| From the Southern Confederacy (Atlanta,
Ga.) |
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| April 9, 1863 |
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| Starving Out the South |
| It is evidently the leading
design and hope of our enemies to starve us out, and the conduct of
the Southern press is well calculated to encourage this hope. There is
too much complaint, and too much noise about hard times and high
prices. That prices are very high is true, but it should be borne in
mind that there are now $10 to $1 in circulation as compared with
peach times, and that most men are better able to pay ten dollars now
than they were to pay one dollar before the war began. |
| As to the food question, the
scarcity is apparent rather than real, and is caused by the want of
transportation. It is no matter of surprise that the quotations of
prices in our papers should induce the Yankees to believe we are
starving. The frequent narrations of thefts, seizures, &c., and
the lamentations that accompany them in our papers, have not only
greatly encouraged the Yankees, but have greatly depressed our own
people. |
| Now it is not assume or
expected that these prices and troubles can be wholly kept from the
knowledge of the enemy, but we do think that the real difficulties
ought not to be exaggerated as the have been but the true cause, to
wit, the want of adequate transportation should be constantly
and prominently set forth. So far as Georgia is concerned it is well
known that a large surplus of corn, and other articles are lying, and
even spoiling in the cribs of Southwestern Georgia for the want of
transportation. The Government should look to this thing, and the
Legislature should facilitate transportation in every possible way. If
possible let us have more railroads, and more rolling stock: At all
events let all unconnected links which have been partly constructed or
in contemplation, be speedily completed. |
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| Brutus |
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