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XLIV.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1863.
NUMBER 38.
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From the Macon Telegraph.
TO THE VOTERS OF GEORGIA,
llaviug permitted the use of my name
as a candidate for Governor, at the ap
proaching election, I deem it right and
pioper that my opinions and feelings,
especially in so far as they relate to the
great struggle lor Southern independence,
no faith, with the plunderers of our prop
erty—the murderers of our sons, and the
violators of our wives and daughters. Be-
lore we yield to such a union, let every
plain in the Confederacy be a battle field,
and every warrior bite the dust in death.
These are my feelings in regard to our
struggle for independence, and I am liap
should be made known to those whose j Py believe that if they be objected to
privilege and duty it is to vote. by an occasional timid man at home, they
I am not desirous of concealment—havejBpiwt the hearty concurrence of our brave
not one single opinion to suppress ; but amT s °ldiers in the army. I am yet to hear,
willing that my position should be known, | from various sources of information, of a
We are authorized to announce
NATHAN HAWKINS, Esq.,'as a
candidate fur Representative in the
Legislature from Baldwin county.
September'S, 1803 36 tde
WE are authorized to announce
’Major WM. T. W. NAPIER as
a candidate to represent tlie county
of Baldwin in the Representative branch of the
next Gem ral Assembly.
Miiledgeville, August 4. 1803 31 tde
U 7E ARE requested to announce the name of
.JOHN C. DANIEL, of the “Myrick Vol
unteers,” Company G. 45th Reg- Ga. Vols. as a
candidate to represent the county of Baldwin in
the next General Assembly,
September 15, 1803 37 4U
W J E are authorised to announce WASHING-
V V TON J. GOLDEN,as a candidate for Rep
resentative in the Legislature, from Wilkinson
comity.
Sept. 15th, 1863. 37 It*
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To the Citizens of South-Western
Georgia.
UREKA MEDICAL INFIRMARY,
Of the Olapathic System.
1 1IAVE located at tins beautiful, retired and
accessible point, to all sections iu South-West
ern Georgia, where there is plenty of good w ater,
pure air and clever citizens, where I will be pleased
to attend to ali calls and receive patients of all sex
es. and treat them for any and all accute and
chronic diseases that human flesh is heir to. Alter
an experience of two years in the Hospitals in Eu
rope, and fifteen years in the malarious sections,
from Virginia Lo the Gull ot Mexico, 1 leel pre
pared to offer and to render my services to all who
may need medical or surgical aid. I have had
great experience and success in the treatmeat cl
all such diseases as are peculiar to females.^ I will
attend patients or consultations at any distance.
I have associated the Rev. Doctor Ravins with me
m practice, who will continue niy treatment, stud
attend to my patients when it is not convenient
lor me to he with them, tor riding and attending
t' patients. 1 will be governed by the established
rate of charges as published by the board of prac
ticing physicians of Americus. Then to all vrhu
vouhl sort time. health and money. I would say, do
nut ili luii to see your physician early ij you hope for
rtiief. (Bills due when services are rendered.)
As for who I-ain, I will very respectfully refer to
the following names: J. VV. Jones, M. D., and
Professor of the Atlanta Medical College, Hon.
D.J. Bailey, of Griffin, Ga.; lion. R. H.Clark r ot
Albany. Ga.. For further particulars, see meat
niv office iu Ellaville, Schley county, Georgia.
tmlv J. M. TROTTER, M. D.
aud if I receive but one vote, let that be
cast undersrandingly.
It is known to my friends that I was ar
dently “Southern Rights” in 1850, and a
secessionist in 1SGU. Having been elect
ed td a seat in the State Convention of
single soldier who favors reconstruction
upon an)' terms, or who is willing to lay
dow'n his arms until our liberties are
achieved.
T hose who have borne the burden and
beat ol the day, and by their indomitable
1SGI, after a warm contest, 1, in that Con courage have kept the invader from our
vention, carried out the wishes of my con
stituents, and subserved my own. feelings
homes, from such we hear no word but in
condemnation of reconstruction—not a
and opinions, by casting my vote fqi the whisper of peace but in connection with an
ordinance of secession. i independent Confederacy.
I was then a secessionist frgm principle.! H the couutiy is ever betrayed into a
I am such still. Subsequent events have i la lse peace, it will be by the selfishness
not been of a character to convince me 1 ! a, 'd timidity of those at home—by men
was iu error, i feit w* had reached that
point when we. could no longer, with hon
or, remain united with the North, We
were being pressed gradually to the wall.
Encroachment after encroachment had
been submitted to; insult after insult had
been heaped upon us, and this, too, by a
people our equal in nothing, and our supe-
riois only in treachery and hypocrisy.
After fattening upon our substance, sei pent-
like, they sought to instill into our econo
my the deadly poison of every ism that
their perverse, vitiated and fanatical na
tares, assisted by a devilish ingenuity could
devise. Receiving some degree of warmth
in their cold and cowardly hearts, from
their success and our sufferance, they be
came emboldened to steal our property,
and, by legislative action, to throw around
themselves that protection which,.while it
would screen themselves from the jenal-
ties of a violated contract, would bring
death or imprisonment to those who sought
to reclaim their stolen property.
They had determined, by whatever
means necessary, to exclude, directly or
indirectly, our “peculiar institution” from
all territory acquired or to be acquired —
and not yet satisfied, but like the datighi
ters of the horse leech, still crying “give,
give,” they inaugurated “the irrepressible
conflict,” and upon that issue placed at the.
head of the Government a man whose
chief friends were the supporters, and
among them, the very authbr of this fanat
ical doctrine.
I believed then, that the institution of
who consult their fears and money, and
whose highest idea of freedom is a hotly
safe from danger and well filled coffers se
cure from thieves.
I am not aware of a single avowed re-
constructionist among an acquaintance
somewhat extensive ; but if called upon
to select suitable material to constitute
one, I should select that man who wor
ships at no other shrine’ than Mammon’s,
whose soul has not been refreshed fur
years by the milk of human kindness, who
by extortion and speculation, has hoard
ed up, during this war, his thousands.
Such an one may desire peace without im*
dependence, vainly hoping to feast his
eyes and fill the longings of his soul with
his ill gotten gains. He is not confined
to secessionist or co-operationist. He is
“sin generis," and lives and tinives, croaks
and complains, and is never so conspicu
ous as when reverses come. Then he can
be seen with elongated countenance at
street corners, abusing secessionists, criti
cising military authorities, clamoring for
peace, and cj&tching his pocket, ejaculating,
“l told you so. 1 knew we could not whip
the Yankees. 1 was willing to try Lin
coln.” I am happy to believe their num
bers are few. 1 am proud to know that
those who were originally co operationists,
when the tocsin of war sounded, Hung to
the winds or buried in oblivion all former
differences, and rushed to the battle field,
side by side, with the most ardent seces
sionists. It was sufficient for them to
know that their beloved South was iuvad-
30 tf
Very truly,
Ellaville, Sept. 8, 1803
C 1ITY TAX NOTICE.—My books are now open
/ for the collection of the City Taxes, assessed
by the Council for the present year. Office under
the Miiledgeville Hotel. ’
JAMES C. SHEA, Clerk
Miiledgeville, July 2H, 1803 30 tf
slavery was in danger, and the honor of j e d by a vandal foe. 1 heir sons were equip-
the South involved. I felt that the time j ped an(1 forth to battle, with a fa-
for action—for positive action—had arriv- ther’s blessing and a mothers prayers,
ed. We had reasoned with, our enemies— Their hands and purses withheld not sub-
had placed belore them “in thoughts that
breathe, and words that burn,’’.the conse
quences of their continued aggressions.
Our predictions were unheeded-our threats
laughed at, and our arguments answered
by renewed aggressions. I saw no grounds
for hope, no permanent settlement with
our honor untarnished.. A change of par
ties, in the future, might take place at the
North, but this hop% was feeble, and prom
ised only temporary cessation of hostili
ties to the South, and nothing like perma
nent quiet. The tide of fanaticism was
swelling and growing—gaining strength at
every surge, aud needed but one more ef
fort to engulph ami overwhelm us.
In all this, I felt sufficient justification
for casting my vote for secession. Slave
ry, already in danger, by such a course j
might bo imperilled—but I preferred to j
meet the danger promptly, and if lose it we \
must, let it be abolished by the strength
of bayonet and cannon, aud not by our
abject surrender. If 1 must yield my rights
and property to the insatiate Yankee, there
is a pride within me that would be less
crushed, by a firm and manly" resistance,
than were I to submit tamely .and unre
sistingly.
If I was justifiable, then, in sanctioning
a disruption of the Union—the reasons
since have multiplied—and grown from
streamlets to rivers-from mole hills to nob j urpose . Let the man of wealth, the
mountains, they present insuperable bai-i specu i atol . an J extortioner, whilst heaping
riers to anything savoring of reconstrue- ^ jjjs mQm , yt reflect | fOVV valueless it will
fr° n ‘ , , , _ T . . . : be if subjugation reaclies his door. Belter
The idea that the Unton was broken up, j gcat(er d whh !avis |, hand in noble deeds
with a view to its reconstruction on a more
permanent basis, is altogether new
stantial aid and comfort to the soldier, or
the family he left behind.
My heart swells with gratitude to God,
that I was born and brought up among a j unstrung our minds for the discipline of
sides with his exultant host. Grief for the
loss of loved ones has visited almost every
household in the Confederacy. Yet amidst
all these trials aud afflictions, there is to
be found a strong and abiding confidence,
among the great mass of our people, in our
ultimate success. The word “Jail," is ig
nored in their vocabulary. I am sure
there has recently been a great wakeniug
up to our perilous condition, and to the
great interests at stake—to the truth—our
all of honor, property and domestic happi-
uess is involved in this great struggle.
The time has long since arrived, when
our people should consider our condition
ouly with the patriot’s eye and the patriot’s
heart.
Will not the lover of gold give up, for a
while, his money making, and come to the
rescue of his country ] Will not the spec
ulator and extortioner, who have brought
reproach on their own names aud tears to
widows and orphans, wipe out that re
proach and retrieve an honorable name by
going boldly forth in defeuse of his sunny
South ? Will not the men of wealth and
the planters all over our land bring them
selves to regard the contents of their cof
fers and their barns as belonging to our
Government, to be drawn upon and used
b) it, eveu to tho last dollar or the last
grain ?
W hen these things shall be done, then
the country will begiu to feel the fullness
of its power and vigor—and ero long, be
yond all doubt, the enemy will be driven
back from our soil and the glorious sun
shine of peace dispense hisgeuial rays will
over our entire country.
T. M. FURLOW.
Aaiericus, Sept. 9th, 1S63.
From the Richmond Whig.
LETTER PROM ME. RIVES.
We are permitted to make public the
following letter from Mr. Rives to a well
known gentleman of Lynchburg. It is as
encouraging in its opinions and its histori
cal citations, as it is elegant in style and
able anil patriotic in sentiment. Its ap
pearance, too is fortunately timed, and it
cannot be without the happiest effect on
the public mind. It would be well if a
copy of it should fall under the eye of eve
ry citizen of the Confederate States, and
we are sure that our contemporaries of the
Press will gladly aid in giving it the widest
circulation :
Mv Dear Sir : I learn from you with
great regret that some of our fellow-citizens
are a good deal discouraged by recent
events iu our military operations, while
you yourself, I am glad to see, retain your
accustomed erectness aud buoyancy of
spirit. Are we not, in some degree, the
spo-lcd. children of that marvelous good
fortune, which, by the gracious providence
of God, has, for the most part, attended
us since the commencement of this gigan
tic conflict ? And have not our very suc
cesses, long continued as they have been,
In the Valley of the Mississippi, the j their dykes, to call in the aid of that de-
course of events has been more chequered structive element it had cost them ages
by alternate good and bad fortune. Spring- of labor and toil to shut out, they redeem-
a.u .1.1.— v.... cm m i i et ] their native land from the remorseless
surges of a despotism more ferocious than
the sea; triumphantly established their
independence, and constituted a renowned
commonwealth which, for two hundred
years, proudly held its place in the first
rank of the Powers of Europe.
If we wish further to see wbat prod
igies an undismayed spirit of nation
al independence, battling upon its
own soil for its hearths and its altars
is capable of accomplishing against
the odds of force aud numbers, look at
the example of the same people, under
the third William of Orange, mag
nanimously bidding defiance to the
united and powerful armies of Louis
XIV., of France, and Charles II, of
England; iook at Prussia, under Fred
erick II., in the memorable. Seven
Years War, successfully xontending
against almost all the powers of con
tinental Europe—Austria, France, the
German States, Sweden and Russia—
all banded together, at the same mo
ment, in the invasion other territory ;
look, again, at the miracles of success
ful valor, accomplished some thirty
years later, by the people of revolu
tionary France in the enthusiasm of
liberty and in vindication of the right
lmld, Gulumbus, Shiloh, ami even Mur
freesboro’, were successes for us. Fort
Uonelson, Corinth, New Orleans, recall
the remembrance of ead disasters; and to
these has been added the loss of Vicks'
burg and Port Hudson. I have no dispo
sition to extenuate the gravity of any of
these disasters. But looking at them in
their very worst aspect, there is nothing
iu any or all of them to give rise to a feel
ingot despondency. The enemy is as far
as ever from the great object he had in
view—the free and unmolested navigation
ot the Mississippi for commercial purpo
ses.—Its banks are still accessible for
hundreds of miles, within our territory, to
our sharpshooters and movable batteries,
that can and will prevent the use of the
river by trading vessels, and effectually
interdict it to all practical commerce. The
inhabitants of the country are more rous
ed than ever by the outrages of the ene
my; and redoubled efforts will be made
to render his local successes bootless to
him. We have, two powerful and noble
armies under Johnson and Bragg on the
Eastern side of the river, which are
strengthened daily both by the Confeder
ate conscription and by tho zealous co
operation of the adjacent State Govern
meuts; while on the Western side of the
river arc the enterprising and indomitable
commands of Gens. Price, of Kirby Smith,
of Taylor, and of Magruder. to strike
wherever tho enemy may present himself.
When tiiis situation is compared with
the many unavoidable reverses and end
less difficulties which our brave ancestors
had to encounter, and so gloriously sur
mounted in their struggle for iudepeud
of national self government, against a
second and more formidable combina
tion of all Europe, both insular and
continental.
What "any of these people accom-
people so unselfish, so patriotic Side by
side did their sons battle and fall with my
first born, on the heights of McDowell, and
side by side, with my only remaining son,
they have battled since on many a hard
contested field. From them I never hoar
a word of despondency, or reproach of se
cessionists. Can such a people be con
quered ? I answer unhesitatingly: No,
never / They may be subjugated—annihi
lated ; but conquered never! They will
yield to no conqueror but death, aud their
spirits will acknowledge no master but
God who made them.
j Then fight on, fight ever, and let our
motto be, independence or annihilation.
To secure the one aud prevent the oth
er, we must depend on the army alone-
They have done nobly all that men could
do. We must help them from home, by
sending all physically able to bear, oven
for a time, the burthens-of war. We must
aid them by our prayers aud kind and
cheering words. The brave deserve and
appreciate such. Let them be assured
that we have not forgotten our promises to
take care of their wives and little ones,
while they are far away. Let State and
individual contributions be applied to this
never heard of it, until recently elicited
from a distinguished Georgian. It certain
ly did not find a place in any secession
programme that met my observation. I,
myself, regarded the disruption permanent
Coll on "Cards, CofF**e& Sole Leather, and complete, and havb never seen the
euiM/ii ' ui««m „ . day, even when our country was envelop
ed in gloom of the deepest hue, that l had
1 f\i\ FAIR WHITTMORE’S Cotton Cards,
number fh.
50(1 lbs. COFFEE.
500 lbs. SOLE LEATHER.
Just received and for sale by
j. GANS & CO.
Miiledgeville, April 11, lSli'.i 15 »f
1ST otice.
Office Ga. Relief & Hospital Associa i>, ?
Augusta, Ga., June 23d, 18G3. >
4 MESSENGER of the Georgia Relief &- Hos-
pit.nl Association will leave Atlanta on or near
the loth of each month fur Mississippi, 1 aud will
take charge of all boxes and packages intended for
the Georgia troops in that State, and will carry
them to some safe point near the arm) and deposit
them, and notify the owners, or deliver them to
the owners, if-practicable, free of charge. .The
boxes and packages must be marked **ith tlie
names of the owners, their company and regiment,
aud to the care of the Georgia Relief and Hospital
Association. Atlanta, Ga. The Association will
not be responsible for any box containing perish
able articles, such as green vegetables, Scc. Hox-
*s and packages will lie. deposited at the W ajside
Home, Atlanta, Ga.
YV. II. ROTTER, Gcn’l. Superiut dt.
Newspapers of this Stare will please copy My
during the first week
to this office. W
July 7.1863
S PECIAL NOTICE —Thenndersigned having
removed from Miiledgeville, desires and in-
’oiids to close up his business matters of that
place as speedily as possible. All persons indebt-
are. sotified that my notes and accounts are in
Hollands of J. A. Breedlove and PH. Lawler,
w ho are authorized to collect and make settle
ments. If not arranged at an early day,settle
ments will be enforced by law.
A'/C. VAIL, Agent.
^August 19,1862 33 tf
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the slightest desire to reconstruct upon any
terms. What was suspicion then, as to
Yankee character, is
confirmation now
j i of charity, than have it warm the pockets
of Yankee invaders.
The-watits and comforts of the soldiers
in tlie field and their families at homo shall,
as they have ever done, receive my espe
cial consideration if elected Governor.
State and individual economy should cease
to be watchwords, when connected with
these great objects.
My official support should, upon every
call, lie given to the Government, when
not clearly unconstitutional. This is no
time for factious opposition or grudg-
Fully developed by the war, it is exhibited , t to tlje Administration. If we
^ l C 11 1 A. _ ii .. .... nl •,,1, I> All I II f f tM /• f n #»
in all its hideousness presenting to iuu i £ a jj t jt’matters not whether in strict ac
gaze of the world, the blackness of a nia- | cor j auce w ri, the letter of the Constitu-
liguant heart—combined with cunning
arrogance, treachery, and every other
principle that contracts the heart of sinful
man - ..... •
With such a people I want no affiliation,
political or social. 1 would erect between
us a Chinese wall, or sink an impassable
gulf. No act of mine, official or private,
shall be given to reconstruction on any
terms. Let no man, therefore, longing to
return to the flesh-pots of Egypt, cast his
vote for me as an exponent ot his views
and wishes. I would not only relusesucb
a reconstruction as Mr. Lincoln might pio-
posc on terms of subjugation Auu abolition,
but would equally oppose Mr. allading-
is State will please copy uauy j iarn * s proposition lor the “erring way waul
-i-ten. to return ... .heiretlegi.nce" Their
27 1stwem punic faith—our losses, privations, sunei-
in«'s aud bereavements, all forbid it. II
we have failed to live together in harmony
when the recollections of our mutual strug
gle for independence were fresh in our
memories, how can we expect now to en
ter into bonds of peace, when our passions
are stirred to their very depths, aud hatred
and mutual rancor have unlimited sway .
It would, indeed, be a union, unblessed of
lion—if we succeed, not one aiqong tho
happy thousands will stop his strains ol
praise and shouts of joy to enquire if it
was all done precisely according to tlie
requirements of the Constitution.
Jle who is at the helm of the ship of
State is an approved warrior and states
man. llis every talent and energy are
directed to our success. We will not crip
ple his efforts by unnecessary criticism;
hut as Aaron and Hurr did by Moses, we
will stay his hands aud make them steady,
until the going down of the sun.
If elected Governor, I shall throw no
official protection around any citizen, with
in tlie embrace of the Conscript Law. Aud
in my appointments to office, my policy
shall be to give employment and assist
ance, in every practicable case, to those
who have been disabled In tlie service of
the country, or who by age or condition
are not in militia liability.
A Few more thoughts and I have done.
These are. indeed, “times that try. men’s
souls.” We-are truly passing through a
fiery ordeal; and he is, indeed, a patriot
whose faith Is unwavering, and whose con
the God of battles i& still strong
these occasional reverses, which none can
hope to escape amid the inexorable vicissi
tudes of war 1
When we recollect, not merely the dis
parity of numbers and material wealth
between us aud our adversaries, but that
they were in possession of the whole army
and navy of the United States, the crea
tion of the joint effort and contributions of
the entire Union for a period of seventy
odd years ; that all those branches of
manufacturing industry most essential to
the operations of war, had been long es
tablished and in full actirity with them ;
and that at the eatoe time they had the ad
vantage of an open and unrestricted inter
course with the rest of the world to supply
any deficiency which might exist in their
resources ; while at the commencement of
the war, we had not a ship or a soldier,
were without the munitions of war, or
any existing establishment for furnishing
them, even to percussion caps, and cut off
from all foreign supplies by the blockade
of our whole coast—the exteut and magni
tude of what we have accomplished ought
to be a matter of grateful astonishment to
ourselves, as it is of special wonder to the
other nations of the earth. With all these
odds against us, what a long and dazzling
roll of victories have we furnished for
the pen of the future historian of the
war!
Virginia, embracing the seat of Govern
ment of the Confederacy, has been the se
lected object against which the most form
idable and imposing enterprises of the
enemy have been directed. How “lame
and impoteut” the conclusion of all these
vaunted expeditious, so often and so pom
pously gotten up, for the capture of Rich
mond and tho subjugation of Virginia, let
Bethel, Manassas, Leesburg, in the first
year of the war—the plains of Williams
burg, the bloody panorama of battle fields
around the beleagured Capital, the blaze
of successive victories with which Jack-
sou lighted up the Valley of the Shenan
doah Irom Harper’s Ferry to port Repub
lic, Cedar Mountain, Manassas again, the
closing and overwhelming discomfiture at
Fredericksburg in the second year of the
war, and the graud root, after four days'
continuous conflict, of Chaucellorsville
and Mary’s Heights, iu the present year,
followed by the enemy’s third expulsion
from tlie Valley—*let these memorable
fields, with their solemn amFtriithful voi
ces, tell.
During the period, too, tho army of
Northern Virginia, under its illustrious
lender, made two bold aud successful in
cursions into the enemy’s territory; levied
contributions upon it;..g^ve battle to his
concentrated legions on*bi#0wn soil, crip-*
pling and inflicting heavy losses upon
him; aud then returned at leisure to re
sume its attitude of calm defiance aud
proud invincibility at home. Such is a
geueral outline of* the history of the war
on tho Atlantic side of the Confederacy.
Outskirts, and fragmentary portions of
territory have, in some instances, been
temporarily and'reluctantly abandoned to
tbe enemy, as not jnstifyiug the attempt
to defend them a^he risk of the central
and more important portions, but in no
case has the heart or grand interior of the
^ -- . 1 rolit.inn I fiffenee in tbe God ot battles is StMl strong
wtwUIure n U ?know/hrprwewil. pleag e | a,.d u,l s l. ty . Tit, enemy «U t«riWr»be W *******
ence, who does not leel his spirit rebuked j plished, we arc capable of accomplish-
ng. We hav r e the same love of liber
ty; we have the same devotion to our
native land; we h^e the same mar
tial ardor; we have the same, and even
greater, motives to exert every faculty
for our deliverance. With the most of
them, the great stake involved was
national independence and political
rights. With us, in addition to all this
everything precious to the human af
fections, everything sacred to the hu
man heart is at is^e. From the ruth
less spirit in which this war has been
waged by our adversaries, from the
specimens we have had of their infa
mous proconsular governments in parts
of our territory occupied by him; from
the appeals they are now making to
the vindictive and brutal passions ot
an uncivilized race as their allies in
this unholy crusade against us, it is
impossible for the imagination to pic
ture a fate more horrible than ours
would be, if we were once subjected
to their power. 1 know no language
which, in that case, could adequately
paint the depth of our degradation and
the extent of our wretchedness, unless
it be those burning lines of an English
poet, in which he gave veut to his
feelings of horror and indignation,
when deprecating the iron rule of a
vulgar and hypocritical tyranny iu his
own land:
Come the eleventh plague rather than it should be
Come sink us rather in the sea;
Come rather pestilence and reap us down;
Come God’s sword rather than our own.
Let rather Roman come a^ain.
Or Saxon. Norman or the Dane.
Iu all the bonds we ever bore,
We grieved, we sighed, we wept; we never,
blushed before.
In the foregoing remarks, it has been
assumed Lhat ihe enemy’s forces were,
in number, much greater than ours
^L’his has, undoubtedly, heretofore been
the fact. But I am firmly persuaded,
that, notwithstanding the immense dif
ference in the actual population of the
two countries, we shall henceforward
have an army in the field at all times
fully equal in number to theirs, and
that, surely, is all we need desire.
The energies of the South are just be
ginning to be thoroughly aroused. We
already see a proposition in the Legis
lature oLAIabama to extend the limits
ol the military age below eighteen
years to sixteen, and above forty-five
to sixty. This was the old Spartan
rule, and prevailed along time in Eng
land until the institution of standing
armies and her insular situation, made
her careless with regard to the milita
ry organization of the mass of her pop
ulation . But our circumstances may
well justify a recurrence to" the ancient
rule, so far, at least as to call out the
supplementary classes for local de
fence. The spirit of the people, there
can be no doubt, would nobly respond
to such a call, while the demands of
the crisis, appealing to the instinctive
courage of men, and enforced by tbe
pleading loveliness of woman will
keep our active army full within tbe
Ijmij£ of the age heretofore prescribed
for it.
The situation of our adversary pre
sents a very different picture. The
popular fervor ot tlie war, first kind
led, and for some time kept up by de
lusive pretexts, is abated and abating.
The difficulties ami general repug
nance opposed to their recent draft
have converted it into very little more
than a barren mockery. No large ac
cessions to their army, already much
reduced by the expiration of enlist
ments and the casualities of war, can
now be had by force or persuasion.
The cordial support of public opinion,
in tbe present age of the world, is in-
at tlie slightest thought of discouragement
under our present circumstances] llecol
lect the condition of Washington in the
second year of tlie war of tlie revolution,
when, after successive and severe disas
ters on Long Island, at New Yoik, at
White Plains, and the loss of Fort Wash
ington, on the Hudson, with its garrison,
he was compelled to retreat through the
Jerseys, “pushed,” to use his own expres
sive language, “from Delaware with lgss
than three thousand men fit for duty,” and
the reluctant confession was extorted from
his firm and manly breast that unless “a
new army can be speedily recruited the
game is pretty nearly up”—even in this
extremity there was no despondency, no
discouragement. The pressure and mag
nitude ot the dangers only supplied new
energies cf action, and stimulated to re
doubled exertion and in a few days the
brilliaut achievements of Trenton aud
Princeton redressed the balance of vic
tory.
In every period of the revolutionary
contests a large portion of our teiritory
was overrun and occupied by the enemy.
In tlie South, Greene was compelled to
retire before Cornwallis, as Washington
had done before the Howes in the North.
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Virginia, each and all of them, east of the
Blue Mountains, were overrun for a time
by the armies of the enemy, while all the
chief cities in the North and in the South—
Boston,Newport, New l'ork, Philadelphia,
Richmond, Norfolk, Wilmington, Charles
ton, and Savannah—were all for a longer
or shorter period in his possession. But
if the country was overrun, tlie hearts of
the people were not overawed. With them
and their trusted servants, whether iu the
council or in tlie field, there was no despair
of the republic. They felt as Washington,
when most oppressed by tlie complicated
difficulties of his heart, iu writing to his
brother : “Under a full persuasion of the
justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an
idea that it will finally sink, though it
may remain for a time under a cloud.”
All history proves that a bravo and un
corrupted people, determined to be free,
never can be subdued by the insolent
superiority of force and numbers, however
disproportioned. What availed the count
less Persian hordes of Darius and Xerxes,
when encountered, in many a field made
classic and holy by their discomfiture,
with the proud spirit of freedom and the
noble self-devotion of the small but un
daunted Commonwealths of Greece l II
ever a people had apparent cause for dis-
pondency, it was the people of Rome, when
Hannibal, with his Carthagenian hosts,
after three successive victories on tho
Ticino, the Brescia, and Thrasymene, in
his triumphal marcPlowards the Capital,
almost annihilated the Romm army in a
fourth at Cannae, leaving more than forty
thousand Roman citizens dead upon tbe
field, including one of tlie Consuls in com
mand, many Senators, Ex-Consuls, Pre-
tors, (Ediles, and others, of the highest
rank and condition. But, amid the con
sternation of. so terrible a calamity, the
spirit of the Republic never blanched.—
When the serving Consul, whose rash
ness even had been the cause of the disas
ter, approached the city with the wreck
of his army, the Senate and all the ranks
of the people, we are told by one of their
great historians, went out to meet him
md thauked him for not having despaired
ol the Commonwealth. And in the end it
was not Rome, but Carthage, that perish
ed in the conflict.
So, too, when we come down to the
period of modern j|istory. Is it possible
to conceive a struggle more unequal in
number, armament, aud every material
resource than that, in the .sixteenth cen
tury, between tbe 'seven insurgent pro
vinces of the Netherlands, beginning with
two of them only, and the whole weight
and power of the Spanish Monarchy in
its meridian of splendor, when, in addition
to the resources of its large dominions in
Italy, the Netherlands and the Peninsula,
including Portugal, it wielded the riches
of America and tbe Indies united ! And
yet, by the indomitable courage and perse
verance of the inhabitants, animated with
tbe spirit of civil and religions liberty, and £ effective proseeu-
in suite of calamities and disaster which . l, 5t40,€ lo u ^ \ u
1.0 Uttermost the heroic staff of jt;«n ot etre.y-ear. Great as has been
which they were made, leaving to them; the amount of prejudice and delusion
often no other resource than, by cutting and bad feeling among the people ot
