The Atlanta constitution., 1900-07-16
THE SOUTH IN WAR.

Charles Carter Hay. n well-known
Albanian. has obtained a large number
of important and interesting statistics.
showing the part the south has taken
in the various wars. He makes the
following statement In answer to
speech made by Senator Hoar:
"Since our friend. Senator Hoar,
claims that we (meanlng the nOrth)
have given to this country freedom. in
dependence, etc, and when a brother
senator says now that We have become
first-class power the venerable gen.
tleman rears Snorts, CaVOrts and re-
torts by: We have been a first-class
power since we came out of the war
Of lSl2.' I have troubled myself TO
hunt up some figures to show that the
south has been in the lead In all wars
For the war of the revolution, lao,
refer you TO history and merely COM
mence with the war of 1872, when the
venerable senator claims that we be
came a first-class power. This war
was inaugurated and pressed to a trium-
phant issue under the administration of
by solid south In the face of the
opposition of New England. and only
FIVE senator's north of the Delaware
voted to sustain it. In the glorious and
most critical days of the conflict. New
England was holding secession con-
vention. dcnouncing the war and in
trisuiug with the emissaries OF Great
Britain. As n consequence when Ing
land sent her powerful fleet to invest
our ports. she exempted the coast OF
New England from the operations OF
the blockade. In all political intrigues
the south has never secretly held seces-
sion conventions against her sister
states of the north while living under
the compact and Intriguing with the
embassies of Great Britain. The war
with Mexico and the annexation of
Texas were assailed by the free states
with the same opposition as In the last
war with England, but the pluck and
patriotism of southern men once more
and Columbia took into her
embrace the young giant, Texas.
I'm the war of 1872 the north had
IS. 352 men; the south had 9S.Sl2 men,
Five northeastern states-Massachu-
setts. New Hampshire. Rhode Island,
and Nermont-had DO
men. South Carolina alone had 5.6so
men. and this with a population OF Tour
to one.
in the Mexican war the north had
%. .O54 men and the south had 1890 men
'.In looking at these figures the large
4.
not stand out in such bold relief On
the line of statistics I might give
few of the war between the states
which. with the others, my friends may
paste in their scrapboo.-i.
"Seceding states in 1861. population
100000.
..slaves in seeding states in 1861 T.
900 0O0.
Troops In United States army. 2.77S.-
3Oi
TROOPS in confederate army, 6oO'oV-
Omitted States army May /. 1860, pres
ent on duty, 1,OOO,5l6.
Confederate States army April J.
1865. paroIed. ia, 22S; prisoners In federal
prisons. 9S, SOP; total. 212.025
..White soldiers to United States army
bv seeding states, $1,000; white soldiers
I'm United States army by non-seceding
states. 1870 iSO: negro troops. 1880; total
by slave-holding states, 4SS,4li
..F'oreigners in United States army:
Germans. 176SOO: Irish. 144,2O0: English,
,5 800: British Americans. $500; other
foreigners, 74.90O: total. $4,000.
add whites and negroes from south
AZ .414-making an army for the north
If 95O.354. without drawing on the north
for single man.
New York and Pennsylvania, S6.7S6;
Ohio. Illinois and Indiana, 76S. .6S5; New
England states. 363. .162. slave states &c.,
i24-679 $50; trans-Mississippi and states