The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-09-01

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Tar CosrsDrRAsE REsERvEs--In the
l.st extremity. should the Confederate
government be no longer able 10 cope
With the eueny, even. 81 bringing into
The ficld Ill the men between eighteen
and forty 1--we and organizing into savage
.guerilias oil the gay young gentlemen be-
tween forty I've and sixty, there are large
bodies Of reserves, who, if they can be
suadc To face the music, and to put their Pc
culisr powers in full play upon the enemy,
would tear down the United States Gov
eminent, or any other Government un-
der the sun, in twenty -four hours. TAX
ing as the measure Of their capacity fos
mischief the amount Of harm they have
done their own country, we feel safe in
asserting that they can be made the most
deadly enginery yet employed in modern
warfare.
The first class, to be put immediately
in the field, with no privilege Of obtain
ing substitutes, should be the specula-
tors, extortioners, and every other man
who has grown rich out of the wants Of
his suffering fellow-men, and while his
country was bleeding at every pore
Upon the approved principles Of setting a
rogue to catch rogue and fighting the
devil with fire, we can conceive no bet
ter policy than pitting these homemade
Yankees against the foreign article.
Such q charge as they would make,
judging by their financial achieve.
ments, has not yet been equalled
in this war. Even Pickett's divis-
ION at Gettysburg could not rival
ahis legion of pickpockets. The Yankees
already mortified to death by the supe-
rior knavery of the Southern extortioncrs
could not look them for moment in the
face. Insteadof handling their muskets,
they woul1 be buttoning their pockets,
and seeking safety for that which they
hold dearer than life in frantic retreat
If the Government knows what it is about
1t will at once order the spectators and
extortioners TO the forefront Of the bat
tie.
Another large army might be made up
of the croakeH, who stay at home whilst
brave men are in the field, and, whilst
they will not fght.themselvcs, do their
best, unintentionally perhaps, to discour-
age those who do These sad dogs should
1t once become the prey Of the Confede-
rate dog catchers. They should he made
to turn to some useful account their lugu
brious wailngs and tribulatiQns. Strong
bodies OF them posted Of dark nights in
the immediate neighborhood of the ene-
my, should be set to croaking like the
combined orchestras of the Dismal
Swamp. No mortal ofordinary flesh and
blood could stand the d0leiul sound.
The spirits Of the honest would sink be-
fore that vast, Internal chorus Of the hope
les. damned, which has already half de- |
morslized and paralyzed much holder men
shan the Yankees, the brave soldiers of
the Southern Confederacy.
And, finally, ''forlorn hope" might be |
organized for the Southern army in the |
stout and stalwart young men who are |
crowding the streets Of all our principal |
towns, some Of them sporting uniforms |
which are a sham and an imposture, mas. |
much as they never yet smelt Of gun
pow der, and all lattening themselves in
various positions at the public crib,
whilst the sons OF other men, who have
no more at stake than themselves in the
success Of the cause, are serving, often
IS priSstes, in the field. The whole
baud ofthese luxurious swine shoull be
made 10 pay Cor their Leeping, and those
Of them who do the ornamental in The |
military way compelled to flourish their
fine feathers in the company of those
valiant war hawks of the battle field |
whose fierce eyes and red talons are the |
only uniform that fighting birds affect
4 gentleman lately from Mississippi in
forfns It's that at every stopping place on |
his way 10 Richmond he saw such num-
bers Of active young'men that he won
siersd where the Confederate Generals
had drawn their armies. There is third
corps which We recommend to the atten-
Zion of the Government. Tho shams,
J,umbugs, skulkers, and selfish lovers OF
their ease, who permit Drawer and better
men than themselves to bleed and die for
the common cause, should be compelled
TO perform their part, and there are
ssnough OF them to Outnumber the Yam
KEGS Oh every battlefield. The most
stringent measures should be adopted to
plsce mcn Of the military age, not dis
qualified physically, in military positions
in actual Held duties, where they may fill
up. az Gar as may be, the thinned ranks
Of patriot heroes whose shoe latches they
are not worthy to unloOse.