The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1864-10-19
The Spirit of the Enemy.


The Spirit Of the Enemy.
This, says the Richmond Wig, is a war of
determination. The order ofGEANT to SHER-
IDAN, executed by that officer with .remorseless
severity, was not wanting to convince US that
the object of our enemy is to extirpatc the in.
habitants of the Confederate States, and to
settle the country with Yankees and negroes
The whole course of the war, especially since
the Emancipation Proclamation of LINCOLN,
bears incontestable testimony to the design,
which is further strengthened by the. reve!a-
tions of the Northern press and the utterances
of everv man connected with the party now
paramount in that country, who had addressed
the pnblic. since that event. The Yankees
are peculiarly sensitive to the. opinion
of the world, and it was to influence
that opinion and to justify the foregone, con-
clusion oftheir Government, that they inven-
ted all those falsehoods respecting the treat
ment of their prisoners and the massacre of
their negro soldiers. To the same end was
fabricated Che atrocoussie with regard to the
death of DAHLGREN, who was killed i'm a night
attack by our troops, when it was so dark
that it was impossible to distinguish one per-
son from another, but who was represented by
the Yankees as having been deliberately mur.
dered in the broad light of day. To the same
end are the Yankee .populace continually slim
ulated by their press with tales of Confederat t.
atrocity, which, in ninety nine cases out of
one hundred, are pure Inventions and in the
hundred are only true in so far as the case is
one of retaliation for brutalties perpetrated by
the Yankees. The design is to get up case
which may justify any excess Of cruelty they
may think fit to perpetrate, in the eyes of the
world, in order that, under its shelter they
may carry out their predetermined schemes
of murder and devastation. If they can in
duce Europe to believe that each instance of
deliberate atrocity is only case of Just retri-
button, their vanity and ambition receives
ample satisfaction, and the Yankee nation
becomes the stern and irresistible Nemesis of
the Continent treading the path of vengeance
with swift and certain steps, and with remorse-
less justice exacting atonement from the
wrong-doer, even in the hour of his triumph
If the Yankee people can place themselves in
that imposing attitude before the world, it will
crafty their vanity no doubt; but their hatred
of us, and their affection for our possessions
even stronger within them than their vanity.
They are prepared to exterminate the popula-
tion of these States, regardless of the opinion
of mankind.
Brown, better known as A. WARD. Snowman, SAYS
If | am drafted, | shall resign. Deeply CRATE
ful tor the unexpected honor conferred upon
me, | shall.fe compelled to resign the position
in favor of some more worthy person. MoIes.
sty is what ais me. THAT'S what keeps me
tndcr.
II The salary of the Goyernor- General of India,
which, is the highestin the gift of the English
crown, is thirty thousand pounds sterlinga year,
exclusive ofall allowances, which may be esti-
mated at ten thousand pourds--in all two hun
dred thousand dollars year.