Year: 1862

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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.


WINTER CABINS, CESrREvILLE, Va, }


Saturday, February l, 1852. }


Dear Enquirer We are seated on
veritable aeasy chair" the hanaiwork Of
an ingenious aud industrious friend, "Rob.
in Red Breast" To use his own droll
camp Latin, tits ''the very magnus bonn" J"
It is formed like stool with high rece.
ding back to it, with arms which serve as
braces to the back, reaching from the front
of the seat to the top of the back; and it
has attached to its right side small table,
some foot square, and Of the proper height
to serve as writing desk, an eating table
for one, to hold a book BY day, or candle
toread by at night.


In this attitude, and with pair of scis-
sors by, we feel more like clipping and cul-
ling editorial, than writing the flat and
lifeless letter which the army news would
make, to-day. There is nothing but snow,
thaw, drip, shut doors, rousting fires, sut-
ling camp kettles, and utter inactivity with
out, to give variety. Suited, too, to our
humor of clipping, we have lying before us
two remarkably pointed articles in Rich
mond papers, one from an Alabama and
the other from a Virginia source, on the
subject of re enlistment for the war. We
propose to extract copiously from both, be-
cause they viii give our readers an inkling
of the feeling in other States on this vital
subject, and because they have the ring of
as true metal as ever glistened in a Damas-
Gus blade, or Lauucelot himself ever wore
to his kpightly side.


We quote first from the Albanian, who
addresses himself "to the twelve months
volunteers from Alabama in the Army of
the Potomac" and says:


"You will pardon me for addressing you
on the subject of re enlistment, when | tell
you that I am your comrade, that have
been with you since you entered the field,
and that have at home family of small
children with no other protector than their
mother. x If We rushed to the field
for the defence of our native land-its soil
that has uourished us; its people who are
"boue of our bone" and whose hearts are
burdeued with hopes and prayers for our
safety and honor; its Government, Consti-
tuition and laws, which furnish the only Sc
curity left us for the preservation of life,
liberty, and property, we must remain in
the field until these parposes are accom-
plished, or else, by our conduct, announce
to the world that these things are not worth
fighting for, or that we are not the men to
fight for them.


Mn this light our actions will be read by
our shrewd enemy. Every man who now
recedes from the field will weaken the army
more than in proportion to his value as a
soldier, and add strength to the enemy in
still greater proportion. 1t has been evil
dent, from the first time we measured arms
with our oppressors, and they learned to
dread the valor of the Southern patriot SOL
dier, that the Yankees have been employing
every art of war to avoid further battles,
and with their control of the seaboard, and
their superior numbers, to keep US harrass.
ed with various threatening expeditions, in
the hope to annoy, divide and weaken US.
They have taken comfort to themselves,
while they have "calculated" that we would
become restive in camp and behind breast
works, and disguised with the fatigue duties
which the character of their movements
would necessarily entail upon US. They
have believed that our patriotism was but a
bubble; that our zeal was but freak of
passion that our faith was no more than a
whim; that our courage was only tit of
temper; that we would be impatient of toll,
and fretful under suffering, and that they
could by superior powers of endurance,
win triumph which they dared not put at
stake upon the field CT battle. Shall We
fulfill all their base hopes and cold calcula-
tions by Withdrawing from the struggle at
the moment that our greatest sacrifice is de-
mapded, and when such an act would ex-
pose our country to almost certain disaster





"Some, admit, will be called home by
the honorable desire to provide for the
maintenance and protection of their depen-
dent families. Those who took the field at
the sacrifice of these tender relations at
home, evinced the highest possible devo-
ton to their country, and, in some instsn-
ces, it would be wrong for them to remain
in the service, till they have had an oppor-
tunity to make provision for their families
But in such time and in such cause as
this, every man who can bear arms should
count himself soldier No man can, now,
or hereafter. be called by the endearins
name Of patriot who remains at home mere
ly because he has more care for his house.
hold than he has for his country.





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