The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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In Union is strength.

We were struck with the reply of a young Louisisua soldier to one who asked him how he liked camp life. ‘"I hate it,"’ he said, ‘"but I hate the Yankees worse." ’ This should be the spirit in civil as well as military life. The soldier has more to complain of a hundred fold than the civilian. He has not only a right to grumble at alleged mismanagement in high places, which affect him in his character as a citizen as much as any civilian, but at the peculiar hardships of his own lot, sleeping on the cold ground, indifferent food, toilsome marches, sometimes brutal officers, who make his life bitter to him, constant perils, and, worse than all, the yearning of the heart for his dear old home. And yet he ‘"hates the Yankees worse."’ He loves his home, he loves personal freedom and comfort, but he loves his country more. Let us emulate this patriotic and magnanimous spirit. Whatever we may see to condemn in each other, we have so much more to hate and execrate in the common adversary that we may well consent to bear and forbear till the contest is ended, and our divisions can bring no harm to the common cause. At present every manifestation of discord and party strife is a fresh incentive to our watchful and malignant foe. It is seized upon not only as a proof of our internal weakness, but a new illustration of the spirit of fastion and discontent which our enemies allege led to the present. Revolution, and could never be contanted under any form of government.