Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-05-08
The DeluSiOnS Of One Year AGO.

Iations upon which the Seccssionists
one year ago initiated the present de-
plorablc war, we rcpublish the follow
ing article from the Mobile Evening
News Of that period, copied from that
paper into the Columbia (South Caro-
lina) Guardian. No comment is nee
essary: ...
There arc 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 farthest 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 bat
tie ground be in Virginia or Maryland.
as it probably will, the grand rrmy of
the Confcderacy will be doubled or
treblcd by the rallying hosts of those
States. We have reason to believe
that hundreds of companies arc now
on the move, or will be within twenty
four hours, all bound somewhere.
Such is our immediate war power.
"Should VIC move on Washington,
does the enemy expect to hold it
against us? TO hold it against an
army of a hundred thousand men
and hostile local population Large
as the Geographic reports from the
land of the enemy read, it will be at
least month before Lincoln can mus
ter into service and concentrate into
an army hundred thousand men.
We are ready, he is not. Our people,
naturally so inclined, have been ma
king soldiers of themselves for months.
His people have done nothing of the
sort, and are not naturally SO inclined.
Our ordinances of secession were re-
ally the notes Of our warlike prepare
ton. Their first note of preparation
was the cannonade of Charleston. We
have had three months the start of
them, and are rcady-they are not.
"Months ago the minds of our peo.
pie had settled rcsolvcdly to meet the
issue Now the people of the North
are in all the wild panic of wars first
alarms. We confront them, cool,
collected foe, that will never give them
time to recover from their surprise
We are ready for action-they are
getting ready to prepare to act. They
may raise plenty of men-men who
prefer enlisting TO starvation, scurvy
fellows from the back slums of cities,
whom Falstaff would not have march
cd through Coventry with but these
recruits are not soldiers, least of all
the soldiers to meet the hot-5looded,
thoroughbred, impetuous men of the
South. Trencher soldiers, who enlist
ed to war on thcirrations, not on men,
they arc fellows who do not know the
breech of muskct from it's muzzle,
and had rather filch a handkerchief
than fight an enemy in manly, open
combat. These are the levied forces
whom Lincoln suddenly arrays as cam
didates for the honor of being slaugh-
tered by gentlemen-such as Mobile
sent to battle yesterday. Let them
come South, and we will put our ne
groes to the dirty work of killing
them. But they will 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. 1t is expens-
i've, cxtravagant to put such material
against the riff.raff of mercenaries
whom the abolition power has called
ont to war upon us. We could almost
hope that better class of men would
fall into the Northern ranks that our
gentlemen might find foemen worthy
Of their steel, whom it would be more |
difficult to conquer, and whose con-
quering would be more honorable. For
the present. however, we need not ex-
pect to find any foe worth fighting,
with the exception Of few regiments,
for the North is just getting ready,
and will likely be whipped before it is
ready"