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^ For tnc Yorkvillc Enquirer.
To the Volunteers from York District.
Gallant Sirs ?In illustrating the necessity
to the soldier for the spirit and practice
of religion?this having been denominated
as the essential and predominant element
in the spirit which should prompt and
control him?we proceed to assume and
prove in the second place.
2. That it will be a safeguard against
the sins to which the soldier are specially
liable.
As the first and last in this catalogue of
sins, jealousy, and consequent bickering
with one another, mav be mentioned. The
selfishness of the human heart, and the
martial ambition with which men, who take
the sword and field are infected, are very
apt to make each man peculiarly suspicious
of his personal claims and rights. Hence,
where there are many influences bearing
upon those vested with authority, and where
there is frequently ignorance as to the real
merits of subordinate claimants, the honors
of office and position are often awarded
so as to excite the jealousies of those interA
ested. The same is true on the part of
K those who are in command; their official
f action is often offensive to others, and, therefore,
dissatisfaction and quarrels are the result.
So, also, in the routine of military
duties, there are temptations to collisions of
feeling, because of the indolent, or shirking,
or domineering, wishing to impose undue
hardships upon others. In all these
cases the humility and forbearance?a due
regard to the feelings and rights of others
and a consciencious sense of duty produced
by religion, would be a preventive and rectifier.
Again : Another sin prevalent among
soldiers is gambling. For the alleged purposes
of removing the tedium and ennui of
camp-life, and giving employment to minds
thirsting for excitement, as well as to accord
with the habits and pander to the vitiated
tastes of many, the gambling table is spread,
and to it many of the unwary are enticed,
and thus those, who at home would spurn
the degrading, blighting, contemptible and
immoral employment, are soon involved in
the meshes of a vicious and fatal habit.?
f Against this a fully developed moral firmness,
strict religious scruples, and a proper
reverence for the principles of the Gospel,
are the only adequate protection, apart from
that restraint and prohibition which a true
and conscientious officer will ever impose
upon his troops, as to this habit.
Again: The violation of the eighth commandment
is a prevalent sin amongst the
military. Because of a sort of commonage
?feeling of an eqaal right to everything
brought into camp?general scarcity of luxuries
and sometimes of even conveniences,
and a proncness on the part of some, to exercise
undue and mischievous privileges,
from a false notion that it is indicative of
shrewdness or in defence of spirit, the
rights of private property are too often violated
by the appropriations of another's
uoods and Dossesaions. So. too. in times of
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war, when on uiarch or io gaining possession
of an enemy's property, the spirit uf
L undue appropriation to personal use, orwil1
ful and unnecessary destruction, which are
M no other than theft and robbery, are too
m common. As this is sinfulv it, of course,
will be refrained from in proportion as the
army is under religious restraints.
Further. The spirit represented as es
sential to the true soldier, is needful for
defence against that other sin, of which war
is said to bo a school, viz : profanity. "He
swears like a trooper," is a common mode
of describing great prof'aneness. This vice j
is fashionable among soldiers, and is es-1
teemed by some of them, the badge of a
gentleman. For a private to describe some
feat of valorous daring, performed by himself,
or give forth an expression of opinion j
as to his enemy; or for an officer to give or- j
ders, without interlarding their language j
with oaths, would bo considered vulgar and j
unmanly. The battle-field always resounds
with blasphemies, and its ;;ir is filled with
horrid oaths and imprecations. It is a
shame and reproach to humanity, that men
whose calling leads them to the very jaws
of death, should delight in swearing and
cursing ; and yet such is the fact, whether
nn.Ik.ifntn fVin nnmilinr ntmnsnlmrn in
aluiuuwuiv w j
which the warrior moves, or to the example
of desperadoes, who io everyarmy gain
notoriety by their rashness and wickedness,
and whom by a strange perversion of language,
men call brave men and noble. As
an eloquent living Divine has said, "That a
pun} creature of the dust, born to-day and
gone to-cuorrow, should have the audacity
to pour contempt, by profanity, upon that
glorious name which seraphs adore with
rapture, is enough to astonish the heavens
and convulse the earth. Yea, still more
astonishing is that miracle of patience
which endures the monsters, when one word
would arm all nature against them ; make
heaven terrible above them; the ground
treaoherous beneath them; and hell ready
to meet them at their coming. The magnitude
of the sin cannot be exaggerated.?
It is enough to make the blood curdle, to
think of the name of God bandied about
as the bauble and plaything of fools, to
point a jest, to scorn obscenity, and to garnish
a tale."
And yet this very vice, so erroneous, so
excuseless, is one to which to which the
soldier is notoriously addicted. Nothing
then but the power of religious sentiments
and habits can enable the individual to resist
what the multitude is infected with.
I
Tp the above, let it be added, that the
militia system has been a stronghold of intemperance.
Whether due to the previously
formed habits of those who compose
our armies, or to the call of stimulants occasioned
by the exposure and irregularity
of such a life, or to the fact that the troops
live, much of the time, in the face of the
enemy, and so, demand something to arouse
their passions, or cause insensibility to their
condition. Yet it is indisputably true, that
intemperance controls, to an alarming extent,
in such companies as can find access
to the intoxicating beverage. As a specimen
of what is common where the thing
is permitted by the officers, it is said that
"in one of the engagements of the Crimea, |
the Russian soldiers were all 'as drunk as
fiddlers' and fought like madmen. About
five hundred prisoners were taken, all, almost
too drunk to stand upright." And j
from what is known of the camp carousals, j
and even the battle fields of our country,
perhaps our armies may be no exception
upon the item of temperance. Now, no
darkly drawn picture of the horrors and sin
j of drunkenness, is needed from this pen.
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mat it Drmauzes toe uuuy, luiunmcs mu
mind, dethrones reason, and depraves the
soul, curses the family, and finally overwhelms
the whole man with unutterable and
irretrievable ruin, has been a thousauu times
truthfully said. Ought not then the man
who is tempted into its vortex, and liable to
be victimized by its ravages, to be furnished
with some armor of defence, and what
is so good as the fear of God and a due
sense of his responsibility ?
The only other sin that is here signalized
is the violation of the Sabbath. War and
its accompaniments are subversive of the
Sabbath. The sauctity of this day is profaned
on every hand, either by dissipation
aud revelry, or by marches, or drilling, or
erecting fortifications, or collecting stores of
provisions, and often even by battles fought,
(of the last an example is found in cases of
Waterloo and Inkerman). Unscrupulous
and Godforgetting Officers have a most fearful
accountability in this. It is no ordinary
crime to cause men to violate one of the
| Ten Commandments, to rob them of a day
| to be devoted to holy rest and employments,
i and open thus a floodgate of iniquity and
I transgression, as Sabbath profanation always
j proves itself to be. Dearly purchased is
that military glory which is achieved by
trampling upon the explicit commands of
Jehovah, and secularizing Ilis huiy day.?
It is here again that the tempted soul needs
the guardianship and control of religion.
This, gentlemen, is a brief portraiture of
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those sins to which, under your present circumstances,
you are peculiarly liable.?
Strange as it may seem to you, yet the writer
has more solicitude in your behalf, unless
you are shielded by a Christian character,
on account of these sins, than all other
dangers known to him as your MENTOR.
Letter to the "Enquirer'' Children.
Camp Beauregard, S. C.,
"Wednesday, May 15th, 1861. | i
Dear Children:?Voureditoraod friend
keenly regrets that his being "off to the
wars" has prevented an undisturbed weekly
communion with you, through the Enquirer's
"Children's Department." Some of
you have kindly reminded him by letter,
too, that, though absent,- he is not forgotten
by the little folks; and this makes him
all the more desirous of having a talk with
you in some way. He has so many things
to do that ho cannot write to all of you separately
; so he proposes to adopt this form
of reply. Here then is the bargain: all of
you write to your absent editor whenever
the spirit moves you, Quaker-like ; and he !
will respond in priot. Will you agree to
that?
I would love to have you here with me
?a whole flock of you in your white gowns
and bonnets, and linen round coats and
pantaloons. For if you were to come to
Sullivan's Island now, you would need to
have your light garments and sweet summer
looks on. Imagine, then, the molasses
and cake-crumbs washed off your lips, the
candy ofi' your fingers, your heads combed
and all neat and tidy; and come take a
walk with me along the beach.
As we go up the eastern beach of Sulli-1
van's Island, we will have the ocean to our j
right hand, stretching away, away, farther j
than the eye can reach?much farther, for 1
it is nothing but ocean to England and
France, which are 3000 miles away. The
water never rests. It is always in motion. I
The waves chase each other to the shore,
and tumble over, aud break into foam upon
the sand, and run off as far as they can,
when they retreat to the ocean. As far as
vou can see around you, you will observe
little boats with sails, and steam-boats and
large sail-ships, plying to and fro; some
from the North, some from the South, some
from Europe, bringing sugar, molasses, coffee,
dry goods, &c., and carrying off cotton,
rice and other articles to various parts of
the world. I have counted 40 or f>0, large
and small, visible at one time to the naked
eye, at this place; and you can often see
more from the battery, the sea shore pleasure
grounds, of Charleston. But our enemy
has here now a great big war-steamer
with guns on it that will shoot balls as largo
as your heads three or four milc3, to make
the merchant-vessels cjuit going to and fro.
So we may not have so many sails to give
life and animation to the waters of our bay,
after a little while.
The next thiog you will be struck with,
is the number of shells you will discover
all about your feet. Here are some rough,
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I HllilJJCU UUea. J. ucjr uic u^otci ouwiin.
These prow iu beds, and look, a little dis!
tance off, something like a long pile of small
stones. They are planted this time of the
year, in marshy places along the coast,
where the high-tide covers them twice a day.
The oysters eat meal and I know not what
all; and multiply and grow very rapidly.?
They are good to cat every month that has
an "r" in it, they say. They are taken up,
and carried in "oyster sloops" to Charleston,
where they are worth about a dollar per
bushel. I have seen some men crack them,
as you would a hickory nut or walnut, and
cat them alive. They have a "salty, slick|
ish, sweetish" taste, when eaten iu th's way.
I There are, also, clam shells, conques,
star-tish, and many other kinds, along the
' beach. They are washed out from the sea
j by the tide. As we walk aloDg you will
gather up handsl'ull to take home with you.
Perhaps you will get to see a porpoise.
These lubberly creatures are sometimes as
large as a mule. They breathe the air, although
they live beneath the water just
| like the whale. Every now and then they
i put their noses out to get breath. Our vol;
unteers occasionally amuse themselves by
i shooting at them.
Sharks are sometimes seen also. A\*c
i have heard it said that a lady who was once
i bathing in the surf here?as is a custom of
; summer?was caught by one, and carried
i down, never to be seen any more. The
other day some negroes, a-boating, caught
a shark about eight feet long, and brought
it ashore. It was a new sight to mauy of
us. It was an ugly thing, with teeth sharp
??i??fcjxana
should plaut no cotton for a year, she would
get as much for the cotton crop she held
over, as she would have got for two regular
crop:. If in that lapsed year of cotton, she
devoted her whole labor to the raising of
grain, she would have quantities which
would supply all the markets of the world,
and close them against the North. If the
blockade could be enforced, and her cotton
could be confined to the South, no ultimate
disaster would befall our section; while a
ruinous competition in provision stuffs would
be built up against the North. In no manner
can the South be disastrously affected
by this war; in every manner will the
North be.
The Home Journal Succumbs.
This literary paper has succumbed to the
as a knife, and a thick, tough, dark skin,
almost as rough as a file. A grown shark
is twenty feet long, or more; and can cut a
man in twain at a stroke, if you give him a
chance.
I will now bid you good-bye for this time,
though I have a great many more things to
tell you. I hope to write to you again.
' YOUR EDITOR.
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Cur Resources for the War.
A foolish idea prevails at the North that
the South cannot raise her own provisions,
and will starve outright if the war he kept
up. The idea is born of Helper, and is only
a type of a class of ideas on this subject
by which the North is most industriously
deluding itself. The Census tables show
that the South raises more provisions per
man than the North, and nearly as much as
the great grain-growing region of the West.
The statistics of the country also show that
the Eastern manufacturing free States consume
an enuivalent of all the surnlus Dro
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ducts of the Western free States; and that
the free-labor North, taken as a unit, exports
little or nothing abroad. The gold of
California and about twenty five millions of
miscellaneous truck constitute the sum total
of Northern exportations of Northern
growth and production. The surplus provisions
of the Western free States are nearly
consumed by the Eastern manufacturing
free States. The whole exports of the late
Union, with the exceptions we have stated,
went from tho South. If Western grain
went off from New York, it was but little
in excess of the quanities of Southern provisions
sent to Northern manufacturers. It
was liberated by virtue of the receipt of
Southern provisions, and really represented
only an export surplus furnished by the
South. With the exceptions stated, the
whole exportation of the late Union, amounting
to over three hundred millions a
year, went from the South, of which cotton
alone furnished one hundred and ninetyone
millions. Besides the three hundred
millions sent by the South abroad, she sent
also to the North about one hundred and fifty
millions of dollars worth of produce, cotton
furnishing of course the largest item of the
amount. Considering the North as a forj
eign country, the exports of the South, in
j time of peace, are four hundred and fifty
J millions a year.
' This is the largest exportation for the
i ratio of population known in the commerce
I of the world. If the surplus of its pro1
t -. i j nu ?< ?
' UUCtS sent auroau measure me neaii/u ui a
! country, then is the South, the number of
J its population being considered, the wealthiest
country in the world. Yetthe North
deludes itself with the belief that the South
is weak, poor, and on the point of starvation.
A country purely agricultural; a
country of prolific soil and almost prurient
vegetation ; a country with the best organi
ized system of labor on the globe; a
J country exporting four hundred and fifty
j millions of dollars worth of surplus products
| a year; that country poor, weak and stinted
j for food ! What follies and stupidities are
sectional predjudice capable of leading a
people into!
This hallucination has its origin in the
fact that many of the Southern planters
j contiguous to the great rivers purchase
I their corn and bacon. They purchase beI
cause the same hand who would raise one
I hundred and fifty dollars worth of corn
i raises four hundred and fifty dollars worth
j of cotton or sugar. The planter, therefore,
i who purchases, and who increases to that
! extent the product of his cotton or sugar
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> crup, Ueany UUUUica tuc vaiuc ui Lut invvi
! Lc employs in the substitution.
But how fallacious is the inference, that
I because a few Southern planters, on the
! great highways, purchase corn and bacon,
j therefore the whole South will starve, if cut
; off from trade with the pork and corn raisj
iog States of the Union! The very fact of
j war, and isolation from these latter States,
' at once makes the South the grandest provision-growing
region in the world. The
i very moment her sales of cotton are check!
ed, that moment does she turn her unex'
ampled productive energies to the cultiva|
tion of provision stuffs; and from being an
exporter of cotton, sugar, tobacco, rice, and
naval stores, she becomes even a greater
grain-producingrcgion than the great NorthI
west herself. At any moment she chouses
! ?such is the advantage which her labor
j system gives her?she can drive the North!
west out of the markets of the world.
j In this aspect of the case, the blockade
of the South will prove as serviceable to her
! as prejudicial to the North. If the South
outside pressure of the New York rabble,
and now deserves to be universally repulsed
at the South. The Edgefield Advertiser
was recently taken to task for insinuating
that there was the least indication of a lack
of independence in that quarter; and, fearing
oursurmise mightbe unjust, wo promptly
made the amende honorable. But we
find in the last number of the Journal a
paragraph which is not only a pandering to
the North but an insult to the South. If
the editors could be supposed to know what
they are talking about, we should pronounce
t.heir assertions f which we italicised sheer
mendacity. As it is, the inquiry forces itself
upon us, what could have super-induced
the amazing stupidity that dictated suoh a
statement ? Here it is:
"The young lady who sends us the agreeable
letter from which the following
extracts are taken, is under a very natural
illusion as to who would be the majority of
her "patients," should she officiate as
"Florence Nightingale" to the opposing
army. To her glowing imagination that
army is composed entirely of such "Southerners"
as she has danced with in New
York, or passed the season with at Newport
and Saratoga, lint very different classes
are the "clay-catcrs" and "alligatorsthe
"crackers" and other "white trash" (as
they themselves call them,) who form the
main bulk and body of the common soldiery.
Iler former friends arc but the few
officers and leading men, who have had the
training and means of gentlemen ; and to
such, as prisoner or wounded enemy, it
will be pleasure to minister kindness and
mercy. But the lower grades are scarcely
human?so much more degraded than any
class with which any lady is likely to have
nnmn in Knntnof. t.hfl nnrsinf? of thcni
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would be indeed a duty misplaced."
Women of the South ! whose husbands,
brothers, fathers, sons, and cousins, are to
be found throughout the ranks here vilified !
will you tolerate a paper in your parlors
that thus wantonly attempts to traduce our
Southern soldiery ? Gen. Morris and Col.
Willis may sneer as they list; it is nevertheless
true that there are thousands of our
soldiers who are their equals in manhood,
honor, patriotism, piety, generosity, valor
?in every thing indeed, unless it be their
long-practised crafts of gossipry and songmaking.
?Edgefield A dveriiser.
The Two ArmieB.
There are now about 48,000 Confederate
troops under arms in Virginia, distributed
as follows : Richmond, 10,000; Harper's
Ferry 10,000; Alexandria, 3,000; Staunton,
2,000; Petersburg, 5,000; Fredericksburg,
3,000; and Norfolk, 10,000.
These depots are all connected with each
other by railroad. The whole number of
troops volunteered in Virginia is 85,000.
Of these, about 40,000 are now organized,
: and the military council is rapidly organi
twin.* fhn hnldnnp. fin d will have them in
,
tho Celd in the course of a week.
There are in and around Washington
something like 30,000 men?at least arrangements
have been provided for that
many, and the correspondent of the N. Y.
Times says that this is all that will be allowed
at that station at one time. There are a few
thousand federal troops at other stations,
and on their way to various poiuts. It cannot
be expected that two such large armies
can long remain idle, or without a collision.
If the soil of Virginia is invaded, as tho
latest Richmond papers intimate, we may
lojk for a collision at any moment.? Columbia
Guardian.
Land Measure.?Oue acre is compris.
oft in *>0,9 .t.ft {not. square: half an acre in
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147a foot square; fourth of an aero in 1051
feet square; an eighth of au acre in 732
feet square. Every farujer, by observing
this rule, can set oft any of these quantities
of ground accurately without trouble.
A bad mistake often turns cut better
than a good intention.