Springfield Weekly Republican

How the Southerners Look at It.

Our enemies are fighting to coerce us, to enslave us. They attempt to subjugate us by invading our territory, and by the strategy, deception and falsehood of the Lincoln administration. For years they have fattened upon our industry and resources. Our substance has made them great and prosperous. And now these cormorant tribes, who have so long fattened upon us, in their vanity and pride, forgetting all the teachings of history, seek to subdue and subjugate us. A righteous God will not suffer the inflated, the presumptuous, the vain-glorious, the coercive, the usurpative to triumph over us. Their insolence nears its end. They have reached the end of all their usurpation.—Atlanta (Ga.) Intelligencer.

Our leader is honored and beloved by all his people. A Napoleon in the field and a Solon in council, they have every confidence in his ability to plan and to execute. In his staff may be found some of the brightest names that adorn American history. In point of respectability our government, as regards its civil and military arm, can compare with that of any nation in its day. The alleged elements of our weakness, to wit, our lack of means to defray expenses, the scarcity of the means of subsistence, and the peculiar character of our social organization, are all idle chimeras of the northern brain, which are destined to be dispelled by the light of a bitter experience. Let them trust to it if they will.—Savannah (Ga.) Republican.

This war of aggression springs from malice and hatred, and it is designed to inflict suffering and woe, and to lead to conquest and subjugation. Not one good feeling mingles with the motives to this war upon us. It cannot even make the tyrant's plea of necessity—it can produce no good, in any shape, or in any event, to the North. Every death of which it may be the cause will be a murder, and will fasten a dire responsibility on the authors and the willing instruments of this war at the judgment of the Eternal. No northern man who is a Christian at heart can give any countenance to this war of aggression, or participate in an invasion of southern soil; for these acts of malice and hatred are in direct opposition to the benign principles of his holy religion.—Mobile (Ala.) Register.

The northern desperadoes, when furnished with arms and flushed with liquor, after being taught that it is right and proper to plunder and massacre southern people, may take it into their heads that it is quite as right to despoil the sanctimonious villains who taught them the convenient doctrine. There is more rich spoil within a square mile in New York or Philadelphia than can be found in the whole of the poverty-stricken state of Virginia, and we would suggest to the "roughs" and their associates that it can be won with fewer knocks and far less peril.—Richmond (Va.) Whig.

Such a universal military movement and enthusiasm we certainly never have seen. The whole population of the South seems to be under arms. Nearly every steamer and railroad train, bound to or from New Orleans, is filled with our gallant volunteers. Nearly every clergyman we know is a member of a military company. Thousands upon thousands of ladies are making uniforms, preparing comforts, and raising money for the troops. Thousands of southern ladies are begging to be drilled, and many are arming, and practicing in the use of the rifle and the revolver. In the midst of this military enthusiasm there is a deep religious fervor. Praying, weeping women are urging their sons, some of them youths to the field. The truth is, it is a religious war. It is in defense of the rights of conscience. It is in defense of 'the faith once delivered to the saints,' against those who would force us, by arms, to receive their infidel 'higher law' instead of the Bible of our forefathers. Is there any doubt of the result of such a war? None in the world. We may suffer, but we shall succeed.—New Orleans Christian Advocate, Methodist.