Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-05-22
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NAsCuppUS6 W0 arg uctoaSou On tUo Bf0ot Ooe'l
.tlesfwhieh are soon to itrapspire at. CorinthI
and Yorktown Suppose We loose Rich.
mond as we have lost New OIeans7 What
of ali this3 win web conquered ? VIII
our means Of defence be gone !? Willthe
hearts and-nerves;nf our people epalsisd 3
Are there no mountains and valleys, TO
which sour, armies can retire and prosecute
interminable5 war upon the enemy7 In
Tie days of TIE revolution the enemy, for
The most part of the estime, held possession
of every leading city from Boston To
Charleston. They overrun and occupied
every one of;the thirteen States, save parts
Fof three. Butthe brave hearts Of Wash
|ington and his noble compeers never quail
sdafor single instant. At the moment
when all seemed lost and the young sun Of
the republic was, yelled in impenetrabllee
clouds, these immortal patriots stood erect
and unshaksn IN their determination to be
free. The Governor and public authorities
|of Virginia were removed from Richmond,
and even from Charlottesville, but onr peo-
pie never thought Of subjugation. fn the
war Of 1872, Washington city, the capital
of our country, fell as New Orleans has fal.
Hen, but it only served ITO give strengthen
our arms and hearts. Are we Southerners
q atdegenerate race? Have We forgot how
to be free? We do not believe it, and
hence we do not permit ourselves to doubt
for moment our ultimate success. s5-7
Even should the enemy defeattua every
where on the water, and diaperse all onr
enemies in the field, he will then have no
cause for jdespondency. Our country win
be as far from conquest as before, if the
people are,bnt half true9to themselves and
|thsir; homes. The Yankees will have TO
garrison every, city, town and hamlet They
will have to put governors and Legislators,
|sherifs, clerks, and attorneys, ID Office,
and hold them there at the point Of che
bayonet. To do8all this will require an
army of million of men, The cost OF
these would not be less than Six millions Of
dollars per day, OF 81, 100, 600, 900 per an
mum. No nation on earth could provide
Fsuoh an expenditure or stand mp sundaf
such q load Of dehtaa it would create ms
single year. Besides the enormous debt
which it would involve, our people and che
Southern climate would kill OFF thousands
ofthese hireling soldiers every month. =
Guerrilla parties iaould shoot them down
wherever found ;inlsmall force. For 5ths
Yankees TO occupy, and hold our country
would, therefore, involve manifest impos-
sibilities. It can nsver-be done, and should
|it:even happenthat our armies are driven
from the field and scattered to the. winds,
Ia contingency which we BY no means an
ticipate, Lincoln will find that he has only
got the sselephant," and that he can neith:.
er cage, keep nor sell him. s:s':s tSat
a.5Let,our people, thsn, ,1be iof good cheer.
Let them be firm and7decided IN their pur..
pose to be free. Lei. them support their
government by good word and by good
deed. Let them discourage treason, croak-
ers and alarmists, and make them monu-
ments for scorn to- point its slow, unmo.
wing finger at., @ Let them in short, be
worthy Of freedom and they will be free.
e = Lyncl6urg Republican,.