The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-03-30

,iNSio sldNe ABOVE MS tormer matter
Not only would the property and estates
OF vanquished "rebels" be confscatcd !:
but they would be divided and distribu.
ted among our African bondsmen. But
why pursue the hideous picture further :?
Southern manhood revolts at the bare
idea Of the spectacle presented. Can
you think of it unmoved? Can proper
ty--can life itself-be so dear to YOU as
to allow you to weigh them for one mo.
ment against degradation, so abiect-
against misery so profound2 We do
not and cannot believe it. If the proud
memories and traditions of our first
great revolution do not nerve You to
eternal resistance to such a consumma.
tlon--nor the example of our Eorelathers,
who wrostled for the Independence they
bequeathed us during seven long years
OF suffering greater than we have endur,
ed-let not the precious blood that has
been already shed by our bravest and
best IN the present struggle cry out to
us from our yet reeking soil in vain
Fruitlessly indeed have these sons and
brothers--martyrs Of Liberty ty-bled and
died, if we falter now in the path which
they have illumlned before us
In the revolution OF '76 our armies
and our people suffered far more than
we have done. Our cities then were al.
most all in the hands of the British, and
we were entirely cut off from all supplies
from abroad, while our facilities for pro.
duclng them were infinitely less than
they now are. Greene tells us that the
battle OF Eutaw was won by men who
had scarcely shoes to their feet or shirts
to their backs. They protected their
shoulders from being CALLED by the bands
Of their cross belts, by lunches of moss
or turls Of grass. a detachment march.
ing to Greene's assistance, passed through
aregion so swept by both armies that
they were compelled to subsist on green
peaches as their only diet. There was
scarcely any salt for fifteen months, and
when obtained it had to be used spar.
ingly, mixed with hickory ashes. We
need but allude to the terrible winter
which Washington passed at Valley
Forge with an army unpaid, halcstarved
and halfnaked and shoeiess, to convince
us that much as our own brave soldiers
are now enduring, their fathers, for a
like cause, endured far more. Wash.
ington did not then despair. Lee does
not now despair ofthe final triumph of a
righteous cause. Why should we be
doubtful--much less despondent-.of our
ultimate suceess2
The extent of our territory--the food
producing capacity of our soil-thc
amount and character of ourpopulation-
are elements Of strength which, carefully
husbanded and wisely employed, are
amply sufficient to ensure our final tri,
umph. The passage Of hostile armies
through our country, though productive
of cruel suffering to our people and great
pecuniary loss, gives the enemy no per-
manent advantage or foothold.
10 subJugatc. n country, its civil gov.
ernment must be suppressed by Con.
tinuing military: force, or supplantea by
another, 10 which the inhabitants WELD
a voluntary or enforced obedience. The
passage of hostile armies through our
territory cannot produce this result.
Permanent gariisons would have to be
stationed at sufficient number Of points
to strangle all civil government before
it could be pretended, even by tho United
States Government itself, that its author.
ity was extended over these States.
How many garrisons would it require?
How many hundred thousand soldiers
would suffice to suppress the civil gov.
erments Of all the States of this SConfed.
eracy, and to establish over them, even
in name and torn, the authority offhe
United States In typographical point
of view, therefore, it may BE asserted
that the conquest Of these Confederate
States is impracticable. a"o q
'It IS " TO BE Continued
FRoM NoRTH CARoLINA.-ZTt is ',in.