The Newtown bee., 1901-07-05

shipped off to the South: and it was TOT this that the national navy had been scattered on fools errands to the ends of the earth until there was scarcely serviceable war ship left on our whole coast. All this was but the carrying out of plan studied for years to dlsa rm and then destroy the Union. to sheer off SamsOn's hair, to blind him. and then make him grind
 THE GR1sTs OF THE PH1L1sr1NEs.
 But the God of nations had other work TOT samson, another destiny for Amer ica, and He blew the breath of life into the nOstrils of the slumberinp' glant and he sprang up from his thralldom with a bound that shook the earth and a stature that lowered to heaven.
 And then commenced the most c0iossal war Of modern ages, if not of all ages: The South had been prepar- ing TOT It for, several years, and had, at the outset, many advantages. She had always, cherished a more t1ery and martial spirit than the industrious ana peace-loving North. As natural consequence of this she had sent a larger number of cadets to the nation al Military Academy at West Point, and had paid more attention to militia rv sciences in her colleges at home, than the North had; and so she had, at nrSt, a much larger number of trained mlllIary officers at her command, than the North possessed. Her system of Slave-labor enabled her to spare a larger proportion of her arms s-bearing population for an immediate move menu than was the case in the North, and the landless class of poor whites or the South, though hating slavery, and almost to man Unionfsts, we're nevertheless so dependent upon the planter class, and so much under their control, that they were driven by thousands into the rank and file of the Confederate army, where, with no nope of promotion, their only chance for life was to shoot down the hated
 anks' in front, or be shot down by their own officers behind them. And moreover, for several years the South ern leaders had promoted the forma- tlon of all sorts of military companies, ana the holding of drills and trainings all s;eo over the South, as a social Southern gentleman who was not at least militia "Kuhnel, |" was hardly admissible to ssgood society,"" The cool and solid North laughed at all this ''gasconade" and
 nummery," as it was esteemed, but the Southern leaders knew their own plans, and kept it up, with the result that When the moment for action came ten Southern men had smattering of military drill and manual of arms to one in the North. And thus it was that the South counted on seiZing the national armOries and fortresses,
 CAPTURING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL and government by force, and dictat- ing peace on their own terms to the slow-blooded and servile "Northern Mudsills," las they called us), before the North could get ready for action. And in this notion it must be confessed that they were secretly, and openy encouragedby thousands of their old political allies in the North, to whom patriotism meant simply the success of their own party, and treason merely it's defeat by a lawful majority or those who dared to vote against them: To these people secession and rebellion were far more justitiable than an'lnterprepatiOn of the Constitution which did not coincide with their mo- tions; and the glorious American Union, when no longer ruled by them, was not worth having.
 But these people were not ''the North, "and those who took them for it, and listened to their cOunsels, or, their sympathizing encouragement, soon found out their woful mistake. Conscious of the rightness of it's cause and of it's own overwhelming superb ority in numbers, education, and wealth, and in all the mechanical and mora! resources for war, and yet anx- ious for peace, and hoping for some gleam of returning reason in the South, the real North was slow to ac- cept the unaIterable sternness of the emergency, and to gather itself up and put forth all it's might in blow against it's erring brethren of the South. That hesitation was misun- derstood and was construed by the South to mean Wavering and coward ice, but never was there a greater mis- take. The old Persian prOverb, "Be- ware of the wrath of a patient man." was never more in point. It is the man who has the strength to "hold still, who is to be feared when he at last concludes that it is time to "let himself go;" and the same is true of nations. And so when the public mind of the North really comprehend ed the situation, and when President Lincoln's proclamations for volunteers for the great war had sounded over the land, then the swelling chorus: