The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-02-03

!. The Yankees Hold All They
Have Ever IIeld--AnOther Years
Progress to Make Them Masters
Of the Southern COnfederacy.',


power of Lincoln "A Maine and Minnesota
The pledge, once deemed foolish by the Scat
that hs would "hold, occupy and possess a
the forts belonging to the United States Gov
ernment, has been redeemed almost TO th
letter by Lincoln. Forts Pickens and Sum
ter We still retain, but with these exception
all the strongholds on the seaboard, from For
tress Monroe to the Rio Grande are in th
hands of tho enemy.
Very consoling and very easy to say that ]
was impossible TO prevent all this, and tba
the occupation Of the outer edge of the Re
public amounts to nothing. Drewrys Bluff
and Vicksburg give the lie to the frat asser
tion, and the onward movement of Rosecran,
toward Alabama, tho presence OF Grant il
North Mississippi, and of Curtis in middle
Arkansas, to say nothing of Banks at New
Orleans and Baton Rouge, set at rest the silly
dream that thin strip Of sea coast only is il
the possession of our foes. The truth is, the
Yankees are in great force in tho very heart
Of the Consederacy, they swarm on all our Dor
ders, they threaten every important city YET
belonging to us, and nearly two hundred
thousand Of them are within two days march
of the COME ierate capital. This is no fiction
Il is now fact so positive that nobody can
deny it.
Nor is this all. The President tells us, in
his message, that the troubles with the Indian
tribes have been removed, and no further diff
ficulty is anticipated, The Intelligence we
obtain from private and trustworthy sources
does not contirm the Presidents ssnguine as.
sertions. The trouble with tho Cherokees
was, in great part duo to the fact that somo
1000 or 5000 Of them, now in arms, had not
received a cent of pay for Ia months. 1t is
true that paper money has been sent thom,
and ere now, it is to be hoped has reached its
destination. But Iadians don't like paper
money. Still it would answer the purpose il
Gen. Albert Pike remained to dis5urss ii, and
to alay their prejudices, which ho, Of all men
in the Copfederacy is best able to do. Pike,
however, mas resigned, C. GOOD reasons,
doubtless, and person said not to be the
most competent, is left in bis stead. Under
these circumstances, we shall be fortunate in.
deel five escape further trouble with the In
dians. Moreover, We get from Missouri
members and others, distressing accounts Of
affairs in Arkansas.
Gen. Hindman is very far from being
favori!e, even among his own people, and so
destitute are some of tho new levies who have
volunteered to come out of Missouri to Join
our armies, that whole battaions of them have
been seen marching barefoot through snow
three inches deep. Add to this the fact that
so far as the public is permitted to know. New
Mexico and Arizona arc for the time, lost to
us, and that the state Of disaffection in Tennes.
see and Mississippi (growing out Of the ap-
pointment OF incompetent officers and the fan.
cied neglect Of that country by the Confeder.
ate GoverDment-not from any lack of fsrvor
in the cause,) which President Davis visit was
intended to heal, is likely to return under the
depressing influence Of Brasg's retreat aud his
continuance in command-add all this to the
foregoing, and it will be seen that the yam.
KEGS have much to encourage them in tho
prosecution Of tho war; and we have not
little to excite serious apprehensons as to the
future. 7.Ira l11 .eil- ot '
The remedy for this state Of things ia oh
vious. 1t lies in tho extension and rigid en-
forcement Of that law to which we owe our
We must bring out the corscripts
and diminish exemp ions. IL this 10 done, the |
chapter Of failures 10 the Southwest will come
to an end. Tho history Of tho battles in that
region has been sufficiently uniform to justify |
a condition which shall not be chargeable with
the vices Of hasty generalization. It has not
been so much for want OF brains as for a
want of mep that wo have been compelled TO
lose tho fruits Of some Of the best fighting that
has been done in this war. At Donelson, at |
Shiloh, at Perryvl!e, and at Murfreesboro,
he story has been always the same-victo-
al Ia okol
away by overwhelming reinforcsmcnts to the
enemy.
As the past has been, so will the future be,
unless something is done, and that speedily,
10 fill the shattered ranks Of our armies in the /
West. Exemptions must be diminished.-
rbe system Of details must now bo adopted.
Young men must not be permitted to evade
heir duty by slipping into safe places. Com
olaisant friends mist turn deaf car 10 thcir
,ntrcaties. Able b,died men must not be
allowed to stay at bome on tue grcat pretext
If attending to twenty negroes. Here in Vir.
yinia there are, in many places, contiguous
numbering ia the aggregate hun.
lreds of slaves, without solitary white man
eft to guard them. Tho gentle authority of !
adies has been found amply sufficient TO con
rol the obedient and gentle African popula.
ion.
With tho frst opening of spring comes the
asst ireInen lous shock of tho war. M,ny Of \
he Yankee troops are nine months men,.
Moro arc enlisted for two years and their time
expires in May next. Up TO that time they
will be available, AMI we may be very suro
h. all the lighting that can be possibly got.
on out Of them will DO had before they are
allowed to 60 home. They outrumbar US
wo to one. There is a limit to the endurance
II tho brave men at Tullahoma, Grenada and
Vicksburg. They must bc sustaiud, strength
med, reinforced. II within tho next two
months We do not add seventy five or hun
lred thousand men to our forces in the South.
vest we shall come TO grief. II we do add
bcm, we are ,ate beyond pera'lveoture, and
'extsummer will witness tho tiiunph Of our
GEsERAL WooL AND THE New YoRK MrL
rrA.-.It turns out that the reported collision
etween the Federal and State authorities in
1ew York State, growing out OF a supposed