THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY: ITS DOOM DRAWING NIGH; Hastening Signs of Its Dissolution (1/6/1865)

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THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY: ITS DOOM DRAWING NIGH; Hastening Signs of Its Dissolution (1/6/1865)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 1/6/1865

Posted on 01/06/2025 6:34:34 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

A EUROPEAN PROTECTORATE - ITS PRICE, THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.

From the Richmond Sentinel, Jan. 2.

It becomes us coolly and calmly to look into the circumstances of our conditions, and adopt with firmness and energy such a policy as wisdom may point out and our necessity constrain. It is childish to whine under misfortune. It is cowardly to sink under it. It is absurd to be enfeebled by it. A brave man struggling with adversity is worthy of special admiration -- a spectacle for gods and men.

We think that our late reverses have done much toward preparing the minds of our people for the most extreme sacrifices if they shall be adjudged necessary to the successes of our cause. And in truth they are not sacrifices at all when compared with our situation. If subjugated, it is a question simply whether we shall give for our own uses, or whether the Yankee shall take for theirs. Subjugation means emancipation and confiscation.

All our servants and all our property yielded up to assist in the defence of our country would mean no more, but it would be far more glorious to devote our means to our success than to lose them as spoils to the enemy. Our situation, too, stripped of our property, but master of the Government, would be infinitely better than if despoiled by the enemy and wearing his bonds.

These views have long received the theoretical assent of our people. They are now our practical realizing conviction. A thousand prejudices, a thousand consecrated dogmas, are now ready to be yielded at the bidding of necessity. Any sacrifice of opinion and sacrifice of property, any surrender of prejudice, if necessary to the defeat of our enemies, is now the watchword and reply.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar

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2 posted on 01/06/2025 6:35:58 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...

The Southern Confederacy: Its Doom Drawing Nigh – 2-3
Hood’s Escape: Capture and Destruction of His Pontoon Train – 4
News from Rebel Sources: The Raid in Alabama – 4
Secretary Stanton: Official Trip of the Secretary Down the Coast – 4
News from Washington – 4
Thirty-Eighth Congress: Second Session – 4-5
Editorial: The New Call for Troops – How to Fill Quotas and Ruin our Army – 5-6
Editorial: Aid for Savannah – The War to Restore Fellowship – 6
Vice-Admiral Farragut – 6

3 posted on 01/06/2025 6:36:34 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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