Blatteration.
The Philadelphia North American contributes one hundred thousand men to invade Virginia. The New York Tribune another hundred thousand. Some Boston editor or other orders out fifty thousand more. In reply, we command five hundred thousand men, armed and equipped, to spring out of the bowels of the earth, and swallow up those two hundred and fifty thousand Yankees forthwith. The editors of America have been so accustomed to speak in this language of hyperbole, that we wonder the Republican newspapers don't threaten as with a million forthwith. Why not two millions? It is just as easy to write "a million," and easier than to write "five hundred thousand. Oh, Blatteration, Gas, Humbug, what mighty powers ye are on earth! Why don't these magnificent exaggerators consider that 1t takes time, to say nothing of money, to put a hundred thousand men in an efficient condition for military service. The South has the advantage of fighting on its own threshold, a war in which every man, woman and boy will take part.
