Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-03-25
Dirty OF PLANTERS.

militia, something after the fashion OF
our late Reserves, as inefficient, because it
is notorious that militia in camps are uni.
formly undisciplined, under the command
of officers, for the most part, unskilled in
tactics, and that disorganization and want
of confidence mark the arrangement; and,
because it takes from their homes, a con-
siderable number of men past the age of
40, unfit, for the most part, for camp hard
ships and exposures.
The Memphis Appeal, at present pub
lished in Mississippi, remarks that r'to
starve out the South has been a fayorite
idea with the Yankees, since the inaugura-
ton of the war, but it could hardly ever
have been supposed that We should be gull
ty of the suicidal policy of assisting them
in this method Of our subjugation. That
Mississippiis doing this under the operation
of her present militia system, we think
there can be no doubt. It's drawing hun
dreds, not to say thousands, of the tillers Of
the soil from their legitimate field of labor,
whereby the farming produce Of the State
will be cut alarmingly short.
Again, We have the following from the
Crisis, on the same subject, which is worthy
Of attention:
"Now, we are all alike interested in the
question Of supplying our army. Failing
in this, we are lost. Every farthiug of
property now held and enjoyed under the
protection of law, would be stolen, robbed,
burnt, destroyed, or carried away. All the
people of Mississippi have is at stake
Their homes, families, liberties, fresides,
altar. places, and life. blood, are at stake
The army mast be fed Paramount to all
other questions, to all other interests, pub
lie orpriva:s, for the ultimate preservation
Of all real, or supposed individual rights,
6rst, last, the army must be fedl Writeit
down-proclaim it-accept it-aot upon it
conform toit--the army must be fed -
There is produce enough in the country to
feed the army and the people. But these
products are in the hands ofprivate citizens.
They may sell, or they may refuse to sell.
They may require serenity cents pound for
bacon, or seventy dollars pound for the
same commodity. They can. either starve
the army, or bankrupt the govefnment.-
Now, there is no better established princi
ple than that which afirms the right of the
government to appropriate private property
for the public use, when that becomes me-.
cessary, paying therefor reasonable com.
pensation.
Prices ought to be reasonable and remu.
neratiye and uniform, Within these con-:
ditions, it may become necessary as a con-
dition of the public safety, for the COM
mander of this department to order the i'm
,pressment of necessary supplies, referring
the question of compensation to disihter-
estcd tribunal. If this becomes necessary,
either through the illiberality of holders,
or as the result of circumstances, uncon-
trolable by the commander, we shall not
only sustain him in such action, but shall
regard it an imperative duty aud merit in
action. ..
1t matters not what kind of property
may be required, the property nrlst be de-
Tended and saved from the butchery now
desolatipg the fields and homes of Arkansas,
Missouri, and other portions Of the country.
We beg to commend this subject to the
press"
The Aississippian has correspondent
| who takes hold of the war in another mat.
ter of fact way, though his object is sup
plies of men, and making provisions for
them. Hear him:
"The soldier who has been manned in
the battles of his country, is certainly still
entitled to the honor of continuing sol.
dier in our glorious cause, and to the paltry
sum of sll per month, SIS long as the war
lasts-aye, as long as he lives. The pat.
riots of the land, who by exposure, have
been incapacitated for field service, may be
very probably employed as nurses, stewards
and clerks of hospitals-as weighers, SER
geants ahd clerks, in the post commissary
and quartermaster's departments. Nobody
would be very sorry to see the hosts of able.
bodied, lazy, sleek employees of these de-
partments, put in the field; and placed in
the front rank of the next battle for indie
pendence.
Those who have bought substitutes-who
have measured their patriotism by theil
purse-who have their money out fighting
for them, while they themselves remain al
home, eating mush and milk, without any
danger of bulets-are too contemplate to
merit notice in this connection.
But in conclusion, though somewhat in
timidated by their high official dignity and
lofty position, I will touch slightly upor
the most numerous: the most important, and
the most shameful class of exempts from
CONSUMPTION. allude, of course, to the
present iucumbents of the civil Offices
throughout all the States of the Confede
raoy, who are between the ages of eighteer
and forty. In times of great tribulation
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