Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-09-02
M0n 40 RIchmona, Again.

Ths New York T,ins, hiss that the 'S'ursion 70
sAmoad shall not De abandoned. The Manassas roa'e
b eng favorable for travel ii proposes another
to forget that the other has been already tried and
found soneshat difficult of DECENTRALIZATION II, however
old Wool il srxIoas to repeat the experiment we can
oaly say to him that Magruder sin keeps tougate a.
Bethel and after be has settled with him. the road lies
ooen ill he CONES to smother sOIgase. Here Is "hAI
the 2irass of a wssk ago bad to say:
Ok 40 RICHMOND The gentle public need not be alarmed
We do not inu.ie a new military movement on the pat
ta-u Of ,he one attsmpe last month. We do not initiate
FL but merely give the intelligence 10 the connr,
that Richmond ia We: considered at Washing o. gool
pA,- 20 70 to--perhsps TO "reeoonotre ia force a
correspondent o. PailadelphA paper, IN iaVefaoi
,ston 10 know writes that "tLe War Department. mas
eded 10 send seyeasy-ye or eighty OF the first reg
msnt- that are oEgsnizsd az Washington TO Fortress
Monroe 10 reinorce So Wool With the ultimate design
OF marching on Richmond from that point
This Il capital rumor, or capital newS a. the ca g
nav be. Gen Wool open way TO Richmond Win
one half OF eighty thousand men. But be viii DO II oy
occupying Chsl ,stoD, and raising that old nag over
sumter that M,er Anderson" brought homi Win hln
q Gen. Wool have the regiments, and We shall not &c
afraid to say, month at farthesL 'on 70 hehmonu'
History affords few parallels to the struggle by which
the United States Of the Netherlands flor this was the true
..yl, and official title of the Dutch Confederate Repubc
achieved their religious and political liberty. Ii vas this
struggle which drained Spain then the greatest empire
OF the world SO completely OF her resources aud vitality
that il has taken her more than hundred years TO
even partially recover iron tue exhaustion. To the po
the dramsst and the historian, Of every language this
contest the most unequal the erces ard tue most pro-
rae,ed on record has been fertile and taVore
theme To the American colonies il Afforded an eneour-
aging precedent aud according the records OF the
CcaveutiOn OF 3ss sugse'Jad the name which, TIL few
routls ago described the greatest Republic 10 tie
world.
Eighty years Toe contest lasted generation inner
ig tom the other and these eighty years ~ere mark
Cd bv events Of uch tragic horror other period OF
history has keowu Populations Of whole citles lived
cf mouths oa Sefmn aai shoe leather armies fordsd
ts board channels of the ioS des, every man Up
10 his shoulders in the water Tor fteen and twenty miles,
aud losing tLird VI Le.r uamh,r ia the fearful mid.
night march. the bo~s OF the were let IN upon
the low lands thai tue hated SpaniaFd might be dro. ned
and when every hope seemed 10 have deserted the DOOM
ed people they gathered together their vessels and
solyed-men. women, children, all, whole nation-to
abandon the aud oil their fathers and seek home where
p evidence might guids them This picture s not eG'
ssgeraed and proves that unieF the most adverse cic-
euustauees people, tsu unanimous and determined 70
IA ltan tho, liberties caurOt be qlered by any foe
Read the eoutrs5 between the combatsn described
b. The American historian Motley, in his LIS. work the
Hs,ory of the United Nehsrllnds and say whether it
,-oui not inspire Is with hopes for the coLiet
watch we ourselves may have before US.