Year: 1864




From the South Carolinian.


There seems to be in the Confederacy,
says the eloquent editor Of the Marietta
Rebel, class of men for whom the dimen'
sions of this war are entirely too large, who
take one.sided views, and fail to compre'
hend the facts By which they are surround
ed. These men are overwhelmed with the
thought of the mightiness Of Northern re-
sources and power, and evidently believe
that if we do achieve our independence
Fit will be by the merest chance, or some
lucky and unexpected interposition. They
are men of little faith, though patriotic
enough at heart, and earnestly desirous that
we shall succeed; it is their misfortune to
labor under perpetual scare, from which
they can find no relief. With them every
proclamation issued from Abraham Lincoln,
every Northern threat, every additional
regiment raised to fight US, and every blus.
teriDg editorial published in any Northern
paper, is a source ofsalarm, and cause for
fear. This class of people seem to think
that everybody else is constituted with as
weak nerves and as lively fears as them
selves, aad instead of endeavoring to en-
courage the people to continued resistance,
by holding up before their eyes the certain.
ty of our ultimate success, they seem to be-
lieve that the only way to keep up the strug-
gle and secure continuance of resistance,
is to proclaim that we are on the very verge
of destruction. They. are always in the
midst of a dreadful crisis-the turning
point of the war. They attach very little
importance to the fact, that for three years
of the bloodiest and most desperate warfare
recorded in the annals CT time, We have
most gloriously sustained our cause, against
the largest armies and most extensive pre-
parations ever made by one nation for the
conquest of another; that We have bafled
all their schemes, defeated their armies,
caused them to pile up mountain of debt
which will inevitably bankrupt them, and
exhausted their fighting population until
they are no longer able to raise either men
or money on scale adequate to accomplish
their original designs. Our birds of i'll
omen fail, too, to place tie proper estim ate
upon the active and latent resources of the
Confederacy for protracted, and, if need be,
perpetual resistance. We have a territory
larger than the Northern States, upon which
the hostile foot ola Yankee has never trod.
We have a reserve force of able.bodied
fighting men, larger than all we have here
tofore brought into the field. We have a
fruitful soil, which yields rich return for
our labors, and is fully capable of supplying
all our wants. The industry of our people
has been stimulated by the necessities of
the war, until it is now able to furnish all
the clothing we require, while the Govern
ment has succeeded in producing, within
the limits of our own territories, all the ma
terial of war, in quantities sufficient for the
most exhausting warfare in which we can
possibly be involved. And then the heroic
men who now constitute our armies must
not be forgotten. They are towers of
strength which the enemy have for three
years of savage and unreenting war sought
to undermine and topple down. They stand
along our frontiers like huge ramparts, fill.
ing the foe with dread and barring his fur
ther progress ; and have declared that there
they will stand so long as the foot of foe
man pollutcs our soil, or our liberties are
assailed. We have confidence in their
ability to perform what they have pledged
themselves to do. They have been tested
by fire, and proved to be without alloy
They have signalized their devotion upon
many battle-felds, and their decimated
ranks and tattered banners furnish the am-
plest testimony to their heroic valor. Such
men are unconquerable; disaster does not
discourage them, nor does defeat appal.-
They have faith to believe that their strong
arms and resolute hearts can yet wiring vic
tory from the foe. But neither our armies
or our people must be discouraged. When.
ever we have occasion to representthe power
of the North, our own resources should not
be forgotten. We can always proudly
point to our achievements in tie past, to
show what men with stout hearts are able
to accomplish. The glories which crowd
thick upon every page of the history of the
young Confederacy, bear living evidence
of our ability to chastise those who would
wrest from us our4iberties and reduce US
to the most cruel bondage. If the conf
dence of our people can be sustained, and
the enthusiasm of our armies kept alive, we
have nothing to fear. Our triumph is a
simple question of time, and is as certain
as the DEGREES of fate. No people as nu-
merous, with such an extent Of territory,
aud such mighty and exhaustless resources,
have ever yet been subjugated, and if we
are to be the first example, it will be be.
cause We voluntarily abandon the contest,
and iguominiously surrender our right to
be free.


~8aButler's brother, who was with him