Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-02
The Delu.Ien. o. one Year go.


year ago initiated the present deplorable
war, we republish the following article
from the Mobile Evening News of that
period, copied from that paper into the
Columbia (South Carolina) Guardian.
No comment is necessary:
"There are now, as nearly as can be
estimated, upwards Of one hundred
thousand organized and armed men in
the seven Confederate States, under
orders or anxiously awaiting them TO
spring to the post of danger at the word
of Jefferson Davis. Within eight days
time at the furthest he can concentrate
sixty thousand of these men, the best
soldiers in the world, at any point on The
northern border, and hurl this splendid
army like an avalanche upon the foe. If
the battle ground be in Virginia or Mary
land, as it probably will, the grand army
Of the Confederacy will be doubled
or trebled by the rallying no, IS of those
States. We have reason to believe that
hundreds of companies arc new CT the
move, or will be within twenty -four
hours, all bound somewhere. Such is our
immediate war power.
"Should we move on Washington does
the enemy expect to hold it against us
TO hold it against an army of hundred
thousand men and hostile local popula-
ton? Large as the telegraphic reports
from the land of the enemy read, it will
be at least a month before Lincoln can
muster into service and concentrate into
an army hundred thousand men. We
are ready, he is not. Our people, natu-
rally so inclined, have been making SOL
diers of themselves for months His
people have been doing nothing of the
sort, and are not naturally so inclined
Our ordinances of secession were really
the notes of our warlike preparation
The first note of preparation was the
cannOnade Of Charleston. We have had
three months the start of them, and are
ready-they are not.
Months ago the minds of our people
had settled resolvedly to meet any issue.
Now the people of the North are in all
the wild panic and confusion of wars
first alarm. We confront them, cool,
collected foe, that will never give them
time toTecover from their surprise. We
are ready for action.--they are getting
ready TO prepare 20 act. They may raise
plenty of men-men who prefer enlisiing
TO starvation, scuryy fellows from the
back slums of cities, whom Falstaf would
not have marched through Coventry with;
but these recruits are not soldiers, least
Ofall the soldiers TO meet the hot-blooded,
impetuOus men of the South.
Trencher soldiers, who enlisted to war
on their rations, not on men, they are
fellows who do not know the breech of
musket from its muzzle, and had rather
fitch a handkerchief than fight an enc
my in manly open combat These are
the levied forces whom Lincoln sud
denly arrays as candidates for the honor
of being slaughtered by gentlemen
such as Mobile sent to battle yesterday.
Let them come South, and we will put
our negroes to the dirty work of killing
them. But they viii not come South.
Not wretch of them will live on this
side Of the border longer than it will
take us to reach the ground and drive
them over.
Mobile is sending forth to wage this
war Of independence the noblest and
bravest Of her sons. It is expensive, ex-
trayagant to put such material against
the rih-raf of mercenaries whom the
abolition power has called out to war
upon us. We could almost hope that
better class of men would fall into the
Northern ranks that our gen lemen might
find foemen worthy of their steel, whom
is would be more difficult TO conquer,
and whose cOnquering would be more
honorable. For the present, however,
we need not expect to find any foe worth
fighting, with the exception of few reg
iments, for the North is Just getting rea-
dy, and will likely be whipped before it
is ready"
Here is another specimen, copied from
an article of the New Orleans Crescent
OF April II, 1861, commenting upon a
military scheme which had been suggest
ed by the Ne,0 York Courier. 1t presents
in very strong light the delusion as TO
the National resources under which the
South plunged into the rebellion. The
Crescent said
"But we are really fearful Gen. Webb's
scheme will not succeed TO raise, equip
and feed an army of one hundred thou
sand men, and put it in motion, would
require, at the lowest estimate, fifteen
millions of dollars, and to keep the ranks
full, provide the means of transportation,
subsistence for men and horses, supply
the wants created by casualties, and the
numberless losses that would inevitably
follow an active and desperately con-
tested campaign, would demand an ex-
penditure of about seventy. five millions
Of dollars per annum.
"And if this grand army shond be
destroyed and its property captured bv