Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-03-02

The southern Press.
IL is rather entertaining than other
wise TO peruse the copious extracts of
fseuthern literature which we find in our
New York exchanges. or course our
limits will not allow of giving anything
Nike full and fair sxposs Of their spirit
and intent, but still from a very few
short extracts judiciOusly made, one
may learn the character of all.
ONE NORVHRREER BETTER THAN THREE
s0UTHERNERs.
IL will be recollected that immediate
by previous to the outbreak of the rebel
hon, much was said about the superior
proves of the sOutherners, and the
craven AMI cowardly spirit OF the Yam.
KEGS; and it was repeatedly declared
that the former could meet the latter
with the odds Of five to one. Now how
changed The Richmond Examiner of
Feb. "a says:
"The entire force OF the enemy east of
the Mississippi, on southern soil, is not
supposed to exceed one hundred and
seven y five thousand men. This is the
power which proposes to subiugate a
population of at least three mill ,Ons of
people, embracing at the lowest es-
innate, six hundred thousand men able
70 bear arms, who may be spared from
the business OF production. The auda-
cious effort of the enemy is to conouer
and subjugate seven times their number
OF population, and more than three times
their number of fighting men. They
march boldly into the interior of the
country, and, like the small band of
COrteZ amidst q myriad of aboriginal
hexicans, spread CONSERVATION and pa
ralyze wherever they go. The South I'M
dertook the enterprise of secession with
. clear knowledge of the fact that their
success would depend apon their ability
to cope wife power four or five times
rs strong and the gage was gladly taken
up by our chivalFie volunteers of fight
ing each man two or three or four to
one. 1t has now become question
whether small armies of the enemy.
numbering In the aggregate less than
two hundred thousand men. shall he
permitted to roam at win over our ter
ritory In the presence of more than three
times their number of arms bearing
Southern men. The enemy are boldly
making this audacious experiment, An
parently despising the pusiIlanimity of
our 9aantO chiyaIry, they have thrown
aside all caution and, with a temerity
as insulting as it has hitherto been sue
cessful, are boarding our manhood in its
do h.
South does not rise up and punish this
insoleuce, snbiugat;on is not far off;
and it will so shamefuliy hefall us that
neither sympathy nor honor will attend
rs in our calamity. II the Southern
people were without arms, and unaCcus-
toned to the use of them if they were.
from long and habitual oppression,
without the ms incts of freedom, with
every remnant of courage and resolution
crushed out of them, the occurrences
now taking place would not be surpris-
ing. But when we remember that each
individual man of the six hundred thou
sand resistants is superior in every
mark and quality to each individual
man among the invading forces; that
he IL well armed and well skilled in the
use of weapons; that so far from being
schoOled and educated to sub0rdinatiOn
he has been reared with ideas of indie
pendence in habits OF command, and in
the constant exercise of authority-we
say when these things are considered
the tame submission of great commu-
nifty of such people to the present con-
dition of affairs would be the most re-
markable phenomenon that was ever ex-
hibited in human conduct. 1t is not
credible that the Southern people do in
tend to permit the insoleRcc of the pub
lie enemy as exhibited In his present. au-
dacious expeditions into the interior of
their country to pass without terrible
rebuke.
sHERMAN's DOOM.
The Richmond Wing of the same date
makes merry at the expense of the
Northern papers, Il says, as ace have
said, that it is amusing to read them.
"One would imagine the whole Yankee
ration to be afflicted with Sherman on
the brain; while the rage OF prophecy
has broken out with uncomfortable
ferceness. As often before, predictions
OF the imminent suppression of the re-
belh9n are rife throughout the columns
OF the matchmaking journals" Further
On IT says:
But even the confident Yankees
know that fight must take place be-
fore herman reaches his objective point,
wherever that objective point may be-
The Tribune speculates much as to the
forces that can be brought to oppose
Sherman; aud by depreciating Confed-
crate strength aud conveniently exag-
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