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THE COUN T R Y M A N.
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fURNWOLD, GL, MARCH 28, 1865.
The Rpconstructionists.
Of all the mean, contemptible wretches
on earth, sorely none are so mean as the
reconstructionists. We always think that
such men are not good enough for us to
§ven spit upon : for they court the saliva
Qf the yankpes, ar,d wp do not wish to de
grade ourself by expectorating upon the
same object that the yankee spits upon.
We must confess that we have, for the
southern reconstructionist, a greater loath
ing and contempt, than we have fbr the
yankee himself. Your southern submis
sionist and tory is far meaner than the
yankee can possibly be.
We wish there were no submissionists
at the south. But there are men among
us, who, for the sake of attempting to save
their property, would kiss the feet of
Abraham Lincoln, and get down upon
tfaeir all-fours to lick the garbage from his
spittcjpn. Such men are more than a dis
grace to (he human family. We can un
derstand, very well, bow Qod made the
mite, the gnat, thechigger, and each atom,
and particle of dust: b.^t flow Omnipo
tence ever graduated his instruments to a
small enough compass to make the soul of
a submissionist, or to tolerate it after it
was made, has always been, to us, one of
the mysteries of creation, and of God’s
providence.
We can’t help thinking that a man who
goes for submission to the yankees, with a
view of saving his property, will steal. In
fac{;, we consider his conduct worse than
stealing: nor would W@ trust with our
pocket-book, nor with the least of our in
terest, afiy submissiopi^t. Between US
gad {.he reconstruptjonist is a great gulf
fixed, and eternal enmity between hia seed
and ours. What is property worth, when
honor, and liberty are gone ? Why, the
hog that swelters in the slime of the sink
■—the buzzard that reeks, and revels, and
riots in the carrion, that stinks the atmos
phere for miles around, is net sc fopl, per
so filthy as the submissionist. This man
would go and grasp the hand that was yet
dripping with thp blood of his murdered
son, press it to his lips.
We do hope that all, who are in favor
pf submitting to the yankees, will move
among them. We hope they will no long-
K pujnber southern ground—no longer
pollute confederate atmosphere—PQ longer
disgrace southern people. In fact, these
submissionists owe it to themselves to go
north of Mason and Lfixon’s line. They
owe it to themselves, and they owe it to
true southern men. Let us have no war
among ourselves. Civil strife should be
avoided. But so certain as men, calling
themselves southern, attempt to carry out
a submission policy, so certain shall we
have civil war : for there are southern
men who are determined to carry on this
revolution to a successful issue, even if
they have to fight the whole yankee na
tion, and half of the southern people be
sides.
From Charleston.—“We reproduce the
following from the Constitutionalist of the
25th tilt. :
Mr. M. F. Moloney, the Intendent of
Blackville, sends us, through our accom
modating friend, Capt. Moore, of the
South Carolina railroad, some interesting
items.
A gentleman, just from Charleston,
states that the French consul showed
Mayor Macbeth, a few days ago, a com
munication (which this gentleman, who is
well known in Augusta, also saw) saying
that the government of Napoleon would
acknowledge the independence of the Con
federate States, on the 4th of March next;
and was ready, if necessary, to assist us
with armed intervention. A French fleet
is already being concentrated at a suitable
point.
Charleston was certainly evacuated, on
thursday the 16th, without the loss of
men, or material.
The South Carolina railroad has not
been damaged from Charleston to Branch-
v-ilfe, the gentleman bringing the above
intelligence, having come on a crank as
far as the Edisto river.”
The Late United States Consul at
Manchester.—“The following paragraph
we find in an old exchange. It will be
seen that the ’Georgia commissioner’ lost
his character long before the commence
ment of the present troubles :
At a meeting of the creditors of Mr.
0. &. Baylor, late consul of the United
States, at elanchester, on tuesday, 24th of
May, 1850, the .following resolution was
passed, and ordered to be published in
the Manchester papers:
Resolved, That the gentlemen who com
pose this meeting, having suffered through
the very questionable conduct of the
late consul,* 0. G. Baylor, feel deeply sen
sible that the government of the United
States has been thereby compromised;
and that, although the gajd C. G. Bay-
lor has beep yej-y proporfy fenjoved
from office, it is, nevprtbefegs, the
duty of the creditors, on whoip the said
Mr. Baylor has so shamefully imposed,
to make the same knowji to the govern*
meni, through Mr. Joseph Dando, public
accountant, by a spepial communication to
his Excellency, James Buchanan, presi
dent of the United States.”
( ‘|t js much to be feared that the
wine glass is now ‘the glass of fash
ion E - ”
Cheap -Smoke-House.—In elmng-
! ing our residence for a new home,
two years since, we had occasion to
smoke a little meat, before the smoke
house was built. Having some large
lime, and rice casks, the bottoms were
taken out, and a little fire made in a
skillet, or kettle, with a few broken
cobs. Across the top of the cask, three
sticks were laid, on which the meat
was hung, and the smoko was confin
ed within the casks by old blankets,
fragments of bagging, garden mats,
or any pieces of old cloth sufficient
to retain the smoke. Under the more
open ones, a newspaper was laid to
better retain the smoke. Half a do
zen cobs, three tiroes a day, will
make smoke enough. Not enough
fire should be made to heat the meat.
It was all taken into the store room,
at night, for safety. A single cask
will contain the meat of a hog, weigh
ing under two hundred pounds. It
will take smoke much faster than if
hung up in a house, and often, in a
week, or ten days, can be hung up
in a garret, to dry at leisure. Smoke-,
houses, latterly, cannot be trusted
with meat long enough to cure it.
Beef hams ean be cut in suitable
pieces, and cured in this way, early
in the season, when one does not care
to start a smoke in the iixeat-house.
It .answers, for all we can see, as well,
in a small way, as a larger smoke
house.— Southern Cultivator.
“ Let the people be true to them*
selves, and our armies will stand by
us to the ‘ last of their blood, and
their breath.’ The battle-scarred,
and war-wern legions,, that bear on
their banners names as proud,.and as
full of deep historic interest, ‘ a,S eyev
blazoned warrior’s shield,’ or gave
immortality to a nation, will never
sacrifice the future, by forgetting the
glories of the past. They will never
abandon a cause which h,as been wa*
teredo by so much precious blood.
They will never bear the sight of
maimed, and wounded comrades beg
ging bitter bread through a conquer
ed laud, which their valor tried in
vain to save. Never ! no, ntver, will
they give up a cause, the abandon
ment of which, places them before
the world, as men who admit that
Jackson died a traitor, and that Lkb
fipgerves a halter !”
“ Ur. Greeley's ‘History of the
American Conflict ’ is selling very
rapidly, vyholly by subscription. Sev-*
enty thousand copies have been dfer
posed of, within six months, and a
German edition will appear this
month.”