Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-01-22
REMARKABLY ARTICLES FROBI THE
IlALEIGH PROGRESS.
The People on tho verge Of Starvation,
Peace Alone the Remedy.

hANnt AnD ALEAlGAgs 1
No More Men to Spare from Ihe Farms.
From the Raleigh Daily Progress, Dec. q, 1881
THE 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 these who adhere to tuch |
a proposition will find out, when 1t is too |
late, that they have been mistaken.
Confederate money is bad enough, We
know; but the dirth Of provisions in the |
market is not caused by want Of conf |
dence in the currency, but because the pro- |
ducers have nothing to bring in. Men |
who can command means are gathering up
gold, silver, bank notes and treasury notes,
with which to buy pork in adjoining coun-
ties, 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 means Of trade and will
no longer bny what the soldiers and the
people want, the army and the people will
resolve themselves into mob, and those
who have misled 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 q
small sum of money and visit the city
msrket some cold morning.
We tell the people and the authorities
that the present condition Of things can
not and will not last The masses OF the
honest hard-Working people have been de-
II II anI fho,-
| will not suffer and endure always. Peace
they want, and peace they will have, II
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 remain with
them unless the poor can be provided for.
The muscle Of the country will not stsrve
while there is bread in the land.
Peace, such g peace as statesmen and
honest rulers might obtain for US, would
give US on abundance Of all creature COM
forts at reasonable prices-would reward
honest toll with an abundant harvest but
war, continuation Of the war, will robus
of all social and political rights, and make
the many the slaves Of the few.
Every man who is now for war, in pre-
ference to decided steps by both Confeder-
ate and State authorities looking to peace,
regardless of age or condition, should at
once enter the army; for there is but one
way in which our ruin can be made thor
ough and complete, and that is to continue
the war. We believe that peace can be
made that the world will consider honor
able, and that those who assume to rule us
ought to take steps at once to make it, for
enough has been said by the enemy to sat
isfy ell reasonable 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
that can be made, we are in favor of an
effort on the part Of our authorities to
make some peace, and the trucking mis-
cresnt who objects to this is 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 stsy-at-home Seeessionists is sEoh that
we can let no opportunity pass to abuse
them.
[FTom the Raleigh Daily Progress, Dec. 20, 1863 ]
THE CONsORIPTIoN
There is not another man to spare from
the farms or other Industrial pursuits Of
the country, and further draft on this
class will be frsught with the most disas-
trous consequences. II more men are
wanted in the line, let the thousands Of
able-bodied men already in the pay of the
Government be placed there, and the
drOEes 0nd non producers who insult
honest toll by their constant swagger, and
who have been shielded by the eorruptions
of Office holders since the war commenced,
be gathered up and compelled to fight for
that liberty for which they ever profess to
be 80 ready to pour out their precious
blood. r.
Congress, we fear, is disposed to run into
extremes, especially those members whose
States whose territory is largely or entire
ly in the hands of the enemy. If this war
is to be fought out to the last man and the
last dollar, if we are really battling for
independence, we must husband our re-
sources. We must have men to fight, and
we must have something to feed them on.
Beware of destroying the seed corn.
But, judging the future by the past, we
cannot say that we expect anything from
the present Congress. Its members seem
to have neither the patriotism or states
manship for the awful crisis with which
they have to deal.
The country rejoices that the end Of the
present Congress is so near; and if there
was to be thorough change in the Cabinet
and the executive at the same time, it
would only tend to increase public conf
dence, for there can be but few intelligent
persons found now but will acknowledge
that the six years terms established in
the formation of the Government was g
blunder.