Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-11-18

NlNU, NOsY. UItlD'IlIllI UIttlED'lI1 .IO, lS'
kee says, "[ will take my bounty and if i
get captured, the rebels will treat newell
and parole me and send me home, and ] can
enjoy my pay in idleness until 4 amsex-
changed and captured again. /" But il they
felt that capture meant death they would
cease to come. The draft at the North was
q failure, but I fear this recent call for vol.
unteers, will not be. The draft gave no
bounty and did not pay, but voluteeering
soM and when once the men are in, their
discipline will make one kind Of man as
good as another.
To give you some idea of the spirit which
rules all other officers with whom I have
spoken, I will state the closing remarks Of
Maj. Gen. R. j. Ogleby, commanding the
18th army corps, in his letter Of resigna-
ton, dated the 10th July. After stating
his i'll health in consequence of severe
wound as the cause Of his retiring into pri-
vate life, and recounting the many brilliant
exploits of his command, he wound up by
saying, "You may we'll say this war cannot
last much longer. You have seen traitors
with naughty pretensions crouch at your
feet for mercy, the mansions of the domi
neering rich turned into boarding houses,
and the cliualry Of the South turned land
lord and lady to entertain Yankee officers
swearing a new allegiance, for the protec-
ton of their property, and :meauly violate
it to the support Of rebel ,..,ss,e :, :. ,I,.i
Is it right and proper that such . people,
for their two-foid treason, should at length
meet face to face, the black race Of the
South, bend to the rod Of their slaves that
they have SO long outraged !, and tremble in
the presence of the race to whom they have
hitherto denied all rights. "It is right and
proper, and needs no justification. in the
sight Of God aud man. This letter was
written and published in Memphis, and
lauded over the whole North, as breathing.
the true spirit that ought to be pursued in
the prosecution of the war. Now, sir, this
man knew what he was writing. He was
originally Breckenridge Democrat but he
had the sagacity to understand that things
had changed, and the man who could out
Butler Butler, had the best chance of suc-
cess at home. For Gods sake, let our ipeo-
pie know what is before them; let them uu-
derstand that every peace meeting in North
Carolina only adds six months to this war ;;
let them know that the, editorials of the
Raleigh Standard are not only reprinted 10
all the Northern papers, but stereotyped,. !.
and the attention of the country called to.
them day afterday. Let'them know it is now.
too late to canvass the original causes of
this war, or to discuss the right of secession.
We are now, in the treadmill, and must
keep stepping gon, or we will be rolled I'M
der by the terrible force that is turning the
wheel land when any one feels like giving
up, and thinks of peace, he. ought to rea-
lie that it is not for US to say when peace
may come. The only way to get peace is.
to meet the devils at the border, and give
all We have freely and cheerfully to the sup
port Of our army. Upon the army, and the
army alone, depends our hope; heas.!; fast
and furious blows will alone bring the
North 10 think. We must break the pres.
Nent military power Of the North, and that
too very soon, before they are enabled to use
this power at home to increase it: Just so
long as they have success enough to encour.
age them in realizing their hopes of con-
quest, SO long the war will be popular The
present position Of the two opposing armies,
and their relative strength, is more greatly,
in our favor than it has been since the war
began ;,l and if we can only, continue our
victories, their present army will be 80 much.
weakened BY next May thatit will be impos,
sible for them ever to raise another army,
sufficiently large to indulge the hope Of
cohquering US, as they now do, and the war
will lose its present magnitude and be
henceforth conducted with a view of ma
king the best terms of peace possible. The
New England States will form Coufedera-
cy the Middle States, including Maryland,
another; the Northwestern States, inclu-
ing Kentucky. another and we will then
hold the balance of power on the continent,
and in the course of another generation be
able to dictate to all the rest.
= At this time, however, the North has
never thought of peace, and every word of
discussion andevery hint at reconstruction
only makes them run wild with the hope of
our speedy overthrow. II has made my
heart sick since my return to the South to
find SO many complaining, to hear men talk ]
about the right of secession and the hopes
of compromises, and looking so confidently
to help from the Northwest. Now, the
sooner we realize the fact that upon our
selves. alone depends ursalvation, the soon-
er we will set to work in earnest to work it
out. know We have friends at the North,
in fact, prominent men there have told me
they looked upon US as the only true de.
tenders of Constitutional freedom, and ii We
failed they Ct the North as we'll as oursel-
yes would become the slaves of the vlest
despotism on earth, but what does this avail,
when the Yankee Government has tre
mendous army in the field and the power to
raise another? When they (the Copper.
heads) do what they can to retard recruit
ing and oppose the draft they have done all
that We are to expect from them at present
until We can keep the present army SO we'll