Their military honor.
of the
Yankee confederates profess to consider the of this war to the vindication of their military honor.
It strikes as that military honor or honor of any kind, as far as they are concerned, has very little to do with the whole proceeding.
When a nation such as war upon another nation basting that it been its opponent four in one, that it has the resources is money and manufacturing power, and five hundred Tenons.
the naval we should say that very little honor could be achieved in such a war, even it completely successful.
Four stout highwaymen, who should succeed in overpowering one solitary traveller, might fill them pockets with the ill gotten gain, but would scarcely set up a claim to courage and chivalry on the strength of that achievement.
Whilst we have never impeached the general courage of the
North, or any other race of mantis, we feel quite sure that this war is one of the most unblushingly coward were recorded in the of history.
They have never board their own of success for a moment on anything but superior brute force.
They declare that they have had in the field over a million of men and there has scarcely been a battle in which they have not outnumbered as two to one.
In those Western conflicts, in which they have sometimes gained advantages, it has been by odds against us the most overwhelming.
What does all this prove?
Superior of and courage!--Military honor!
They now propose to bring three millions more, and such as under an avalanche.
But where even if successful, would be the military honor of that proceeding?
If the
Yankees want to vindicate their military honor, let them pick out twenty five, or fifty thousand of their best fighting men, let the
South select the same number, and then let the question of military honor depend upon the of that battle.
There is a chance for them to gain laurels and glory.
Every one knows that they have outnumbered us, according to their own accounts, four to one; that they have had over a million of men in the field, and that even if they had been uniformly successful, instead of almost uniformly whipped, it would be nothing to brag of. If they carry on the war as
Lincoln proposes, making superior numbers, instead of manhood, their reliance, future victories could they achieve them, would be equally indecisive of the question of honor, and future defeats equally humiliating.
Their only chance of military honor is to meet us on equal terms fifty thousand to fifty thousand, and then if they whip us, they will have something to beast of. For our own part, we would not only be willing to leave the point of military honor, but the whole cause of our country, to the result of such a battle.
