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SLeridan's Romance of War.
(From the the Index)
Once more we aro stank(' with the news of a gun

Federal•vic±ory, and to add to its significance it is

one of Sheridan's victories. They are always corn

plete. It is no drawn battle, no indecisive engago
men'—the ElleCeS is undeniable, the rout is unpsr

alleled, the capture incredible. Sheridan's c Ireer in
the Shenandoah Valley is a romance of history. He
has, according to his own ace3unt, destroyed at least
two Confederate armies. At Opcquan Creek he in-
flicted a defeat on Early's army ; at Fisher's Hill
Gap he annihilated it. There never was an army so
routed and demoralised as Early's, he informed the
Northern public. Yet a week afterwards this panic-
stricken corps, represented as making for Rch-
mond, took up a strong position in his front, re-
pulsed an assault of the Federals, and in its turn
became the assailant. Sudden retreated up the
valley as far as Strasburg; there the beaten army
pressed him too closely ; he advanced to the attack ;
General Cook, his subardinate, with his accustomed
impetuosity, charged, and threw the Confederates
into confusion, and they retired without giving him
he opportunity of another victory. It was
strange, at least, that the army which was so
soon to become the assailant should at once
withdraw when threatened—stranger still that a
day or two later Sheridan's force should itself have
retired beyond Strasburg an d the intrenehments
which it had thrown up in front of that town.
He reports that on the 19th Longstreet's army at-
tacked his army at Cedar Creek, before daylight,
threw it into disorder, and drove it four mills, cap.
turing large numbers of prisoners and a qntity
of artillery and materiel. The General himself was
at Winchester when the attack took place ; he has-
tened up, was in time to rally his troops and reform
his line, repulsed an attack, assumed the offensive,
and finally drove the Confederates off the field, cap-
turing 50 guns and 1,600 prisoners. Now this is a
very remarkable statement. For an army sur-
prised and beaten, driven in disorder over four miles
el` ground,with heavy losses in guns and prisonere,to
rally, become the assailant, and finally in the after-
noon to defeat the victors of the morning, would be
a great feat. But that it should not only defeat, but
rout and drive its assailants several miles, recapture
its own guns, and take some five and twenty from
the enemy, is little less than marvellous. We do
not deny Sheridan the possession of energy, dash,
and skill ; but that the mere appearance of one
individual in the field of battle should suffice to
convert a disgraceful defeat into a brilliant victory
is more than we can credit on that gallant officer's
unsupported statement. Until we get the Southern
accounts of the engagement, it is of course idle to
speak with any degree of certainty as to its results.
But, taking the affair as it is now represented, we
think we are justified in considering it as another of
those indecisive engagements which have unhappily
been so frequent during the war. Longstreet'st force,
although attacking, would be obviously inferior in
numbers to that of the Federals; and it is possible
that his earliest success may have encouraged him
to continue the attack even after the Federals had
been heavily reinforced. But we are more inclined
to believe that Longetreet would have been quite
content with his first triumph, and that the after-
noon's battle was fought with a view of "carrying off
the trophies of victory. It may turn out, aware of
the arrival of reinforeemants from Winchester, Long-
street had already commenced his retrograde move-
ment, and that the action on his part was confined to
defending his rear against the attacks of Sheridan's
enormously superior force of cavalry. That his'arm3
was not routed is proved by the fact that night
alone put an end to the struggle, and that nothing
was heard of any pursuit on Sheridan's part. The
casualties on both sides must have been severe.
Northern correspondents admit a loss of 5,000 men,
and almost for the first time no estimate is given of
the number of Confederate killed and wounded.
But as the Federals were surprised and terribly cut
up in the mornie)g, and as in the afternoon they
were compelled to become the assailants, it is pro.
bable their loss far exceeded that of their opponents.
As to the capture of the 50 guns, the figures look
very large, but at least half of these were lost, ou
Sheridan's admission, by the Federals, and we
strongly bubpeet Gen. Lougstreet'a account will give

a very different version of the whole affair. In the
meantime it is significant that although the battle
was fought on the 19th, nothing further had beet)
heard from Sheridan on the evening of the 223, and
that the day after the report of this great victory
reached Washington gold wont up 2 per cent.

war ae at the beat an unhappy necessity, but who

loved it for its own sake, and considered it a glori-

ous opportunity for unlimited indulgence in the
most brutal passions. It was the North, through

ts press, its politicians, and worse than all through
ts pulpit, that first broached the idea of txtermi-
]ating tha whole of the white male population of
he South, in preference to the acknowledgment of
heir right of self government. The coolness viith

which 1-his idea is advocated is enough to make the

blood of the unimpassioned bystander curdle with
horror. A quiet thoughtful man, filling an official
position in connexion with the library of a Digisla.

Lice Assembly in a Northern State, a person of
culture and refinement, who has made himself a
name in American literature, undertook some days

ago to prove to me that the Southern people were
wicked rebels against the best Government in the
world, and that if they did not immediately lay

down their arms there was nothing left for the
Federal authority but to exterminate them. On
his being asked what he meant by extermination,
he replied that he would not leave a s: ogle male
inhabitant alive in the whole South except the

negroes, and that from the new born boy to the
_ ._

old man of three score and ten he would put them
all to the sword. " And what then ? "
" Colonise the country with Northern people," he
replied, "and develope its resources to such an

extent that it shall become the garden and the
Paradise of the world." " And what would you do
with the negroes ?" "We shall prepare them for
ultimate freedom by establishing a system of serf•
age, to be followed by a period of apprenticeship."
" And you would deliberately slaughter the whole

white m aie population to attain.a result which, had

not the Northern people interfered with the ques-
tion of slavery, the South would in all probttbillty

nave accomplished ex proprio meta." " I would,"
he replied, " we have got to do tnis thing, and by

God We'll do it."
Another educated man, educated as Americans
are up to the age of 14, and then thrust into the

business of life in a counting.nonse, a store, or a

workshop, expressed in still more forcible terms his
ipproyal of the policy of exterminating the Southern
people. On being asked whether the public opinion
of the world would permit the perpetration of such
a stupendous atrocity as the slaughter of a whole

people, he replied with the greatest unconcern,
_ ._._ . . . ....

Why not P Did not the British Government au.

thorise the Massacre of Glencoe ?" " But that,"
said I, " was a small matter, even if the Govern-
ment of King William were guilty of it." "Great
or small, it was all the same in principle. Besides,

here is the more recent case in India, when the

British Government blew a whole nation of Sepoys

o pieces from their guns" "Do you know what a

Sepoy means ?" I inquired. " Yes, a native of India,

which the British Government holds by military
force against the will of the people. And by the

game kind of forc3 we hold the South, if need he.
They must give up the struggle, or be driven out,
or killed out, till not a --- be left, from the
Potomac to the Rio Grande." There is no
necessity to fill up the hiat3s. Any one at
all connected with the habitual profanity of
the American multitude can supply it without

difficulty. Were persons such as those alone in the
expression of such sentiments their words might
pass for nothing better or worse than the freEzy of
lunatics ; but, unhappily, the same sentiments are

entertained by thousands of bloodthristy doctri
naires, who have convinced themselves that the re-
storation of the Unio❑ will make the Americans
masters of the world—and that Union, in this sense,
is worth more than the liberty of the white race, or
:hall the lives of any number of million, who may
oppose it by force of arm. Unconditional aubmis-

. _
.on or extermination—theEe are the Bole alternß-

ives which they hold out to the South. The New
Englanders, or the Yankees, properly so called, are
the persons who most commonly give utterance to
these extreme opinions. They do not lose temper

in expressing them, hut are as cool and quiet in
tono end m teller as if they were discussing the
most ordinary business of life. They snivel ar.d
drawl in preaching exterminetio❑ just as much as
they would snivel and drawl if troy were selling
dry goods behind a counter, or interchanging a
eaeual remark with an acquaintance about the
weather or the crops. They leave, however, upon
the mind of the listener the impression that they
are thoroughly in earnest, and that wnen the 3
threaten murder and ext,rmination they mean what,
they say, and would be as ruthless in act as they
are reckless in assertion.
The ultra war party—composed of Abolitionists
and exterminators—such as these are particularly
violent over the news of an irruption of a gang of
marauders from Canada into the State of Verrront.
They insist that the 25 or 20 men who plundered
the bank and murdered some of the citizens of St.
Alban'a were Confederate raiders, though there
is not a particle of proof to show that they were
anything but thieves and assassins who took ad-
vantage of the civil war to do a stroke of pro-
fessional business on .a larger scale than usual. For
all that anybody yet knows they may be rowdies
from New York or New England, who fled to Canada
to avoid the conscription, or bounty jumpers who,
having cheated the Federal Government of the money.
paid for their military services and spent it, have
resorted to this daring method of replenishing their
purses. Without waiting for proof, the war bigots—
as if one war at a time were not quite enough to
tax all the resources and energies of the people—
take advantage of this act of highway robbery, to
insist that the robbers are Confederate soldiers, that
they planned their invasion upon Canadian soil, and
that the British Government must be held to strict
account for harbouring, if not for encouraging them.
"This,' says a journal which is always more or less
rabid when it discourses of Great Britain, " is every
serious matter, and demands immediate and decisive
action on the part of the British authorities in
Canada—actions of a very different kind from that
which they have lately taken in oases of violation
of neutrality. If they look with unconcern on
such attempts, or act in a feeble manner, it will
most assuredly lead to painful and most unde-
sirable results." Another and more notorious
journal, which never speaks seriously upon any
subject, except when it desires to excite animosity
against England, wishes war to be declared at once
against Canada and theßritish Maritime Provinces,
not alone for the offence of these marauders, but
especially for the encouragement given to " rebel
pirates" in the harbours of Nova Scotia, "There
can be no question," it says, " of their responsi-
bility, for they have not only furnished the men
and money for these outrages, but afforded shelter
to those concerned in them. In the event of their
leading to a war with Great Britain, as they unques-
tionably will if continued, they would be the first
that would be made to feel the full weight of our
vengeance." It happens that the Canadian autho-
rities have acted with the utmost promptitude, and
afforded every facility for tracing and giving up the
thieves concerned in the attack upon St. Albin's.
They would have done so whether the ruffians were
Federals or Confederates, bounty jumpers or de-
serters, or simply professional plunderers. They
require no incentive to do their duty other than a
sense of right and justice, and have done it ungrudg-
ingly. But the hectoring of the anti-British and
anti-Canadian press produces an effect the opposite
of that intended by the bullies who indulge in it.
Aimed against Great Britain it disgusts and offends
the people of the colonies, and has been so often re-
peated without provocation as to make the name of
a Yankee quite as odious to the British Americans
as it is to the people of the South. There never was
much cordiality of feeling between the people on the
opposite shores of the Lakes and the St, Lawrence.
The little that ever existed has been gradually
growing less, and such wanton insults—which the
New York and New England journals never omit
an opportunity of directing against England—all
based upon the supposition that ,British North