The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-12-16

erablc rlly. ia The South might bo re.
duced To ashes without changing the
mood oC undermining the resolutions
OF the teebIest hearts there be in the
Southern Coniedcracy.
am told by the highest authority
that the official statement, comprising g
the most minute details Of the Confed.
crate loss at the battle of Antietam
Creek, estimates the Confederate loss
In killed, wounded, missing, at 5000
mon Another fact is noticeable. A
Federal loss of infinite magnitude
would evoke no sigh Of sympathy, no
moment Of sadness, except so far as it
was supposed to defer the restoration
OF the Union, But the whole Coufed.
eracy bewails the 5000 victims at An.
tietam Creek with brotherIy affection
and sympathy
Nor is that appalling Indifference
which amazes and paraIyzes the spec.
tator in Washington and New York
affected here. Scarcely a lady but
wears mourning, proud to display that
She has lost relative fighting in a cause
dearer to her than life; scarcely per
son but speaks sorrowfulIy and with
atlilcti0n Of loss which seems to them
appalling, though not much more than
one-thlrd OF that and inflicted upon
their POGO cHr0Me foe.
Well may nation be confident Of
winning its independence which can
exhibit such spectaclos rs every day
produces wherever Il Southern army is
in the field. There, in poverty hunger,
and dirt shoeIess, with shirts ragged
and rent, often without hats, feet bleed.
ing as they drag their weary limbs
through dust and brar, are serving in
the ranks the gentleman and tho san.
gre a@NI Of the South. Many man
who, until the commencement of the
war, had scarce y thought beyond
the Cafe Foy and the BouIeyards of
Paris, and to whose morning toilet ev
cry diversity of cosmetic was as neces-
sary rs water, has for months been
marching under musket, without one
single change of raimcnt, feeding on
green maize and green pork, lying at
night on the bare earth, with Il single
blanket between him and the canopy
OF heaven.
And these men, many Of them bear.
ing some Of England's most honored
names, and descended from EngIand's
best families, are in the field and have
been so for nine.ee months, fighting
against mercenaries who have rcpudia.
ted Eng gland, as though she were gov
erncd by a Nero, and have escaped
from German penury and conscriptions.
Whatever may have been the truth last
winter, 1t Is not pretended now that
the Northern armies arc not mainly
composed Of men Of foreign birth!
Where are the native Americans of
weight and influence serving in the
Northern armies Why does not Wen
deli Phillips take the field? Men older
than he are serving by dozens in the
Southern ranks " here is Charles
summers mUskot? The Senate could
spare Senator Baker, in no wise Mr..
interior in intellect, and it
were a noblo answer to the South,
which sneers at non .duoIists Tor want
OF courage to show how one of that
class can compOrt himself upon the
perIous edge Of battle 1t is but prob /.
aoIe that with unopposed command of
the sea and the great rivers during
their autumn floods, the South may
lose thousands more of her sons, in al.
dltIon to that great sea OF blood which
has already been cbesrfuIy poured out
.o her defence. But let her bo left
without single city or village, with
.-"~ hu. Der internal fas,nosses and
oao area OF territory, aud
Hn y man in the North undcr
j = .Hl.e the fed, taey would
he . '-.0 .yor to maxi .acn ma
non aa .--..t.. IL II .14 foot Of her
Enemy
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