New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-03
From The EHqSfrsr.
WhistIing 20 Keep their Cournge Up.

The moment before battle, when the lines are
formed the skrmishers deploy the g1ns numbered
and The command awaited which is To end 'ihat awful
pause dividing life from death" IL more trying to the
nerves OF soldiers than the conflict itself As men come
through this ordeal viii they fight The love ~ life,
the dread Of the awful future whose very verge they
stand the instructive shrinking from danger the
thought Of homo and friends are felt at that instant
with an intensity that only b. known on The peions
edge OF battle The poet has truly said that this ieaiui
silence
Sink. for an instant IN the hearts Of men.
Thousands Of whom are drawing their last BREATH
He who does not faltcr then but gathers resolution
from the sense duty and Of honor recalls the greater
evils to avert which this danger Is incurred and above
all who conscious OF right commits himself 10 the care
Of One without whom not the sparrow faeth viii
not shrink when the storm Of battle RACES around him.
But he who Yields to the natural impulse Of the o.
ment nnS ventures look back is already half beaten
His confidence il shaken. bis mind IL irrcsouie dan
gers magnihedi lie halts be vaverr, be- flies. Lilo
mny be saved but ID IL life Of shame and dishonor.
AZ 1t IL with armies. 70 Is II with nations When
people resolve on war; they must be prepared 10 meet
all It's Consequences IN the hour 0, peril 'ney par
luton arising the conviction that the object they
seek 10 gain Is worth all they may be required to give
for IT, IL tho only gua7ntec OF success Disaster ana ae
feat inspire such people with new determination III
stead of filing them with dependency. The nearer
contemplation OF the fate they would avert only nerves
them 10 greater enotts.
IL does not seem inappropriate 10 suggest 10 our PEG
nile In the present crisis. Of the reflections with
which the brave soldier encourages himself IN bntir'
and auets the tuggestOD3 81 apprehension ana hhin
They arc submitted with the ipc that they VIII serve
IN dsiel some If the fears that timdy the love oil ease
and propery or secret hostility 10 Onr cause 80 indus
triously propagate ,r q,
The eve OF batilc every soldier knows, ~ rntiu oil AL
kinds of starting rumors aud reports. me strength ."
the enemy is there always exaggerated, his movements
and designs are msrcprcsented. and dangers mngnied
or even Invented. r.
such seems TO be the with tho people Of the Con-
fler.cy nt this time. The air u Ged rim Alarming ru
noys .r,ry ar has ound r0es. and ecy sdr - on 10
fbs tale tells Msdsares Of precduon arr construct
Dsag, dsaser when the wagons and SICK nrc ordered
10 bs rear IL IL Inferred that the enemy Is about TO re-
trent Ii is time 10 proclaim order IN The ranks anu
giye fhe reassnring command, "sleadyP Let every
man return 10 his posi- and give all his energy to inc
e,ornauce OF his duty while he listens To Tho wOrd 81
Encouragement from tho soldiers In The mont Erghiu
nil street rlinors the soldiers do those oil The camp
they know that none Of the latter nre wholly true anu
mnsi of them entirely false. They only fighten Those
who arc already scared Try trace ore OF them ois
source aud Won will lind that IN ~ eases out OF lVo
the evidence IN support Of would iai 10 convince
rational and cool man Of the least Important iac'.
Masnyes Of precaation do not indicate DOUBT ~ Success
TO taks of ones eothss bore going IN he rdi docs MOI
mar, mai one eYpteis 20 be dTopa,d Every ncnnDrhce
,oust bs sent 10 the rear before tho b"tur however
secure the victory may BIO. Tbs real danger ~ always
,s- than imagination represents II to De- LOOK s'au
ly nj n ghost and It will vanish.
Danger effects the enemy ~ mu'h ~ u "o's W. -,
apparently lrfiDg Circumstance h's o''en dee'eu 'n'