Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-03-11
Correspondcntc
Southern Boosting.


MEssRs. EpIToRs A few weeks since
[ furnished an article for your paper oc-
casioned by an article in DeBow's Re-
view. Here is another. SAID Review
was Issued from New Orleans and Charles.
ton simultaneously. 1t is a striking ex-
hibit of the extreme folly and madness OF
the rebel South The article from which
here quote, is on the "Gonduct OF the
War" aud i. toand in the number for
January and February lsG2. The writ
or with strange ignorance OF the energy
and force of Northern armies. and boast
full in the extreme, says, "The Conteder-
ate States present greater natural obsts-
Gle. to an Invading army than any equal
area oil country on the globe. Armies
cannot march down our Atlantic coast,
because of the great number OF bays, in-
lets, creeks and rivers nor down the IT.
terror, because of the mountain ridges
and inpassable roads, sparse population,
aud scarcity Of PROVISIONS
Somewhat true but how sholt-s sighted,
not to see at once that Yankees would
invade them by sea. How little have
the obstacles referred to availed them
The easy conquest OF New Orleans, liil
ton Head aud Hatteras Inlet, show the
ignorance on one side, and the energy Oh
the other.
The writer continues, The Mississippi
is narrow, long, tedious and easily de-
Tended, aud its valley is subject to over
flow. No invading army will attempt a
serious invasion ia that direction. IL Is
our true policy to decoy the enemy iuto
the interior, aud then to cut them oil as
we're Braddock, aud Burgoyne, aud Corn
wallis, aud Ross, and Packcnham, aud
our own troops in the everg AIDES OF
Florida. When we have defeated and
captured their armies, exhausted thea
treasury, and cowei their spirits by de-
fensivs warfare, it will be time for US to
begin to act on the offensive and to invade
their territory.
The northwest is as level country as
northern Europe, teens with provisions,
and abounds with towns and villages. Its
population is a spiritess rabble, who have
few arms, and know little Of their use,
and who are endowed with no sense OF
personal or national honor. The north
west rules them with rod of iron, aud
by its protection tariff robs them Of half
the proceeds of their labor. They should
welcome US as deliverers from Yankee
bondage, rather than conquerors.'
What consummate ignorance, ,invcterate
prejudice and narrow-mlnded spleen. By
this time it cannot be doubted but that
some OF their false notions-thsir gross
mistakes have been corrected. The feo-
pie of the west, "spiritless rabble -
They have learned, or soon will learn bet
ter than that, surely. They must have
found out before this, that the people of
the west, have more than "Je'c arms, "
aud that they are capable OF measuring
them to great advantage and triumphant
success with the chivalry of the South
The west in bondage to the east and the
South to deliver them from " Yankee
bondage ~
1t will be long day before the people
of the west will believe such senseless
declaratoin, or feel the bondage referred
to, and still longer period before the
Yankees will yield to the control OF the
South. Yield they have, too long to the
dictums Of the South, ,and still they would
have yielded much and long, rather than
have war; but now, that the South have
chosen war, and most wckedly forced it
upon uswe shall let them know distinctly
that we understand our rights and how
to maintain them.
Still further, in the same strain, the
writer says, "Cincinnati and Philadel-
phia are both weak and tempting points,
aul when we have well whipped the ene-
my within our own territory, it will be
time to turn our attention to those cities"
"Tempting points" indeed they are,
but not so weak, as to make it easy, if at
all possible, for the proudest southern
army to get into them, or either Of them.
Twice they have attempted to reach
Philadelphia, or some of the weaker and
less "tempting points" in Pennsylvania ;
but as often have they made haste to get
back, escaping with much difficulty and
great loss. Once at least they have made
determined effort to reach Cincinnati,
but that effort was foiled aud the chival-
rous forces of the South turned back
contounded. But then according to our
learned, modest author, the good reason
was, they had not first swell whipped the
enemy within their own territory" Till
then. I suppose Philadelphia and Cincin-
natl, and the rest of our "weak and
tempting" places have nothing to fear
But when our armies are "wel whipped"
on the ''sacred soil" then may We expect
to see our territory invaded. and our cit
les laid waste, and desolation, and ruin