Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-03-15
View Of the Present Situation of the South.
From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. ai.l

me enllfe iorse OF the enemy east OF IN
Mississippi on southern soil is not Sup
posed 10 exceed l73, 900 men. This is th
n power which proposes TO subiugate pop
ulatien OF at least three millions of people
embracing at the lowest estimate 600, 00t
men able to bear arms who may be spared
from the business of production The arf
dacious effort of the enemy is to conquer
and subjuGato sescn times their number
of population, and more than three time.
their number OF fighting men. They bold
ly march into the interior Of the country
and, like the small land Of Cortina. sur
rounded by myriads &C aboriginal Mexi>
cans, spread CONSERVATION and paralysis
where er they 60 The South undertook
the enterprise of secession with 4 { ear
knowledge Of the fact that their success
won depend upon their abb ity to cope
with a power four or FIVE times as strong,
and the guago was adly taken up by our
chiyalric 70 unteers Of fighting each man
two r three or four TO one. 1t has now
become Il question whether small armies
Of the enemy numbering in the aggregate
less than two hundred thousand men, shall
be permitted to roam at viii over our ter
rltory in the presence Of more than three
times their number Of arms bearing SOU
thern men. The enemy are boldly making
this audacious experiment Apparently
dcspising the pnsilaninity Of our quondam
chiva ~. they have thrown aside eau
ton, and with a tcrnerity as insulting as it
has hitherto been unsuccessful by beard
ing our manhood in It's very homesteads.
/ If the spirit Of the south does not rise up
and punish this insolencc, suhjugntion is
not far Of, and It viii so shameful " e.
fal us that neither sympathy nor honor
will attend US in our ca amity.
+ If the southern peop'e were without
arms, or unaccuStomed to tbs use Of them !;
/ if they were from 'ong and habitual OPP
preston without the instincts of freedom,
with every remnant Of courage and reso-
luton crushed out Of them, the occurren-
oes now taking place would not he so sur
nrisinE But when we remember thai each
indi idual man cf the six hundred thou
nd resistants is superior in every mar
I tiai quality 10 each indiyidu.' man among
( the invading forces, that lie is well armed
and we'll skilled in the use Of wenpons,-
that so far from being schoolel and edu-
+ Gated 10 suLorlination lie Las cen reared
wi,h IDEAS If independence in the con
slant exercise Of authority-we say when
these things are considered, the tame sub
/ mission # the great community Of such 4
I people to the present condition Of affairs
would lie the most remarkable phenome-
non that was ever exhibited in human
conduct 1t is not creIitablo that the
southern people DO intend to permit the
/ insolcnce Of the public enemy as exhibit
( ed IN his present audacious expeditions
into the interior Of their country to pass
without q terrible rebukc It is no, pos
/ foreigners and negroes will be al owed to
pass at vi through the heart Of their
country, when small portion Of its in
habitants could, by ralIying together, en-
/ volope, o7erwhelm and exterminate them
! If the present movements Of the enemy
are permitted to be sue ccssfully executed,
then Il viii have become manifest that
some inherent dcmcvit in the cause itself.
or some ineradicablo fault in the authori-
ties which direct public affairs, exists to
/ paralyzo the energies Of the country and
/ lay it open 70 the mercy Of the mcanest
and weakest external foe that may choose
10 assail it. 1t would bc invidous at tic
present moment TO comment with any se-
verify upon the particular communities
now Immediately invaded That the state
Of South Carolina should have been over
run and put under the heel Of an invader
without great battle and almost without
the drawing Of blood That North Caro~
lima should think OF submitting to SIM
liar fate, Z like cheap expense to the enc
my, are events that certainly could never
have been anticipated from the present
struggle. If these great communities will
turn their eyes to the sol. Of Virginia.
which has been the bait ground Of the
war, almost every foot Of which exhibits
traces Of the havoc and devastation that
attend the steps Of INVASION those COM
munities viii see that invasion Is anything
bat the equivalent of suljugat;on # only
the people are true 10 themselves.
/: Is q proud fact, not only for the cred
it Of Virginia, but Of tie South, that those
very districts Of this commonwealth which
have felt the scourge Of invasion and Of
war most severely, are the ones in which
the spirit of the inhabitants is the most
unsubdued and indomitable Il is with
no rresumptuous p. ide or offensive vanity
that attention Is thus invoked to the reso-
u,iun which Virginia has exhibited under
accumulated and protractcd adyersity-
But is for the laudab purpose Of encouF-
aging the newly overrun States, by pre-
senting an example of fortitude sni un>
failing patriotism worthy OF imitation,
and fu of SOLITARY admonition. 1t is not