The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-13


have been admitted back into the Union;
they caused the war; they shed the
blood Of Northern people; they pro-
duced the debit is little enough to
make them pay it to the last farthing.-
Which Of these men would sit in the
Yankee Congress-.
So Of pensions and bountics. When
the war ends they will have the manned
and crippled soldiers on their hands,
and the widows and orphans of those
who died in their sevicc-and they will
be many, for their slaughter has been
great, and their wounded and disabled
immense. Any one familiar with the
history Of pensions after the American
Revolution knows that the Yankees ap~
pcarcd on the pension rolls of the Re.
public in numbers out of all proportion
to their numbers on the field of battle.
In the present war the Yankees profess to
have brought out, from first to last,
three millions Of men. We do not be-
leye that that number has existed any.
where except on the muster rolls; but
if any one doubts that it would be fully
represented on the pension lists, he must
be an Indifferent reader of history
These will have to be provided for by pen
sions and bounties. "But out of whose
property" asks the Confederate, "are
those pensions and bounties to be sup
Piled? Never will the Yankee nation
agree to fasten any portion of such a
burden on themselves while We have
shoulders on which they can put it.
There would be the same two candidates
for Congress-the same pro and con-
and the. e.same result.
"But where are these bounty lands to
be located? There are millions of acres
Of Northwestern lands, but they are
wild forests and uncultivatcd prairies.-
| In the South, are farms still undesolated-
rich, fertile lands, improved by cultiva'
ticn, stocked with implements of hus-
bandry,-with cattle and beasts of bur
den, with dwellings, and necessary out
houses, (which lands have already been
promised, and which are as coveted as
they are desirable; and those who want
them are they who will cast the votes
that will elect the men who are t. say
whether or no they are to be gwen
Can there be any doubt that the soldiers
of our enemies will be quartered in their
bounty lands on the plantations of our
| citizens?
"Besides, these lands grow the great
staples, and the staple of cotton prima-
rily. 1t will be apolitical necessity with
our enemies to place the cultivation Of
cotton in the keeping Of themselves, and
out Of the hands of those who have been
rebels. But while the Yankee soldiers
are thus pensioned and supplied with his
bounty land, what is to become of our
own heroic soldiers The few, but un-
dismayed-the braves of Lees noble
army-the selfsacrifcing, enduring vete-
rams, who have planted so often the
battle-nag Of the Confederacy on the
enemy's ramparts, amid the shoutSof
victory-of those whose limbs have been
torn asunder, the blind and crippled, who
cannot earn a support, and the wives and
little ones, who have fallen in the war
Why, in the day that our banners are
lowercd-in the day that our Confede-
racy is lost--the doom of our soldiers
will be written. They will be turned
adriit. No homage will be paid to their
sufferings; no support in their Affections
and want. Orphans Of dead nation,
without an asylum or friend!"
"What will they do with us" in the
|'event of subjugation? Nothing in all
the clouded future is as manifest and
palpable as the answer to that question.
Every man in the Confederacy who ex-
poets to have a home upon the earth
must fight for it, or. if he cannot fight,
help by his industry and seh-denid to
feed those who arc fighting.