Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-03-03
FREMONT SANDTSKY COUNTY, OHIO MARCH 8 1865
The south to Return to Barbarism.

The Richmond Se1ai,rel, of the 18th, contains
a remarkable article which endeaVors to por-
tray the kind of warfare which the rebels are
prepared to carry on in case they are conquered.
Il proposes return to the barbarism of savage
life and thus pOrtrays the horrors that they
have in store for us after their great army under
Lee is destroyed:
. Vo7 USctts| .wo to the conquered who would
have so terrible fate to endure; but wO also to
the conquerors, for their calamity would begin!
The condition to which they would reduce cur
people is one which nine-tenths of them would
never endure. They would take to the bush.
like the Israelites under Moses or Joshua. and a
part of them under David; like our Seminole
Indians; like the Scotch and Welch 1--WE speak
metaphOrically. for Scotland does not boast OF
trees or bushes,l who have never been conquer
ed; like the Swiss, the Spaniards, the Circas-
slams, the Dutch, the La Vendeans; like all peO-
pie inhabiting mountainous, or desert, or marshy
countries. This war would only fairly have be-
gun when our houses, our Enclosures, our villa
ges and our cities are burned, our crops destroy
ed and our fields laid waste. Then wo to the
cOnquerorsl for then would begin the bauditti
warfare, the guerrilla warfare, the lying in wait
the ambuscade and surprise, murder in detail
assassination in every form.
Already much four country is rapidly grow
ing up in dense forest; roads have become inn
possible for wheel carriages; cattle and hogs in
large drOves are running wild; our woods and
our fields TEEN with game, and our creeks and
rivers with fish and foul. The voluntary fruits
of our soil, added to the resources Just ennumer-
ated, would enable us to carry on a guerrilla
warfare interminably; for those resources in
crease daily Just as the devastations of the enc
my extend. flour affairs should come to the
worst, and if we should not be able to maintain
large regular armies in the field, we would, by
guerrilla, warfare, make the South too hot to
hold Yankee intrudiDg landlords They would
be watched ambushed, and shot down by night
and by day, like beasts of prey. Few, who
would find themselves their wives, and little
ones driven from their homes, would hesitate
if necessary to waylay the intruding Yankee
robber. No armies from the North could put
down such warfare as this, five fight but half
as well as most other nations similarly situated
have fought. Already this mode of warfare has
been inaugurated in Kentucky, Missouri, Tenn
essee, and on both sides of the Mississippi
This blood-thirsty vision with which the SEN
Hel regales itself and its readers, is an evidence
that the South is rapidly gravitating into bar
barism of the most degrading character. When,
however, the war comes to this pass, then will
begin the entire humiliation Of the rebel guer-
rilla force of the south The well disposed peO-
PIE OF bDe OOubn WOuIu uHtLe WIFI Ine NOrJH IN
hunting down these land pirates and shooting
them as wild beasts are shot. After they have
been killed off, they liveno longer to trouble
--N-
CURIOSITIES OF THE 1880 LOAN.
Among the Curiosities of the subscription to
the Seven-Thirty Loan on Monday, was re-
quest from the Treasury Agent at Santa Fe in
New Mexico, that 100000 of the Bonds be sent
there Immediately, as many Mexicans and Amer
leans desired to invest, and had the money in
hand to do 50. Also, about $4,000 in varied
lots paid in by Col. Wagner for some $50 color
ed soldiers in Camp William Penn. Also $780,
900 subscribed by the Commercial Bank Of
Tennessee. Also, S137, ,165 in single check
from Charley Hyde" of the Hyde Oil Farm
Oil Greek, who not only puts his own money
into 7:30s, but gathers up the loose "oil money
around, and sends it forward TO be invested for
account Ofits owners. Also, an offer from some
miners in California TO put S35 500 of compound
interest notes into Seven Thirties, if they could
be received. LOUISVILLE, Ky, sent forward S3,-
900, and intimated that Sherman and Grant
would soon make Government bonds the rage
with all Kentuckians who had money to invest
We learn from Pennsylvania in which State
the lawful rate Of interest is per cent, that q
great calling in of farm and other mortgages has
begun, with view to placing county capital in
73Os, for the higher interest and the greater Sc.
curity and onvenience.-M. 7. Tribune. Feb. %