Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-10-19
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THE COTTON STATES.

THE COTTON STATES. dor,
While great clamor is raised by a few
persons here to have the Legislature as
sembled so that the State officers and the
few men remaining at home may be sent
to the field, some Of the Cotton States
seem to be taking things coolly. Similar
measures were urged in. Alabama, the
Legislature was convened and the Govern
or called for the "last man." but after an
extra session OF twelve days the body ad:
journs wirhout having passed any military
bill or put a man in the field. And yet
Alabama is for war, for " fighting it on.
now her people, or many Of them, are
opposed to peace, that is any peace that
we are likely to get-the Legislature lays
peace resolutions on the table, and yet of
all that body of patriots and all their able
bodied constituents throughout the State
there is not one soul that is willing to help
fight the battles OF tho war which they re-
s0lve shall go on. And we learn from
good authority that not a volunteer is like
ly to be had from Georgia or Mississippi
during the remainder O. the war. Yet
they say we must slight it out" Who
fight it outa Do they mean the bronzed
veterans whom they have sent to Virginia
and elsewhere and who for three years
lfave barred their breasts TO the steel and
lead Of the foe, must fight it out. alosaey
Ii So the Cotton States will soon be snbju-
gated provinces, for gallant, heroic, and
invincible as they are, the Old Guard will
be forced to succumb to the numbers OF
the enemy, and at last abandon all. -.
Detailed men, Reserves and Home
Guards are all being hunted up in this
State to be sent to the trenches, and yet
Alabama, the home of Yancey and the
birthplace of the knights Of the Golden
Circle" and of Secession, has no more
men to furnish! II this is to be the policy
of the Cotton States who cannot see the
end! North Carolina and Virginia can
not maintain this unequal Struggle always,
and unless Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana 1--WE mean the
people left at home, not their soldiers in
teld,) do better than they have been do
ing, the end, a calamitous and disgraceful
end, is nigh.
But to return to the Alabama Legisla-
lature. The Appeal of the 9th thus no.
ticcs the adjournment Of the extra ses-
SION:
The extra session closed last night, after
twelve days consultation. 1t seems to be
generally regretted that the principal OBJ
ject for which the session was called, some
reformation of the militia laws of the State,
failed to be worked out, as it is admitted
that as at present organized the militia
service is radically defective, as set forth
by Gov. Watts in his message. Both
houses adopted bills, and neither would
yield its measure, nor could any compro-
misc be effected. The Advertiser men:
tons one difference. The Senate bill pro-
posed to put in every able-bodied man be-
tween the ages of seventeen and fifty, and
to authorize the Governor to grant fur
loughs and details The House proposed
to put those in between seventeen and
fifty, but declared who should be exempt
1t is also stated that a difficulty Which
presented itself to the Legislature, was to
find material upon which to make any law
| operative they might enact. a large major
ity being Of the opinion that the laws of
Congress had taken nearly all the men ont
of which it would have been just or wise
to form militia" This is not a valid ex-
-cuse. Travellers through the State have
frequently remarked in our presence that
Alabama had large reserve at home,
! judging from the number of loiterers to be
constantly seen about tho railroad sta.
tons, etc.
The same journal says "most Of the
legislation was of local nature, but sew.
eral bills of general interest were passed
the most important of these, which occurs
to us is the bill appropriating two millions t,
the INDECENT families of soldiers, to be paid
in November; for the arrest of stragglers
and deserters; to punish certain offences
robbing, burglary and arson, making thu
penalty death or imprisonment IN the pen
itentiary for not less than twenty fv,
years; and to prevent the oppression o
the people of Alabama by the illegal exc
cution Of the impressment laws OF Con
gress."
The peace resolutions were laid on tn
table and not resurrected.
TROUBLE, THE HEARTS TEsr.-The rive
bottom cannot be tested as long as it
covered by. the stream. 1t may he G
sand or it may be of rich alluvial deposit
but whatit is Of cannot be told until som
distress comes. When the hand of til
Almighty, however, cleaves the floor $
as to let his flying hosts pass, and thu
opens the water in seam to its bottom
VIC caii tell what our foundation. is Til
Lord then says to the heart that he Ina
|, cut into the very QUICK Dost thou low
me?" Then alone can the true answe
come, "Thou knowest all things. Tho
knowest love thee"
t A REGIMENT OF TsArroRs.-Private Jonaths
r Ford, an exchanged prisoner, informs the CORE
ponGsnt Of the Columbus Enquirer, that about sew,
hundred Of The prisoners Tout ofserenie. N hundre
at Atl1na hal taken the oath, and had gone into Il
seryicn Of the an INV as caxalrr and uere inoun