Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-23

-. a Glance at the Southern Gonfederac1
: The new. ordeE-of things in the Southel
Confederacy is pressing heavily on the ing
nuity of the leaders there It is taxing the
utmost energies, and calling into exercise
l good deal that is bitterly oppressive, by wa
: doubtless, of enabling their followers to lear
/, how much they have gained by the chang
going forward. Occasionally We get a glimp,
of their manGuvres; and, as an Offset to muc
} that is paraded here, to show how swimming
ly they are getting along, we propose quotin
few paragraphs from Southern papers pei
} tinent to the matter. o.. .-.-.- -. ..,..--
To listen to the well-rounded and exultan
periods Of Messrs Davis and Stephens, on
) might suppose that their pathway lay directl
through beds ofroses; that patriotism, as ther
understood, was Of spontaneous growth; tha
volunteers were so numerous and so ,rampan
that they could hardly be kept from the tent
4 cd Reld 1751' 1s.aa7eI a-r - 1ao-3.7sa
! Alas, what pity it is that so much Of thi
Richmond talk is only the most sublimdtet
nonsense, tubs thrown ont to gull the whale
What pity that the same complaint come.
up from Richmond and Memphis, and Charles
/ ton and New Orleans very hot-be,ls o
] the new heFesy-tO the effect that patriotism
persists in being slow to grid on its armor-
that in every case where it can be yentured
upon the column has to be sweIled by means
SO despotic that they would not be tolerated
fto'day in half the monarchies of the Old
] World. We have heard through the cores
4 ppndent of the London Times, lcorroborated
by the British Consul at New Orleans, what
volunteering" means in the hitherto bfottl
metropolis Of the Southwest Let us hear
from Charlestou,1 where the Knocking down
and dragging out" system has not, so far as
wo know, yet come into vogue. A writer in
the Courier, of that city, says "Fbere is.in
our community too great disposition to skirk
active duty. At every turn can be seen
healthy, vigorous men, under foFty-fEe years
OF age, who are taking no part in defence or
their own honor and interests. Some hold
back because others do; some must have COM
missions; some have business, or families, or
are members of organizations which they
know will not be ordered out of the city; some
are leg4llYlor professionally exempt. Now
this state Of things is discreditGhlet to Vs. Kle
enemy is almost at our doSrs:: In the name
Of common patfiotisn, let it cease to be, The
facts which l have mentioned are unpleasant
truths, but they are truths, nevertheless 4''''
The grand frolic which began on the 1aeul-
orable 18th Of April in Charleston hGssobered
down into d dull and unpleasant reality; and
no coaxing, it seems, can inclpee the ''hesItty,
vigorous men'' alluded to from continuing the
performance that opened 80 ojoyously Tennes-'
see, too, the "Yolunteer State" par excellence,
of General Jackson's day, has felt constrained
to piece out her forces BY inipYeasfngs the free
negroes Of the State "between the ages of I'll.
teen and fifty" and this by special at Of the
Legislature. The spretext Or excrse-is, ''men-
ial' service incamp; the stSheEifs" being auth
orized to seize on them as they may be needed.
We know what has been done in Virginia
that the border of Maryland have fairly swarm
ed with Virginians fleeing from the stringent
effects Of Gov. LetcherIs praelaplatious. And
so far as supplies for the army are an index
of tho mode of doing things, Gen. Beaure-
CARDS recent army order authorizing "conr
straiHt" to be employed by way Of seizing on
the last resources left to the'despohed people
Of Loudon county, illustrates the whole story.
The Secession leaders have made great many
fortunate speculations, since they oommenced
business, in almost every department; out it is
elearenough from proof accumulating every
day, that they have nearly reached the last Of
their resources, both Of men and money. The
few days provisions for the Federal troops
forwarded to the neighborhood Of Manassas
fell into their hands and was magniffed to q
twelve months supply for an army of one hun
dred thousand men, according to the represen:
fatf Of Mr ba Of
gard, dated subsequently, shows, however, that
they are obliged still to seize provisions in or
der to keep up their commissariat. Thus the
story of the wholesale plumber of provisious.I
after the battle, is proven to be either falla-
cious, or that they lay violent hands on the
property Of the people Of Virginia in mere
wantonncss.
There is another evidence of weakness re-
Gently developed which is too significant not
to merit special meation, and that is the cot
ton circular republished in our last from thc-
New Orleans Crescent of the 23d ult., in
which "every cotton factor in New Orleans"
recommends to the planters not to ship a bale
Of cotton to that city until the blockade is
raised. The New Orleans papers had 4ac1
knowledged their fears previously for the safe.
" Vi lubI ClLy5 81 iAE dS us E6tCutlOI ny luc
revoutionists is concerned, and here we have
the confession ofsWeakness in unmistakable |
terms. When we consider that but little
over a month of the heats of summer remain,
if this war should continue what hope can the
Confederate leaders have, when every bay and
inlet will by that time swarm with foes ready t
to ''retake the publicproperty," and ere estab
lish the authority of the Constitution where
it has been overtbrown? With the feet OF
gun boats completed and various points on the
Southern coast occupied, howl long could the
troops of Georgia or Alabama or Louisiana
be kept in Virginia These are points that
may as well be considered in the fast approach |
ing cool months, and if the most ardent disci-
pline of Mr. Davis can contemplate them with
any feeling of that elatton which was rife at
the conclusion of the FortSumter affair, he
must be of a more sanguine temperament than,