The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-12-17

abodes with us, and conform to our laws
and customs. Itsecms absurd, perchance
to some, that we should apprehend any
evil from the influx into our borders of
those who are robbing, pillaging, de.
devastating and numbering
onr fields and property, husbands, sons
and fathers, simply because we have
seen proper to dissolve political con.
nection with them. But they who
laugh at this fear as groundless, and
refuse to discover the danger that will
most certainly threaten our happiness,
and prosperity, and our existence as
distinct and independent people, are
ignorant Of the nature of
the Yankee race, and have wept and
endured and fought through the past
eighteen months TO no purpose.
They are maNing such tremendous
efforts to force us back into tho hateful
and disgraced Union, because they are
aware that the loss of those States
which compose the Southern Confeder
acy will inevitably reduce their power
and Importance, and the unscrupulous,
mean spirited, money loving people sub
nit to tho tyrannical acts OF their
Government and sanction the enormous
expenditure the war has cost, in the
confident expectation that the contest
will result in restoring the Union to
its former integrity, power and gran
deur. They are mortified and enrag'
ed at the destruction of their power, at
the loss of so much territory, of so
much money, of 40 many millions of
men, and they will strike with heavy
blows before they retire from the con.
test. But after defeats and disasters
have 80 exhausted and disboNrtcned
them, as 10 obige them to con" ute
tho strife, they will not lay asr>c their
intentions Ehen they lay asiIl their
arms, nor Will their hatred huru *th
flams less fierce, nor their greed .
gain be less keen and ravenous, because
they will invade us with honeyed words
on their lips, with countenances beam
ing with hypocritical smiles and with
hands stretched out with friendly greet
ings. They will come with tho appli-
ances and implements of trade and
craft, and az they are inhcting griev.
GUS calamities upon us now 10y means
of energy, activity and cunning, so in
the times Of peace they will make cf.
fectual use Of the same weapons in cr'
der to compass tho same ends, to at.
tain which they are carrying on this
cruel war. Undor the potent prompt
lngs of the identical motives and pas
sions that have driven them into this
horrible contest, they will invade our
cities and towns, and villages and ham
lets, bringing with them their goods
and wares, their clocks and tin kettles,
their shoes and nutmegs, their home
spuns and coal, their jewclry and watch
es, and every imaginable article that
necessity and comfort require, and
while seemingly devoted to their pur-
suits. and intent only on obtaining
gain, they will find time to devise
Schemes for plotting our destruction,
and bringing US again into thraldom
We wore their yoke through many
years, and if, by their energy and inge'
nuity and subtlety, they can place it
again on our necks, rest assured they
will make us a second time their slaves,
aud we can only Illustrate their plans
by vigilance, circumspection and ener'
gy, and by continuing to regard them,
under all circumstances, as mean, WICK
cd and implacable foes.
The Atlanta Commonwealth says
that not long ago the Ordnance Bureau
secured 100000 pounds Of sulphur on
board single vessel. As it requires
only ten per cent of sulphur (with tf'
teon of charcoal and seventy five of
saltpetre) to make one hundred pounds
of powder; this hundred thousand
pounds of sulphur will make one mil.
lion pounds of gun powder, which
should send half million of Abolition.
lists to Kingdom Come.