Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-17


generated, circumvented, and beaten him i'll
the completest manner He has done the
work so thoroughly that there will be no occa-
| sion to do it over again.
Letter from a Former Citizen of Worces-
ter, in the Rebel service.
A former resident OF this city, but for many
years resident and citizen of Georgia, recent
y wrote an elaborate letter to his relatives
here, which has been placed in our hands.
Since the ordinary channels of communication
with the south are closed, the following ex-
tracts. throwing light upon the motives and
belief OF those vino are "wrapt up" in the re-
bellion, will be read with interest -
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,
AUGUSTA, GA, July g. 1861,
Dear Sister All communication by mail
between the north and south having long since
been stopped. | seize this opportunity Of
writing to you by Mr.. p. who is going to
Rhode Island, and will mail this letter at New
York. / suppose you are
full of excitement in regard TO the war, and
look forward to speedy crushing out OF the
whole south by fire and sword. But people
were never so mistaken, deceived, m:sled as
a free and intelligent people as are in the
south. They call us rebels, thieves, cut,
Threats but the time will come when they
will be made to feel the power and might of
the degraded" south. Our people here laugh
at the idea of Lincoln's calling on congress
for four hundred thousand men and four hun.
dred million dollars to make speedy end OF
the war.
The writer proceeds to speak of the sup
posed suffering and necessity at the north, and
of the Unreasonable superiority of the agri-
cultural states at the south, whose resources
will enable them 10 carry on a twenty years
war while our own people are starving. He
| then adds -
What will your factories do without cot
| ton Ii you hear any one FAY they can get
| plenty, tell them TO try it. The confederate
| government itself will buy and is buying, all
the cotton from the planters, and do you think
they will sell it to the north Never? Our
| ports are blockaded that is true. But how
many millions Of people in England and
| France suDsist in the manufacture of cotton +?
They must and will have it; and will find a
way to get it from us in their own ships, and
| bring us Ill return what We want in manuiac-
lures. The north has cut its own throat has
|
The black republican papers have kept the
people in Il state OF ignorance in regard to the
truth. But what am | to do {?
Kun away from my own home, and leave the
property which it has taken FEARS of hard toll
10 accumulate, the birthplace of the wife OF
my bosom, and the home and birthright of
my children? No. | will defend them and my
dearest rights against the world to say moth.
ing OF such men as picayune Gen. Butler ant
his ragamuffin hounds from Massachusetts
who call themselves soldiers, and have CONT
among us Tor rapine and murder. VIII,
doesn't lie make hi1 report that torty, tfce hun
drtd OF has dogs Of var marched against It'll
squad Of tcelUe hundred 81 our brave boys at Grea
Bethel and he acdS severely repulSed and driUe'
6dckto has hole, wih loss his side Of betiUee1
fifteen and eighteen hundred men, 10 loss o,
our side of only one man! That is the wa
the south will fight. Why not They are
on their own soil, defending their own ZONES
and firesides against the reckless hordes o.
blacklegs and murderers.
Is there no antidote for such astonishing re
creancy, deluson, and folly! The inventor
Of sG;!I e guilty uf the gTavest Of crimes
The Massachusetts man who believes it is
equally guilty. The letter closes as follows:
My brother in law James O. Clark, is lieu.
tenant colonel of the first Georgia regiment,
who served for two months at Pensacola, but
have now gone TO Virginia. He served in the
Mexican war is brave as lion, and ole of the
best officers in the confederate army. The
right wing OF my own company, the Ogle-
thorpe Infantry, of the first Georgia regiment
is in service. belong to the lett wing, which
is getting ready to leave. Lincoln says there
are Unionists in every state except South
| Carolina, which he knows is lie. The south
Is united, to a man, except few Dutch on the
borders OF Virginia and Tennessee. There is
where the great mistake is made by the north
ern people. They are led to believe that few
here are secessionists, and the majority for the
Union. 1t is not so. We want to be let alone
and to have nothing more to do with the north
and every man, woman, and Child will pull {
trigger in defence OF their Lomes against in
Vaders from any quarter and in any numbers
"THE FOURTH EsTATE."-The covenant
into which the news telegraphers at Washing
ton have entered with the government EN-
braces the following leading points: On the
part of Gen. Scott it is agreed that gentlemen
of the press may report by telegraph the pro-
gress and results of actual battles, and he re-
vokes his previous order requiring all news
dispatches to be submitted 10 his personal su-
pervision. On the part of the press il is
agreed that no reports of arrivals, departures,
or movements of troops, nor any sta.
tistics of army numbers and munitions,
nor mutines or riots among the SOL
diery, nor predictions of movements shall
be forwarded by telegraph. The manager OF
the American telegraph Office is required to
see that the agreement is faithfully observed.
This salutary movement is acquiesced in with
much reluctant grumbling by the sensation,
| lists whose nccnnation il destrnys hut is in