Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-12-04


"If yon 'ans had'sn come to fout we an:
ve'sns would'ent fout yOu'ens. shore.
The ignorance Of the masses cannot b
described. It must be seen as the arm
sees it to be fully understood 10 all il
: terrible and disgusting features. -
The loudly-boasled hospitality OF th'
!. South consists alone in this-thai aearl,
every house Is public tavern, wher
any stranger can stop and lodge BY pay
ing literally for it. ~
i / have yet to hear Of a single one o
the splendid plantations that tie arm
has passed. where any struggling sol
der could not buy FIVE cents worth o
"gsrden truck" a quart OF milk. !
pound Of butter, or any other trifine
thing of the kind. and, in most cases,
of the mistress of all the surrounding
wealth in person. The excessive love
of money charged upon the Yankees ex-
lists only in its purity at the South. In
one instance | saw the lady of large
plantation, the country residence Of one
Of the most prominent Judges of the
South. sitting on her porch, on Sunday
selling onions at twenty FIVE cents a
dozen to the "rhthless invaders" and
grieving most bitterly over the loss OF
gallon Of buttermilk that a soldier
had stolen. These things are not con
fined to the country. At one Of the
finest residences that the writer has
seen In over a thousand miles Of travel,
in one OF the most beautiful towns OF
North Alabama, our soldiers bought
butter-milk By the pint, OF the wealthy
mistress of the establishment in person.
Speaking in the broad sense, the sris-
tOcracy of the South is a most trans
parent humbug.
1t is by the cities, and the points
through which the tide OF commerce
flows, that the South has heretofore
been judged. These do not differ in
the main from like places in the North,
but the army has penetrated into every
part OF the interior, and Seen the "Sun-
ny South" at home.
1t may well be asked Whist effect has
all these things produced upon the army?
They have utterly disgusted it with
nearly everything pertaining to the
South. Henceforth the term chivalry
will only be used TO express the most
bitter contempt. Those in the army
who have labored through their lives to
secure to the South what were termed
rights, after being brought face to face
with this heathenism. are all the more
bitter in their denunciations Of it. This
is what the North has petted and
nursed heretofore, and now the feeling
is fast gaining ground In the army that
it would be well if it could all be swept
out of existence. Cancellation has been
tried most effeclually, and has failed;
the army has marched through and
through the land guarding rebels and
their property; allowing their negroes
to cultivate the land while the masters
We're fighting against us, and now we
are tired Of it all, and the universal
feeling in the soldiers breast is, we had
better go through this country now for
the last time, and leave nothing that
breathes treason to trouble us hereafter.
The change Of opinion in the army has
been most rapid and complete Of late.
Slaveholding Generals have openly pro-
claimed themselves In favor OF ertermi-
nation, and to-day the old proslavery
Democrats, those who once led the
party al home, are the soundest men in
the army, are the men who favor the
most extreme war measures-the men
who deserve the warmest thanks; and
the highest honors that can be bestowed
upon them. They have broken over,
and ignored all their former predjudi-
ces, and with them there is but one OBJ
ject in View-the utter crushing Of trea-
son without regard to party, and with
them but two classes exist, loyalists and
traitors, and of the latter those OF the
Enquirer and Vallandingham school are
considered by those, their old suppor-
ters, as the vilest and most contempt
Bile Of all.
Most Of the writer's partisan friends
in the army are Democrats and to their
honor be it spoken they are the tcar men
Of the army. The terms Abolitionist
and Yankee have no terror TO them,
though they have by no means adopted (
the peculiar doctrines of Republicans.
vet the Army of the West to day stands
on the broad plstform: "Asythin9 to
hurt the rebels dnythias TO crush them,
and by crushing end the war;" and the
army is fast approaching this point--if
indeed it has not already reached it,
where, If II becomes necessary to the
restoration Of the Government, the
above platform will embrace vigorous
con6scation, military emancipation, in (
surrection determination, and the sud-
den and complete creation of great
Southern American desert.
These are terrible statements, and ia
Yolve untold horrors, yet the army is in
earnest, is sick Of the war, but wishes
to end it only when treason is utterly
and finally subdued.
Let certain class of Conservatives
ask themselves whether they are really
those who. with their lives
in their hand, are standing between the
and treason born ofhell,
or whether the thought uppermost in
their minds is not fear that traitors
will be unnecessarily hurt, and the
needlessly shocked.
In the Army Of the West at least,