American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-13
PLANT CORN

planters Of Alabama. Georgia, Florida
and the Carolinas. hold the fate of the
country in their hands To them much
is given, and of them much will be re-
quired. They must furnish most of sup
plies not only for the armies in the field
but for the people Of all the Confederate
States. Great is the responsibility rest
ing upon the planters Of these States.
We have Cotton enough on hand for all
purposes. Every acre of open ground
should be put in grain of some kind.
We say. let them plant abundance of
corn. What would our army. and our
people have done in some sections but
for the patriotic sacrifice of the cotton
crop by our planters-particularly 10
Southwestern Georgia, where immense
crops Of corn were made on millions of
acres. which never before produced an
ear =? Most of them have thrown it early
into market at reasc nable prices. But
there are some who are holding on for
advance prices, and have .'none to sell. !"
A lso some. not few, peaked nosed and
snub- nosed spectators sliding about
picking up every bushel that can be had
for future extortion But we think they
will be disappointed-a least SO for as
this portion of the States is concerned
Macon Hess.
gS- As an evidence of the fact. says
the Memphis Appeal, that The fiummery
Of gold lace, and fancy equipments and
trappings which is so often admired upon
the persons of lieutenants. surgeons. etc.
do not appear to be more popular with
the leading spirits at Vicksburg. than
thew are with Stonewal jackson and
other fighting men of the army of the
Potomac. the Brandon Republican gives
tie following extract from letter of a
correspondent
"a few days since, while General Lee
was examining the Whitworth guns in
front of General Smiths headquarters, a
sentinel stepped up and ordered him off.
Lee said nothing. but continued his ex
animation The sentinel. with much We
hemence, then said Il order you to
leave here. sir, and not touch those guns
again - Lee then left, and proceeded
to enter General Smiths headquarters,
when the sentinel continued, ''you can't
pass in there" why % said Lee.
Because none but commissioned officers
can go in there" said the sentinel. Il
am an officer" said Lee modestly. as be
slipped out of the view of the faithful
sentinel. So plain is General Lee in his
appearance and manners. that a stranger
would never take him for an officer.
w We have the information from
as highly respectable gentleman as any
in Brock bridge county. that Mr.. Ander-
son, of Richmond, has sent to that coun-
ty number of Yankees. who had taken
the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy,
to work at his iron furnaces in that Sec
ton, and that some of these abolitionists.
obliyious of the obligation of allegiance
scarcely cold upon their lips. were tam
pering with slaves, committing number
less robberies. and leaving the works
with the openly avowed design OF making
their way back to the North. The poll
cy of receiving these men as citizens. is
to say the least. questionable. for We hold
that Yankee who foIeswears his own
section, will never be true to ours.
Personal interest. in by far the majority
of cases OF those who have taken the oath
since the war commenced, has been the
motive principle with them. and the de-
sire to get their carcasses out of the Yam
kee army and thus out of the reach of
Southern bullets and cannon balls
LynchJurg Republican.