The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-14
FROM THE SOUTH.
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From the Richmond Examiner 1st n- e'll
We mentioned few days ago that the
Mississippi troops, in large numbers, were
deserving the army of Gen. johnson. We
felt disinclined to give credence to the re-
port. We believed that. Mississippi, like
most of the other States of the Confeder-
acy, has her proportion of timorous and
cowardly traitors, who are already to yield
to the domination of the dastardly foe at
the first approach of danger to their home
steads aud hearthstones, and if any such
disafe clion has been produced among her
troops in the field, we doubt not the evil
seed has been by this class of her
population. Such state of feeling is
greatly to be, deprecated, and we regret
especially to see it prevailing in Missis-
sippi, the home Of the President Bear
ing upon this point, the Mobile Register
has very pungent and forcible article,
which it were well for the weakened in
every Southern State to consider and re-
fleet upon. 1t says: L''7o-
"We have just seen letter from pretty
high up the Mobile and Ohio road, which
says there are some who have become very
weak in the faith since the fall of Vicks-.
burg opened the prospect that that part of
Mississippi would be overrun by the Yam
KEGS. They are therefore whining for
peace and reconstruction. Without know
ing who these people are we venture to
say there are a class of men who were
before breakfast and die-in-the-last ditch
patriots before the war began, and who
have done little or nothing in personal SER
vice or contributions to the cause since the
fighting began. Ninety to one that
they are men who have property to lose, 3
and who vainly fancy that they can save
it by getting down upon their knees to the
Black Republican Governments, 's
Of one thing we are positively certain,
that no man with soul in his body, who
has once had that soul penetrated and
aroused by the unrivalled grandeur of this
struggle, who has once had his love of
country touched, and his indignant hatred
OF wrong and oppression kinlled by the
atrocitles Of our enemies, can ever dream
of laying down his arms and CRYING
peace" until the last Yankee enemy has
been driven from the soil. We have no
patience to write of such miserable pol
troons. What, yield this great prize, tor
which torrents of our most precious blood
has been shed, because your farms and
stocks are in danger Did Virginia yield
when her fairest and richest valleys were
ravaged, her people turned out houseless.
and her fields blackened and devastated
by the march and tread Of the invader?
Have not Louisiana and her great COM
mercial city, New Orleans, been year
under the heel of the conquerer, and do
not the fires OF patriotic resistance and
vengeance still burn in the bosoms of her
sons and daughters? Are you better than
they ]! Cannot you suffer and endure in q
holy, cause as well as they? Shame on
your craven weakness! and greater shame
on the irnbecilestupidity that supposes that
by sacrificing your character and your
country, You may save your vile trash 4.
called property, Fools If the. Abolition
arms triumph, you may pile up your oaths
as high as st. Peters dome YOU NAV
patriot ideally damn yourselves to the low !.
est depths Of infamy, and steep your souls
in the turpitude of a vile abiurator of yonr
country and her sacred cause. and Won
will yet not save your property. ~ n 4. F1sf
OF all the stark mad fools and emntv-.
headed idiots that we can conceive of on
this earth, the Southern sui missionist and
reconstructionist at this stare Of the cama
is the biggest, the starkest and the emnti.
est, II Is the prey ppoposing y re-alliance
Win the raving wolf; It is submission Of
all you possess to Be g6bbled up bv the
invader-for this is the philosophy and
programme OF the war-to siezel ana com
nscase Inc property Of the South. to save