East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-05-30
A LITTLE LESS.

1t is extraordinary how the men o
the South Can brag as some Of them do
of the great deeds they are about to per
form at the North; how easily they are
going to overrun il with their forces anC
what fun IL will be for them to meet III,
mechanics and impoverished soldiers o.
the Union. But we should remember
that these men are in general the NOR,
ignorant portion of the community there
men who have long believed that the
South is the whole Union, or else thos,
fanatics for disunion who are perfectly
crazy on the subject, and believe that
they must work the people mp to the fl,
Of insanity to which they have urged
themselves, that they may be able to pro.
duce certain disunion. iG
If this braggadocio on their part is ex-
traordinary, SO is that on the part of the
men of the North who would hold up the
soldiers of the South as a miserable, ef-
Terminate set Of men, who must necessarily
fly at every onset of Northern troops, aud
whose conquest is as easy job as the
destruction of good dinner by hungry
men.
All this buster is unbecoming Amer
leans on either side of Mason and Dixon's
line. The North has turned out as ex-
cellent troops as ever stood fire, and the
South has turned out as gallant men as
ever met an oncuy. 1t Is true the ele-
ments of the army will in some respects
be made of different men. The North
will have many admirable and brave me.
chancs in which the South will be de
ficient, but this advantage will not be as
much felt on the field of battle as in
preparation.
The South has one advantage over us,
poor though it may seem to some, yet
not to be despised now. Many of the
Southern men have their courage tried
at an early day by their system of duel
ing. Men may call this wrong aud un-
christian, opinions differ in that respect,
but that it is test of nerve and physi
cal courage none can deny. A man If
concientiously opposed to the duel may
show more moral courage by declining to
fight than by fighting, but it is idle
to say that it does not require courage
to face q fire at twelve PAGES, intended
not for crowd but for a single man.
The truth is that war between the
North and South is to be no chld's play.
1t will bring out both sides more cour-
age, more energy and more determin-
alton than were ever vet seen in this
country, and we fear it will bring ont
also more ferocity than will become any
civilized nation. The South will find
the mechanics it feigns to despise, gal.
liant hearted as well as hard handed set
OF men, while the North will find that
the soft handed Southernors it pretends
to hold in contempt, will, like the Pal
metto regiment in the Mexican war fight
as gallantly as though those hands had
been conversant with hard work for ever
Pride nerves the soldier more than
mere strength, nerves him to endurance,
nerves him to deeds of valor, and it is
for this reason, Generals have been
taught that the trappings of war, the
uniform, the glittering arms, the plumes,
Sc. are of mnch great value. They keep
up the pride of the army. Without them
men could have the same precision Of
-movment, the same strength of body, the
same powers of endurance, hut these
trappings add to the pride, and therefore
to the effectiveness of the army. l., ai
We have said we fear the ferocityr of
this civil war. We fear it because the
fanatics on both sides, those who stand
aloof from the battle, will urge on ferocity
of all kinds, aud will applaud deeds Of
inhumanity against in terms of bitter in.
dignation, if exercised against a foreign
foe, no matter how great the provication
We hope We may bo mistaken. We
hope feeling more in unison with civ
ilization may take place and that the war
may be marked by the amenities rather
than the brutality of warfare. We shall
believe it will so soon as this Dragging
spirit is checked on both sides, AMI men
go ooolly to work, not despising the foe,
but prepared to oppose, valor to valor,
generosity to generosity, and skill to
skill Ml,0aukee Press and NeVs.