Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-01-27
The Anti-Daus Feeling in the Sol nth.

Since the Southern papers have fountl courage
to speak out against JEFF Davis, they ha We grown
bolder and bolder, and if the press is any indiea
gathering about the head of that Southern auto
crat The Charlottesville IVA Chronicle say Is tina
eff Davis and the Court were only going to dasl
their brains out, we might rally from the cal ami
ty but they are dragging the whole seces sioI
feet after them !" and deDounces Davis in ro 1ne
terms for all the calamities that have come uI ol
the Confederacy. The Charleston Mercury is u
rious 1t says
Patent foIlies and their disastrous consequence >
have brought despondency upon the people, an Q
license has thinned the ranks of the defenders
the country
Instead of aiming at radical changes in the
causes of the effects under which we suffer AMI
are endangered, men are found who propose the
mad remedy of driving out negro producers into
the war and forcing them to fight They are to
understend that the Yankees are getting the up
per hand OF us, and their time OF lmn4y1nty fem
war is over; they are to choose between lighting
with us, the weaker party, or with the stronger
party, our enemy. They are to fight for slavery
Tor for individual freedom) on our side, on the
side of the enemy, for total and general emancipa
ton of their families, and people alured by all
the fancies and Injuries of nothing to do Indepen-
dence of law, independence of principle, indepen-
dence of our Institutions the proposition appears
tous as desperate nits absurdy as it is reckless Of
everything else. Can Congress find no remedy for
the incompeteney and mismanagement which is
riding us down to ruin?
In another article the Mercury says that there
are 100, 900 effective men absentees from the reb-
el army, and who are kept absent because they
have lost faith in JEFF Davis. 1t adds:
Itistheincorrigibe, intermedding, mischievous,
dictation, malignant prejudices and spetty parti-
zanship, which make sacrifices apparently endless
| and useless. 1t is these things which weigh like
pail upon the heart of the country. 1t is these
| things which infuse inefficiency everywhere, and
inspire selfeshness and Indifference. 1t is these
which are destroying US, and which must be era
dicated by the action Congress.
In the following sketch it presents a sad picture
ofthe Confederacy:
The path tre no10 are trdUeIiay leads Strdi0n to
destruction. The crisis of the Confederacy has ar
rived in fatal earnest. The result of the merit si1
months wil1 bring the C01edgc1cy to the ground or
will reinstaie its power. Without reform we are
doomed There is more than o ne department of
government in which reform is important But
reform in our armies is essential, is vital With
out it the death-knell of the nfsderacy already
tolled We acd1st no more JEFF. DcrUis toolery; we
want one atom of brains, one spark of nerve; we
want no more of Buhamism; we want no mer-
maids with heads OF mOnkeyE and hshy attach
ments at neither extremities-we wa mt men, real
men, earnest-No7th Carolina, Georgia and South
Carolina are IN no mood Jor tljtqing. They have
had enough of this sort of thing. They don't in
tend to have much more.
A most onerous but imperative duty devolves
upon the commander of this department, VIII oev-
er he is. That duty-this first and most esse utial
duty-is to cashier and shoot. Without it roth
ing can be done, and Sherman conquers u.s. With
it, he is a coward who succumbs at heart Fiver-
ything is at everything that is in the way
must be faced, and tramped upon. The man
who commands here must put his heart III his
pocket, and his sword in his hand. He must
know nothing but the good of the Confederacy.-
That he must do regardless of official weakness
The end must be radical reform 1t is folly to
| Xix of red tape now-we want the thing-we must
have it--reform, shooting, cashiering, order sub
ordination, sodiers-not runaways ragamufins.
rufhans. We want andWe must have, brainsa and
pluck in commanders, and implicit obedience and
order in subordinates and soldiers Six PAGES
and steady aim will do the business if repeated
sufficiently often, especially among the commits
stoned officers.
If, however, commanding officers viii not do
their duty in this matter, let all men shut their
books, for the end viii have well nigh GOMEZ
The time is short, Wilt be improved?