The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1864-09-03

ever to exercise treeman's privileges.
But if bounties must be paid, let it be
in Southern land, not in Northern gold !;
and armies Ct emegrants, whose sons
may aspire to even the rule of the nation
will cross the seas to win the broad acres
that disloyalty has forfeited to the State
To every intelligent soldier who has
fought through all these indecisive cam
paigns on almost numberleSs indecisive
fields, the question constantly arises, with
touching force, why We do not overwhclm
our enemies?
Tens Of thousands of lives are lost be-
cause our array Of strength is SO dispro-
pertionately less than that against which
We battle. Everywhere we meet on near
ly equal terms, where we might we'll have
four to one. The cost to us in blood and
treasure, of II prolonged war, can hardly
be foreseen-the economy is infinite of
such an effort as the glorious North
should put forth.
The south will fight as long as the
struggle is equal it ,oM submit to such
preponderance as we should show in
every field.
Glance at the summer campaigns. If
Sherman had but $4,000 or $1,000 more
men near the South would be lost be-
cause Hood would be annihilated. If
Meade had moved in the Spring with
Is, coo or 100, men, Lee would have
been hopelessly crushed. Even at this
moment a third column of 10000 or
$4,000 men rightly moved, would give
unopposed blows to the Confederacy
from which she could never rise.
What folly then to struggle on in this,
times the force already there. What
weakness to think we cannot conquer
the South. Behind the James only boys
and old men are to be seen, while here
men buy and sell as in the olden days of
quiet, and regiments of able-bodied citi-
zens crowd the streets of our cities.
There is but one course consistent with
safety or honor. Let the people awake
to sense of their dignity and strength.
and few months of comparatively trih-
ing exertion, of such effort as alone is
worthy of the great work, = and the re-
bellion will crumble before us. Fill this
draft promptly and willingly, with good
and true men and few spare thous-
ands over rather than under the call,
and the summer sun of 1865 will shine
upon regenerated land.
There are some who speak of peace
Of all Yankees the Southron most scorns
those who do not fight, but are glad
enough to employ them, as they do their
slaves, to perform their dirty work.
Peace for the South will be sweet indeed;
for rs, except through Southern subjuga-
ton, but anarchy and war forever. The
Pacific, the Western, the Eastern States
would at once fall asunder. The South
would be dominant, and the people Of
the North would deserve to be driven a
field under negro overseers to hoe corn
and cotton for Southern masters.
But no faint hearted or short sighted
policy can set aside the eternal decree of
the Almighty, who has planted no lines
of dIsunion between the Atlantic and
the Western deserts-between the great
lakes and the Gulf of Mexico that sig
Nifty His will tina. We Should be separated;
aud unless so separated peace is delu-
sion, and its advocacy treason against
the wisest and holiest interests of our
country.
1t has been with trust that renewed
hope and vigor might be given, when Wig
or and hope are needful, that l have
written, and you have my consent to US
ing this as you please ; and l am,
Very truly yours,
Il. SEYMOUR,
Brig. Gen. U. 5. Vols.
To W. E. Dodge, Jr., Esq, New York.