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THE COUNTRYMAN.
TURNWOLI), GA., MARCH 28, 1S65.
Mexico.—“ The refusal to recognize
Maximilian, sounds the alarm to Napoleon.
Napoleon’s mystery is an indication that
the alarm is taken. The boasts of the en
emy are eloquent advocates of our cause.
The cotton famine, too, so long spoken of,
has come at last. In short, the great
drama grows in interest, the plot thick
ens, and the curtain is rising upon the
scenes. Nothing is needed to insure a
brilliant denouement but continued hero
ism, fortitude, unity, and devotion, on the
part of the confederate people. Let us
stand steadfastly in the line of duty ; that
complication, and collision of interests
which Providence wonderfully ordains, as
the'mode of coercing nations to do justice
to each other, are working out the result
which we have long expected, because
long entitled to it.”
The Lessons of History.—“ The West
ern Carolinian has an admirable article
in answer to the question, ‘ Can the SoutJj
be Conquered ?’ W e quote:
The history of all civilized nations,
of past ages, answers this question decid
edly in the negative. Greece, a small re
public, consisting of not more than a
half dozen states, whose population did
not exceed three millions, was invaded,
for the purpose of subjugation, by the
Persian monarch Xerxes, with an army
more numerous than tho entire popu
lation of the country they invaded; but
her soldiers were well-disciplined, and
brave, and the result was, that Persia
‘failed to subjugate her,’ and her invad
ers returned home with not more than
a fiftieth part of the army entered
Greece.
England, with a population four times
more numerous than that of Scotland, by
taking advantage of the domestic discords
of the country, for more than two centu
ries, at various times, attempted her sub
jugation; and, in the reign of Edward
II., did succeed, with a powerful army,
in overrunning the entire country, taking
every fortress, their capital, and every
seaport town ; and yet, notwithstanding,
her chiefs, who had fled to the mountains,
in a few years assembled a powerful ar
my of determined men, and, at the field
of Bannockburn, so completely vanquish
ed, and dispersed the British army, that
it was the last attempt that En'gland ever
made at subjugation, and though the two
kingdoms afterwards became united under
the same monarch, it was the result of
civil compromise, and not of conquest.
But a case more analogous to that of
the northern government, presents itself
in that ot Spain, and Portugal. Portu
gal was a department of Spain, separated
from the other departments by a chain pf
mountains, and containing a population
less than one-fourth of the entire king
dom. Portugal felt, or fancied, that she
did not enjoy equal privileges with the
other departments, and, therefore, in a
convention, passed a resolution to secede
from the Spanish government, and have
a government of their own. Spain called
it rebellion, and sent a powerful army, by
land, and sea, to crush it out. Portugal
also assembled an army, which was com
manded by the Duke de Braganza, and
af er many efforts, of alternate defeat and
victory, Spain abandoned the conntry, and
finally acknowledged her as an independ
ent kingdsm, and her rebel duke, as
king.
Scotland, in her efforts, was without a
navy ; so was Portugal, and the ports of
each, all the while, under the strictest
blockade, and neither of them was pos
sessed of half the internal resources for
the supply of food, or arms, as are the
Confederate States; and each of them had
to contend with a greater numerical differ
ence in the field. It follows, therefore,
as a fact, that, if toe suffer ourselves sub
jugated, it is because we are less brave
than either ot these kingdoms. This we
do not believe, and therefore utterly dis
card a'l apprehension of subjugation.”
Misquotations from Scripture.—“ ‘God
tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.’ A
smooth line of Sterne. Compare Isaiah
27; 8.
‘In the midst of life we are in death.’
Drawn from the burial service.
‘Bread and wine, which the Lord hath
commanded to be received.’ From the
church catechism.
‘Not to be wise above what is written.’
Not in scripture.
That the spirit ‘would go from heart to
heart, as oil from vessel to vessel.’ Not
in scripture.
‘The merciful man is merciful to his
beast.’ The scripture is, ‘ A righteous
man regardetlT the life of his beast.’ Prov.
12: 10.
‘A nation shall be born in a day.’ ‘Shall
a nation be born at once ?’ Isa. 66: 8.
‘Iron sharpeneth iron, so doth a man
the countenance of his friend.’ ‘Iron
sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the
countenance of his friend.’ Prov. 27 : 17.
‘That he who runs may read.’ ‘That
he may run that readeth it.’ Heb. 2; 2.
‘Owe no man anything but love.’ ‘Owe
no man anything, but to love one another.’
Rom. 13:8.
In the following passages, the italics are
not in scripture;
‘There am I in the midst of them, and
that to bless them.' Comp. Ex/20: 24.
‘That the word of the Lord may have
free course, and run, and be glorified.’
2 Thess. 3 : 1.
‘Above all that we ask, or think, or are
worthy to receive.' Eph. 3 : 20.
‘With him is plenteous redemption, that
he may he sought unto.' Ps. 103 : 7.
Prayer that ‘ what was sown in weak-
ness, may be raised in power.’ Comp. 1
Cor. 15 : 43.
‘Neither hath it entered into the heart
of man to conceive the things.’ Scripture :
‘Neither have entered into the heaK ^f
man the things,’ etc.; ‘but God hath re
vealed them unto us by his spirit.’ 1 Cor.
2 : 9.”
‘A breeder of fowls pays one of
bis chickens, when eating coin, takes
one feck at a time.’
A New Confederate Cruiser.—“A let
ter, from Montevideo, says: The French
papers have stated that a little steamer,
called the Ranger, had gone out with pro
visions of various kinds, for the arma
ment of a new vessel for Capt. Semmes,
and that another was soon to follow* with
other conveniences for a new privateer,
and that the place of rendezvous was at
some group of the Atlantic islands, per
haps the Madeiras. The Ranger is now
at Montevideo. She is not adapted to
freight, or passengers--wholly useless for
any remunerative employment, in these
waters. She is ninety tons burthen, and
is a complete steam pleasure yacht.
Under sail, she is a marvel of rapidity,
and with only two feet draught, she can
hide away from any larger craft. With
one, or two guns, she can do more dam
age than ever the Alabama did. She
was consigned, by a house notoriously en
gaged in blockade-running, to a house
4j»at never before had received a consign
ment. The consignor, and consignee are
brothers.
Capt. Rodgers has the Ranger under
his eye, and the Iroquois is anchored be
tween the Ranger, and the open sea—-
whether from accident, or design, I can
not tell. The notice of the English ad
miral has been called to the matter, and
it is probable that no movement of the
Ranger will be made without being well
understood. She came here under the
British flag, and entered port ag a British
vessel.”
AVery Hard Shell.—The as*
sumption of the north seems to be—
to use tbeir own simile—that the
southern confederation is like an egg,
possessing, indeed, a bard shell, but
when this is once passed, soft, and
penetrable. Experience has given
us more proof of the truth of the first,
than of the second of these assump
tions. There is*no doubt that, on
whatever side it has been attacked,
with the single exception of New
Orleans, the confederacy has been
proved to have an exceedingly bard
shell, much more resembling the ar
mor of a tortoise, than the thin cov
ering of an egg. But this proof of
one-balf the metaphor can, by no
means, be taken to establish the other
half. When General Banks invaded
the state of Louisiana, an army sprang
up as if out of the earth, to resist
him, and he was driven back upon his
communications, with disaster, and
defeat. Texas, Arkansas, Missouri,
Virginia, south of Richmond, and
North Carolina, have all been found
equally impervious. It is assumed
that the old and high-spirited state of
Georgia is made of softer stuff. Time
will show ; but, at present, at least,
analogy is all against it.—London
Times.
Now is the time to plarU your gardens