The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-05-07
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PERSoNNE.
From the Richmond Exnminn.


History proves that the trouble of hold;no
country is far greater than that Of takinss
possession Of it by armed invasion. Il Il Z
mistake to suppose that the capture Of Its ci-
ties Or chief districts is equivalent to tie
subJugalon Of widely extended, thinly
peopled, commonwealth. Physical and nor
al disease does its work very rapidly upon
the health and Pigor of an invading column.
While IT falls rapidly into disorganization
and imbecility, the population with which il
remains in hateful contact becomes more
rebelllous against the domination and each
day thus doubly increases its peril.
The true strength Of the South consists IN
It's country population. The heart and hope
OF the South is not in her cities. Her bone
and sinew reside in the rural districts. The
military idea is not true of the South, that
to capture the principal places in country
is to subjugate the country itself.
The enemy make fatal calculation, there
fore when they suppose that the capture of
Nashville or New Orleans, or any other ci-
ty, subdues the whole circumjacent country.
To effectually subjugate the South the enc
my would have to post a company of infan-
try and cavalry in every neighborhood
throughout its whole extent; and, unless,the
aggregate of these were 100000 men, they
would then be surely cut off in detail by the
more than million fighting men whom the
South can count as her defenders.
Ii the conquerOrs" should adopt this
plan of dispensing their forces over the
country to hold US down, they would soon
discover fearful and rapid disappearance
of their men. II, on the contrary, they
should mass their forces in the towns, these
would soon be SO demoralized by the ruin
Gus influences that prey upon stationary
army as to be incapable, after a short time,
of holding the tamest population in subju-
cation.
1t comes, at last, therefore, to this: that
the South cannot, and will not, be subjuga-
ted, unless her own people choose TO submit
to the yoke. The sacrifices atteadiag sesis-
tance are not to be compared with those
which submission would entail and upon a
mere calculation Of interest the people Of
the South will prefer the honorable part Of
logged defiance of the enemy.
The peoples experience Of the invader,
he has appeared, has uniformly
been such as to confirm and strengthen them
in their resistance and hostility to him.
There has been no exception to this rule.
Lukewarm and submissive communities have
everywhere been converted by contact with
the enemy into Jealous secessionists. The
invader actually strengthens the Southern
cause wherever lie sets his foot on South
ern SOIL The work Of subjagation begins to
grow impossible at the very moment when
he thinks il is completed.
The subjugation Of any Southern cities
which He may succeed in entering will soon
be rendered impacticabe b another another
cause. He will enter them, IL lie enters at
all, at the beginning Of the period Of the
Black vomit; foe whom he viii end IN
more formidable than Gen. 10.
veil and his Confederate troops.