Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-11-27
AN OLD n0BBF RIDDEN AGAIN.

Again IS the idea OF starving Athel
otherwise victorious South into SUBJ
mission the fond hope and pet desire.
Of those make retence phllanthlopic
journals Of the North which never
csasinely Iesmear Lincoln with praise
III. every act he perpetrafes: His
Emancipation proclamation, (the only.
phiiantr.l .(2) design of which Yves
to secure an uprising Of the servile
population Of the Confederate States,
for fire purpose Of numbering their
kind masters with whom they had been
l-saiScd and as boon companions enjoy
est all thci,. youthful sports and pleas
urer, ana this for the sake Of the v,le
beings who, whenever the poor negro
falls into theii. hands, give him he
"ilace near the flashing Of the guns"
and Shield their own bodies wht G
Southern bullets can but lily reach
! them, found especial favor in their
eyes as their expected success was an
utter failure, Southern prowess being
/ too powerful for Yankee bragadoc;o.-
/ Without this formidable auxiliary to
TACT upon the Rebel" rear they must
give mp the hope Of possessing this
Southern land, inexhaustible in its
resources and promising bonndless
prosperity, and hence they received this
1 pet idea Of Lincoln as the panacea Of
jall their. misfoftunes and embraced
| it willingly with its foreshadowed hor-
ribIe consequences. From the great
unity of sentiment among the North
EN- people on this subject we are not
surprised, it having failed, (tho' not
through the kind intentions Of Lincoln,
who would have been delighted to sec
our native South reekingT with the
blood of our women and Children that
! they have changed their base,' and
are again jubilant over the idea of STAR
wing us into submission, and draw ex-
ultant pictures of starving women,
with their emaciated children clinging
around them beseeching them for that
morsel of food which is no where tobe
obtained. This idea has likewise pos
sessed their rulers, as evidenced by their
action in regard to an exchange ofpris-
ioners, who hope to burden us with
numbers the sooner toconsnmeour scan
ty stores, but we tell them that hard
ships and privation can never reduce
the Southern people to such q state as
to make them tame!y submissive to the
vile enemies we are. now contending
against, and thatlour shoeless ~ SOL
diers will march on march ever, as did
their revolutionary ancestors, over fro
zen ground with mutilated feet to-
victory. Instances Of severe privation
were plenty in the revolutionary waryet
the pampered minions a Of King fail
ed to succeed against the needy patri-
OTIS who fought for a principle and fed
wherever they could. Their very pri-
vations convinced many who fought
against them that they ought to be.
! free Marion feeding on his meagre
meals Of ashy potatoes was more in
! Yineible than had he been pamnered
| as was his guided guest, who declared
that tsmen who fed on such fare could
never be CONQUERED" This might we'll
serve as a lesson to tic exultant North
] men, forour soldiers are as patriotic as
were their noble ancestry and with the
great principles they are contending
1 for, handed down from the first revo-
/ luton and made doubly sacred by the
blood shed by our Southern brethren
on many CORY fields, will be invincible.
Submission from any cause is not to
be thought of and least Of all from
this. It would be well for those who
arc Sc. exultant at the starvation pros
pect to weigh well the words and take
counsel with those who are less given
Ito theoriz ng, and reason from the facts
as they see them by the light Of histo-
Try. One Of those whomswe advise all
such to consult, presides in the Office
Of the New York Daily "News" who
seeing the matter in clearer light thus
sums up this question.
sThere is, doubtless already very
general scarcity, not Of food, butof the
facilities to obtain food, throughout
the Confeaeracy but a very limited
allowance, a biscuit or SO per diem, a
few years of corn from the nearest
field, and a draugh fromthe neighbor-
| ing spring or river course, will hold
life in, and spirit too, and enable a
wiling hand to WELD It's weapon We
do not believe that any prolongation
of the war will starve the South into
submission, and if it were possible, it
is unworthy Of the North: boundless
as are her resources, her numbers and
her wealth, to anticipate the inglori-
ol1s result =
ss A Word in Season.
The Lynchbnrg Tirysnian, referring to
the growing complaints Of want in the sight
Of admitted abundance, gives this advice:
Those who have more wheat or any 9th
er kind Of provisions than they may need
fer the r own consumption, had better dis
pose Of the surplus al once for liberal
Compensation, than to hug it for season
as a sp!ser hugs his gold and then be COM
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