Wilmington journal., 1863-03-05
Fron the Richro rond Dispatch.
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La coirs Hngs Asd0. 49,
The Yanbee tsosgees has, by enc dash. made an ab
solute monarch of Lincoln. It has given him the en-
tire coprol OF the purse and the sword,hose instru
Of abeslute power which il has ever been the I'M
ceasng policy Of all Anglo Saxon peoples to keep sep
arsed The hand that grasps both the purse and the
sword is the hand Of an bsolute irresponsible monarch
and written Constitutions and paper guarantees laws
and legislatures mere toys in his sight For the
sake OF destroying the people of the South the Yankee
Congress tamey surrendered every barrier against
every eguard of person ar property Lincoln is
undsputed master OF every thing 1t remains with him
TO say whether he will permit any more legislation
wbe hsr be will go out at the end OF his term whether
another Congress shall assemble or, il he should
determine to permit it to assemble, whether it shall be
anything more than convenient machine for register
ing his edicts. The Yam have been living under
virtual despotsm for two years The present system is
not merely actual despotism it is such in name,
we'll az fact.
Every man bstween the ages OF 19 and As iB placed
at the disposal Of Lincoln 70. military service He has
power not On to keep in the RANKS the 100000 who,
it was fondly hoped, would 60 out in May but he may
add thereto 5000 900 if he #. The illusion with
regard to the power of the Yankee Government
tain b. strain upon their fDanees is dissipated .
breath he Congress has annihated the State banks
at a blow, and made greenbacks the only currency
within Lipcon's domnions. So Line oln can have as
many soldiers as be may wish, and pay them, O. An
other illusion still sxss. 1t is supposed that those who
Of the fld at present will refuse to go, and
tnaI thOse VINO are I'D alrcaOy Will ID
This is ali folly. If at home refused to Co. they
will be connect ed to do it at the point OF the bsyonet
II men already in the field reiufe to any longer
they, too, wi be compelled, unless the whole body lay
down teir at movement turn them against
their ficers This is thing unheard of in Sup
pose these all revolt how they to be fed! How
are they to get away Where is the money for their
necessiles to from? 1t is folly TO make any such
calculation. There may be estrtons enormous
scale but the bulk of the army will remain
st ma thf srlf ha Viii
may have been induced to entertain by the knowledge
that large body OF the enemys forces 60 out OF SER
vice in May Those troops will stay, Voluntarily if they
choose it, BY torce il they oppose it, SO far from being
diminished the Yankee force is about to be prodgous-
ly increased We must meet it, and we must beat it.
hat be done cny by pushing the conscripton to
its most limit and thereby by preserving the proper
tsn We have always borne to them There is not the
slightest ground for dgcour lgement IN all this They
have always been vastly superior to in numbers and
they have uniformly been beaten upon every field of
Even with the largest army that has
taken the field since the time of Xexes they have shown
Themselves uaahls throughout this winter, the season
most Propitous them from their enormous superior
ity sa the water to Ike the slightest impression upon
us. 1t with $50 600 men they fad themselves utterly
Incompetent TO muks the least advance, what can
the effect by doubling trebbng their numbers .
1t is not men that they want. They have numerical
force sufficient to conquer the world 1t ia the heart
the SOUL the spirit that is wantng-hat leaven which
leavens the whole nmp-that principle without which
an array be it as large as it may, cercass-s
body devoid of life ard fit only to be tie short Of its
eaemies Three millions Of men must necessarily be
mob. Is is not in the power of man to reduce such
multi lde to anything resembling the shape of we'll
trained army Such moba never have made, and never
viii make conque'ts II has been by mnch smaller
bands OF hardy, resoue, well disciplined men, that
great aders IN all ages have effected the subjugatlon
Of nations. Alexander inva led TIE East with 35 900
mem Ca1sr subdued Gaul with four legons-about
5000. -BoDaparte overrau and conquered Italy with
'ut $4,000 But one OF modern times has lived
Who could handle 500 90 men. The Yankees have not
me General that handle the twentieth part of that
lumber, and unless troops be we'll handled Numbers
# avail
Let US, then, make up minds to meet these huge
1obs without any doubts as to the result. They will
ut stand in the way of each other. They will but
er order and discipue-hard enough now to enforce
their enthusiastically impossible. Let it be re-
rendered that We cannot and must not give up. To
so were to abandon everything for hess blood thirs
wretches determination to extingush the in
abitants and to possess the land. Our own opinion il
lat they will only make our victory the glori-
IS BY the enormous numbers they bring to render it
npossible