The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-01-24
is OF TEN MONTHS OBSERVA-
TN TIE ENEMY,S COUNTRY.

is OF TEN MONTHS oBSERVA'
IN THE ENEMY's COUNTRY.
Ewing article vas written By Mr. Pollard
editors of the Richmond Examiner, who
living ten months in the North as
riisoner. He had fue OPPORTUNITIES fol
o, and ne gives the result of these OBJ
as follows:
From the Richmond Examiner.
Confederate obtsius the opportunity o.
a in the North, and looks only at the
things, he is powerfully and painfully
Ia the contrast they present to his scanty
ridden country. In some respects the
s appalling. He sees their large cities
it'll a superabundance of able bodied men,
military depots bursting with war mate
earns in Wall street that, despite the e1-
9 of the war, vast additions have been
Yankee wealth 10 the development oil
RESOURCES, copper, iron and silver, along
slope Of the Rocky mountains; he is told
+oleum alone will, in few years, be an
export to the extent OF one hundred and
ions of dollars, and that it has already
much more so than Goldfish "a distinct
in the North; he sees everywhere an
tous material plenty; he finds New York
b wealth and extravaganza, every day
into broadway and the labyrinths of
ark dizzy. stream of luxurious disslpa-
n endless procession of the triumphs Of
The first impression of such con-
b. of immense endurance ia the North,
Factical superiority of her war-power in,
rial and finances over the military means
tn. That is the impression which gen.
es back to usfrom flying visitors to tho
nose observations cannot be otherwise
and superficial Yet it is of ali FIRST
sthe one most thoroughly false.
eek Of contrast is soon over to the Con-
no remains in the North long enough to
eady examination of the real spirit of the
this war, and its relation TO the apparent
bdance of resources in men and means
new light when he penetrates the sur
lings; and if there is Que truth which he
more plainly than any other in his OBJ
s in the North, it is thut the resources,
first struck him go strongly, are but to a
ent practically avallabls for the purposes
ar.
necessary to come to facts to show this
ter was in the North during the great ext
bf recruiting their armies after Grants
N of the old Potomac veterans and the lm-
Expenditure of Yankee life in last summers
~ Tie system of Yankee recruiting was
be saw it, debased doWnri GIT to the ex-
Of foreign enIistmcnts and tho arming of
|ro. 1t is these meabs-scarcely anything
an these-which is to-day recruiting the
|Df tie enemy. Their whole system Of re-
has passed to this wretched shift; and
The short life Of such a military erpedie"t,
BIZ has little or nothfag to fear. 1t is posi-
|nown to the writer that Grant is now re-
almost exclusively with negro troops; and
impressions, derived from observation, are
least thrce-fonftbs oe the Army of the
hre composed of negro troops, and that IN
&c lately commanded By General Butler
ias bat one white corps.
not asserting too muck to say that the
is at this time practically more pinched for
Mt of arms-bearing men than is tho Con-
y. The writer has not caught at loose as
or idle rumors The information comes
general officer in the Yankee armies around
ond, that the half.millpn draft yielded not
ban seventy thousand cfectiue soldiers. 1t
ltched up with Infamous frauds and absurd
Iutation" TO conciliate the opposition in the
entail election Of last November. In that
n the vote of all the Yankee armies around
ond was eighteen thousand, that being the
ton of native born and paturalized citizens
United States in the combined hosts oil
5 Grant and Benjamin Franklin Butler.
difficulties Of recruiting 10 the North arc
rging TO the necessity of an actual conscrip,
To great extent they must reach this
& and dire conclusion in the draft of nexI
~. It Is only necessary to apply the in
e law of supply and demand to show what
&c the difficulties in raising men, when We
it New York city finds it necessary to pro
municipal bounty Of one thousand dollars
with the State and the general Government
es, swell the price of a single soldier tt
en- hundred dollars The bloated metropoli.
North raay be able to afford such largess
the rural districts, in the counties and il
all corporations of the North, the system O
es is already broken down. Counties in the
If New York have been designated to thu
which had already expended, each, about {
and half dollars in buying human flesh
hers were named which had accumulated, or
t of military bouRties alone, debt exceed
sum total of taxable values within their
ction.
under the pressure Of the practical want Of
caring men, and in view of the fatal conelu
an actual CONSUMPTION, that the question ha:
: uppermost in the Northere mind how long
nth can endure the necessities Of the war
simple question Of endurance has entirely
eded all other methods of the solution of-the
! former questions of foreign interferences
Il revolutions, financial couVulsions, &C., aud
/ Northern men who discern the signs Of
hes, the one practical test that rs to deter.
he destiny of the South. The writer is
ssured that all intelligent msn of the North,
ng even leading Black Republicans who
OF hesitated TO confess themselves, are agreed
o North will never stand So actual conscrip-
I'D that if the war is pushed to that poin,
tagging resolution, and unbroken endurance
part of the South, it is just there that il
eak down by the weight of an iusufferable
put upon enc Of the belligerepts. The
lion is not an extravagant Que. In the
the cosscription Is doubtless imposed upon
ew unwilling individuals; but in the North,
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