| Show FROM THE SOUTH HE lle spring CAMPAIGN THE rosi rosl position Tion OM molicy roi rol ICY rcy AND WANTS OF THE SOUTH from the richmond sentinel jan there is a great and general revival in the pints brits and confidence or of our people relative to ie war and there is reason for this our amy y is acting nobly and is in the best of or pints the men whose three yeary terms re tre approaching their close have ceased to vait rait upon congress from all quarters rom jonnston johnston joh Job before chattanooga and from kae lae ipe on the glorious tidings come rom these gallant veterans without any inducement save the of patriotism nd ind the them inspirations of manly courage they ire coming forward with the utmost enthusiasm by regiments and brigades to volunteer or the war our armies are also in excellent and will give a good account of them elves in the coming campaign the spirit of ur lur people ia Is also good there is a general termination to unite in harmonious effort ach tach in his sphere to wage the war with our grandest ran dest energies the news from the enemy i likewise encouraging they are ending luch nuch greater difficulty in recruiting their emles armies t than an we have heretofore bup supposed posed ibe me oa oid soldiers Bodi soai erb eiB are not re enlisting in the lumbers that have been claimed JM eades irmy will be composed of new levies and low bow can buch euch as they stand before our veterans iet ret erane and what a difference in the spirit if the armies oo 00 one side bribes of a dollars are necessary to win reluctant nen men many of or whom will never return retura from their heir furloughs furroughs on the other without or bribe our mn m n are re enlisting with iholts shouts we are fighting for country and lome iome their men are fighting for money the crash is coming also to add its perplexities lexi ties to our enemy their clustering difficulties will make them give up the struggle or they can afford to do it oar our difficulties hough though in many respects greater cannot so us because we cannot afford to yield let lot L et us ever maintain our energy in full T vigor igor iad lad a spirit that never droo broo droops pa and I 1 let iet et us strike hard bard and bravely whenever we have a hance chance and our enem enemas s resolution will decay ind die dle under disappointment and despair our success ia is certain it if we will ie be but men thank heaven the sky brighten brightens sl efrom from the richmond examiner jan 23 J the time has paced for off military on the part at 0 southern armies beyond recovering lost portions of territory he true policy now is to risk nothing at first akst before aryland maryland Al kentucky and were lost we might have gained much by y taking washington and penetrating centre of the enemies enemas power but we then threw oura ourselves elves on the defensive allowed our soil to be invaded consented that our own supplies should subsist the troops of 0 both ige lige rents and suffered the extensive belt the two hostile nations which was desolated by the contending forces to be taken from our own territory our means of subsistence have now been too far tar exhausted 0 admit any other than defensive tact tactics cs lite lire e must stand behind the wide belt of land which war has hag devastated and put our enemy to the hazard and the cost of crossing that wilderness of destitution we m may nay ay recover tennessee and arkansas we may carry our lines to the banks of the potomac we may prevent the navigation of the AI mississippi by the constant presence at certain points of moveable moveably move moYe able batteries of artillery but in these and in all au our military enterprises and operation operations wa we must observe the ivary wary tactics of fabius and win the battle by risking nothing hereafter our strength will consist in our very poverty our cou country is its too sparsely in habited too scarcely supplied wi 1 I h food and forage to be aw successful y invaded for an indefinite period the war will last as long as the north can intrain maintain a muster roll strength of three quarters of a million and support an army of four hundred thousand men at a distance of several hundred miles from its basis 0 of f subsistence it has become with us now a simple question of endurance we can husband our resources we can maintain our armies at a standard ot of strength apportioned to the productive capacities of the country when outnumbered we can weary the enemy and waste his strength by artful maneuvers atta kin king him in detail and destroying him b by piece meals but if we undertake more we riz risk all our territory is still of vast dimensions and presents nowhere any large accumulation of supplies in the compact states of europea where every foot of the soil is brought into ion where agriculture agri culture cultura is at the maximum where every acre groans with redundant crops invasion by large armies is comparatively not only practicable but profitable and seif self sustaining there armies move over great distances without the appendage of leagues of wagon train trains drawing their food a aang on I 1 for hundreds of miles behind them but he case is very different on this continent A striking exemplify atlon of the face is witnessed in the case cf rf east tennessee where the federal armies are now compelled to retreat from sheer want of supplies yet that country is is emphatically the granary of the south the ile traveller will see on the roadside from bristol to chattanooga in the month of june more wheat than if it he continues his bis journey on to vicksburg then rravis by the southern route toute back all tb the e way vay to richmond then famous james river valley and through southwest virginia to bristol again the enemy have i occupied east tennessee only four or five MD they entered it in august just after i an unusually abundant harvest of all crops had been secured rendered greater by the ex tra ordinary exertions of the inhabitants put forth under the invitation of mr air daviss crop planting proclamation of last spring just after atter the heaviest crop ever raised in j that productive grain country had bad matured i our forces were called out of it by bagg and the enemy invited to enter and enjoy yet i they are now forced to evacuate a large portion of the most productive meat and corn country in the confederacy from sheer want of bupp supplies ilis lits the fact proves that no portion of our territory will long support the pre presence of an army rit lit it proves that in order to our j subjugation the north must transport several hundred thousand troops over stances distances ai of hundreds of miles and support tham at those long distances with supplies brought from home with the south the duration of the war 13 is simply a question of a continued supply of food for people and army with the north I 1 its duration is a question of enlistment and I 1 finance a question of recruiting a muster I 1 roll strength of at least three quarters of a million of men for thea their armies and of main a system of bance finance taxed with the 1 cost of transporting four or fire hundred bundred thousand troops and their subsist ances over disi dis 1 lances vances ot at many hun dreda dieda of miles mues the south I 1 can hold bold out indefinitely even after all this waste and extravagance if ony at the tile eleventh hour she does not go mad the 1 richmond congress can bring her to subi suil uga 1 i tion in six months more by conscripting her 1 present producing classes and thrusting them i into an unclad and unfed army the great want is more food fool and clot hinga want which cannot be supplied by mul mui multiplying t ip I 1 ying mouth mouths backs and feat at the expense of the producers of provisions and covering the first duty of government is to provide these supplies and if they cannot be provided ex J capt by weakening the army the alternative 1 mastbe must be adopted of resisting with smaller i armies using the tactics of fabius and te the strategy of defence |
