Year: 1864

From the Raleigh tN c. Progress, Dec. 90.


Peace alone can prevent starvation. 1t
is folly to talk to US about there being
enough supplies in the country. Such is
not the fact, and those who adhere to such
a proposition will find out, when it is too
late, that they have been mistaken.


Confederate money is bad enough we
know; bu: the dearth of provisions in the
market is not caused by want of conf
dence in the currency, but because the
producers have nothing to bring in. Men
who can command means are gathering
up gold, silver, bank notes, and treasury
notes, with which to buy pork in adjoining
counties, and be glad to get it upon the
terms and for the hard substance offered
How then will it be with those who
have nothing but the pittance in Confed
crate money earned in sewing or other
work? When the currency of the gov
ernment ceases to serve as means cf
trade and will no longer buy what the SOL
diers and the people want, the army and
the people will resolve themselves into a
mob, and those who have misled and ruin
ed them will have to fly for their lives.
Do our people realize how near we are to
this state OF things? If not, let any citi-
zen take small sum Of money and visi5
the city market some cold morning.


We tell the people and the authorities
that the present condition of things cannot
and will not last The masses of the hon
est, hard working people have been de-
ceived and misled long enough, and they
will not suffer and endure always. Peace
thau nd fbay will hox
upon such terms as the leaders who have
betrayed them desire, upon such terms as
they themselves shall prescribe. The rich
may house their meat and bread, but we
tell them it Will not remain with them un-
less the poor can be provided for. The
muscle of the country will not starve while
there is bread in the land


Peace, such peace as statesmen and
honest rulers might obtain Tor us, would
give Us an abundance of all creature COM
forts at reasonable prices-wOuld reward
honest toll with an abundant harvest but
war, continuation Of the war, will rob us
of all social and political rights, and make
the many the slaves of the few.


Every man who is now for war, in pre-
ference to decided steps by both Confed-
crate and State authorities looking to peace,
regardless of age or condition, should at
once enter the army for there is but one
way in which our ruin can be made thor
ough and complete, and that is to continue
the war. We believe that peace can be
made that the world will consider honor
able, and that those who assume to rule us
ought to take steps at once to make it, for
enough has been said by the enemy to sat-
isfy all reasonable men that they would
gladly remove the quarrel from the sword
and refer it to the council chamber.


Though not in favor of the best peace
that can be made, we are in favor of an
effort on the part of our authorities to make
some peace, and the trucking miscreant
who objects to this is coward if he does
not at once shoulder his musket and march
to "the 'front.'"


We have said more than we intended on
the question Of supplies, but our contempt
for stay-at-home secessionists is such that
we can let no opportunity pass to abuse
them.