The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1861-05-22
NUMBER 81:
The Aspects of the War.

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Notwithstanding the reports of immense mill.
tary enthusiasm 1T the North, there are abun
dant reasons to believe that IL is only skin deep.
and for the most part rather feigned than real.
We heard Of j. Jacob Astor, of New York, of.
fering to give 81, 100000 to the Lincoln Govern
ment, and to lend it $40, 000, 900 besides As.
tors fortune is estimated at forty millions and
it is principally invested in New York city prop
erty. He could well afford to give fourteen mil.
lions to save New York city from the direful
consequences Of this war Of aggression With,
out doubt the depreciation Of his property
and the falling off in his rents have already cost
him fourteen millions. But the story Of Mr..
Astor's liberality is not confirmed. On the
contrary, we find Mr.. Astor at a meeting, with
divers other millionaires in New York, includ--
ing the Largest meeting Of the Chamber Of
Commerce ever held" for the purpose of rails
ing volunteer fund, when the whole sum SUBJ
scribed was pitfui ssl, ,000
The Confederate Government called for loan
of $l5,O00,000, and the people Of the seven
States composing it promptly took. il at par.
Lincoln called for $4,000, 600 from the twenty
three States of Che United States, and only So.
900, 900 were taken at about 93.
The Massachusetts, troops which were so
roughly handled by the people of Baltimore,
were half armed badly clothed, and nearly
starved Their Colonel behaved like a bastard
gave his men the order to run" and sheltered
himself under the wing Of the Mayor ~
The Pennsylvania Regiment, which turned
back from Baltimore, reached Philadelphia in a
state of disorganization.
At Gosport where, by Lincolns order, tho
public property was burned, all the accounts
show that the naval and military officers and
men TO whom that Vandal work was entrusted
behaved in a most cowardly manner, and ali
hands were drunk, from Commodore Maeauley
down.,
The valiant Lincoln feet off Charleston did
not dare land a man or send ship into the har,
Dor while Anderson was maintaining an UNEQUAL
fight with Beauregards batteries. President
Davis, in his message, INDUCES in quiet sneer
at its prudence.
The 5000 rowdies who have seized Cairo. are
represented as the scourings Of the city Of Chi.
cago and other western towns, and they amuse
themselves with stopping unarmed boats and
stealing hen coops. An eye witness says that
1000 firm Southern men could run them from
the town, unless the mosquitoes and chills and
fever save them The trouble in the meantime.
Throughout the war, so far, not one act of cour-
age, not one symptom of generalship and SOL
dicrly feeling or ability have been DISPLAYED
Lincoln himself is frightened to DEATH keeps up
his spirits by pouring spirits down. sleeps with
his boots on, and bis ''cap and cloak" at hand,
with his palace filled with armed men to guard
his sacred person. The Government and the
military and the press in its service are exhibit
ing at every step unmistakable signs Of trepida-
ton. One Of the strongest is the imprisonment
of Army and Navy officers for the crime Of re-
signatiOn, and Of citizens suspected of Southern
sentiments. For the rest, their highest military
fasts are incendiary torches, applied to arsenals
and dock yards, and their hastily flying under
cover of darkness, smoke and cenAislon -
And these are the people who talk of "con-
quering the South" With navy and army
demoralized-its flower and chivalry gone and
] Offering its services to the South, its soldiers
! deserving, its leaders pale and trembling, its
crack volunteer regiment refusing to "invade
the South" and is mpst reliable men (the abo-
itionists proper,) afraid to put foot on South
ern soil, lest a halter should be their doom
they talk about conquering the SOUTH
We verify believe, that if this war is protract-
| ed by the refusal of tho North to sheath the
| sword and treat for peace, the "boot will be on
| the other leg"-for il either section has to be
conquered, it viii not be the Southern section,
| They excel Us only in numbers. In all else, we
enter the fight with better elements and brighter
/ prospects of victory. The people Of the South
are military and fighting race-hmilar with
| arms and educated to fearlessness Of danger and
contempt of life where honor is involved. And
row, when threatened with subjugation, their
right to scfgoycrnment denied, and the vulgar
cantng political scoundrels Of the Black Repub-
lican party assuming to be their masters, this
people is flying TO arms, en- mdsse.
Wo be to the Northern battalions that meet
the first shock and outburst Of the fiery valor
and fierce indignation that have fused in one
compact mass the entire Southern mind and
heart If the war last five years, the terms oi
peace will be dictated at the gates of Boston
But the war will not last so long. The day il
not distant when the North will sue for peace
Until it docs, the policy as well as the will o
the South is to give them war to their hearts
content-war to the knife and to the hilt-.Ao
bile Register.