The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-18
Critics and CrOakers.

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administer the Government than president Da-
Wis, and better qualified to command the army
than General Lee orGeneral Johnston With.
out the slightest knowledge of the theory or
any experience of practical legislation, they
pronounce Judgment upon the most difficult
questions of State policy with the most ludic-
rous self clfcomplacency. Without ever having
''set a squadron in the field" or indeed having
been in the field at all, they criticise cam
paign with as much confidence as Napoleon
Bonaparte. When battle is lost they ca tell
You exactly how it might have been won, and
when battle is won they are indignant that
the enemy was not annihilated and the war
concluded
Nothing will appcasc their righteous indig-
nation but the sacrifice ofsomc shining victim
The President or Secretary Of War should be
impcached, and host Of officers brought to
the block and dccapitatcd Nothing pleasecs
them. They pertinaciousy refuse to be COM
forted. According to them, the country, by
which they mean their own little village or
farm, is always about to be over rum The
truth is these men are croakcrs Like a dis
consulate crow upon dead tree, or a melan-
choly frog in the dismal swamp or "a moping
| owl that does to the moon complain" they fill
the air with their evil prognoscations If the
law of conscrpton could be so amended as to
include the critics and the croakers, it would
not only swell the ranks of the army materially,
but our women and children would sleep more
quietly, not having the fear of nightly Yankee
raids before their eyes and ultimate .ubiucation
daily. rung in their cars.
Away then with croakcry; it does no good
to ourselves or Others The times demand
that we should look calmly at the dangers that
| surround as, and as good citizens and true
patriots perform our respective parts in the
great drama which is being enacted. If we
are strong enough to fight let us take the field,
! and if we cannot fight let us be cheerful and
hold up the hands of those that can fight.
Above all let us look alott and keep our eyes
| upon the Pilot who stands by the helm and
wiling to sink or swim with the ship.
| y letter was received in this city, Yesterday,
says the LynchJurg RepuJEcan, from the Rev.
DIR. herfoot, of st. James College, near Ha-
gerstown, Maryland, announcing the death, on
the Goth of July, Of Mr.. AUGUSTINE LEFrwIcn,
of the Beauregard Artillery. He was wounded
in the lungs and shoulder, in skirimish, sew
cral weeks previously, during the retreat of
our army from Gcttysbnrg. He received at
the College Hospital every attention which his
situation required, and was buried with all due
respect in the Episcopal grave yard. The day
before his death, the Holy Communion was adj
ministosed to him. The clergyman above men
toned sends to his parents the comforting assu-
rance that their beloved son died in state of
hopeful preparation for the solemn change to
eternity.
On the 10Th Of January, 1s4s, (Appcndix
Congressional Globe, 1st Session, 3Oth Con-
grcss, page 94,) Abraham Lincoln, in a speech
then delivered by him, said:
"Any people, any where, being inclined and
having the power, have right to rise up and
shake off the existing Government, and form
new one that suits them better This is a
valuable. most sacred right right, which
we hope and believe is to hberate the world
Nor is this right confined to cases in which the
whole people of an existing Government NAV
choose to exercise it. Any portion of such