Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-05-04
From the New York Evening Post,
THE POSSIBLE FATE OF VIRGINIA.

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Virginia, in that case, will be the seat Of war.
II she should ctnnect herself with tho seeding
states she will put herself at the mercy of the con-
tending armies. The plan Of Jefferson Davis is
to possess himself Of the city of Washington, Of
the Offices of government, the archives. the navy
yard on the Potomac, and all the symbols Of au-
thority. To do this no must obtain tho consent OF
Virginia to cross her frontier and march through
the state upon the capital.
II this be done, as it undoubtedly will be, un-
less Virginia should bar her territory against him
and unless the insurgents reuvunce their plans
and again acknowledge the authority of the
American government, the troops summoned by
the President to the defence of the capital will
not wait their coming. Our army will 60 forth to
meet them on the way, and thru there will be
marchings and coun;ermarchings. and encampings
and skirmisbings. Hostile armies do not rush to
q general engagement as soon as they come with
in sound Of each others guns, but seek 10 man@u-
vre each other into some disadvantage Of position.
In The meantime the troops must be fed. The
grain and -four for the soldiers of jefferson Davis
must be produced by Virginia. The hay and pro-
vender FOR the horses must be Supplied by Vir-
ginia. The herds and focks Of Virginia must be
slaughtered for the daily rations'of the rebel ar
my. All business near the region occupied by
armies must be suspended; the tillage of the soil
must be iuterrupted; the crops of the coming year
will never be gathered, for the ground W i'll not be
broken up nor the seed sown. {
In every war, whether it be q civil war or other
8 wise, the districts which are occupied by the
! troops, and in which The fighting takes place, are
those which suffer infinitely most. Elsewhere the
ordinary pursuits of life 60 on as before: trade,
tilage, manufactures are active, but in the track
of war what do we see? Devastation, burnings,
robberies. families driven from their dwellings,
! sudden poverty, fear, fight, death. When Spain
e was the seat Of war, the French and English ar
mics subsisted upon the resources Of the country
to the frightful impoverisbmens Of its 10 inhabitants;
and the path Of each army was, more or less, and
necessarily, q path Of revenge. To this day the
; Spanish hate both The belligerentS in that war,
but they hate much the more heartily the English,
, who espoused their cause, and fought by their
side, and were sadartetsd upon shep 4 q friendly
4 ,ower.
Bur how is The government 0f Jefferson Davis
{ to pay the farmers aud planters Of Virginia for
: the supplies it takes? 1t may happen that Virginia
0 will be expected to support gratuitously the army
Q which enters the state to support the rights of the
3 South. 1t may happen that it will DO regarded
s as an impeachment of Virginia patriotism to offer
anything by way o! remuneration. But if pay
8 ment should be made, in what coin will it beP In
: scrip of the Confederate States, in drafts on an
: empty treasury, in bonds Of their mock govern
:, ment, nore of which will be worth ten cents in
! the dollar. The other border slaves states-Ken-
r lucky, Tennessee, North Carolina-wil have the
r privilege of selling what they produce. and may
e keep back what they have if they do not like the
y seat of war, the armies will take What is neal
at hand and what they must have whether H.
owner gives his consent or not.
As to the Gulf states, the leaders in the south
arn rebellion will never allow them to be the sea
Of war. In that region there is neither corn mol
wheat, and the focks and herds are few. In thu
seeding states no grass is mown,nor is forage fol
horses produced. A fearful drought as prevailed
= throughout a great part of that broad but thinly
peopled district. Mississippi and Alabama at thi,
moment are stricken by famine ; a large part o
South Carolina and Georgia suffer from scarcity
of provisions. Jefferson Davis and his counsel
lors turn their eyes to The northern slavs states
and labor the more earnestly to draw them into
the Confederacy because they know that without
,he aid Of their abundant supplies their army can
not be kept together.
In the Gulf States at the present moment tht
,, price Of pork is twenty-five dollars a barrel tha
4 of beef ranges from twelve to eighteen. Indiar
corn is sold for a dollar and twenty cents a bush
ell aonr costs from seven to eight dollars q bar
rel. There is not o ton of hay for their cavalry
except wha: is brought from the North, ShrewC
calcuiators estimate the expenses of The Commits
sariat alone Of the southern army at from one t.
: two millions Of dollars for every month it is KEEP
on foot and the entire monthly cost at not less
than ten millions. This is a burden wholly be
yond tho power of the rebel government to bear
their army must dispense of itself, through mer,
- inanition, if this state of things should last long
L. is therefore certain that, whether an attack
AZ on Washington be contemplated OF not, the maLa
gers Of the southern rebellion will do their best &c
M quarter their army upon the more favored regiur
o. to the north of them. Once in Virginia, on pre-
tence Of a meditated Invasion of the North, il
Virginia they will remain. Beyond that they vii
"a never venture. They would be overWhelmed auC
hevn in pieces by indignant multitudes suddenl,
called to arms, the moment they showed them
selves north Of the Potomac.
Such will he tho fate Of Virginia if she link
as her fortunes to those of the seeding states an,
ce the civil war goes en-. That noble state from sid
k. TO side will be %piIlagad, wasted. deso,ated, an'
her prosperity, slow as its progress is, and 1
Dy likely to be under the curse of slavery, will b
~, put back for half q century. 'e31t .w
to his for the people Of VirGinia to say vhstbe
IN they are ready to plunge into the gulf thus opene
rs before them. Their Convention may pass an ord
en- nance of secession, but it will be for the citizen
Of of that state to say whether they will give is val
or dity, They must consider whether they are wi
a. ling TO sacrifice everything they value to tn
It's scheme Of asspsrate ccnfederacy in which thoi
IT, politicians idly dream tha, they shall be able I