The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-03-03
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the rebels small, but much coveted
territory. The whole 10th Army
Corps, under command Gen. Hurlbut,
is in this expedition. This expedition
is spicndidly equipped and started off
in most excellent spirits, and in mum.
bers that will make rebels tremble
iwheroyer they may go.
1t is true, Gen. Grant is actively
forwarding supplies, organizing troops,
and getting ready for another move
The rebels, too, are making great ef-
forts to meet him; butin spite of all
their efforts to recruit their ranks by
transcription, the desertions are great
Ily oyerbalancing, l speak what 1
know, when l say that the Tennessee
troops are leaving the rebel army by
squads, by companies, and by battal-
ions. There is crowd of them here
daily, giving themselves up and tax
ing the OATH This looks like the be-
ginning Of the end. On tho other
hand, the enlistment of loyal troops
here, both white and black, increases
daily. And one Of tho most significant
signs of the times is, that the South is
becoming moro rapidly reconciled to
the enlistment of negro troops and the
universal emancipation Of slaves, than
the North. The ready compliance of
this people with policy that three
= years ago provoked their unqualified
indignation, and plunged them in the
: most sanguinary struggle ever known,
is one of the strangest results Of this
unprecedented rebellion. The frey
seccssionists who, a few months ago
r would have stormcd hill for one mig
: ger, is now ready to part with the last
c contraband he can only have peace.
! Peace peace they gasp at every
p breath; and when peace comes they
!, will not mourn over departed Cuffee
h No never; but the last man Of them
u will say DIN the niger he Rcvcr
= was anything but a bundle of mischief
!, to us; and q heathcnish incubus to our
d prosperity; that has doomed us, with
/ the advantage of soil and climate in
II our favor, to fall behind the energetic
q and all-conquring Yankees in the race
# for wealth and power. 1t is curious
t. study to watch the course of events
a and see the rapid development of new
9, ideas which will ere long produce ono
4 e of the grandest moral revelations yet
,r known in the history of our race. The
people of the South seem to be moro
J. intensely religious than the NORTH
h In short, while the people Of the Nortl
u u reduce everything to philosophical AK
n IONS, purging it thoroughly in th,
ID cruciblc of common sense the people
ID of the South are willing to accept TIN
+, conclusion that
:: "There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hcw them we will"
- - And without taking the trouble t,
- :, solve the problem for themselves, the,
consider the result as I'or Del Th
y all controlling influence of such i'm
pressions is Enthusiastically manifest il
= the present struggle, and accounts to
90 great degree for tho otherwise unac
- 90 countable change in public sentiment
10, Having engaged in this war with TIL,
~ - impression that slavery is a God give
y, institution, and that under the super
~ intendencc Of special Providence
they would establish great an
mighty empire, whose historical illu
mination was to have been ebony; an
having after all made such miserc
bic failure, they now begin to thin
that "whom the gods wish to destroy
,ot they first made mad" and that sl'
~ very is an unmitigated curse in til
Il sight of Heaven, and this war q juds
Id, mont for its purgation; else Prov
nd dcnce would have smiled on the
Nv cause, ard given them the victory
- They now begin to look on '0ld ABB
" as n kind of avcnging angel sent b
lly Heaven to smite them for their wicl
cw odnoss, and to root out an Institute
,sc which they now begin to believe WI
no foredoomed to perish, and the penalt
of its crimes to be atoncd for by Il
'a' blood of their sons and brothers. Wi
these impressions bearing them dow
led along with the unbearablc load of ot
md or calamities, they are ready and Wi
i; ing to swallow everything that Iii
y" coin chooses to offer them, emancip
ma tion proclamations, oaths and all.
Be- Had this people succeeded in q
no. complishing their cherished obieC
iar they would have taken it as settle
hon fact for all future time that slave
'o is divine institution, and under Il
r' special guardianship Of Heaven; b
nre now, considering themselves desert
, in by the only friend they had, that th
me- considered powerful enough to VIII
, the Yankees, they are perfectly wi
ing to appoasc him, by casting fro
my them their idol, and supeistitious
in washing their hands of its pollution.
rye This is no fancy sketch it is tru
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