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From the Kiclmiond Whig:
IBIIEa FBOM MR. BIVBsi.
\Yo are permitted to make public the
following letter from Mr. Riven 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 and patriotic in sentiment. Its ap
pearance, too is fortunately timed, and it
cannot be without the happiest effect on
the public mind. It would bo well if a
copy of it should fall under the eve of eve
ry citizen ot the Confederate States and
we are sure that our contemporaries of the
Press will gladly aid in giving it the widest
circulation :
My Dear Sir : 1 learn from you with
great regret that some of our lellow-citizens
are a good deal discouraged by recent
events in onr military operations, while
you yourself, I am glad to sec, retain your
accustomed erectness and buoyancy of
spirit. Are we not, in some degree, the
spoiled 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 1 And have not our very suc
cesses, long continued as they’ have been,
unstrung our minds for the discipline of
these occasional reverses, which none can
hope to escape amid the inexorable vicissi
tudes of war !
When we recollect, not merely the dis
parity' of numbers and material wealth
between us and onr 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 activity with them ; j
and that at the same 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 j
resources ; while at the commencement of
the war, we had not a ship or a soldier, j
were without the munitions of war, or |
any existing establishment for furnishing 1
them, even to percussion caps, and cut off
from all foreign supplies by the blockade 1
of our whole cost—the extent and magni- i
tude of what we have accomplished ought
to he a matter of grateful astonishment to
ourselves, as it is of special wonder to the j
other nations of the earth. With all these j
odds against us, what a long and dazzling
roll of vicetories have we furnished for j
the pen of the future historian of the
war!
Virginia, embracing the seat of Govern- (
ment of the Confederacy, has been the j
selected object against which the most
formidable and imposing enterprises of the i
enemy have been directed, llow “lame
and impotent” the conclusion of all these
vaunted expeditions, so often and so pom
pously gotten up, for the capture ol Rich
mond and the subjugation of Virginia, let
Rethel,Manassas,Leesburg,in the lirst year
of the war—the plains of Williamsburg, j
the bloody panorama of battle fields around
the beleagured Capital, the blaze of suc
cessive victories with which Jackson
lighted up the Valley of the Shenandoah
from Harper’s Ferry to port Republic, Ce
dar Mountain, Manassas again, the closing
and overwhelming discomfiture at Freder
icksburg in tlie second year of the war, and j
the grand rout, after four days’ continuous
conflict, of Chancellorsville and Mary’s
Heights, in the present year, followed by |
the enemy’s third expulsion from the Val
ley—let these memorable fields,with their
solemn and truthful voices, tell.
During the period, too, the army ot
Northern Virginia, under its illustrious i
leader, made two bold and successful in
cursions into tliu enemy’s territory; levied
contributions upon it; gave battle to bis (
concentrated legions on bis own soil, crip- [
pling and indicting heavy losses upon
him*, and then returned at lesiure to re
sume its attitude of calm defiance and
proud invincibility at home. Such is a
general outline of the history' of the war
on the Atlantic side of the Confederacy. 1
Outskirts, and fragmentary portions of
territory have, in some instances, been
temporarily and reluctantly abandoned to
the enemy, as not justifying the attempt
to defend them at the risk of the central i
and more important portions, but in no
case lias the heart or grand interior of the
territory been yet penetrated.
In the Valley of the Mississippi the
course of events lias been more chequered
by alternate good and bad fortune. Spring-
field, Columbus, Shiloh, and even Mur
freesboro’, were successes for us. Fort
Donelson, Corinth, New Orleans recall
the remembrance of sad disasters ; and to
these has been added the loss of \ icksburg
and Port Hudson. I have no disposition
to extenuate the gravity of any of these
disasters. Hut looking at them in their
very worst aspect, there is nothing in any
or all of them to give rise to a feeling of ;
despondency. The efiemy is as far as
ever from the great object lie had in view j
—the. fiee and unmolested navigation of i
the Mississippi for commercial purposes.—
Its hanks are stili accessible for hundreds
of miles, within our territory, to our sharp
shooters and movable batteries, that can
and will prevent the use of the liver by tra
ding vessels, and effectually iuteidict it
to all practical commerce. The inhabi
tants of the country are more roused than
ever by- the outrages of the enemy ; and
redoubled efforts will bo made to render j
bis local successes bootless to him. We
have two powerful and noble armies un- j
der Johnson and Bragg on the Eastern
side of the river, which are strengthened
dailv both by the Confederate conscription I
and*by the zealous co-operation of the!
adjacent State Governments; while on
the Western side of the river are the en- ,
terprising and indomitable commands of
Gens. Price, of Kirby Smith, of Taylor,
and of Magruder, to strike wherever the
enemy may present himself.
When this situation is compared with
the many unavoidable reverses and endless
difficulties which our brave ancestors had
to encourage, and so gloriously surmounted
in their struggle for independence, who
does not feel his spirit rebuked at tlie
slightest thought of discouragement under
onr present circumstances] Recollect the
condition of Washington in the second
yegr of the war of the revolution, when,
after successive and severe disasters on
Long Island, at New Yoik. at White
Plains, and the loss of Fort Washington,
on the Hudson, with its garrison, he was
compelled to retreat through the Jerseys,
“pushed,” to use his own expressive lan
guage, “from Delaware with less than
three thousand men fit for duty,” and the
reluctant confession was extorted from his
firm and manly breast than unless “a new
army can be speedily recruited the game
is pretty nearly up”—even in this extremi
ty there was no despondency, no discour
agement. The pressure and magnitude of
the dangers only supplied new energies of
action,and stimulated to redoubled exertion
ltad in a few days the brilliant achieve
ments of Trenton and Princeton redressed
the balance of victory.
In every period of the revolutionary
contests a large portion of our territory
was overrun and occupied by the enemy.
In the South, Greene was compelled to
retire before Cornwallis, as Washington
had done before tiie Howes in the North.
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
\ irginia, 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 York, 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, the hearts of
the people were not overawed. With them
and tlieir'trusted servants, whether in the
councilor in the field, there was no despair
ol the republic. They felt as Washington,
when most oppressed by the complicated
difficulties or'his heart, in writing to his
brother : “Under a full persuasion of the
justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an
idea that it will finally siuk, though it
may remain for a time under a cloud.”
All history proves that a brave and nn-
corruptcd people, determined to be free,
never can lie subdued by the insolent
superiority of force and numbers, however
disproportioned. What availed the count
less Persian hordes of Darius and Xerxes,
when encountered, iu 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 ? If
i ever a people had apparent cause for dis-
| pendency, it was the people of Rome, when
Hannibal, with his Carthagenian hosts,
i after three successive victories on the
: Ticino, the Brescia, and Thrasymene, in
j his triumphal inarch towards the Capital,
almost annihilated the Rom in army in a
fourth at t 'ann:e, leaving more than forty
thousand Roman citizens dead upon the
field, including one of the 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
ot his army, the Senate and all the ranks
of tlie people, we are told by one of their
great historians, went out to meet him
;.ml thanked him for not having despaired
of the Commonwealth. And in the end it
was not Rome, but Carthage, that perish
ed in the conflict.
So, too, when we conic down to the
period of modern history. Is it possible
to conceive a struggle more uncaqual in
number, armament, and every material
resource tlian that, in the sixteenth cen
tury, between the seven insurgent pro
vinces of the Netherlands, beginning with
two of them only, and the whole weight
ami 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, i
including Portugal, it wielded the riches
of America and the Indies united ! And
yet, by' the indomitable courage aud perse
verance of the inhabitants, animated with
the spirit of civil and religious liberty, and
in Spite of calamities and disaster which
tried to the uttermost the heroic stuff'of
which they were made, lcaviug # to them
often no other resource than, by cutting
their dykes, to call in tlie aid of that de
structive element it had cost them ages
of labor and toil to shut out, they redeem
ed 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 iu the first
rank of the Powers of Europe.
If we wish further to see what prod
igies an undismayed spirit of nation
al independence, battling upon its
own soil lor its hearths and its altars
is capable of accomplishing against
the odds of force and numbers look at
the example of the same people, under
the third Wiiliam of Orange, mag
nanimously bidding defiance to the
united and powerful armies of Louis
XIV., of France, and Charles II, of
England; look at Prussia, under Fred
erick II., in tlie memorable Seven
Years War, successfully contending
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, iu the invasion of her 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
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
plished, we are capable of accomplish
ing. We have the same love of liber
ty; we have the same devotion to our
native land; we have the same mar
tial order; 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 issue. From tlie ruth
less spirit in which Jhis war lias been
waged by our adversaries, from the
specimens we have had of their infa
mous proconsular govermnentsin 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 it fate more horrible than ours
would he, if we were once subjected
to their power. 1 know no language
which, in that case, could adequately
paint the depth of our degredation and
the extent of our wretchedness, unless
it be those burning lines of an English
poet, in which he gave vent to his
ieelirtgs #f horror and indignation,
when deprecating the iron rule of a
vulgar and hypocritical tyranny in his
own land:
Come the eleventh plague rather tliau it should be;
Come sink us rather iu the sea;
Come rather pestilence and reap us down;
Come God’s sword rather than our own.
Let rather Itoman come a^ain.
Or Saxon. Norman or the Dane.
In all the bonds we ever bore.
We grieved, we sighed, we wept; we never
blushed before.
• In the foiegoing remarks, it has
been assumed that the enemy’s forces
were, in number, much greater than
ours. This has, undoubtedly, hereto
fore been the fact. But 1 am firmly
persuaded, that, notwithstanding the
immense difference in the actual pop
ulation of the two countries, we shall
henceforward have an army in the
field at all times fully equal in num
ber to theirs, and that, surely, is all
we need desire. The energies of the
South are just beginning to be
thoroughly aroused. "\Ve already see a
proposition in the Legislature of Ala
bama to extend tlie limits of the mili
tary age below eighteen years to six
teen, and above forty-live to sixty-
ty. This was the old Spartan rule,
and prevailed a long time in England
until the institution of standing ar
mies 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 an
cient rule, so far, at least as to call out
the supplementary classes for local de
fence. Thfe spirit of the people, there
can be no doubt, would nobly respond
to such a call, while the demands ol
the crisis, appealing to the instinctive
courage of men, and enforced by the
pleading loveliness of woman wi"
keep our active army full within the
limits ofthe age heretofore prescribed
for it.
The situation of our adversary pre
sents a very different picture. The pop
ular fervor ofthe war, first kindled, and
for some time kept up by delusive pre
texts, is abated and abating. The
difficulties and general repugnance op
posed to their recent draft have con
verted it into very little more than a
barren mockery. No large accessions
to their army, already much reduced
by the expiration of enlistments and
the casualities of war, can now he. had
by force or persuasion. The cordial
support of public opinion, in the {ire-
sent age of world, is indispensable to
tlie effective prosecution of every war.
Great as has been the amount of pre
judice and delusion and had feeling
among the people ofthe North towards
us, happily “reason hath not fled to
brutish breasts.” Many of them now
see that the present war is, almost
without disguise, a war for the exter
mination or degradation of the \\hite
race by the installation of the blacks
in virtual dominion over
in such a war they have
of sympathy or interest
them. Others, profiting
the sagacious lessons of
Letter from Sou. Joshua Sill.
Madison, Ga., August Ulat, 1SG-3.
Gentlemen:
1 am in receipt of your favor call
ing my attention to certain charges
but an empty sound, if obtained at
such a cost.
Iain not the eulogist of any living
man, and never intend to he. Indis
criminate praise is as worthless as in-
made against me by some of my assail- 'Fiseiinnuate censure. I shal l continue
ants, and asking me to reply, and al- t0 exei ' ci8 e my rights as a freeman so
I S .. . ^ ^ 1 An.r T n - — ~ » n nr
low you to publish my vindication.
Other friends have written me letters
of similar tenor. In order to relieve all
long as I am free, in expressing an
honest opinion as to the merits of any
measure of public policy. In doing this
honest misapprehension, I make tlie j ^ sba !! endeavor to he guided by mx
them; aud
no motive
to engage
at last, of
Chatham,
Burke, Fox, and that noble hand of
patriots and statesmen iu England,
who manfully opposed the war upon
the America colonies from the start,
begin to see that the triumph of law
less despotism over the independence
of the South would he equally fatal to
their remnant constitutional liberty at
home. From the operation of these
and other causes, the military, with
the moral strength of the North in this
contest, will go on decreasing, while
ours will as certainly increase.
On whatever side I look, t hen. 1 see
no omen of discouragement, hut, on
the contrary, new grounds of assur
ance, with regard to the ultimate and
following statement, which I trust wi
at least he satisfactory to all who are
willing to think favorably of me. Such
of my correspondents as remain un
answered, will please consider this as
an answer to them.
A few of the public journals of this
| State have suggested my name as one
fit to he voted for in the approaching
election for Governor. It has beet
done without any agency or. manage
ment of mine. Perhaps it has pro
ceeded from a few ardent friends who j
had determined to compliment me
with their votes—without regard to
any reasonable prospect of success. j
That I have some such devoted friends
1 have reason to know. To these I
have al way’s said “while I could not
complain of a well intended kindness
—I would not consent to occupy the
j position of an aspirant or seeker for
1 j an office.” I now repeat that declara
tion. Not that I was afraid or asham
ed to disclose my opinion on public
affairs—hut that I felt contempt and
disgust for the business of wooing
popular support. I have hue little of
self-reproach on that account—and am
resolved not to add to it.—I am well
satisfied that our present condition as
a people, is mainly attributable
to the prevalence of that demoralizing
custom. The people have themselves
to blame—that they have generally
bestowed their confidence upon those
who were most adroit in this despica
ble art. Have they had enough of
of it!
I have never felt^he desire to occu
py the Executive office, even in or
dinary times. Now, with its vast res-
! p o us i h i Liti os at id itsimmense patronage
it is surely Tifjr'f^iB^
by any modest conscientionsTTfiH^pk
who accepts it with any other view
than to devote his time and talents to
the welfare and happiness of the peo
ple is unworthy of the station.
It suits the purposes of those accus
tomed to kill off’adversaries by detrac
tion, to ascribe opinions and designs
to me that I never entertained. And
friends, who have had sufficient expe
rience to know how little reliance is to
he placed on pledges and' platforms,
“ask for a sign.” It is charged that 1
am in favor of a reconstruction of
the Union—opposed to the prosecu
tion ofthe war. and to the Administra
tion of President Davis. I answer these
charges to gratify a class of friends,
who are really ignorant of my senti
ments, and not with the . hope or de
sire of appeasing the wrath ofeuetnies
who regard me as having designs on
their Commissary Department. Men
will fight desperately for subsistence.
Since my resignation of my seat as a
member of the Congress of the United
States which occurred immediately
ipon the withdrawal of my colleagues,
convictions of right and expediency
aim not to be influenced by personal
dislikes. Iam not aware that I enter
tain any such feelings towards any oi
our public men. While I have not ap
proved of every act of President Da
vis’ administration, I am not prepared
to say that I know of an other more
capable of serving the Confederacy in
the discharge ofthe embarrassing du-
_ ; ties tlu^t devolve upon his high office.
I sympathise with no factions opposi
tion to his administration.
Occupying the position I did, 1 did
not think it becoming me to attempt
to outstrip the leaders of the revolu
tion in tiieir efforts to stimulate the
youth of the country to volunteer. I
made no inflammatory appeals to their
patriotism, hut 1 denied them not my
aid and iny sympathy in their trying
adventure. I was impressed with the
idea that example was superior to any
power of words, and since I declined
to volunteer, I did not feel willing to
urge others to do what 1 failed to do
myself. Early in the struggle the youth
of my household and those of my near
est kindred llew to arms. The soil of
Virginia has drank deep of the life
blood of m\' ' gallant young kins
men.
If to mourn the fall of the thousands
of youthful victims; if to pity the suf
ferings and trials of the maimed and
wounded; if to lament the havoc and
inhumanities wrought by a cruel foe;
if to regret the pains and privations oi
the sick and warworn soldier; if t<
desire that 1
pay to supply his necessary want
to sympathise with wretched and help
less women and children; if to sigli for
l*return of peace, an honorable, lasting
}#ice, constitute opposition *to the
war, then am 1 opposed to it.
With many thanks for the friend
ly interest you manifest iu my be
half,
I remain gentlemen,
Your friend and obedient servant,
.IpBHUA HILF*
To Messrs Geo W Adair, Jno J
Thrasher, and Jas 31 Calhoun, At
lanta, Ga.
Fiom the Cofomtms Time,. [ 0 fE. Tennessee to Georgia for f ea r n f
The 4xori‘ri2tsr*hip. 1 j • , O Ot
. Wo have hitherto forborne to allude to j ‘ ,,,1^ f ^ 8
this subject because we have all along sup-1 teieare a thousand reports and
posed that there would ho no gubernato- : {\ lmors a “ oat > entitled to no confidence,
rial contest in Georgia, and that Governor 1 he best advice we can give to. our
Brown would bo permitted to “walk over ■ people, is to keep up a stout heart, be
nee,
own
powder
the tuif.” It is even now possible that j lull of hope, and trust to Provide
Mr. Joshua Ilill enter
thought of entering
small favor with which.tiio announcement
of bis candidacy has everywhere been re
ceived would seem to justify the supposi
tion that it is all a pretence and a farce.
But assuming that be and bis small party
of friends are in earnest, it is quite perti
nent to inquire, what does Mr. Hill want
—besides, tlie office ? What does be want
to do or to be done ? What point does be
make against Gov. Brown’s administra
tion, and in what particular, it elected,
would bis own differ from it 1 These are
questions which the people will ask, and
an answer to which they have the right to
demand.
Are Mr. Hill’s sensibilities more shocked
by having this said of him by respectable
gentleman who profess to know hi in than
they would be to say as much of himself?
Is it so extraordinary and outrageous a pro
position that a candidate for Governor of
Georgia, iif these times, should be asked
and expected to give reasonable and per
sonal assurance, by word or act, that lie is
unalterably committed to tlie cause of
; Soutlfern independence and nationality,
i and is in favor of sustaining to the utmost
all the great measures for self defence
against the horrid barbarities of our inva-
j oing 1 °e. 4
I ' Really wc cannot understand why Mr.
Hill or any other man ought to feci his ‘sen
sibilities shocked’ by such a demand, or
why he should prefer to give the assurance
at second hand, rather than in propria per
il sona.
I n old Federal times, it was the practice
of experienced political trainers to put their
candidate in tlie hands of committees scat-
, tered round in different localities, for the
purpose of suppressing offensive or danger
ous committals; and there were never any
I more eloquent dcclairaers against ‘party
machinery’ wires. We neither affirm nor
believe that these gentleman are acting as
trainers to Mr. Hill; and yet it is incoin-
c should receive sufficient i prcheusible why they should consider an
ip explanation which tney volunteer for their
candidate,*a thing so unreasonable and
“shocking” to comp from the candidate
himself.
entertains no serious j piffle they must rely on tlu-ir
the list. Indeed tHe J s t ou t arms and keen their n
dry.—Ml Intelligencer.
State Rights & Confederate States’ Rights,
Lieut, Cj-cn. Hardee.
It is with pleasure that we lay be
fore our readers the order of Lt. Gen.
Hardee, assuming command of the
mroled prisoners from Vicksburg and
'ill be
Port Hudson. The intellige,
receive with joy by the
cm; v
HsSu
ie rs to
no i
whom it is addressed,
doubt, be promptly responded to:
Enterprise, Miss., Aug, 2S, 1SG3.
By direction ofthe President of the
Confederate States, 1 assume column and
of the paroled prisoners of Mississippi,
Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Louisi-
ly ana recently forming
Vicksburg
a part ofthe gar-
aud Port llud-
, . . , , i 1 have taken no active part in politics,
certain triumph ofthe great cause m r , , , 1 , 1 .
, 1 , , c , ,,, 11 had often expressed my honest con
victions, that the destruction of the
.Union would be followed by a long
and bloody war, disastrous beyond pre-
cedentrin its results, to every section;
and that the idea of dissolving the
Union, with the hope of reconstructing
it, on a basis more permanent, and
protective of tlie rights of the slave
States, was fallacious aud absurd. 1
compared the effort to accomplish such
an impossibility to the folly of taking
<Y the I bbc lllosb d 0 !’ 011 * 6 glass vase arid crusli-
1 ing it to atoms, in the vain hope of
collecting the scattered fragments, and,
by re-uniting them, making the shat
tered vessel more comely and durable
than it was before. It was a strange de
lusion—without which the Unioncoukl
not have been broken. 1 believe what
1 oaiamw aim a mum, am, unmi { sa i<l 0 f theimpossibility ot reconstruc-
pted, strengthened and adorned tjon> Time and events have deepened
p,ous hands of her children, she thege convicti(?ns .
1 felt little comfort iu the ilippant
assurances of sanguine orators, “that
the Yankees could not fight if they
would, and would not if they could.”
I knew that time was when they had
fought and I believed that, by collision
a with our brave troops, they would ,
learn to it do again. In war, as in poli
tics, it is unwise to underrate your ad
versary
which we are embarked. We may
ha^'e occasional reverses in future, as
we have had them in the past. These
are often salutary trials of our con
stancy and faith, and needful admoni
tions to increased vigilance and exer
tion. Even heroic Charleston, for
whose fate every bosom is now yearn
ing with anxiety, may fall under the
extraordinary means concentrated for
her destruction. But if she does, it
will be in a blaze of glory that wi
irradiate the remotest corner
Confederacy, and light tlie way to re
tributive victories elsewhere, while
she herself will be destined to rise
again with increased splendor from
her ashes. The capture of Athens by
the Persians, ushered in the glorious
days of Salatnis and Platea, and when
reoccu
by the pious
was more than ever the envy and ad
miration of the world. No local or
occasional disaster can check the on
ward progress of a great cause, blessed
with the approving smiles of heaven
and sustained by stout hearts with .un
ceasing vigilance and unfaltering
faith.
I remain, very truly and faithfully,
Your friend,
W. C. Rives.
Francis B. Deane, Esq., Member
of House of Delegates of \ irginia.
I,oiler from cx-tJoveruor Thomas Broirn.
The letter from our venerable fellow-cit
izen, Gov. Brown, breathes the true
spirit of a patriot and a statesman. Though
not originally attached the most ultra
school of Southern politicians, we find
him, when the issue is fairly made, offering
the remnant of a well spent life on the al
tar of his country. What an example is
this to the croakers and desponding sub-
missionists. May the old patriot live to
see the independence of the country that
he has loved and served so well fully cs-
tabislied. Flordia is now, with few ex
ceptions, a military organization of able-
bodied men from the Perdido to the
Everglades. Its soil has never bred
a race of cowards, from the Apalaeh-
iaus to the tjeminolcs and every kill
and dale of this land shall drink the
blood of friend and foe, before our loath
some and infernal enemies shall obtain do
minion over them.—Flo. if Journal.
A Suggestion.—We beg leave to sug
gest to our contemporaries of the press
throughout the Confederate States, wheth
er it "would be wise to bring to the notice
of there legislators, the propriety of some
state provision to aid in the detection ar.d
arrest of stragglers and deserters from the
army. It seems to us it the Sheriffs in the
several counties, with the aid of an efficient
Deputy over age in each militia beat and
precinct, were charged with this duty un
der direction of the enrolling officer, the
great evil which is depleting our armies
and endangering the cause, might be cur
ed to a very great extent.^ Will they
consider this suggestion!—Telegraph.
rison
son.
I could desire no greater honor than
the command of troops whose suffer
ings and achievements have added to
to the renown of their country, and
compelled the admiration even of their opened
enemies.
The place of rendezvous for all pa
roled prisoners from the above named
States, is changed from Demopolis,
Ala., to Enterprise, Miss.
In anticipation of any early exchange
the work of reorganization will pro
ceed with energy. Tht> troops must
be organized and prepared to take the
field when the exchange is effected.
All officers and men must be at their
posts. They should be there now. To
those present at the roll calls no word
is needed. Their daily answers are ut
tered in the manly tones of duty and
The Position in Front.
Tlie position of affairs in front is 'as
suming a most grave and serious as-
| pect. From the close proximity of
the two armies a battle is imminent—a
battle which trust prove in its results
! the most glorious or the most disas-
tfus which our Confederacy has yet
met with.
Rosencrans, with a boldness never
before attempted by any Yankee Gen-
i era I, has crossed a heavy column of
j infantry across the Tennessee at
Bridgeport, and turning the chain of
[ mountains by // ill’s Valley, between
Lookout aud Racoon mountains, is
marching on Georgia in the direction
j of Rome.—In the meantime, Gen.
Bragg’s army is on the move also, he
having anticipated Rosy’s movement
and sent a division in advance of him,
through Will’s Valley, thus flanking
and checking his right wing, while
all our forces are concentrating in
that direction, the enemy bein
between our forces and the
nessce river, while a corps of our ar
my was previously on its march to
Rome.
The'enemy, to conceal the move
ment of his right whig, has kept up a
demonstration iu front of Chattanooga,
and unmasked some batteries, which
last Monday on the town,
TIIE CONFEDERATE UNION,
( Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson streets j
Ol’PfiMTE THE COURT nOTSK.
SOIUHTO*, NISBET & CO., State Priiiur,.
Terms—$1 00 Per Annum, in Adwanee.
FOB. GOVEKXOR,
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
Tuesday Morning, September 12, 18G11,
For Congress.
C?” We are authorized to announce the
name of Dr. E. J. MijGehee, of Houston
county, as a candidate, for Congress in tlie
4tli Congressional District.
Dr. McGeliee has several tiuiC3 held a
seat in tlie Senate oftfeorgia and is well
known to the public.
September S, 18C3. lGtdc
are authorised to announce, the
name of the Rev. James W. Trawick of
Pulaski, as a candidate for congress in the
ltb congressional District. Ho is worthy
and well qualified in the opinion of
MANY VOTERS*
Hawkinsville Ga., Sept. 2nd, Jsti.'f.
2u<l Conyrcxsaonal District.
We are authorized to announce tie
name of Hon. James L. Seward, as a
candidate for Congress in the 2d Congres
sional District,
Aug. 1. 2 mos.
LIP We announce to the voters of Jas
per county the name of J. W. BURNEY,
Junr., as a candidate for Representative
in tbo approaching election for members
to the Legislature.
MANY VOTERS.
Mpnticello, Aug. 13th, 1S63. 13 4t
SPAVe are authorised to announce the
name of Nathan Hawkins, as a candi
date to represent the countj' of Baldwin
in the next Legislature.
Sept, Sth 1SG3. 1G tde.
I IP Me are authorized to announce the
name of Maj. W. T. W. Napier as a
(r j # J
p 3 i candidate to represent Baldwin county in
1 the next General Assembly.
which was shelled with greater severi
ty than at any time previous. During
Monday afternoon heavy firing was
heard in the direction of Little Wilis
Valley, which it was said originated
from an engagement with the enemy
by Wheeler’s cavalry supported by
Gen. Cleburu’s division.
LP^We are authorised to announce the
name of Washington Golden as a candi
date to represent Wilkinson County in the
next General Assembly.
September, 12th. 17 tdo*.
Stir. Hill’s Letter.
Notwithstanding the repeated declara
tions of those who put Mr. Ilill in nomina
tion, that be would write no letters, put
forth no addresses,and answer no questions,
be has at last condescended to get down
from his stilts, and answer questions, and
write letters, and put forth an address just
like any other candidate. The objects of
Chattaitooga, pushing his army by
two routes towards Rome. It is an
ticipated that a battle will be com
menced to day in Broomtown Valley,
in the vicinity of Lafayette, Walker
hotter. Many are absent. They mi st j county, Ga., which is 3S miles north
repair at once to the post of duty. T
appeals that meet us on every side
of Rome,
i Gen. Buckner, who commands
are the strongest that* tit
country have stirred
breast.
as cur
inform
any age or right wing, has gradually fallen back
the human from Charleston and Cleveland
i special dispatches from “290”
Soldiers! Look at your country— us, in order to be within striking dis-
tlie earth ravaged—property carried tance, and to concentrate ,with Gen.
away, or disappearing in flame and Bragg, thus abandoning temporarily
ashes—the people mutdered—the ne- i
groes arrayed in arms against the |
whites—cruel indiguites indicted upon ,
women and children. Destruction i
That night, Gen. Bijigg having, , . , ,
completed his arrangements evacuated i ‘J, 113 t 1 r et * er a PP ear t0 be two fold '
Mr. Ilill seems to take peculiar pleasure in
an opportunity for venting iiis spleen and
abuse upon those who differed with him on
Secession. And secondly, so to* disguise
and hide his present position as to got votes
from both those who are in favor of sub
mission and those who wish to prosecuto
the war. These objects, wc think,will ap
pear plain to everyone who reads his letter
carefully. Iu his indictment against tlie
original Secessionists, Mr. Hill makes a
positive assertion that a dissolution of the
Union could never have taken place with
out the belief that it could he again recon
structed more comely and durable than be
fore. He says it was a strange delusion ;
we think so too, and we believe it existed
only in Mr. Hill’s brain. Iu all of the de
alt ot East Tennessee. Col. Scott’s
brigade of cavalry fell back to Cleve
land yesterday morning, according to
programme, after burning the bridge
This war, with its afflictive train of i marks the path of the invaders. Their over the IIiwassee at Charleston. -All | bates on Secession we are confident v
suffering, privation and death,
motto is “Woe to the conquered.” H
the stores were safely removed from
; Charleston to Dalton.
Col. Campbell Wallace, President
of the E. Ten. & Ga. Railroad, through
1 his indomitable and indefatigable exer-
there is but one | tions, has removed safely to Dalton all
the Northern arms, and then only the I path to follow. It leads to the camp, j the machinery and rolling stock of the
Union in name, and not the free Gov- I Gome to your colors and stand beside road, not having lost even a screw—
eminent of our fathers. I want no i voui' comrades, who with heroic con- j the locomotive and four old cars, cap-
such Union as that, and will not ac- sUiney, tu'o confronting the enemy
served to eradicate all idea of- recoil- v, b 9 falters in this hour of his country’s
struetion, even with those who made j P er ^> * s a wfetch who would eom-
it the basis of their arguments in favor j pound for the mere boon of life, robbed
of disunion. I always regarded it as '-d a R that makes life tolerable,
impossible, except by the success of j fellow soldiers!
tured by the enemy at Knoxville, be-
Choose, now, between the glory of i longed to the E. Ten. & Va. Road,
successfully defending all that entitles ! He arrived in this city this morning
you to the name of men, and the in- j to obtain the aid of the Georgia State
fumy of creeping abjectly to the feet Road to assist him in removing his
(Official.) W. J. HARDEE.
Lieutenant General.
P. B. Roy, A. A. General.
African Exodus.—We arc informed , .
that no less tbau thirty-six negroes made ■ *-he Yankees. But our people li
their escape from the city, it is supposed ! understand that the withdrawal of
cept it.
The best argument in favor of dis
union, and the one most relied oil by
its advocates, was apprehension for the _
security of our slave property. If it ; of a foe, who will spurn your submis- stock from Dalton, and it is to be hop
|edhewiP meet with that generous
i success, which his exertions deserve.
It is not to be concealed thpt great
j alarm and agitation exists in the sur
rounding country by our late military
movements and the near approach of
must
our
military stores and machinery from
Knoxville and other points in East
Tennessee is but a precautionary meas
ure. The strategical movements of
our army are of course a mystery to
all outsiders as they most properly
should be, but we have' an abiding
faith and confidence in the present
operations of Gen. Bragg, and have
the strongest assurances that we must
be victorious in the outcome.
There is no danger to be apprehend
ed on the line of our right wing, though
many persons are moving from sections
was not then in danger, it is in extreme j 81011 aiR l despise your cowardice,
peril now. So far as Air. Lincoln and
the Abolitionists are concerned, there j
is nothing left us hut to resist to the j
last, by all the means at our com- j
maud, their efforts to destroy aud de
spoil us.
They present us to alternative but i
ruin or victory. N& fraternal appeal | to the Yankees, last night. It is difficult
conies from the fantical Abolitionists jsee how so many could get off without
to pause and consider of terms of peace j detection. Their plans must have been
He is resolved to conquer us and ex-. I ® h d ™ ,ra ^!? ld * ! ,r * < v, S llan f con
. r -i- ., • . the part ot the night guard very.great.
tirpate slavery, or failing in this, to
part
Boor devils!
guard very great,
Little do they knew the
intensify the hatred of the two sec- j fate tbat awaitg In p i acq>0 f tbe
tions to such a degree as will create
an impassable gulf between the peo
ple ofthe United States and those of
the Confederate States, that shall make
them enemies forever. Surely, no
true Southerner can desire peace, with
the surrender of our invaluable insti
tution,. Independence itself would be
freedom which they expect to find on their
arrival at the Yankee camp, the men will
be surprised to find themselves impressed
as breastworks to protect iheir new-found
friends from Confederate bullets; whilst
the women, separate fiom their husbands,
will find a still more horible fate in.jhe
brutality ofthe Yankee soldiers.
Sav. Rep.
never heard that argument used, and we do
not believe it was used in Georgia. Mr-
Hill takes great credit upon hiinselt tor
having predicted a bloody aud disastrous
war as the result of Secession. Well,what
if he did ! Thousands of others believed
that war would follow Secession, but that
did uot make them shrink back from their
duty. Suppose that every naan at the
South could have known all that has fol
lowed, does Mr. Hill think they would
have submitted to an Abolition despotism
to avoid it 1 He evidently insinuates as
much ; but we believe in this as in many
other things, be does a large majority ot
our citizens foul injustice. No,they count
ed the cost before they entered into the
contest, and they then determined to go
through or periJi in the attempt. A few,
uo doubt, of those who thought and acted
with Mr. Hill would have shrunk from tlio
trial. Mr. Hill did shrink from it, aud it
seems to us that he argues much more that
a reconstruction ofthe old Union is imp 1 ’
sible, than that it is not desirable.
there are two important questions "1 1 “
Mr. Hill has not attempted to answer.
Does Mr Hill still want Georgia to become
an isolated nation by herself.? Does In
stili wish her to withdraw from her s. >
States, and make war or peace by herself t
This was the advice he gave her m
speech in the old Congress, and wo have
never seen where he has retracted or ta't
back this advicer Mr. Hill has ne\ei