Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-07-24

1 ne never Drought aCOScIueI OVeI olAtCCh
thousand men, though his enemies Otter
numbered over hundred thousand.
To come down to later times, the En-
glish victories at Cressy and Agincourt, 81
famous in history. were gained with Incred
ible disadvantages of numbers:
The same must be Said Of tie great vic
tories of Charles VIII, in Italy: of Henry
Nv, in France; of Gustavus Adolphus, il
Germany and Of Charles XII, Of Sweden,
in tenmark, Poland and Muscovy. The
King of Poland, who had an ARMY oftwen-
ty-four thousaud, strong. he defeated and
drove from his throne with force. Of less
than twelve thousand; and the Russian army
of eighty thousand was beaten by him with
a little army Of only eight thousand.
Nor must we forget the fate Of the great
Napoleon in Russia Napoleon invaded
that country with an army Of six hundred
and thirty thousand soldiers, and was final
ly completely vanished and driven out ofthe
onantry, although the Russians lad never
over two hundred and fifty thousand men
in the field at any one time.
So we perceive that the page Of history
abundanny supports the Divine Word, that
| the battle shall not always be to the strong
Indeed, as Sir William Temple afirms, the
reverse has oftener been true. The last
year of our own horrible experince is anoth-
er proof. Il we may rely upon the word
of the late Secretary of War, Mr.. Cameron,
we have enlisted, in all. S00,000 men
and yet. at the conclusion of the Richmond
battles. it was said that we had, all count
ed, less than 800, 600 soldiers lett in the
field This would show loss of SOC, 600
men in little more than one year. Call
it 400 600, to be within the mark. and
then ponder upon the thing little; and
at the same time reflect that our gunboats
alone have saved our armies from sann.hi.
lation.
It is estimated that the South has lost
two hundred thousand men in this war,
which makes of white men lost on both
sides, six hundred THOUSAND
Now, q Senatur .bdasted, the other day,
that Sws had already libefated fifty thou
sand negroes" Yes, we have shed the
blood Of twelve white men for every negro
we have set free.
And what pow is tie prospeet for the fu-
ture !? Nothing but disaster and ruin The
programe is to exterminate the white race
in the South, to plumber and burn their
towns and cities. Before Lipcoln's term Of
Office is up, he will sacrifice the lives of a
million more Of the citizens Of the North in
pushing on this atrocious work and even
then he willonly have stepped knee deep in
to the fathomlcss ocean of blood which must
be shed before the horrd crime could be ac
complished There are not men enough in
the North to carry out the Lincoln Butler
scheme Let those who believe in it show
their faith by their works, and pour out
their own blood in the horrid strife. Let
them not meanly hide behind the three
hundred dollar clause, and force the vir
tuous and pcaceable poor to sacrifice them
selves for an object which every patriot
must hold in eternal abborrence IF the
conflict were To- restore the Union or to pre-
serve constitutional freedom, d man might
feel some impulses Of honor and glory in
going out to die But to know that one
must offer up bis life to free negroes and
enslavs the white race, must fill proud
mans soul full Of unquenchable indigna
tion and horror. it is possible that you
may force such men into the army but can
you make them fight !? What would be the
reliable force Of a million of such men in
arms