The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

stress oil war. W1EHS0t money az L
deprecated pa per, Hnahle 10 spare
enough men to raise prov lsIcBs be
cause they were needed TO lace the
enemy, with nothing But eur courage
IN our hands and eur faith IN COD ana
the faith of eur wemen IN Us, we /
held the line |
BY the Eanemy's Records |
What you aid may be based on the
Federal records Aside freH- those
who died from wounds IN the years
after the war, ~ years after 1T be-
gan. that Is in IsaI-theFe were mere
TIM I.sd6,e q men. on the Fedefai
pension rsll each ef whom had swern
that he lad incurred serious disa efiits
by reason OF opposing yeu, and the
truth Of the statement ef eacn hAo
been adiudged To be true, after faA
examination and report by the proper
/ tribune. And even now. by the last
| official government report, there are
| on the Federal pension rolls, 80 years
| after the war Was at It's nelgHtH.
| nearly deubfe the numbe OF men you
| had In your armies at any one time
| during the entire four years.
When eae was made at TIisit,
| TIVE France and Russia. the En-
| peror Alexander, paraded his Guard
before Napoleon. Pointing 20 enc tall
veteran who had been terribly hacked
by sword and shot, he said te Napo-
leon, What do you think OF soldiers
who can survive such wounds as
those?" Napoleon grimIy replied:
What do you think Of soldiders who
can give such Rad as those? BY
the enemy's own showing you made
it terribly unhealthy for them down
south Evidently you gave them
what an Irishnan would style "a per
fectly elegant time"
Had the South been solid, it had
succeeded beyond question. But
from the border States-Maryland,
that part of Virginia, which is West
Virginia, from Kentucky, from Mis-
souri,. from East Tennessee, from GER
tain sections of other States and from
cur colored population the North
recruited over 25e. eco troops-nearfy
half as many as the whole Confed-
eracy. These were not only taken
from our side but were added to the
overw helming numbers against Us.
But even with this detection. sol
| diers, such were your splendid stay
ing qualities you would have com
PEELED success, but for the short
/ sightedneSs of your civil government.
+ The battle was lost there and not in
: front of your ines. When in 1851
our ports were still open, we sent
commissioners to England and France
to negotiate a loan of $4,000, coo.
1 They reported that a loan of $780,
{ geo, zee could be negotiated but a
: small one could not be. The foreign
: money lender knew that if $ee0, eco,
r zoe were invested in Confederate
bonds, by French and English CAPT
e tries would never let the Confeder-
asy fail. Had we authorized the
e $500, O0,0e loan the government OF
Frence and England would have be
t, come practically sureties to our sue
cess-for they weuld never have per
mltted their subjects to lose SO large
q Sum-aHd we could have kept GU
e currency at par besides importing tht
n best arms and and othel
q supplies and would have created {
n navy which would have kept our port:
open.
States1aaa sship Short.
Had the craftsmanship of the Con
federacy eaualled it's splendid soldier,
you would have wen independents,
) ere the close of the second year 6
the war.
~ But Notwithstanding this and othe
W blunders Of the civil government tim
IN and time again you nearly conpelle.
h success. l have already mentione,
"a Shiloh, where the death Of ALDER
IA Sydney Johnston alone saved Gran
=; and Sherman and their whole arm
N from immediate capture, and tn
I'd death of Stenewan jackson, while
saved Hooker and the Army of TIA
" Potomac from a like fate. AT Chica
manga the Federal army was owe,
| thrown and was saved only by the in
hs competence, II net worse. Of the Co.
Sc federate commander. At Gettysbur,
10 We know how the dis6hedience {
orders saved the enemy when sue
to cess was in eur reach. Even as fat
.ir as the fall OF 1864 Gen. Horace Pc,
ter tells US, how tired the North w
OF the war and disheartened and III;
Mcclellan, the peSee candidate, woul
n have been elected over Lincoln b,
for the fall Of Atlanta and Sherman
march through Georgia, which we1
aSt caused ~ The mistake IN removir
Joseph E Johnston frem the hea
~ OF that army.
But tney say that nevertheless v
failed The CenfedeFacy faiied. b,
DE not The Confederate soldier. Ye,
on mast is secured. The great caia;e,~