Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-07-19

A lady recently teacher in Northern
Alabama whose respectability the New
York Commercial Advertiser vouches for
writes to that paper as follows:
The feeling Of intense burning hatred
there toward the old Union, tho federal
government and every thing Northern.
cannot be orerdrswn. The proclamation
of war, wbirled every Union man, not into
a secessionists, but into revolutionist A
wild enthusiasm pervaded every grade Of
people, men, women and children. In
some portions Of Alabama not young
available man is left, and ladies are drilling
forming themselves into Home Guards, to
protect themselves agains servile insunect-
ionists. There was the other day slight
disturbance near Triana, plot having been
laid extending from Huntsville to below
Tuscumbia Six negroes we're hanged, and
the inssurrection was suppressed.
Soldiers everywhere are greeted with
bursts OF enthusiasm along tho whole route,
ladies throDging to the stations, with flowers,
baskets of provisions, waving their hand
kerchiefs, throwing kisses, DC, begging for
"Lincoln's scalp" .'lock of his hair" cries
of "down with Washington" "down with
the rail-splitteFs," "show the Wlo Northern
hordes, the cursed Yankees some Southern
chivalry" "give them warm Southern
hospitality"
Every telegram told Of the triumph Of
Southern arms, and of Northern cowardice;
every skirmish added laurels 70 the brow of
Southern chivalry, by the death of few or
many, even rs high as $4,000 of the "van-
dal hordes," while scarcely ever a man of
theirs was slain. When left, June 10th,
Gen. Lyon was taken prisoner, although il
was undecided whether to burn or hang
him, and knew no better until reached
free state. 1t was then quite amusing to
compare notes. l had begun to despair, TO
almost lost faith in the dear old North, and
when urged to remain South felt as if l
had rather die for the land Of my birth,
than live in luxury elsewhere But when
touched free soil, and saw the good old stars
and stripes waving from every possible spot,
though first saw them in Kentucky, 1
could not keep back the tears, and when /
saw Camp Dennison, my faith came back.
There were few boys, young, tenderly nur-
tured, priding themselves upon the small
ness of their hands and feet, as in the South
ern army; but stern and stslwart men, sc-
customed to hardships and fatigue, who if
they possessed less enthusiasm, have moro
resolute determination.
The crops when left we're in fine condi-
ton; wheat bad been gathered; three times
the usual quantity of corn had been planted;
even the cotton was crossed with corn; this
extra produce was a CONTINUATION to the
soldiers, Fruit of all kinds was anticipated
in abundance. Every kind of business at
a stand-still; merchants we're failing; plant
ers were refusing to settle accounts; people
were buying (and hordiDg) gold at pre-
MUM of from ten to twenty per cent
Many of us paid twelve per cent. upon our
salaries. All of this and more you may
know, but having noticed exaggerated &C
counts cf starvation in Northern prints, L
wanted to correct the impression, and to
assure you that mighty work is before
the North, needing all her skill, and pow
ers; there are cbsticles enough to be over
come to arouse all her energy.