, 1864-01-26
THE RICHMOND WhIG on THE RE-
bELli0n.
The New Conscription ell
Denounced.
More Men can Neither be Spared,
Fed, Clad or Armed-Food Alarm
ingly Scarce-Currency Worth.
less-Railroads Wosn Out
The Devil to: Pay Gen
ally with the Cause,
and no Pitch Hot.
From the Richmond Whfg, Jan. 1861

[From the Richmond Whig, Jan. 16.1,
The cry Is for great armies. Everybody Is
to be Put in the Fanks' except such as are de-:
Very good, if by so doing ve can end the
An army correspondent, writing from Long
streets Corps, says there are 600 barefooted
men in that corps alonc. From Johnston's
llats BIagg's) srmy { comes I pitsons e9ppsa1 !d
In need of blankets, and not week ago pa-
per, reputed to be the Government organ in
this city, called upon the ladies to devote
their energies to knitting socks for Lees sol
dic1s. For some weeks past the Young Mems
cotton yarn to be knit into socks for these
samc soldiers Woo1en yarn Tas not to be
had. Day by day the clothes made for the
soldiers exhibit less wool and more cotton
What is the prospect for clothing next year!
.,,eed hut supplies from abroad caanot tecount-
cd upon. An Intercepted letter from Nassau,
printed In the 1ankee papers which came by
the 1aet fog Of truce, states that "nothlng
has entered Wilmington for q month" We
must then depend On the homo markets. for
one who buys beef has discovered that the
quarters and sides arc rapidly diminishing In
size. Younger catt1e are being slaughtered
every year. It is now thought we will have
to fail back upon nilch COWS. As cattle d,
minish, mutton must be substituted. aud
hence the sources both Of leather and wool
may be expected to decrease every month.
Thus the prospect at home does not encour-
agc tho belief that we will be ablc to clothc
armies larger than those which are now shty-
ering in nakedness
Al army must be fed as well as clothed.
The facts Just stated in regard 10 the supply
/, Of beef, apply with even more force to the
question Of subsistence than to TINT of cloth
Ing. Very little bacon is left, beef is going,
.nd mutton will hardly feed great armies,
It is said that Gen. Lee, during his late visit
to this city, exclaimed that the citizens had
no right to indulge themselves willie the sol
dieIs we're living on quarter Of pound Of
ncnt per dny, The hue and cry against the star
yation Of Yankee prisoners has scarcely sub
hospitals were forced to do without meat for
! day or two at a time bus not been forgotten.
East Tennessee, on which VIC relied mainly
| for supplies has fallen into the hands Of the
enemy. The clamor about impressments and
| the stoppage Of supplies on their way to
ment The standing crops IN entire counties
have been Impressed ut one fell swoop, under
! the plea that in no other manner could SUI
! ficient supply for the army be certainly Sc
cured. Under this system, and because OF 2
real scarcity as well, -four OF low grade Is
selling this dny in tho Confederate capital at
$40 barrel. It appears, therefore, that the
prospect of feeding the army already II Ihe
f1eld, much less once or twice Its size, Is not
encouraging -, i
Without lubor there can be no production.
| 0mr lahor is that of the African slave, who
rccuircs the supervision Of q white man at a1l
times. and never more than when M unusual
| ar nntity Of work is demanded OF him: Wo-
men, lads, sexagenarians, cannot make the
negro do his duty fully and faithfully; = man
rendy fbc fears Of i1surrection, occasfoned by
the Absence. Of the greater portion OF the
| arms-bearine white population, Inns produced
| lcniency ald Indulgence among the farmers,
wLich has encouraged the natuaal lazincss OF
| the elaye. and resulted in rnpidly and yearly
increasing dininution Of the crop. Take
AWAY all. or nearly al the vigorous whites,
and leave the negro to the feeble control OF
womcr. children and old men, and the dan
ger is that famine will be, .superadded TO- in
surrectdon.
were made to work es hard as the White hire,
linrs of the North and Of Europe, they could
4 sca1cclv produce more than enough to sup
j. nv lie wants Of the army, as it now stands,
Fl nricee not fuiuous to the credit Of the GOV
ernment. Couscribe The entire white popu'
.1lt;on within the nges OF Is and Sc, constitute
a rcec1Yc corps Of the lads he.E een, Is AMI IS
=. and the men between 50 and 60, abolish al
de;nile for teanelcrs.! orderlics, ambulance
dIiycre: :hoguital nsslstants and Ill the vi
!. carcy created: with negroes and uaulastoes
iamplc allowance to be, made for places tia
could be 1lled bj, disabled soldlefs,) and It j
y