American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-08-31
Sfrenr,b Of the South.

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does not even do full justice to the strength
and resources Of tie South but it Is
enough to show any people, except the
wilfuRy blind, fanatic, cowardly mobs OF
the North, that the South must conquer
No wonder such journals are feared and
SOUGHT TO be crushed under foot by tie
Abolition despo,s and their minions, when
they place the naked ruth 50 lucidly and
so wildly before the cioadel vision OF
their deluded public;
During the last few days We have col (
Iected many isolated facts relating to the
movements Of Southern troops. and also
some general statistics indicating the az
-rceats strength Of the Confederate army.
ana present them 70 tie public to-day.
These facts and Tire differences to be
drawn from them, If candidIy considered,
cannot fail 70 impress the North with the
solemn truth that in the Inauguration Of
the present var it has awakened to hos
tility a monster power Of boundless re-
source and inyincible will.
Two hundred and fifty thousand men
this hoar bear arms for Southern indie
pendence. One hundred and City thou
sand more have been called to arms by
the Confederate Congress, and those who
know the spirit and the temper Of the
South in the present crisis know that the
call is not sent forth in vain. Home
guards lhrong in every county, city and
town. Bayonets CLEAN on every public
road. Companies rally in regiments
regiments into armies Wide-mouthed
cannon guard every shore. Strong
willed men line every border. a whole
people sleep at night upon the tented field,
and rise in the morning to the beat Of
hostile drums. These men. as well as
men of the North, are the sons of those
who left their bloody tracks upon the
Northern SHOWS, and humbled Britain's
pride and power in the war of the revolu-
ton. They are descended from those
strong willed barons who wrung guaran-
tees for freedom from old King John at
Runnemede. Right or wrong, they see
only liberty as the purpose of the struggle
in which they have engaged, and for that
they have consecrated themselves to the
aluse as martyrs. Hence the patent, po-
tent truth-a great empire, from the Po-
tomac river to the Gulf, is one vast mill
tary camp wherein strong men throng in
arms.
But the South is not strong alone in its
numbers and It's invincible resolution.
She has native resources of soil, abund-
ant and inexhaustible. The census of
I850-the latest complete public author
ity upon the subject-iniorms Us that the
South, embracing less than one-third Of
the population of the United States, raised
that year wheat enough for its entire pop
ulation that it grew more than forty
per centum Of the entire corn crop of the
Union; and that the value of its slaugh-
tered animals was nearly thirty-nine per
centum Of the whole value returned for
the United States If we add to these
the superintendent nee crop of the South
ern States, we have an aggregate from
which we deduce, by the simplest math
ematical calculation, the important fact
that the South. in proportion to its poPu-
latiou. produces annually in breadstuGs
a value more than double that Of the
North. She is, therefore, twice as capa-
bic OF scll-suPport in a protracted war.
Especially is such the fact in the present
year, when the usual export crops in
great measure give way to staples of more
immediate necessity. The facts told by
these plain, unpretending agricultural
figures are greater defence against war
ship blockades than all the booming can
non or kissing shells that ever did execu-
ton in the wars of man against man.
We but state facts-facts which the
humblest man ought to know-facts that
cannot be gnored-faets which are elo-
quent with warning No prison house.
no indictment can suppress them. No
tyranny can avert them. No violence
can overcome or subdue them. They are
as inevitable as time-these things are.
The sooner the popular mind grasps them.
realizes them, deals nationally with them.
the sooner the dawn Of the morning upon
US This conflict is not short, and will
not be quick one, if arms be the means
and subjugation the end. II Great Brit
ain could not subdue three millions of
Americans in seven years. the North can
not subdue eight millions in seventy times
seven years. The attempt is but trifing
with imposslbililies. Is it treason to say
1t since We know it =? Shall the people
scorn the issues they must meet :?
TINS ARNr Ben McCULLocu HAS
BEATEN From The varr Touast e,