The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-08-25


lamp posts in front of his own Presiden-
tial mansion.
However that may be, if we are but
true ourselves there can be but one re-
suit. What ace noD need IS men-only men
not substitutes or hirelings who go
forth for any motive but the country's
good, and produce but little beyond de-
preciating our armies-but MEN-such
as really constitute the State, and boast
of being freemen and the sons of free
men, If these fail to support their coun-
try's cause in her hour of peril, they are
unworthy of continuing freemen, and
should blush evcr>to exercise freeman's
privileges.
But if bounties must be paid, let it be
in Southern land, not in Northern gold5
and armies of emigrants, whose sons 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.
10 every intelligent soldier who has
fought through all these indecisive cam-
paigns on almost numberless indecisivG
fields, the question constantly arises, with
touching force, why we do not overwhcln'
our enemies?
Tens of thousands Of lives are lost bti
cause our array of strength is so dispro-
portionably less than that against which
we battle. Everywhere We meet on near
ly equal terms, where We might well have
four to one. The cost to US In blood and
treasure, of prolonged war, can hardly
be foreseen-the economy is infinite of
such an effort as the glorious North
should put forth.
The South will fight as long as the
struggle is equal; 1t aeW submit to such
preponderance as we should show in eve
ry field.
Glance at the summers campaigns. If
Sherman had but 50,000 or $4,000 more
men near, the South would be lost, be-
cause Hood would be annihilatei. If
Meade had moved in the spring with re-
serves of rs 900 to 100,000 men. Lee
would have been hopelessly crushed :
Even at this moment a third column of
900 to $4,000 rightly moved, would
give unopposcd blows to the Confcdcraey
from which she could never rise.
What folly then to struggle on in this
way, when we can send to the field five
times the force already there. What
weakness to think we cannot conquer the
South Behind the James only boys
and cid men are to be seen, while
here men buy and sell as in the olden
days Of quiet, and regiments of able
bodied citizens crowd the streets of our
cities
There is but one course consistent with
safety or honor. Let the people awake
to a sense of their dignity and strength,
and few months Of comparatively tri-
fling exertion of such effort as alone IS
worthy Of the great work, and the rebel
lion will crumblc before US. Fill this
draft promptly and willingly, with good
and true men; send few spare thousands
over rather than under the call, and the
summer sun of 1865 will shine upon \
regenerated land
There are some who speak of peace =
OF all Yankees the Southern most seorns
those who do not fight, but are glad G.
Inou9h 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 subju-
CATION, but anarchy and war forever
The Pacific, the Western, the Eastern
States would at once fall asundcr. The
South would be dominant, and the peo-
pie Of the North would deserve to be
driven a-feld, under negro overseers, to
hoe corn and cotton for Southern mas
tcrS.
But no faint hearted or short sighted
policy can set aside the eternal decree of
the Almighty, who has planted no lines
of disunion between the Atlantic and the
Western deseFts-betwcen the great lakes
and the Gulf Of Mexico-that signify
His will that we should be separated; and
unless SO separated peace is delusion,
and It's advocacy treason against the
wisest and holiest interests of our coun-
try.
1t has been with trust that renewed
hope and yigor might be given, when
vigor and hope are needful, that | have
written, and you have my consent to
using this as you please; and | am
Very truly yours, L. SEYMOUR,
Brigadier General United States Vol
unteers To ". +. DoDGE, JR. Esq,
New York