The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-26

ners. 0outh CT - 1lIessd . b
conquered. Sic intands q light. She
don't intend q - hanpeFsd lor turned
ever y ~ ssSny. Wien he ID tk0d
dealt with there will Be reekonine-a
reckoning where there will Be- no respect
sSs Of pezsoss. We want implicit order
and calm foreeast. South O1roliua IL 1
commonwealth Of order We expect order,
and Ne demsod ordss. We are accustom.
cd TO order. We ere NOT used 70 lawless
ruf6anism We don't intend 70 suffer it.
The Generalin command Of this depart
ment 10 thorough soldier, trained and
tried. We believe that be viii perform
his duty. We look to him ID do 20, I'M
flinchingly, without fear, favor Or affee.
tion-rega.dIess Of pettyfoggers and pet
ticoats 10 boots. This 10 community of
law. Just 1919 years ago. We began our
political existence under the authority Of
the lords proprietors Of EDglald, and the
rule Of the cavaliers, with ths good old
English code Of law, uBmasculated by
modern philanthropy and pseudo HUMANE
.arianism to guide as. With Tie blessing
of God We have still preserved that code,
but little adulserated BY demag ogeism.-
We can still hang villain, Or shoot =
ruffian, without lacerating the bowels Of
our humanity. We have not Jet come to
have nursery for scoundrels, called .
penitentisry, nor public preachers in the
pulpit, who called Christ"a good Gallilean
YOUTH" Simple folks, We have little i'm.
proved upon our successors. We are still
only as our fathers left US in their ignor.
ance, simply civilized, and simply Chris
tians. The law of order and obedience
is the law of habit here All good citi-
gems here look for the enforcement Of i,
here, in the military as in civil life. The
Executive of this State will support it,
and will cheerfully do so.
AN onINous CONFESSION.
We stand to day as gladiators, stripped
to the 6ght-we are ready and trained 70
enter the struggle, for life OF DEATH
South Carolina is ready to become the
arena of the Republic. Her sons are
ready for the contest. Make Of her whole
soil military csmp-strip Der to the
waist; she will not shrink. But give
her gauntlsts and her sword, and she il
ready to stsnd or fall where she 10. A
most onerous but imperative duty de-
wolves upon the commander of this de.
partment. whoever he is. That duty
this 6rst aud most essential duty-is, 70
cashier and TO shoot. Without it nothing
can be done, and Sherman conauers US
With it, he is cowrrd who saceumbs at
heart. Everything is at stake; every
thing that is in the way must be faced
and trsmpleu upon. The man who com
mands here must put his heart 10 his
pocket and his sword in his hand. He
must know nothing but the good of the
Confederacy. That he must do regard
less of official weakness. The end mus,
be radical reform. /, is folly to talk oil
red tape now; We want the thing we
must have it: misunderstanding cash-
iering--orde, ination -soldiers--
not ragamufhns, runaways. ruiiians. We
want. and We must have, brains and pluck
in commanders, and implicit obedience
and order in subordinates and soldiers
Six PAGES and steady aim will do the
business, repeatedly. sufficiently often
especially among commissioned officers
II. however. commanding officers will not
do their duty in this matter, let all men
shut their books, for the end uil have
we'll nigh come. The time Is short-will
it be improveds -
wANrED-NERyE.
Iron the Charleston Mercury Jan. I2thl
The grand crying deficiency 10 our A.
fairs. political and military, il, and has
ever been, the want of nervs-dema.
goguism in politics and demsgogueism 10
the armies-fear of the popuiacs and fear
of the soldiery.
What We most want now, and have ever
needed, is nerve-nerve, not 10 break
law, but to enforce Law; nerve, no. to
run into excess and illegaiity, but to
maintain an inhexible obedience to law
and duty: nerve to be steady and unaI-
terable. not the presumptuoas arrogance
to outstep law and assume power; nerve
10 face the enemy, not nerve to bully and
Cypress friends We want nerve in Con
gress, We want nerve in our Generals.
II is nerve that has carried Sherman tn
Savannah it is that which is no " carry
ing him to cut the Contedera lev in half.
His is an army of discipline An army of
soldiers-not mob of ragamafias. He
has no Generals with rolls of twenty or
thirty thousand men, and twenty or thirty
hundred in the field. His men stand to
their guns, not to peoples chicken. GOODS
and barn-yards. His men are full In
hand at their posts. He holds them
there. He is General. The condition
Of the Confederate soldiery in this depart. |
ment land others are li,'e better) is a
disgrace to the cause. to the couatry. and
10 the whole science of war.
The want Of discipline is one of the |
leading causes which is fast defeatinp the |
States. Our executives covers
before the responsibility of enforcing
order-our Generals lack the nerve to do
It. Officers and men alike run wild in
disorder and lawlessness. What General
has been cashiered for incempeaency-l
VIVA. Lieutenant General for inefficiency
What Major General for incomnetsncv.
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