Our Congress has authorized the raising and organizing of four
hundred regiments. The Yankee Congress, 500,000 men. The enemy will get their's
first; and it is said that between 600,000 and 700,000, for three years or the
war, have already been accepted by the U. S. Government. Their papers boast
that nearly a million volunteers were tendered. This means mischief. How many
will rush forward a year hence to volunteer their services on the plains of the
South? Full many ensanguined plains will greet the horrific vision before this
time next year; and many a venal wretch coming to possess our land, will occupy
till the day of final doom a tract of six feet by two in some desolate and
unfrequented swamp. The toad will croak his requiem, and the viper will coil
beneath the thistle growing over his head.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 77-8
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