Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-12-12
some Good Ideas from the Gin
ciuuati Times.

c1nnatt ptmcs.
There are but two or three thousand
Confederate troops at Nashville, Tennes.
see--probably not more at Memphis
about forty thousand in the vicinity Of
Columbus Kentucky, but we have infor-
nation which we deem reliable to the ef-
feet that there will he, immediately upon
our advance beyond the Kentucky lines,
q generol rising of tie Tennessee masses.
This crisis has not been anticipated,
and Federal army less than seventy
five thousand strong may easily go into
the heart of TENNESSEE ,bm ,ciW be IN dan
ger of annihiiotion erery moment
If Beaurcgard shall fall back from the
Potomac, he will only place himself in a
stronger position than that which he
occupies today and leave to us coun-
ny-Eastern Nirgfnia--long ago ex-
huustcd of every element which will sus.
tain military life.
But the retreat of Beauregard may be
a dreadful affair to us Step by step, as
he shall retire, he will increase the num-
Der of his friends, and, as we shall follow
him we shall increase the host of our en-
cmies. Nearly all our resources must
come from the North and, when we shall
arrive at Richmond-the Capitol of the
Southern Confederacy--we shall FIND
not barrel of flour, not a pound o
pork, not sheep, not hoof of cattle
in one word, only dilapidated urban
memory Of ancient chivalry. Two hun
dred years of Anglo-Saxon tresspass up
on the dominions of Powhattan has i'm
parted something of the "mcllow sweet
ness" of the Tiber to James River; thu
fire, the life, the wealth, and the glory O
cold Virginia." have departed.
Let us not, however, lay thu" "hatterins
unction to our hearts" that the dwellerI
upon the banks of the James will no
fight. We must remmember that tn
men whom we are now fighting are on
late brethren, speaking the same Ian
guagc, protesting the same religion
boasting the same glorious past, ant
hitherto rejoicing in the same brillian
hopes. We must remember that ther
are thousands of men in the two grea
armies now in the field to whom thi
world is no longer pleasant, who ar
separated for ever from all they eve
loved, and to whom the path of the de
mon Of civil war is an unbroken chapte
of especial horrors. The outside care
less, laughing world knows little Of tn
hearts that are wrung, the gloom tha
comes over the secret spirit, the parting
which bear The stamp of eternity w
: l.,, .
mics under such circumstances as thes
are not prompted by the ordinary mo
: tives that drive men to battle. There
something underlying all the frivolitie
of ordinary life-something deep in tn
human soul--a principle which filled tn
graves Of t'o first martyrs.
We must consider these awful facts
or we shall form but a pedant's idea @
our position, and of the fearful TRACED
whose first act we have Just begun
= Beaurcgard may retreat from Manassas
he can well afford to abandon Eastern
Virginia; he can well afford to lcav
Richmond to its fate; and, in fact, pre-
parations are already made for remove
ing the paraphernalia of treason to tn
capitol of Tennessee; but those dreadful
passions which summoned half a million
Southern men to the field will only grow
fercer and more ungovernable as w
approach the Mexican Gulf. The contest
now formidable, will assume awful pro
portions as the presence Of the Fedora
armies in Tennessee, Mississippi, Lousi
anna, etc., shall call forth, as it certain
y wW call forth, those irregular bodie
of men which ordinary lie in cscrve, Du
which, after all, constitute the spna
marrow of bellisercnt nations.
1t is one thing to conquer an army; i
is another thing to conquer a people
, and we should impress the world wit
the idea that this war is designed to sup
$ press treason, not to enslave eight mil
lions of the descendants of Europeans
Our cause is right; the greatest and bes
men that live are with us in sentiment
the shades Of distant and almost unrc
membered centuries are looking dow
upon us with envy; but let us not forge
that the loftiest deeds of men or angel
can be tarnshed by the slightest tinge {
terror.