Holmes County Farmer

The Cause of the Unanimity in the South.

The Springfield Republican (an Administration paper), in a recent article upon national affairs, assigns the following reason for the present unanimity of the South, and the constant decline of Union feeling:

"Now, we believe it to be beyond reasonable dispute that the present unanimity of the South is the result of a fixed belief that this is an abolition war. The great strength which the rebellion is now exhibiting—its apparently renewed vitality—is the result of the destruction of what has been called "latent Unionism," through the conviction that the war is urged upon our side for the abolition of slavery. The masses did not believe this at first, but constant reiteration in the journals and on the stump, backed up by the later proclamations of Union Generals and the enactments of Congress, have convinced them that it is true. The consequence is that the South is essentially a unit. We think it will be in vain to look in any other quarter for the cause of a unanimity which lengthens and complicates the war indefinitely."

This paragraph explains why it has become necessary to call for six hundred thousand more men, and why the President is compelled to resort to conscription to obtain soldiers for the army. The last Congress made it its particular business to destroy all the Union feeling in the Border States. The advocacy of any measure by a Border State Congressman was equivalent to its defeat. The venerable, patriotic Crittenden was as powerless as a child in the House. No Republican gave the slightest heed to his counsels, and the majority exulted over his grief and laughed at his warnings. Now we hear that Kentucky is again in danger; that Maryland threatens to rise; that there is trouble in Missouri, and, even above all, we hear the voice of the Government not asking, but demanding men. Had Congress voted the appropriations passed by the tax Bill, and gone home the Government would never have come to this. Let us do all in our power to encourage enlistments—enlist ourselves—but let every soldier as he goes to the war against a united South remember how it became a unit.—Buffalo Courier.