The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-06-05
Rebel sR,sansty.

The folly of the rebels, in many partic-
uiars, is full of madness. The leaders are
not only desperate, but insane. All their
reasoning in relation to their own inter
ests, is intensified fanaticism. They seem
bent on their own destruction. They not
only forget all honorable rules of warfare
recognized among civilized nations, but
spend their fury upon their own heads,
whenever they fancy it will prejudice us,
or tend to give them favor among foreign
nations. They profess to be fighting for
their ''sacred soil - but they lose no op-
portunity, upon theapproach of our troops,
to desecrate it to the most ruinous purpo-
ses. They say they are fighting for their
homes and fresides; yet they apply to
them the torch, and burn up villages and
towns, just as if incendiarism was holi-
day pastime. They boast of their beauti-
full forests, and in the next breath. with
the ruthless hand of the barbarian, level
to the ground the mighty growth of ages.
They spend millions upon two iron clad
steamers. and then blow them up. They
build their gunboats, and then apply the
fuse which sends them to total destruc-
ton. They have expended their millions
upon railroads and railroad bridges, and
yet it is a common every, day occurrence
to destroy in single day the work of
years The blockade and other inciden-
tai causes connected with the war, have
reduced them to comparative starvation !;
but the leaders, with the mutinous cry for
bread coming up from starving millions,
burn up what little Is left Of the staff of
life The two great articles of export in
the South-cotton and tobacco-which
could now be marketed from the ports
opened BY our recent victories, are burned
or thrown into the rivers to be destroy
ed
Thus the rebel leaders in the South are,
by force of martial rule and the law of
despotism, aided by reign of terror which
has no prototype in the history of the
world, robbing the people of all they have,
and reducing them to absolute beggary.
The deluded men who follow the lead of
that arch destroyer aud wholesale assas-
sin, jeff Davis, are made to belie7e that
the destruction of their private property
will, in the end, be the loss Of the govern
ment, and not of individuals. This ia
natical delusion prompts them tothe worst
acts of selfdestruction they pile up their
bales of cotton, and then apply the torch,
with just as little apparent conjunction
as if they were firing a heap of faggcts,
and away goes, with the putting of a single
breath, the only available resources left
to save them from poverty and starvation.
Instead of selling their tobacco, they throw
it into streams, until the waters thereof
are made muddy with its narcotic stains
and coloring {.
Thus these fool-hardy rebels go on de-
stroying their own property-sending to
destruction the accumulation of years, and
making their land barren waste. They
drink in ruin just as greedily as a thirsty
OK drinks from the water brooks Rea-
son, among the traitors, has lost its throne,
while perfect madness-a wanton delusion
rules the hour. In their diaboli:al eff
forts to destroy the federal government,
they are fast destroying themselves. In
material prosperity the rebel States have
rolled back half century. They seem
left to be controlled by a deep seated NAL
ice-a passion that heretofore has been
attributed only to devils,-a fury that has
no parallel this side the very gates of per-
dition.