The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1863-04-18

d FAMINE As 4 Wan PowEa. Every mail
from the interior Of Rebellion bvtngs sad
} slnteIigencs Of the fearful pdvstInosto which
he which people ere subjected BY the obdu.
|rste conspisstoss Of their ruin. Gsunt and
|hoI low eyed famine 10 stalking everyw here
10 that unhappy country. We have already
referred [s.ys the Philadelphia Inquiserl 10
the accounts from A rksnsas and Texss.
where the dstress l. 90 great shst II must
be seen TO be y ndsrHood; and from Fsede-
ricksburg. where families lately 10 sfiluent
circumas oees are starving in hosts; snd
from North Aisbsms and Tennessee. and
from Georgia, where. q overnor Brown has
summoned the Legislature TO consider the'sub-
ject 10 extraordinary session. Everywhere the
wsiI 10 coming up for food. The recent news
from the Sou'h sdds to the sorrowfuI burden.
Il il the staple subject Of comment with the
y whole Southern press. The Alsbsma Sen.
stors and members Of Congress appeal to
their constituents 70 plant corn and raise hogs
The Montgomery Advertiser hiss On official
call from the commissasy there for food and
supplies OF bacon for which he offers 6ny
cents . pound. IL East Tennessee the
people are starving. Flour At Knoxville
wss held q City five dollars barrel. previ-
ous TO the last great fall in the price Of
l"Confsderste." scrip. What It must cost for
ID barrel Of -four now can only be imagined.
SO il goes everywhere.
4 All this was long ago foretold. but the
warning was scofFed at and derided. The
lSouthern people never raised suficien, for
: their own wsnts. They we're dependent on
; the gram growing and csstIe-rsising States
of the great West. They were always
yesr ahead Of their income and resourcss.
But sll that was 10 be cured By repudation
of their debts and BY planting corn instead
lIof sugar. cotton. and tobacco. Il - true
! that the cotton. sugar. end tobacco crops are
y elma.nlv abandoned, but on millions Of acres
: where they once grew in luxuriance. there
ylsre no hsrvests Of golden ccra sssndiug 10
> ,ne,r places. The ground that has been lost
. to the S'ushsrn staples has been for the
. greater part lost. also. 20 agriculture 10 eve
Try form. Dssolation walks over the once
fruitful fields, and il 10 10 his footsteps that
|iamine stalks along.
Il II is In this condition Of Southern affairs
that the rebel journals realize the impsnd-
. ling crisis. Il is because Of this We now
-|hear Of raids and invssions. Whatever
. spasms Of sclvisy We may now sec. OF that
: may be shortly heard Of within the rebel
e e|Iines, are 70 be charged % the same account
When ve 6ad the leading rebel newspaper
: s|concuring in the statement that their ''Con-
sIfedesscy" is 70 be saved Or lost By the
U uIevents Of the next "three months il seems
2 that they have very nearly exhausted their
Q osuppIiss Tor both army end people. What
e then is there 10 save them in the coming
! three monshs! They eso hope for no deci-
sive results 10 bauls. for the loyal people
have not 70, put forth third Of their strength
Grant 10 the rebels the most brilliant sue
cesses and vhst will this sll availi They
will bot excite another uprising of the inex-
: ''haus,ibIs fres States. The hopes ofshs en-
smy lie 10 90 such delusivs possibilities.
!: They trsst to the Anglo Rebel feet build
'sliuR on the Mersey and The Clyde. and they
ylhave expe csstions Of such political diversions
leIin the Northern States . viii retrieve their
2 |sinkiog cause. By means Of the 6rst they
nn''lhope % raise the blockade long enough 10
Get out their embargoed cotton and get 10 :
illI years supplies. This i should BE- our object
|so thwsEt BY pushing on the attack and csp-
Isurs of Charleston. Savsnnsh. and Mobile.
s'IThess ports once more 10 our possessicn
y there will DO no further necessity Tor block
M sde. With respect to the second, oil those
Who are crying "peace when there % no
al peace" should remember that their i0dis-
=. .lcreet proceedings are only removing their
4. cherished object, whether real o. pretended
al further Oh. Every increase Of The eIsmcr
On only sdds to the duration of the war By in
n spIrine false hopes a the South, thus adding
~, millions 70 the expenditures they affect 70
lhs bswsil. and sacrificing thousands on shous-
ands Of human lives.
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