The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1865-02-02
The Anti-DaVis Feeling In the
South.


courage to speak out against JEFF. Davis,
they have grown bolder and bolder, and if
the press is any Indication of public feel
ing, there is a terrible storm gathering
about the head Of that Southern autocrat
The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle says
that "if Davis and the Court were only
going to dash their brains OUT, we might
rally from the calamity; but they are
dragging the whole secession feet after
them:" and denounces Davis ir round
terms for all the calamities that have come
upon the Confederacy The Charleston
lNercury is furious. 1t says:
"Patent folhes and their disastrous con-
sequences have brought dependency upon
the people, and license has thinned the
ranks of the defenders of the country.
''lnstead of aiming at radical changes
in the causes Of the effects under which
we suffer and arc endangered, men are
found who propose the mad remedy of
driving cut quiet negro producers into the
war, and forcing them to fight. They are
to understand that the Yankees are getting
the upper hand of rs, and their time of
immunity from war is over; they are to
choose between fighting with us, the
weaker party, or with the stronger party,
our enemy. They are to fight for slavery
Cor for individual freedom) on our side, or
on the side of the enemy, for total and
general emancipation of their families, race
and people, allured by all the fancies and
luxuries Of nothing to do. Independence
Of law, independence of principle, iIdepen-
dence of our institutioas-the proposition
appears to us as desperate in its absurdity
as it is reckless of everything else. Can
Congress find no remedy for the incompe-
tency and mismanagement which is riding
us down to ruin 2"
In another article the Mercury says that
sentees from the rebel army, and who are
absent because they have lost faith in JEFF.
Davis It adds:
''It is the incorrigible, intermeddling,
mischievous dictation, malignant prejudi-
ces, and petty partizanship, which makes
sacrifices apparently endless and useless.
It is these things which weigh like pail
upon the heart o. the country. 1t is these
things which infuse ineficiency everywhere
and inspire selfshness and Indifference. 1t
is these things which are destroying US,
and which must be eradicated by the
action OF Congress-"
In the following sketch it presents a sad
picture of the Confederacy:
"The path We now are treading leads
straight to destruction. The crisis of the
Confcderacy has arrived in fatal earnest.
The result of the next six months will
bring the Confederacy to the ground, or
will reinstate its power. Without reform
department of government in which reform
IS important. But reform in our armies
is essential, is vital. Without it the
deatn-knell of the Confederacy is already
tolled. We want no more JEFF. Davis
fooery We want one atom Of brains, one
spark Of nerve; we want no more of Bu-
hamism /; we want no mermaids with heads
of monkeys, and fshy attachments at the
neither extremities-we want men, real
men, earnest men-N orth Carolina, Geor-
gia ard South Carolina are In no mood for
trifing. They have had enough of this
sort of thing. They don't intend to have
much more.
ga most onerous but imperative duty
devolves upon the commander of this de-
paTtment, whoever he is. This duty-this
first and most essential duty-is to cashier
and shoot. Without it nothing can be
done, and Sherman conquers US. With it,
he is a coward who succunbs at heart
Everything is at stake-everything that
is in the way must be faced, and tram2led
upon. The man who commands here must
put his heart IN his pocket, and his sword
in his hand. He must know nothing but
the good Of the Confederacy. That he
must do, regardless of official weakness
The end must be radical reform. It is
folly to talk of red tape now-we want the
thing-we must have it-reforin, shooting,
cashiering, order, subordination, soldiers
mot runaways, ragamufins, rufians. We
want, and we must have, brains and pluck
in commanders, and implicit obedience and
order in subordinates and soldiers. Six
PAGES and a steady aim will do the bust
ness, if repeated sufficiently often, especial
ly among the commissioned officers.
eff, however, commanding officers will
not do their duty in this matter, let all
men shut their books, for the end will
have well nigh come. The time is short,
will it be improved 2"
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