applying the epithetic term of unsuccessful to the war, by way of argument against the principle of it. What, have governments nothing to do with morality or justice? Unsuccessful! Is that all that can be said against a war which had for its first object, the extermination of a great and noble minded people? A war which was begun in iniquity and blood-thirst, carried on with true, savage, and Christian-like ardor, and will be ended with true Christian charity, viz. when all our resources are dried up by this raging, parching fever, and the soldiers are sick of blood. Woe be to him in whose dark and sanguinary mind this cruel war was first projected! But the age of delusion is not yet gone! Man is yet contented to forge his own fetters, by way of getting a livelihood!