The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-18
SATURDAY MORNING. JULY I8 1868.

lister, writing from Meridian, Miss, July 9th
among other things, says;
The people OF Mississippi do nos meet i'm
pending dangers with tDat spirit which il was
thought they would exhibit Each citizen
whilehe evinces an extraordinary degree o
zeal in assigning reasons why every mau
should enlist while inducements tor all bis
tneighbors TO rush 10 jackson are as plentiful
as blackbeEries, yet he can demonstrate TIE
necessity Cor his remaining at home. Tie
,peoPse Of this State were thoroughly obedient
no Uler leaders in time OF peace, Mankind has
Wrought the Legislation Of Mississippi exraor.
dlnary in more instances than one, 10 say the
least Of it, but the people adhered to the poll
tcians, and party lines we're rigidly dehued =
The politicians, nave generally gone into the
srmy--they arc oliiceholders still; but il seems
that their influence is lost They are not 30
closely followed as when cohesion was effected
by shouts and acclamations, and by depositiug
tickets in the baot.box. There was no couf~
age demanded i'll all ths; there would have
been in refusing to obey.
Men are accustomed 10 say that they must
Temaip at home to care for their families when
tbe Federals approach, and yet when Grant 8
army advances, they are forced to leave. Their
pTesepce ayals nothing, They are incapable
of resistance, At hope they can accomplish
nothing; in the army they would fight well,
eince they thoroughly comprehend the issue
involved. If Tennesseeans have suffered at
the hands of Rosecrans; II the country around
Memphis have been puaged and laid waste,
Infinitely greater have been the msiormnes
and suiferings Of the people oil Misslsslppi,
wherever they have become subject TO Federal
exactops.
/ know we'll an aged widow who, two years
ago, was possessed ol an estate worth SlOOU0
A Federal garrison occupied little ynpage
hard by. Her negroes were one aiIer another
stolen Those that were left refused 10 per
form any labor. They were TOO worthless to
take grain TO a neghUoring mlll aud absolute
" lived on parcbed corn They quarreled,
and fought and slept, aud dozsd away The
days Of spring aud summer, I'LL famine drove
them to the Federal camp. How they live,
know not. Many, ain told, have died, me
children by famine, men and wom9nby iegors
and the most loathsome diseases Contracted
among the brutal eoldery. Their mistress
lives upon rations drawn from the Federal
,compieBariat
If the same garrison remained at any given
placo. its exactions would possibly cease at
last; but when au OHIO regiment mas stolen
everything, there comes one lrom the purheus
Chicago. lnaddened by desire Tor plunder aud
gold. Every house is again searched aud eve
~ ~ citizen threatened. 10 Germantown, a little
village in Tennessee, just beyond the Mssis-
sippi border, there have been many different
regiments garrisoning the place. With each
change the inhahitapts have been subjected to
fresh exactiop. The rglorious army OF the
Unieu" tore down the Masonic Hail, in order
10 obtain the coins that were deposited be-
meath the cornerstone They destroyed Two
churches, after using them ior some time as
barracks and then as STAPLES -Four miles from
the village their lived aR old man named Tay.
lor. perhaps seventy years old He sold hls
cotton and was known to have ~ 900 10 gold.
Federal soldiers went to his house dragged
him forth, demanding the gold. When he re-
fused to designate his place OF coneealment,he
was hanged and left TO die. His negroes cut
him down and his life was saved. Not long
afterwards the soldiers returned and as Taylor
again refused to give them the gold they
hanged him till he was dead. II is a fact, IN.
credible 40 yaur readers may deem il, that a
lady, whose false teeth on plate OF gold had
excited the greed Of Federal officer WAS
halted on the highway, knocked down and
then the Hsoldiers OF the Union drew forth
tns gold and left the bleeding woman as they
thought, 70 die. There were few Unopisls
about Germantown when the village was first
occupied by the federal soIdiery; but now all
capable OF bearing arms have fed Many,
even boys and very old men, baV0 joined The
guerrillas. II would seem that a knowledge
ef these facts would induce people to resist be-
@fe their homes were occupied aud their fields
laid waste, and yet men are accustomed TO say
that the necessities OF their families require
them to remain at home.
Il IA we'll to present these facts not only 10
Eennenseeans hut to Georgians Miasssippi,
ana win soon comprehend them with all their
overwhelmingly they do not, even at this
hte hour. II signifies nothing what losses and
ealamites beIall our arms, nor what extent Of
SomAern territory is overruni II Lees and
Bragqa armies are both lost, the people
mrlat still fight there is nothing gained BY
NlElmission. ExaGtions, peragcuions roaberies
rapes, and murder, and then gaunt iomiue fol-
low in the paths OF the armies OF the North.
They bvbr promise protection, like the British
in the old war, but when once enslaved the
people are subjected to a despoiism as terri.
BE as yankee ingenuity and dutch stupidity
Rnd barbarism can iItlct,
To resist is the first and final duty Of every
oitlnbn There Is not Southerner SO feeble
tdfhe cannot clay at least one Of our enemies
but no can accomplish more than this by be-
coming q soldier Until the South becomes an
enoampment and every Southerner colder,
while yalneea can secure cotton, plumber and
gold this war shall last. Then, ghm oil is
lost IL lost II must he by tho iracton Of the
people, the remaining wealth Of the South will
Be distributed among federal soldiers, aud lin
soln will be Observation-Disclosures, de bonis non, Of
The Confederate States. S. l..
sgW The property Of Mrs. Mary =, Dan-
aridgo, formerly Mrs w w. S, Baes) aI