The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-08-14

Now we ask the reader to consider what
the facts here stated signify. Here the
chief city of New England was in the hands
Of the enemy, and tho Southern Chief try
ing to deliver it: He calls on New Eng
land for troops-and Massachusetts, was
part of New England then, was it not2-
Out of all New England he could not get
five thousand men into the actual line to
fight for their own capital! Alas {! Baby
Ion that great city-how is it fallen J.
Where was Mr.. Parker and his s3, 900, or
Mr.. Hitlreth and his $4,000 warike Yam
KEGS thcn7 In "buckram," We fear. The
war was there then in Massachusetts,
they were not. How then was Washing.
ton able to make up his lines there before
Boston?
1.-The army was soon augmented" (says
Sparks,) "by the companies of riflemen
from Virginia, sc. The companies were
filled up with surprising quckness. and on
their arrival in camp, the number of sew
cral of them exceeded the prescribed
limit |"
Oh, Parker Eghty-three thousand
Massachusetts pensioners that were to bel
looking OIL from the hills where rifle COM
pancs were pouring in all the way from
Virginia to defend the very place in which
you were afterwards to i" lift your heads and
lie" on them! Let us hear what Greene,
the Rhode Island General, wrote in letter
at the very time:
In my last, mentioned to you that
the troops enlisted very slowly in general.
was i'll hopes then that ours (Rhode Is
land) would not have deserted the cause of
their country. But they seem to be sick
Of this way of life, and SO homcsick that
fear the greater part, and tile best of the
troops from our colony will go home. The
Connecticut troops are going home in shoals
this day. ** II x 1 sent home some
recruiting officers, but they got scarcely a
man, and report that there are none to be
had there. No public spirit prevails.
" Newport, | believe, from the best
intelligence l can get, is determined to OBJ
serve strict neutrality this winter, and in
the spring join the strongest party. / feel
for the honor Of the colony, which I think
in fair way, from the conduct Of the pco-
pie at home, and the troops abroad, to re-.
ccivo 4 wound"
Poor Greene lie never talked about
The way in which New Englanders cxcelcd
Southerners in war. On the contrary, his
greatest aff1iction at that time seems to
have arisen from tho Indignation with
which that unwarike Virginian, Washing
ton, was prone to express himself when the
subject of Yankee soldering was introduced
into the conferences. Let Greene explain
himself
His cxcellency has not had time to
make himself acquainted with the genius
of this people: They are naturally as brave
and as spirited rs the peasantry of any
other country, but you cannot expect vete-
rams of raw militia from only few
months service. The common people are
exceedingly avaricious; the genius of the
people are commercial from their long in.
tercourse with trade. The sentiment ol
honor, the true characteristic of soldier,
has not yet got the better Of interest.
"" The country round here set no bounds
to their demands for wood and teaming
1t has given his excelIency great deal Of
uneasincss that they should take this oppor.
tunity to extort from the necessities of tue
army at such enormous prices"
Parker! "tlis is the way they stood
shoulder to shoulder" The $4,000 Mas.
sachusetts men in the "country round u
Boston took "that opportunity to extorl
from the necessities" of Southern General
and Southern army, that had come there
to defend the city and the soil of Massa.
chusetts. When one remembers all this
does it not make him sick with absolute
loathing, to hear despicable reptile, who
would faint at tho sight Of the sword, and
be of as much use in time o: war rs n baby
stand up and talk as Parker does. Is i,
not enough to make ono blush for his own
species o shame!
Let us hear something more about the
New England troops-including $4,000
Massachusetts men in buckram. Graydon,
Pennsylvanian, while speaking in his
Memoirs Of General Schuyler, man sacri
feed to the malignancy of Massachusetts,
says:
p "That lie should have been displeasinc
to the Yankees, I am not at all surprised.
de certainly was at no pains to conceal the
extreme contempt lie felt for set of men
who were both disgrace to their stations
and the cause in which they acted, kc."-
1.-The sordid spirit of gain was the vital