Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-05


II may DC mentioned as sonavvl,.. st-;l.;ro, 90
incidence that on idenhcaIly the Same a. ~,
which the Phiiadelpha North Azosr;oo,
sentiments SO plainly, under the
Ragged Regiments the following 49,
in the Mobile Evening Necs That nsne. -
day last says:
There are now, as nearly AS can ba ,..;
wards of one hundred thousand orpan;z up
men in the seven Confederate States nnd ~o med
anxiously awaiting them TO spring to the ,an. or
danger at the word of Jefferson Davis T;.s VI
eight DAYS time at the farthest. he can concsn..
sixty thousand of these men, the best soldiers in ne
world at any point on the Northern border and bnrI
this SPLENDID army like avalanche upon the faa r.
the battle-ground be in Virginia Maryland, 2s il
probably will the grand army Of the Confederacy
viii be doubled or trebled by the raying hosts Of
those States We have reason to believe that hun
dreds of companies are now the move, or will be
within twenty-fOur hours-al bound somewhere
such is our immediate war power.
Should We move on Washington, does the enemy
expect to hold it against as? To hold 1t against an
army of hundred thousand men and hostile 10
cal population? Large as the telegrsphie report
from the land Of the enemy read it viii be at least
month before Lincoln can muster into service and
concentrate into an army hundred thousand me n
We are ready, he is not. Our people, naturally so
inclined, have been making soldiers of themselves
for months. His people have been doing nothing
OF the Sort and are not naturally inclined. Our
ordinances of secession were really the notes Of
warllke preparation. Their first note of prepare
ton was the cannonade of Charleston. We have
had three months start Of them, and are ready
they are not.
Months ago the minds of our people had settled
resolvedly to meet any issue. Now the people of
the North are in all the wild panic and confusion of
wars first alarms. We confront them, cool col
ected foe, that will never give them time to
er from their surprise. We are ready for action
they are getting ready to prepare to act They
may raise plenty of men-men who prefer enlisting
to starvation, scurvy fellows from the back slums
of cities, whom Fallstaf would not have marched
through Coventry Without these recruits are
not soldiers least of all the soldiers to meet the
hotblooded, thoroughbred, impetuous men of the
South. Trencher soldiers, who enlisted to war on
their rations. not on men, they are-such as march
ed through Baltimore-squalid, wretched. ragged
and half naked as the newspapers Of that city report
them. Fellows who do not know the bFeech of a
musket from its mHzzle, and had rather fitch a
hanIkerchif than fight enemy in manly combat.
White slavesp speeding wretches.small change knaves
and Migrants, the dregs and offscourings of the
populace-these are the levied forces" whom Lin
coin suddenly arrays candidates for the honor
of being slaughtered by gentemen-such as Mobile
sent to battle yesterday. Let them come South and
we WIN put negrOesito the dirty work of killing
them. But they will not come South. Not a wretch
of them will live this side of the border longer
than 1t will take US to reach the grounds and drive
them over.
Mobile is sending forth to wage this war of indie
pendence the noblest and the bravestOf her sons.
1t is expensive, extravagsns to put such a riff raft
of mercenaries whom the Abolition power has cali
ed out to war upon We could almost hope that
better class of men would fall into the Northern
ranks that our gentlemen might find foemen wor-
thy of their steel. whom it would be more difficult
to conquer and whose conqueIing would be more
honorable. For the present, however, we need not
expect to find any foe worthy fighting with the ex-
ception of few regiments, for the North is now
getting ready, and will likely be whipped before it
is ready.