A short war and a Merry one.
--This is the burden of the
Lincoln Administration — It is obviously the true policy alike of North and South respectively.
We are to have a short war. And it is to be decisive, says the
North, and we are to assume that it is to be as merry as it is short.
We are told by
Mr. Secretary Cameron that it is to establish nationality.
Virginians, Carolinians, Georgians, Mississippians, Alabamians, Floridians, Arkansans, Texans, all are to be wiped out, as such, and we are all to be
Americans, and the Lincolnians and the Cameronians are to rule the roost hereafter.
A beautiful programme.
All that is held to be necessary is 400,000,000 of money, to be borrowed by a Government that cannot borrow 10; and 500,000 men to be raised, where now it is found not so easy to get 100,000.
The anxiety of our beloved brethren of the
North for a
short war is to be considered.
A very
short war is all that they can stand.
A long war is fatal to them.
A single tradeless season is their ruin.
Everything going out — nothing coming in !--The complications with
Europe, mean while, tending to perplex the matter!
Emigration going back to
Europe ! No starving mercenaries to be had after the first campaign ! And the
Captains of
Connecticut captured by the
Virginia damsels!
The dear
Lotharios.
A short war, if you please.
That we desire also ! But whether you will find it a merry one, is a problem.
Let the Fates of Furies answer.
Our numbers and preparations should be equal to our spirit.
Let the
South prepare promptly for a short war, but one on an extensive scale, and savage.--
Charleston Mercury. 
