Smyrna times., 1861-05-23

saved Washington in April but the jealousy OF
Virginia at being lead bY the Gulf State Con-
fPderacy. Had she been allowed 10 take the
lnltlatlVS, no power could have saved the Capt.
tai The feelings which lay at the bottom Of
the conspiracy, have become intensified by the
unanimous uprising of the North The South
ern families really believe that to escape Rev
olutlon here, we have armed eur Five Points
ruHans. and with the cry Of Beauty and
Booty !" have allowed them to hurl themselves
on the innocent homes of the Slave States
Though they will not allow it, and though
they profess TO be ready to arm their slaves,
they tremble for their homes with this danger.
Gus mass behind them-and with the courage
OF desperate men against a relentless enemy,
they stand together to fight every inch of their
soil.
Ihelr organization, he says. is far more com.
pete than 1t is supposed. They have Home
uuards TO protect their plantations and their
families; every able bodied man is a member
OF military company; the comDanles are bet
Ter drilled than those of the North; they are
better armed, and are more used to arms
mere are more sharp shooters there than here;
they are more accustomed 10 horses, and will
make better cavalry. Such is the feeling of
the community, and such the peculiar urgani.
tuFe can go on under few oVereeers, while
the non-iabOring part of the community can do
military service that this gentleman made the
eXlraVagant estimate that they could enroll
million of men in arms
AS to food he replies that we must remem.
DER the SoutherneTs can live on what North.
erner could never endure. The highest earth.
" luxury OF many Southern man In good cir.
cnmsta0ces, Is POne. or hoe cake. The mas.
ses never have much beside pork, hominy and
WHISKY. The commssarIat of a Slave State
army would be no such bulky affair as that of
Free State or European army. Besides,
down the Mississippi, from Southern Illinois,
from the immense markets of Ohio, they have
been receiving for months vast stores Of corn,
wheat, bacon and hogs. He and many others
believe that the South have plenty of prov-
slons TO feed their armies and their people, un.
I'll IN August their new crops come in. The
plantations and the families will be willing and
are able to work along (if necessary on very
little, until the harvest
As tor money, it should be remembered that
slave communities do not have much money,
and do not need it. They make long settle
ments, and keep up system of exchanges
They have had gold enough from their cotton
to buy corn and bacon from the West and now
for long time they will use shin plasters,
State notes and the like to carry on their IN
ternal trade. The capitalists expect that their
Confederate loans will be taken in England,
and that they can obtain money enough to
carry on the war.
Many allowances may be made in the South
ern estimate of lheirown resources. We fuf-
~ believe that the North is not awaked, and
hat the Government is not to The difficulty OF
the struggle. Forty thousand three.year VOL
un'eers are scarce anything for the work we
have TO do. The President should at once sum.
mon fifty thousand, and again fifty, and the
determination on all sides should be TO have
bold, short, decisive war Half. way work
is the dearest, the most cruel, in such matter.
Let US give blow that shall need no second
and then have done.-N. Y Times.