The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1861-05-10

The Spirit Of tho Southern Press.

Dy tue iuSl uaii, We received DudgeC
ofsouthern exchanges from South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. The
news was just beginning to reach our rebel
contemporaries of the awakening at the
North, but was not fully credited their
readers were asked "to wait for further
advices." In all the papers, we notice
mo vements of troops, from the South and
Southwest towards Pensacola and Rich
mond. The companies are generally rife.
men, ranging from 80 to l40 strong. We
notice no movements Of artillery in this
branch of service, the South is undoubtedly
weak.
Formerly, FRANK PIERCE was the
Charleston Mercury's beau ideal Of states.
man and soldier but the announcement
that he stands up for the flag provokes that
traitorous sheet excessively. 1t publishes
an extract from the Ex-President's speech,
and says:
The above advice may do very well as com.
ing from an Ex-President of the late United
States, but loses it's force when it is known
that this same Ex-President was the self same
gadier-General Franklin Pierce who tainted
at the battle of Cherubusco, and when found
supported on the shoulders of t,oo soldiers, in
close proximity to ditch, had not with him
single one of his aids, to account for him.
Such valiant advice don't come very we'll
from an Ex-Brigadier. General, who, while in
Mexico, was oftener seen at the faro table and
monte bank, by his subordinate officers, than
at his post on the battle field.
The Mobile advertiser, like Gov. An
DREws, of Massachusetts, draws a parallel
between the fight on Lexington green, on
the 18th of April, l775, and the attack on
the Massachusetts troops, by the Plug
Uglies, at Baltimore, on April l9, 1861,
1t concludes it's article thus:
The first blood of the first revolution was
shed on the 10th day of April and the first
blood of the second revolution was shed on the
18th day of April. The coincidence of dates
is auspicious of the end, to our just cause, SO
similar in its animating respects to that of the
revolutionists of '76.
The same journal announces that "Vir.
"ginia:.is in arms, General Scott has resigned,
" Maryland is fighting. Thus Washington
is virtually captured, and Abraham may
shave donned his "Scotch cap and long
"cloak" ere this reaches the eye of the
"reader." 1t then proceeds gravely to dis.
cuss the necessity of eventually shelling
Washington says it would be dire ne.
"cessity indeed, the destruction of property
considered" and mercifully hopes that
"women. children and non combattants,
"will be allowed to depart"
The advertiser discredits the kilograms as
to the profers of money to the Federal Gov
ernment. Of the States which have offered
money, it says:
They have no money, are most enormously
in debt, and it is all that they can do to rake
and scrape enough to pay the interest
on their outstanding bonds. This is true of
the finances of each one of the States which
the telegraph tells US are most liberal in their
offers OF appropriations. The war kills what
was left of their credit abroad, and they can
not raise money among their citizens as we do,
for the reason that there is no unity of patri.
otic feeling among them, and they do not feel
that it is war of independence to defend
homes and liberties, as with us but war of
aggression, needlessly waged, to which the
opposition of the body of conservatives spreads
a very general feeling of disinclination. Those
States cannot negotiate, at home or abroad.
The Southern papers acknowledge the
efficacy of blockade; admit that it will
stop their commerce, and that "the North
can lord it over the sea-" but think the
fitting out OF privateers will require the
naval force OF the government in other parts
of the world, than the mouths of Southern
harbors. One fellow talks in this style:
Let patriotic citizens, then, go forth upon the
trackless war paths of the ocean to fight for
their country in the most effective manner
Hundreds and hundreds Of milli )ns of the
property of the enemy invites them to spoil
him--to ''spoil these Egyptians of the North
The richly laden ships of the enemy swarm on
every sea, and are absolutely unprotected
The harvest is ripe; let it be gathered, and we
shall strike the enemy to the heart-.-fOr we hit
his pocket, his most senitive part. His treas
ure ships, laden with Californian wealth, ira.
verse Southern waters. Let them be the prize
of the bravest and most enterprizing.
The readiness with which the Presidential
call for volunteers has been responded to, is
accounted for by the fact that the operatives
and mechanics of the North are starving,
and the chivalry will only be opposed by
merceuary pauper soldiery." Think of
that, Minnesota boys! "On the call ior
volunteers" says the Mobile advertiser:
These poverty stricken and starving creatures
rush where rations may be obtained, and the
men with families are encouraged to enlist by
the promise that their responsibilities will be
cared for. Men of the South rush to arms
spurred by patriotic zeal, not compelled by the
pangs of starvation like these mOngrel hOrdes
of all nationaities of the operative class of the
Northern cities. Our sons of the soil, patriots
by birthright, grasp their weapons, leaving
their homes of plenty, spring impetnously to
arms. asking but one favOr-that they may be
placed face to face with the foe. Our volunteer
soldiery is not the soldiery o. necessity-men
worth their hundreds of thousands carry the
musket in the ranks. Plenty reigns in our
dwellings and is gladly abandoned for the pri-
vati0as of the camp. Such is the material with
which we meet mercenary pauper soldiery.
Who could doubt the issue when it is man to
man? The creatures of one side, Sordid and