Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-01-23
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LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.
Remarkable Articles from the Ra.
leigh Progress.
THE PEOPLE ON THE VERGE OF
STARVATION.
PEACE ALONE THE REMEDY.
tFrom the Raleigh Daily Progress, Dec. o. 1s6;
TIE QUESTION oE SUPPLIES


TIE QUESTION OF SUPPLIES.
Peace alone can prevent starvation 1t is
folly to talk to us about there being enough
supplies in the country. Such is not the
fact. and those who adhere to such n propo-
sition will find out when it is too late that
they have been mistaken.
Confederate money is bad enough, we
know; but the dearth of provisions in the
market is not caused by vant of confidence
in the currency, but because the producers
have nothing TO bring in. Men who can
command means are gathering up gold, sill
yer, bank notes, and treasury notes, with
which TO buy pork in adjoining counties.
and be thankful to get it upon the terms and
for the hard substance Offered.
How, then, will it be with those who
have nothing but the pittance in Confederate
money earned in sewing or other work
When the currency Of the Government ceases
to serve as II means of trade, and will no
I longer buy what the soldiers and the people
want, the army and the people will resolve
themselves into a mob. and those who have
mislcd and ruined them will have to fly for
their lives Do our people realize how near
we are to this state Of things If not, let
any citizen take a small sum of money and
visit the city market some cold morning.
! We tell the people and the authorities
| that the present condition of things cannot
J and will not last. The masses of the honest
/ Woodworking people have been deceived
and msled long enough, and they will not
suffer and endure always. Peace they want,
and peace they will have. if not upon such
/ terms as the leaders who have betrayed them
! desire, upon such terms as they themselves
shall prescribe. The rich. may house their
! meat and bread, but we tell them it will not
i remain with them unless the poor can be
: provided for. The muscle of the country
will not starve while there is bread in the
| land.
Peace, such q peace rs statesmen and
honest rulers might obtain for us. would
give US an abundance of all creature com
forts at reasonable prices would reward
honest toll with an abundant harvest; but
war, a continuation of the war, will rob us
Of all social and political rights, and make
the many the slaves of the few.
Every man who is now for war, in prefer
ence to decided steps by both Confederate
and State authorities looking to peace, re-
gardless of age or condition. should at once
enter the army, for !here is but one way in
which our ruin can be made thorough and
complete, and that is to continue the war
We believe that peace can be made tnat
the world will consider honorable, and that
those who assume to rule us ought to take
steps at once to make it, for cnongh has
been said by the enemy to satisfy all reason
able men that they would gladly remove
the quarrel from the sword and refer it to
the council chamber.
Though not in favor of the best peace
b that can be made, we are in favor of an
, effort on the part of our authorities to make
some peace, and. the trucking miscreant
who objects to this is a coward if he do not
at once shoulder his musket and march to
the front"
We have said more than we intended on
the question of supplies but our contempt
} for stay-at-home Secessonists is such that
we can let no opportunity pass to abuse
! them.
p From the Raleigh Daily Progress, Dec 90, 1865.
TIE CoNsCRIPTIoN.
{ There is not another man TO spare from
; the farms or other industrial pursuits of the
, country, and a further draft ON this class
, will be iraught with the most disastrous
consequences. IL more men are wanted in
| the line, let the thousands of bodied
| men already in the pay of the Government
, be placed there, aud the drones and none
, producers, who insul. honest toll by thcil
| constant swagger, and who have been shield
: ed by the corruptions of office holders since
/ the war commenced, be gathered up ano
) compelled 10 fight for that liberty for whicl
A they ever profess to be so ready 10 pour ou
their precious blood.
/ Congress, we fear, is disposed 10 run into
I extremes, especially those members whos'
: States are largely or entirely in the hands al
/ the enemy. Ii this war is to be fought ou
, 10 the last mfn and the last dollar ii W.
are really battling for Independence, w
. must husband our resources. We mus
/, have men Ia dght, and We must have some
thing 10 feed them on Beware OF destroy
ing the seed corn,
/ But, judging the future by the past w
cannot say that We expect anything iron
4 the present Congress, IT. members seem I,
have neither the patriotism oEs,alesmanshiI
, for .he awful crisis with which they have t'
! deal,
, The country FcJolees that the end Of th'
present Congress Is so near and II ihen
was 10 be thoEough change IN the cabine
aud the Executive Al the same time, tNoule
only tend 10 Increase public confidence, io
there eaa be but few Intelligent personi
. found now bat will aeknywledge that th'
ak yeaTs temH established In the formation
I of the Government was blunder.
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