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

German army had captured Paris and
1,9Ge. 0ee French troops and rance
had surrendered TO the enemy tive
Great Provinces and agreed to pay
a war indemnity Of 81, 000, zoe.
Created It's Government.
In 1851 when our war began the
South had no government. 1t had To
create one. It had not a soldier and
not a dollar. 1t had to raise an army
organize. equip and feed it. 1t had
to make a treasury and ff1 it. It had
no arsenals, no powder and few guns.
These things had to be made. The
enemy had 24,08e, zoe people. We had
six millions. many of them colefed.
They had an army and navy ready to
hand. They had an overffewins treas
ury and ready access TO the outside
world, from which they drew recruits
to their ranks and supplies of every
kind. When they lost a soldier killed
or they could fill his place
with three more. When we ost a
man there was no to take his
place. They put 3,00e. 600 soldiers in
the fiela. We managed first and last
to put into line 10000
1t took the Germans six months to
overcome the French, & brave and
martial race and their equal in num-
bers. 1t took the North four years
to travel the LII miles between Wash
AiSNoA aiAN h61i1iSt a peo-
pie and an army o~ne-fourth their
own in numbers. And again and again
they were on the point Of failure. Had
Albert Sydney Johnston's life been
spared n hour longer at Shiloh,
Grant and Sherman with the army
under their command would nave been
prisoners. Had S~tOnewaH Jackson not
have been struck by a bullet from one
Of cur own men at Charlottesville,
Rockers army would have been cut
off from United States Ford and pris-
oners of war. Either event would
have ended the war like a clap Of
thunder. If the North had not prompt
ly and incontinently returned our en-
voys, Mason and Slidell, whom their
man of war had taken from a Brit
ish steamer the British navy haG
q the war, with our aid, in the
l first year.
: The valof Of our soldiers and thu
!. genius of our generals were equa
to success. They did not command it
only an infinitely greater pew
err than that which the enemy con
trolled. Wil1ed otherwise. AS Napiel
!. said Of Napoleon Fortune, that nam,
! for the unknown combinations Of al
INFINITE power was wanting to US, an'
. without her aid the designs Of MAJ
) are as bubbles on a troubled ocean.
Fl Comparett With Other Wars.
r You can measure the magnitude @
Q our Struggle by comparison with ou
other wars. In the great war of tn
V Revolution in which we won our In
r dependence from Great Britain the pa
r triOtS during the entire seven year
left only 1885 men dead on the fe1
e of battle and we weud have bee
r. beaten but for the help Of France. !
h the War of 1872 our second war wit
Great Britain we had only 1926 kille
S outright though hat war saved as tn
entire country beyond the MISSISSIPPI
and in the war with Mexico, whic
l. W. to us Texas, California an
the sroot territory lying between then
3 one-third Of the Union, we los. chi
: 1,047 men killed. IN eur war, con
n rades. North Carolina alone had Sol
,r killed in battle, and including deatl
w from wounds. 1900. d to thes
re the deaths from disease and this sta
II lost moro than 42, Gee men.
~ In the long centuries hat are
re come legend and song. liz this IA
Southland will keep bright the sto1
Of the Confederate soldier. His men
DRY will sparkle IN the fountain, IL
mountain peaks will recall remen
"a ORANGES Of his EaactteN,
Is "rhe nleanest riii, the mightie
river,
nd Rolls ninsins with mis- fame 70
ever"
nc PosteFity will recall toe the simp
* faith and courage with which VIII,
" he end came, you turned your fac
ar homCWard, and there picked up Il
ed web Of life. where the sw arsl had G
III 1t you began again where yoa had IL
MS elf four years before. Unawed
en- garrieons in your midst and ans
at duced by promises OF Office and
Of public plN4,aer You were the u1ajnst
ed OF public ORDER and private secori
tac You services during those years q
ost not less worthy of remembrance
,ne a grateful people. than your nae
Ar briffiant services during fsur resAes
or war.
as It is needless. soldiers, for me
rth | attempt to reeoupt the story Of ye
it'll great deeds re recall how with 80
eco s~eft3aefss halt fed, seaEtly eiet
ed and anpaid. you kept ct bas
ont four years nlaP!y 3.0e9. OF
an best furnished and best eqaipg