The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-09-15

and armies OF emlgrants, whose sous 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 overwhe.m
| our enemies!
| Tens of thousands Of lives are lost be-
cause our array of strength is so dispro-
| portionately less than that against which
| we battle. Eyeryw here we meet on nearly
| equal terms, where We might as well have
| four TO one. The cost to us in blood and
treasure, of a prolonged war, can hardly
be foreseen-thee economy is infinite of such
an effect as the glorious North should put
| forth.
The South will fight as long as the
struggle is equal; It ,oiW submit to such
preponderance as we should show In every
field.
Glance at the summers campaign. If
Sherman had but $4,000 to 10000 more
men near, the South would be lost. because
| Hood would be annihilated. If Meade
| had moved in the spring with reserves of
| rs 900 TO 10000 men, Lee would have
| been hopelessly crushed. Even at this
moment third column of 10000 to 50,-
900 rightly moved would give unopposed
blows to the confederacy from which she
| could never rise.
What folly, then, to struggle on in this
way, wheE we can send to the field five
times the force already there. What
weakness to Thick 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 oldep days of quiet,
and regiments oc able-bodied citizens
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,
| aud few months of mparatively trifiing
exertiou, of such effort as alone Is worthy
OF the great work-and the seDellion will
crumble before us. Fill this draft prompt
ly and willingly, with good and true men !;
send few spare thousands over rather
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 us, except
through Southern subjugation, but an
archy and war forever. The Pacific, the
Western, the Eastern States would at ouce
fall aaunder. The South would be dom
inant, and the people of the North would
deserve to be driven a-feld under. negro
overseers, to hoe corn and cotton for South
ern masters.
But no faint-hearted or short.sigbted
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 signify His
will that We should be separated; and un-
less SO separated, peace is delusion, and
its advocacy treason against the wisest
and hohes: interests of our country.
1t has been with a trust that renewed
hope and yigor might be givea, where
vigor and hope are needful, that have
written, and you have my consent to using
this as you please; aud am,
Very truly yours, T. SEYMOUR,
Brigadier General U S. Volunteers.
IT. Jr