Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-07


"Doctor," said Q gentleman 10 NELL.
known member of the medical profession,
whom he found one morning la.s winter,
spade In band shovelling The .now from the
pave ia front Of his door, sDoctor, What ia-
ssrument 10 that yoa are using row." This
hs replied, holding up the spade, -ls the In.
ssrumens with which ny sserk 10 eosaea an
Possibly the doctor was a. truthful "a witty.
Since that day the spade has become popular.
being the instrument The effective wespoa.-
OF great revolution. It has snpplauted The
bullet and the bsyonet, the cannon ball aud
the boub. 1t has laszoed manly courage aud
Vigorous enterprise, aud subordius.ed taeu
to the strategy OF The engineer. II has ooun.
selied military leaders not TO trust 10 The
stout hearts and stouser aIns Of men, bat q,
giving precedence 10 digging digging
throwing mp breas.uorks and making ali
descriptions Of fortifcations. It say, pors
not, bat Esit, wait, w.st, and sae game will
some day fall into sae spare We hsre set
fog It. In word. tac spade has assumed
sovereign authoEity-n reigus sapfene. We
n,nss hoserer be permitted to DISGUST il
wisaon and saseeity. We begin 70 fear That
Is 70 great coveser mp not OF DOCTORS work
soty. has Of the ineompeseuey of military lea
6en. r7T -I1-rlE
The ssateznea, The orators, che esess, and
Al the organs Of public opsBioa Ia the soutb
have asserted, time snd again, that the North
ern people are, as soldiers, inferior 90 those
Of The Scnth-shas the latter, in every stlri-
butte Of the true and capable soldier, are su-
Perior. That this difference la the two poo
pies, countefbalsnces the superio. numbers
Of the North, and renders The South, a great
er and more powerful military nation. One
ct oar contemporaries, who has Just bad its
say On this subject declares the .feasire his
tory Of the world proves that the military
strength OF nations 10 not in the ratio Of theIr
aanhera- The eonquering races have been
small nations, weak In numbers, but mishty
IN spiEit, IL vslor and prowess. Tie Per-
sian. the Greek, and the Roman, before whom
the world suecessively bowed ia ancient
times, were originally small States, bot be-
came the eonQuerors Of empires boss.ing .
handred times their populstion." Fery
well, we shall not dispute thfs--aeisbef shall
ueqaestion the claimed superiority Of she
Soathern soldier. nor the alleged eevsrdiee
Of the lesions Of the North. We arc profound
believers in their correctness. And 90 be-,
herine. We have thought IL singular that tbs
spade should be given such prominence IN
the war. The inbeeile, co1a,dlY hordes Of
he North. might very properly set up the
spAds and worship il, because they have not
the eoarsge 70 push on war without
shield. But towards though they Be-, their
leaders have managed TO induee them 70 In
vsde Southern soil, and they have been torn-
ina,it up with their spades. True. ss yet they
have not been able to "hars" ne much, bat
~s have too long submitted 70 tasir pres
enoe. We believe the time has aboat arrived
when we ehould tolerate them no longer, bat
laying adswn the shovel and the hee," and
waiting no longer for an attack, 80 forth in
qasst Of and drive them from our soil or bury
them In 1t. And we feel confident that be-
fore TIE year closes, this result vii! bs AZ
tained. -
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