The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-01-27
Law, Order and Protection from
the Rebel Soldiers Demanded
by the South Carolina
Citizens.
The Crisis Upon the COnfederacy in
Fearful Earnest.
The South Carolinians Want No
More jeff. Davis Foolery."
"The Result Of the Next Six
Months to Wipe Out the
COnfederacy.
A Cry Of Despeir from South Carolina
1.-The HOtbed Of Treason I'm a Ter
ribly Demoralized State.

1.-THE HOtbed OF Treason in a Ter.
ribly Demoralized State.
From the Charleston Mercury, Jan. 70.
The condition of this military depart
ment, as embraced within the limits of
Georgia and South Carolina, is anything
but satisfactory to any man who is aware
of facts, and has capacity to understand
their bearing We presume there is no
one in the department to whom the condi-
ton of our present military organization
is lees satisfactory than to the General
commanding. Probably there is no one
so thoroughly aware OF the lamentable
disorganizati0n that prevails in certain
corps and sections of his command.
Before bringing ourselves to face the
enemy, it is absolutely essential that those
in command bring themselves to face the
vital evils existent within our own lines.
The path We now are travelling is straight
to destruction. The crisis of the confed-
eracy has arrived in fatal earnest. The
result of the next six months will bring
the confederacy to the ground, or will re-
instate power. Without reform we are
doomed.
What is man life to the institutions
and the liberty of the country? Nothing.
Let old things pass away-let us have q
new condition of things. We want no
more jeff. Davis foolery; We want one
atom Of brains, one spark of nerve-we
want no more of Buhamism--we want no
mermaids with heads of monkeys and fshy
attachments at the neither extremities-
we mean men, real men, earnest men
North Carolina, Georgia, and South Caro-
lima are in no mood for trifing. They
have had enough of this sort Of thing.
They don't intend to have much more.
South Carolina don't intend to be con-
quered. She intends to fight.
We stand to-day as gladiators stripped
to the fight We are ready and trained
to enter the struggle for life or death.
South Carolina is ready to become the
arena of the republic Her sons are ready
for the contest. Make of her soil mill
tary camp-stIip her to the waist; she
will not shrink. But give her her gaunt-
lets and her sword, and she is ready to
stand or fall where she is.
a most onerous but imperative duty de-
wolves upon the commander of this depart
ment, whoever he is. That duty-this
first and most essential duty-is to cashier
and to shoot. Without it nothing can be
done and Sherman conquers US. With
it, he is a coward who euccumbs at heart.
Everything is at everything that is
in the way must be faced and trampled
upon. The man who commands here
must put his heart in his pocket and bis
sword in bis hand. He must know moth
ing but the good of the Oonfederacy. That
he must do regardless Of official weakness.
The end must be radical reform. It is
folly to talk of red tape now-we want the
thing-we must bave it-reform, shooting,
cashiering, order, subordination, soldiers-
not runaways, raggamuf6ns, rufians. We
want, and We must have, brains, and
pluck in commanders, and implicit obe-
dience and order in subordinates and
soldiers. Six PAGES and steady aim will
do the business if repeated 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 will have
well nigh come. The time is short-will
it be improved.
Wanted.-.Nerve
From the Charleston Mercury, January II.
The grand crying deficiency 10 our
affairs, political and military, is, and has
ever been, the want of nerve-demagog-
ism in politics, and demagogism in the
armies-fear OF the populace, and fear of
the soldiery. I.
What we most want now, and have ever
needed, is nerve-nerve, not to break law,
but to enforce law; nerve, not to run into
excess and illegality, but to maintain an in
flexible obedience to law and duty. Nerve
to be steady and unalterable, not the pre-
sumptuous arrogance to outstep law and
assume power; nerve to face the enemy,
not nerve to Cypress friends. We want
nerve in Congress, we want nerve in our
Generals It 10 nerve that has carried
Sherman to Savannah-it is that which is
now carrying him to cut the Confederacy
in halt. His is an army of discipline AN
army of s0ldiers-not q mob of yaga-
mullins. 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 chick
en-coops and barn-yards. He holds them
there. He is General. The condition
of the Confederate soldiery in this de-
partment (and others are little better)
Is disgrace to the cause, to the
country, and to the whole science of
war. Is there any incompatibility be-
tween q soldier of the Confederate States
and the discipline of hwP We say
no. Il is demagogism that says yes or
worse, it is oowardice. The Almighty
never made a race of men that cannot be
made subject to discipline. The world has
no use for such rufians. Law Is supreme.
Obedience to law is civilization. Are we