The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-04-03
The Crisis Has Come.

er Of the p,escnt state Of the war has come to tn
conclusion that the next thirty days hold our nc
tonal destiny, aud that our men ut home hav
10 their hands one ,csal or zoe, which simpl,
turnsOn the resolve ard sxscusien, whether corr
alone shall be planted " mixed with "Princ
Cotton" and the nauseous weed tobacco? Corn
81 this time, is the main sinew of the war. w
have inexhaustible mines of salt on the sea coast
would deem it derogstory to argue with an,
intelligent planter the chances of gain in few
bales of cotton, hogsheads of tobacco, or hi. 10
erty, HE property, HIS ALL. But l am sorry 4
say there are other men at home, besides planters
viz Northern men with Southern feelings, anC
Southern men with Northern feelings, who in tn,
chaos" of war seem to have lost every feeling
Many Of whom are so blinded by covetousness
that they have lost consciousness too; and, an
sorry to add, they appear to have forgotten they
too have the chances to die as well as the soldie
in the field, and from the tears of widows and or
phans laying up for themselves treasures below
"where the worm dieth NOT" but "the sins o
the fathers are visited on the children to tn,
third and fourth generation" OF such is tn,
Ertortioner, and the most excellent merchant
who attend the large auctions and for the larges
lot Of goods always pay the largest price, to eI
cuse that unctious thought monopoly, placing
their own value on the goods, selling them il
large lots, to merchants at last to be doled on
to the consumers, with half dozen war profit.
tackled on.
could name one universal and most needed
article to clothe the naked, and pluck scale from
some of the odous cotton manufactures, viz
Cotton Cards, on the leaf, which cost, perhaps
whero manufactured, twenty five cents per pair
AT auction party bought the whole lot at $40, =
600 sold $4,000 worth to cub merchants mostly;
the balance held at the low price of fifteen dol
lars per pair. Oh cosld many of the like grind
ing transactions be made public, and full judy
ment be put on them by the women, am not sure
the individuals own daughters who would not sDesr
at them, and agree with Cicero, IN his Ethics,
that all petty trades are Incidentally base but not
absolutely feloniously so wholesale. These acts
and the like, exercised by the STAY AT ROME MEN
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that 10 Our women who, by their noble zeal,
have so far sustained our pickering fortunes with
smiles and tears, II is for them only to come to
the rescue and with their frowns wither the cot
ton and tobacco planters, sneer the corrupt mer-
chant, and hiss the ExroRrIoSER. N.H.w.
Paradise, s. c., March IS, 1858.
HOW a Man Feels in Battle.
There can be nothing more puzzlng than the
analysis of ones feeling on the battle field. You
cannot describe them satisfactorily to yourself or
others. To march steadily ap to the mouths of q
hundred cannon while they pour ont FIRE and
smoke, and shot and shell In a. storm that mows
the men like grass, is horrible beyond description
appalling 1t is absurd to say man can do it
without fear. During Hancock's charge at Fred
ericksburg for along distance the slope was swept
by such hurricane of death that we thought eve
~ step would be our last, and am willing to say
for one, that was pretty badly scared. Whatev-
or may be said about getting used to H." old
soldiers secretly dread battle equally with new
ones. But tho most difficult thing to stand up
in Fredericksburg, drawn up in the line of battle
on the cdge Of the field, watching the columns
file past us and disappear in a cloud of smoke,
where horses and men and coorS 90 down in con-
fusion, where all sounds arc lost in the screaming
shells, the cracking of musketry, the thunder of
artillery, and knowing our own turn comes next,
expecting each moment the word Forward"
It brings strange kind Of relief when "For-
ward" comes. You move mechanically with the
rest Once fairly in for it, your sensibilitios are
strangely blunted, you care comparatively moth
ing about the sights that shocked you at first;
mon torn to pieces by cannon shotbecomes mat
ter Of course. At such a time there comes la
tent susenance from within us, or above us, which
no man anticipates who has not boon in such a
place before, and which most men pass through
life without knowing anything about. What Is
III Where does IL come from1
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