Southern Watchman -- Extra. Athens, GA: May 6, 1865. Newspaper broadside extra, 11.75 x 15.5 in. It had been nearly a month since the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered, and ten days or so since Johnston surrendered the forces active in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. The broadside extra touts: New Arrival! The Federal forces, under command of Brig. Genl. Palmer, entered our place on the 4th inst. The conduct of the troops since their occupation of the town, has been good, and reflects great credit upon Genl. Palmer as a strict disciplinarian. - We hope that our citizens will endeavor by kind and courteous treatment toward the soldiery, to encourage a continuance of the protection which they seem willing to afford. The broadside continues: Below we give extracts from the Salisbury Watchman and Carolina Spartan - two papers that have from the beginning of the war advocated the policy of fighting on until the last man and dollar were exhausted, and by their vile, traitorous and insidious words exerted a strong influence over the minds of the South and thousands of widows and orphans who are now suffering every privation and horror connected with the war, can attribute them to the false and unscrupulous arguments set forth and spread out in these papers. It is an easy thing, and one that requires but little valor or manly spirit, to cry out "War to the last!" when comfortably ensconced at home surrounded by every luxury and comfort that civil life affords, and where no Yankee bullets can reach. Such has been the position of those who govern the Southern press, who keeping their devoted carcasses at a respectable distance in the rear, still cry out for more lives to sacrifice and more money to squander, to enable them to secure a foundation for their weak and rotten Confederacy to stand upon... Condition: Toning and folds as expected. Generally very good.
Southern Watchman -- Extra. Athens, GA: May 6, 1865. Newspaper broadside extra, 11.75 x 15.5 in. It had been nearly a month since the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered, and ten days or so since Johnston surrendered the forces active in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. The broadside extra touts: New Arrival! The Federal forces, under command of Brig. Genl. Palmer, entered our place on the 4th inst. The conduct of the troops since their occupation of the town, has been good, and reflects great credit upon Genl. Palmer as a strict disciplinarian. - We hope that our citizens will endeavor by kind and courteous treatment toward the soldiery, to encourage a continuance of the protection which they seem willing to afford. The broadside continues: Below we give extracts from the Salisbury Watchman and Carolina Spartan - two papers that have from the beginning of the war advocated the policy of fighting on until the last man and dollar were exhausted, and by their vile, traitorous and insidious words exerted a strong influence over the minds of the South and thousands of widows and orphans who are now suffering every privation and horror connected with the war, can attribute them to the false and unscrupulous arguments set forth and spread out in these papers. It is an easy thing, and one that requires but little valor or manly spirit, to cry out "War to the last!" when comfortably ensconced at home surrounded by every luxury and comfort that civil life affords, and where no Yankee bullets can reach. Such has been the position of those who govern the Southern press, who keeping their devoted carcasses at a respectable distance in the rear, still cry out for more lives to sacrifice and more money to squander, to enable them to secure a foundation for their weak and rotten Confederacy to stand upon... Condition: Toning and folds as expected. Generally very good.
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