The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-07-04
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The War-How It Is to be Carried
On--SuCCess Of tho Government
Certain.
We make the following extracts from
q recent letter Of Mr.. Halsted, one of
the editors Of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, who is now in Washington. Our
readers will fud them very interesting.
For the present, the Southern army
is tolerably we'll clothed and fed; but
the men are wearing their old clothes
and shoes, and arc fed by making ex-
haustive levies upon the surrounding
country, by eating the cattle and the
grain, the pigs aud poultry, by whole
sale. This cannot last The old clothes
will wear out, and the South has not
cloth to make new. The old shoes will
wear out, and the South has no shoe
makers. We often hear, in the North,
Of soldiers going without shoes, or with.
out proper shoes, for few days How
must it be in the South, where there is
little leather, and no mechanics to work
il into shoes? Our soldiers complain
Of improper and insufficient food
though the granarics of Illinois, and
the pork of Ohio and Indiana, are be.
hind us What must be the case in
the South, where meat and meal is ha.
bitually bought for the laboring popu-
latiou? Our surgical departments arc
said to be defective, and our medical
stores wanting in some necessaries.-
How is it at the South, whose mcdi.
cines, with the exception Of "roots and
YARDS, can be had only by purchase
in the NORTH Our troops complain Of
not being we'll armed; yet we have the
best rife mandatory in the world
Chat of Springfed,) which turns out
arms for a regiment every week. We
have indeed all the mechanical genius
as we'll as machinery adapted to the con
struction of arms de precision, which ex.
ist upon the continent; and we have be.
side, the markets of the old world open
to us. The rebels have only the regu-
latiOn arms they have stolen, and a mis-.
cellany Of pistols, shot-guns and bowie
knives not Of much service. Floyd, the
great gun-stealer is already begging
that guns be given him by his neigh
bors. The man who robbed our arse
nails of tens of thousands of new mus
kots, asks for shot guns to defend his
home.
The more the situation of the hostile
sections is studied, the more certain it
appears that the rebcllious section is the
weaker, aud must so to the wall--and
that while the military power Of the
North will become greater every week
from this moment until the war closes,
the South is now displaying a greater
force than she can a month or even a
fortnight hence. IF this be true, the
North gains by waiting and delay is
death to the South. But we arc told
the war must be short. It will not be
short, in tho sense that it will only last
a few weeks or a month or two We
may as we'll make up our minds that it
will last a year at least. We may con
clude to suffer all the sacrifices that a
state of hostilities for a year signifies.
But commerce, manufactures, trade will
be prostrated! To be sure. We must
make up our minds to that. Shall we
not be as ready to make sacrifices to
maintain the Republic, the Union as
men in the South are to overthrow III
Why, the Southern men of substance
are now, in thousands of instances, be-
ing drained of their resources to the
bitter dregs of poverty, to feed the army
that represents the insolonce and VIC.
lcnco of their pampered local pride and
prejudces II the North were not pre-
pared to make sacrifices, it should aban.
don tho contest and the hope Of pre-
serving the Union. The power Of the
loyal section Of the Union, is vastly
greater than that of the disloyol section
aud yet the preponderance is not 50
signal that the loyalsts will vindicato
the Government without protracted and
vehement exortions. The North must
put forth its strength, not in q spasm,
but with iron,handed and enduring
power.
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