Year: 1863

From the Richmond Examiner, lst.


We mentioned few days ago that the
Mississippi troops, in large numbers, were
deserting the army of Gen. johnson. We
felt disinclined to give credence to the re-
port. We believed that Mississippi, like
most of the other States Of the Confeder-
acy, has her proportion of timOrous and
cowardly traitors, who are already to yield
to the domination of the dastardy foe at
the first approach of danger to their home
steads aud hearthstones, and if any such
disaife cl!On has been produced among her
troops il the field, we doubt not the evil
seed has been sOwn by this class of her
population. Such state of feeling is
greatly to be deprecated, and we regret
especially to see it prevailing in Missis-
sippi, the home Of the President Bear
ing upon this point, the Mobile Register
has a very pungent and forcble article,
which it were well for the weak-kneed in
every Southern State to consider and re-
feet upon. 1t says:


"We have Just seen Il letter from pretty
high up the Mobile and Ohio road, which
says there are some who have become very
weak in the faith since the fall of Vicks-
burg opened the prospect that that part of
Mississippi would be overrun by the YAM
KEGS. They are therefore whining for
peace and reconstruction. Without know
ing who these people are we venture to
say there are a class of men who were
before breakfast and die-in-the last ditch
patriots before the war began, and who
have done little or nothing in personal SER
wiz nf,ih ,ti. f~, he, IL
fighting began. Ninety-nine to one that
they are men who have property to lose,
and who vainly fancy that they can save
it by getting down upon their knees to the
Black Republican Government.


OF one thing we are positively certain,
that no man with soul in his body, who
has once had that soul penetrated and
aroused by the unrivalled grandeur of this
struggle, who has once had his love of
country touched, and his indignant hatred
OF wrong and oppression kiniled by the
atrocities OF our enemies, can ever dream
of laying down his arms and CRYING
peace until the last Yankee enemy has
been driven from the SOIL We have no
patience to write of such miserable pol
. troons. What, yield this great prize, tor
which torrents OF our most precious blood
has been she'd, because your farms and
stocks are in danger? Did Virginia Weld
when her tairest and richest valleys were
ravaged, her people turned out houseless,
and her fields blackened and devastated
by the march and tread of the invader?
Have not Louisiana and het great COM
mercial city, New Orleans, been a wear
under the heel OF the cOncuerer, and do
not the fires OF patriotic resistance and
vengeance still burn in the bosoms of her
sons and daughters? Are You better than
they: Cannot you suffer and endure in a
holy cause as well as they? Shame on
your craven weakness. and greater shame
on the imbecile stupidity that supposes that
by sacrificing your character and your
country, you may save your vile trash
called property. Fools If the Abolition
arms triumph, you may pile up your oaths
as high as st. Peters dome; you may
patriotically damn yourselves to the low
est depths of infamy, and steep your souls
in the turpitude of vile abjurator of your
country and her sacred cause, and YOU
will yet not save your property.


OF all the stark mad fools and emntv-
headed idiots that we can conceive of on
this earth, the Southern submissionist and
reconstructionist at this stage of the game.
is the biggest, the starkest and the emnti,
est 1t is the prey proposing re-alliance
with the raving wolf; it is submission of
all you possess to be gobbled up by the
lnvader-for this is the philosophy and
programme OF the war-to sieze and con-
flscate the property of the South. to save
lne North from remediless bankruptcy and
James G. Blaine, editor of the Ken
neoec journal, and member OF Congress
elect from the Third District of Maine,