Year: 1865

treated TO Come Back.


From the Richmond Dispatch March Al


The President and Congress have both called attention
20 the subject Of absenteelsm and deseron In its late
address to the people Congress have Spon our
rolls very large army Of veteran soldiers 1t Is ue
and sad truth TO confess that the number present
for duty terribly disproportioned to the entire aggre
gate This is too notorious for concealment and we
have desire conceal anything We wish TO speak
fankly and truthfuiy TO you Of the actual condition
d things The number Of absentees from your armies
has been fruitful cause Of disaster On many hard
fought field the tide OF would have turned
vhelmngy In favor had all been present whom duty
required to participate in tho strife. We will not
wc have 30 much reason to deplore The remedy
partly in the hands OF Congress, and v 10 our
yrovince to apply IT. but partly also in yours and We
appeal 10 you 70 H. Let every good citizen frown
down upon and Indignantly dscountenance all evasion Of
military duty, whether temporary permanent, no mat
Der how plausible tho pretext pasting the
No duty In this crisis Of Affairs be impera-
tive than fight for ones country, family and home.
Let NO skuker deserer or absentee without leave from
tho army, be tolerated In any community Let the
proachfu glance Of women between whose honor aud
the brutal foe noble army stands flaming sword,
opline and elevated Of public opinion throughout
the country doserton absenteesm in the army
be arrested and all liable 70 military duty put into
and kept in the ranks Of our armes II this effected
ve can maintain In the field force sufficient 70 defy
sublugaion"


Il the press and dcseers and abscptees themselves
We know thas all not equally cupable but the time
has come when none Of them longer forsako his
nobic comrades without everlasting and shame
Already have been brought to great disasters BY their
eonduct but they may still retrieve their good names
she brethren they have deserted to achieve .
triumph which will cast into the shade all their
ther dsseron and absence conqueredS Will the
enemy respect them more than those who have been


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object Of love to the British governments They will be
the most miserable and the most scorned both by friend
and foe, Of all the Inhabitants white and black of Sob
tugated land. How will they like 70 look upon them
sclves their wives and children reduced 10 the social
position Of negroes7-tlrust aside from every way OF
earning their bread by Yankees and foreigners and
feeling that but for themselves this degradation and
misery might not have been But look at the other
dtion II we succeedy Let US tell them that this
h such impossible matter some OF them fancy
There armies In the held who strong and conf
dent Of victory There just God above who controls
che destines Of nations, and by many or by
few The United States never bring such forces into
che Hed AZ II has had in times past The capitalists arc
becoming alarmed by the prospect Of indefinite pro-
songaiion OF the Their public debt is believed TO be
already equal TO the national debt OF England grand
financial crash may at any moment bring their arrogant
pretengions TO the dust II oursslvCs f faithful
and enduring we shall with the blessing OF Heaven yet
socompllsh our Independence And what will be The
feelings In that event OF the men who have forsaken
their country In her trials, and their comrades
IN their dangerf How viii they like to be pointed at
then deserters and have that name cling 70 their
children and their childrens childrcnS Yankee de-
need feel shame for he 10 dcsertng army Of
Invasion; but Confederate desertcra man who for
sakes the defence OF h country, his home his liberty,
his flesh aud blood who abandons all them 10 save
his own life from danger-what language has power 70
describe such a deedf


The south Dependent for SAFETY ON the


Chances Of q War between France and


the United States.


fFrom the Richmond Examiner, March "a


Events are about 70 happen which, " sustain the
var with energy Tor other campaign, will surely
bring reward In the independence OF country
war between France and the United States has become
plainly inevitable We do not 10 say that this
any other external event. any foreign country or
whatsoever wiz be the ecient cause our in
dependence but only the occasion Il will give tho


signal and strike the hour 10 show that the fnes of the
Is accomplished and that the goal won We viii
hail this complication signal but need thank
and bless Il had for the noble prize which
We shall TO the virtue and valor OF citizens
alone, and 70 blessings Of Providence. French
newspaper, from which we quoted yesterday, the
Courier du Dindnhe says"We must not deceive our
selves War with the United States is inevitable, and
goes on 10 point out the indications OF that com
ing storm IN the manifest III will OF the Washington
ernmcnt towards the Empire of Mexico, the
emphatic recognition of the Mexican republic BY
both Houses OF Congress and the necessity under
which the Union gosernnent viii lind ITSELF az
Of its immense armies aficr peace shall have been
made WITH the South, and provide them with Mexico
field OF adventure and prey Thinking mrn az the
North also begin To be well OF the approach Of this
storm ~ foreign war, but the black republican, the
ministerial, the war press, is studiOusly silent
about 10. To talk of such thing would not tend
encourage the people 20 desperate perseverance,
war for the Union and therefore would be disoyaL II
s only journals which have long been conscious of
She fUtiiy aIsi insanity Of the said the Union
chat have tho 10 utter word Of warning The
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