Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1862-12-25

i. Federal loss of infinite magnitud
would evoke no sigh of sympathy
no moment of-sadness, except S
, far as it was supposed to defer th
restoration of the Union. But tn
whole Confederdey bewails tn
5000 victims at Antietam Cree]
with brotherly affection and sym
pathy.
Nor is that appalling indifference
which amazes and paralyzes th'
spectator in Washington and New
York affected here. Scarcely la
dy but wears mourning, proud Il
display that she has lost,a relative
fighting in a cause dearer, to hel
than life; scarcely person htit
speaks sorrowfully and with afflie.
ton of loss which seems to them
appalling, though not much more
than one-third of that inflicted up
Oh. their POGO cura1tte foe. D, lr
Well may a nation be confident
of winning its independence which
can exhibit such specteclesas every
day produces wherever Il Southern
army is in the field. Theme is pow
erty, hunger, and dirt, shoeless, with
shifts ragged and rent, often with
out hats, f1 ct bleedirg G, as they drag
their weary limbs through dust
and briar, are serving in the ranks
the gentleman and the sangre ezatt
of the South. Many a man who,
until The commencement ofthe war,
had scarcely a thought beyond the
Cafe Foy and the Boulevarls of
Paris, and to whose morning toilet
every diversity of cosmetic was rs
necessary as water, has for months
been marching under a musket,
without one single change of raj
ment, feeding ON green maize and
green pork; lying at night on the
bare earth with q single blanket be-
tween him and the canopy Of heav-
en-. .at ISIS
And these men, many of them
bearing someof England's mosth
ored names, and descended from
England's best families, are in the
field and have been so for ninsteen
fighting against lnerceSa-
ries who have repudiattd England,
as though she were governed by a
Nero, and have escaped from Ger
man penury and conserirtlons;-
Whatever may have been the truth
last winter, it is not pretended now
that the Northern armies are not
mainly composed of men Of foreign
BIRTH Where arethe native Ameri-
cans of weight and infuenceJservlng
in tie Northern armies? Why
does not Werdell Phillips take the
field? Men older than he are ser
wing by dozens in the Southern
ranks. Whereis Charles Summers
musket? The Senate could spare
Senator Baker, in no wise Mr.. Sum
ner's inferior in intellect, and it
were a noble answer to the South,
which sneers at non-duellists for
want of courage, to show how one
of that class can comport himself
upon the perilous edge of battle.
1t is but probable that with unQp-
posed command of the sea and the
great rivers during their antunln
floods, the South may lose thou
sands more Of her sons in addition
to that great sea Of blood which
has already been cheerfully poured
ont in her defence. But let her
be left without a single city OF
village with nothing but her inter
nal Businesses, and her immense
area of territory, and though every
man in the North under fifty were
to take the field they would be
inefficient ever to make such a
nation as the South lie at the feet
of her enemy.
!-
Not long ago the Ordnance Bu5
reau secured 100000 pounds OF
sulphur on board a. single yes vessel,
Asit requires only ten per cent llt,i, OF
sulphur with fifteen Of charcoal
and seyenty-five Of saltpfettrre( to
make one hundred pounds OF pow
der, this hundred thousand pounds
of sulphur Will make one million