The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 21, 1865 Page: 1 of 2
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COUNTRYMAN.
VOL.5.
No. 25.
J. P. OsTKRHOtrr, Editor.
llllrOtic'Autia Cennty, T<
MARCH. Si. 1865.
BT Any pereon wishing to swap
a good pony for a yoke of oxen,
may hoar of an opportunity by
inquiring at this office.
tít" Affaire in Mexico appear to
be unfavorable to the Emperor,
The imperial force have been de-
feated in several battles with con-
siderable loas. Gen. Bazfrie is report-
ad wounded and 700 of the foreign
legion deserted and gone over to the
Liberals. So the Empire is by
pettled.
We have been asked -by
several persona for information about
the cotton thread of the Bastrop
Manufacturing Company. We know
nothing in relation theieto, further
than that the LnQrange papers say
H is a good article. They say noth
iug of the price, nor the quantity
it takes to make a bale.
—, , ■¡■■H
IdlK Mayor Macbeth of Charleston
says he has advices from Napoleon
that be will*assert the independence
of the Confederacy on" the 4th of
March, and. if necea wry support his
declaration by armed intervention
French vessels, he says, are rendez-
vousing at convenient points in the
gulf. There were no indications
an .attack, on Mobile up to the 1st
iuat. It is believed that the forces
that left New Orleans liave gone to
re-inforcé Sherman or Grant. Charles-
ton is in the hands Of the Yankees
the city was evacuated by our forces
and citizens, all except those who
"«áld not get away. 300 guns were
spiked, but otherwise^are uninjured
0000 balea cotton were burnt.
Tiib Nbws Condknsbd.—Gold
closed in N. Y. city on the 1st inst.
at 800}—-Cotton 84 cents.
peaoe newa haa caused great excite-
ment in Liverpool.—Several vessels,
six in all, have been burnt off the
cape of Good Hope by tho Confeder
ate privateer Shenandoah. The
London Times of "a late date, is
assured "that Jeff Davis has the
game in his own hands, and can
secure independence to the South,
wither with or without Northern
assent, according to his pleasure.
The clue to thia statement, generally
credited in America, ia that the
Maclean Emperor has conveyed the
trnst}to Napoleon, of die Northern
portion of Mexico, to be held and
administered by Freneh Viaers in
liquidation of Freneh claims on
Mexieo. The cession must entail
.recognition of the South by France,
Singlará and Europe." (We ¿tve
the above for what it ia worth—Ed.)
The Richmond Examiner saya the
Yaakee foree east of the Mississippi
do* not exceed 175,000. This, if
tram hi a much smaller force than is
generally believed. The negro WO
haa been lost In the Confederate
avoteof 11 to 16. Wig.
e bill, Oldham
.with tO
* J* ««
Be*
reinstated in the Com-
'ofthe Tmnrssun.
but he haa beea ocdMad to report to
Gen. Lee It ia rappoaed
he will take efeqpef-ifce troope to
front oi Geo. Shamto.
. ...j,J;', , •: •< ; / s
**• *•* '' V .
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w
r The failure of Lincoln to
make peaee with our commissioners,
or to offer any terms of peace short
of absolute submission to the will of
the abolitionists, with all the' laws
passed by theFederal Congress and
the amendment off the Federal Con-
stitution in relation to slavery, hoe
intensified and united the people of
tlie Confederacy beyond any event
that ha transpired since the begiu-
ing of the war. It is apparent that
nothing can be gained but everything
is to be lost by going back into the
union. There is nothing to do now
but to fight it out. The man who
would now tamely submit to the
insolent demands of the Yankees
must be either a craven, a knave or
a fool.
Before this conference was held,
the possible pfospect of having to
live in the same national household
with those who have murdered our
people, burnt our dwellings and des-
troyed our subsistence was a horrible
picture to look at, but with property
confiscated, and the people no rights
but such as the conqueror chooses to
bestow, are contingencies now offer-
ed as the only results oí our return .to
the union. Who will accept such
terms t If there be any man base
enough, if there he any man with so
little manhood left in him, such
man has already lived out more than
the ptoper length of his days, We
can not believe we have any such
among us. From every port of the
Confederacy there come now the
voices of a united people; united to
strive for independence to the last,
or die in the struggle. It is no time
for faltering now. t We can noJongei
parley with the enemy. They have
fiXed the terms of our submission
Shall we yield 1 Never! No, never !
We say, rather, let every man to the
front, without regard to age, occupa
tion or exemption!
DIED.
At his residence near Chappell Hi]
Washington Co., on the 15th
.Mardi, 1865. Mqj. JoáErn Wal
Lis, aged 64 years.
Maj. Wallisjwas born near Meck-
lenburg, N. C„ and was a descen-
dant of one of the signers of the
Mecklenberg declaration of indepen-
dence in the Revolution. He bad
ieen a citisen of Texas for about
twenty years. He was a strong ad-
vocate for Southern ^Rights, and
or the secession .of the Southern
«States. He was truly the soldier's
iHeud, and the protector and pro-
vider for the soldier's family. His
was indeed a liberal hand. All he
íad he'WXB ready to sacrifice upon
the altar of his country. A good
man has fallen, but the memory of
such a man is sweet.
[From the State Gazette.]
DISLOYALTY.
Under our Confederate system of
government, the allegiance of the
citizen is first due to hiB State; it is.
qually due to the government of the
Confederate States so long as that
government is permitted to represent
the State according to the stipula-
tions of the contract—the constitution
of the Confederate States. In con-
sideration of the circumstances that
surround, and have for the last four
years surrounded the country, it may
not be inappropriate, somewhat to
review the political aspect presented
by the word which heads this. The
inquirer after truth, wi)í at all times
se«?k where best it may be found, and
in times of great political commotion,
as the present, be will not hesitate
and consider the past facts of history,
as, at least, reasonable guides in
determining the future, more particu-
larly where surronnding circumstan-
ces are at all similar.
It would be instructively inter-
esting to present fully the parallel
between the varied events of the
first American revolution and those
of the second—that which now
exists —as drawn by the comparison
of historical facts with the events
which have passed, ai it were, before
our immediate vision during the
rogress of the present war. But,
owever much we might be inclined
fully to do this, we are admonished
by the limited space of our columns
to desist. A glance, barely, at
American history must suffice.
At the beginning of the fifth period
when the war of the first revolution
was earnestly inaugurated by the
clash of arms at Lexington, the pop-
ulation of the then thirteen colonies
was estimated at three millions of
nle. From this time to the close
e contest in 1783, it is said that
the number of Loyalists to the Brit-
ish crown in the colonies was not
far short of thirty thousand arms-
bearing men; nearly every one of
whom, in some way or otler, was
actively engaged in giving "aid ant;
comfort" to the King's troops. Then
as now, nil those who espoused the
lights demanded by the revolution-,
ists as contradistinguished from those
rights, which the British Parliament
recognized by the various naviga-
tion acts, and laws of trade/ as t
limit of their privileges, were called
rebels and traitors by the King's
subjects; and the hist appellation,
then as now, was applied by the
former to the anti revolutionists. If
we giVe credit at all to the history
of that time, we must conclude that,
then as now, the object of the revolu-
tion was not foi a considerable space
of time, a dismemberment of the
mother government—that Independ-
ence was an after issue, and, then sb
now, considered as a matter of ne-
cessity, inview of the results that
would, in all probability, have follow
ed Bubmipsion, or any . compromise
short of recognition as an independ-
ent political power.
Political potties were then known
Mbs. Fbances Shaw who was
convicted at Galveston, at the Fall
term of the District Court of that
county and sentenced to two years'
confinement in the Huntsvillo peniten-
tial^ for complicity in a robbery and
the morder of a negro girl, took
roeal to the Supremo Court
The deciaion of the District Court
tas been affirmed. So Mrs. Shaw
will soon be coined at Hoataville
for two years.
Sorrosau Fuuñllimf or Pro-
phbcy.—A London paper **11 atten-
tion to the fact, that the fear 1806
"eh Louis Napoleon haTfixed on
the time for withdrawing Ml
from Rome—which will bé
wkW nttriy di Mi Mal Ml I
m the New Testament,
TVta.ll J. ILL
iroin uiRflop
or the royal army came in their
|mid8t, then they 'supported,' and
by their own account, 'always had
supported their lawful sovereign, his
most gracious majesty."
Then as now, iu all Tory corres-
pondence wherein their political star
tus was spokbn of, they represented
theinselveB in the majority, and only
awaited the assistance of His Majes-
ty's right arm to redeem the colonies
and secure to the "traitors" their
merited doom. Then as now, the
most intimate friendships were broken
and the dearest family ties were
sundered. Some of Washington's
most intimate friends—men over
whom he was supposed to have had
an unbounded influence in shaping
their political opinions—espoused
the cause of the crown. The only
son of Dr. Franklin is represented in
bistory as having been in the King's
service for the reduction of the colo-
nies to submission, at the very time
that his father in the councils of his
country, was with others considering
that Declaration of Independence
which gave birth to a nation of free-
men. John Hancock, the Presi-
dent of the Congress which pronounc-
ed that instrument, was the' full
nephew of one of the wealthiest and
most active adherents of the crown in
all the measures of oppression sought
to be enforced upon the colonists.
Wm. Hooper, who signed the Dec-
laration of Independence was a son
of Wm. Hooper, of Boston, who was
avowedly from first to last an anti'
revolutionist or Tory. Wm. Floyd,
another signer of that instrument,
was a near blood relative off Richard
Floyd, of New Ygrk, who abandon-
ed the cftlonies during the straggle
wd gave "aid and comfort" to the
enemy. Then as now, many of them
entered actively into the enemy's
service." What became of them f
We will see. At the cloBe of the
war when the royal army wa dis-
banded the officers retired on
half pay—they received grants
land according to rank wherever
the King's realms they were pleased
to settle. '.'But," says one, "their
liveB were saddened by the recollec-
tions of the paBt, and they became
morose, sour and peevish." Says
another: "They were unhappy."
Another tells Us: "That they, the
loyal and true, should have been
losers in the strife, and the «false
and rebellions' the winners; and that
the former should have been driven
from the country in which they were
born to commence life anew, in un-
broken forests, were circumstances
over which they continually brooded,
and to which they were never recon-
ciled. In a fit of mental aberration
many committed suicide; and some
stung to the heart by pangs of bitter
remorse, secluded themselves and
died, an easy prey ttf its relentless
grasp." The private journal of .one
who sought refuge on a foreign soil
reads thus, in part:
"Attended sessions of Parliament
heard Fox, Burke and other great
orators. Heard that Washington and
his army were captured. Heard
WeBley preach to an immense
throng In the open air. Visited
fishing town, and reminded of fislring
towns in Massachusetts. Heard that
Washington. is declared Dictator
like Cromwell. Witnessed ec
ipent of fleets and armies to subdue
America. Angry and mortified to
hear Englishmen talk of Americans
as a sort of serfs. I Wearied of sights.
Sick at heart, and tired of a a
among a people whp, after all, até bnt
foreigners. O, for a return to New
England I Anxious as to the result
of the war. News of the surrender
of Cornwall!*, and admission on all
the Whigs, Mr. Madison said it was
a re-eetaolithtnent of the colonial re-
lation to the parent country a
were previous to the controversy.
suppose he meant as they existed
Kvious to the navigation acts and
a of trade, as passed by Pariia-
k. ..forced I ,* England«.d.
. officewand agenta of ¿jj the loyalists abroad deeply ari-
the British crown. Then es<1bbWr as to their future fate/Faotne
in the treefcr of peace any positive
f the Americans in exile.
opon the other. Then as aof«
revolutionists began the "
terms of great inequality,
numbers or the applUdpsa at
The future historian, as he
the acta of this revolution, may
abundant cauae to regret them
ty which compels him to
defection, to call it by
nov
name which has marked this
le, but we do not, .believe _
be unconditional Union men in the
Contederacy wonld equal half the
"the
eracy
number of Tories known dnrinf
first revolution. Certainly, all
considered, they are few. r
the historical facts of that
n, wlo can doubt the fav
issue of the present oontest 1
the Whigs won and the Tories
the control of a future en
Now the same result will take pLw,
and then the traitors! Where wiB
they go f What is to be their fate ?
Their refuge will be the hills and
the rpeks and the outer corners, that
they may be hid from the indigna'
tion of their justly offended
trymen. May God have
coun-
trymen. Jusy uod flflvo int
them and wake them 'elevent
patriota at last.
>**•—
by the termB Whig and Tory—the
' "erence was about this; the Whigs
(revolutionists) were willing to re-
main colonists, provided they could
have their rights secured to them,
while the TorieB (anti-revolutionists)
were content to be bo without any
such security. As to the object of
JFiom the N. Y. World Feb. 25th.}
I Generri Lee having requested the
Richmond journals not to chronicle
Gen, Sherman's fiiture movement
through North and South Carolina,
we shall be left in the dark for a
time respecting the actual progress
of the great campaign in those States,
under the immediate corotaand ef
that officer. We presume this en-
forced silence is not so much to con-
ceal the movements of the Confede-
rate armies under Beauregard as to
prevent the timely co-operation of
General Grant at Richmond, or Gen.
Bcliofield at Wilmington.. Should
battle be given by Beanregard to
Sherman, and tho latter be victori-
ous, General Grant might seiae that
moment of*supreme diecourngement.
to force the defences of Petersburg
and capture Richmond. General
Lee may also wish to use some of
his own troops against Gen. Sher-
man, and then hurry them batk tiv
Richmond before the Lieuteiiant-
General of the Federal armies knew
of their absence.
Bnt, whatever the reason, tb
people of Richmond are not hereafter
to be permitted to know what Sher-
man is doing. According to the-
Enquirer, the wildest minors prevail
in Richmond. Beauregard, was said
dreaded the strength of the pttrent
Bvemment, and believed snccess-
1 resistance impossible, hot that
the eokmiee had neither the men nor
the means to eanry on the war, and
that they would he humbled and
redaeed to submission
an effort. Many at
poased the WUg 4e
were unstable. Says a writer: |
«If the sky was bright and a Whig
nch were the
fR
and lie-
lie. Ex
HkI
I communi-
st no dis-
Shermaa'a
wstaaear.wftytfeM
men Were steadfast f
ii the news
and fears oi
,1, . . 'oriea, and such
are now the mental terrors of hun-
dreds who have expatriated them-
selves and are giving "aid and
fcrt" to the enemy.
" ' ecloee of the
the first time,
operation of
I revolutions
to
to be cut off from C
himself had becom
travagant reports of t'
ways obtained in an exciti
ty when real news is supj
It is clear, however, th
aster as yet has attended
movements, for that the rebels would
not have concealed; and as he wa*
marching nprtfi w^en last heard:
from, he must ere this have occupied.
Charlotte.
The capture of Wilmington by-
General Scnofield will have an im-'
portant bearing upon General Sher-
man's campaign. It will ¡give the
great General a water base wher-
ever he require one. General Scho-
field, of course, will push on at oOoer
either to Florence or Goldsboro'
and his movement Will be a diversion*
in favor of Sherman, as It will pre-
vent the concentration of aB thtf
Confederate forces against the latter.
We do not seo how many weeks
can pas without a great battle. A
swelling tide of recruits are fiMfcg
up the ranks of General Grnatf
army $ Sherman is dangerous
the communications of the fo.v*, w
fending Richmond, and I—
must be done to restore the
tige ef the Confederate power!
may be that Sherman'e
celerity has so di<
federate leader that
make head against kta,
moro reasonable to sdppoi
will get an army
his progresa, and
his junction
asaii.
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 21, 1865, newspaper, March 21, 1865; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177179/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.