Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-17
A Panic in the Rebel States.

A Panic in the Rebel States.
The immense naval preparations of the
Government for some time past, are SO clearly
indicative of attacks soon to be made upon
the Southern coast that feeling of alarm i.
rapidly gaining ground among the people o
the rebel States. The remains of Davis:
grand army in Virginia begin to hear loud
and frantic appeals for help from the several
| communities which sent them forth to seize
Washington. The cowarlly inactivity which
has been the policy Of the rebel leaders ever
since the affair at Bull Run is difficult to be
accounted tor. They might as well have lost
! that battle as to have won it, for all the use
hey have made Of their accidental victory
| Any day between the Goth Of July and the
10th of August, any one such General ns M' :
| Ciellan, Rosencranz. Sigel Wool, or llnrney,
could easily have taken Washington, with
such forces AS Johnson and Beauregarl had
within few miles of the city. The adhe-
rents of Davis furnished him with the army
lie had at Bull Run upon the express under
standing nay, more, upon the solemn and
oft-repeated pledge that they should he led
with flying colors into the very presence Of
the tyrant Lincoln where he sat " en-
throncd at Washington The loud boasts of
the piratical chiefs turn out to have been
mere froth. The ten hours fight at Bull
Run, against the yankee horde4," as they
call the Union soldiers, seems to have dulled
the appetites of the eonquering heroes from
Dixie. They were saved there by the fortu-
nate arrival of fresh army, and have proba-
bly, been wondering ever since what they
would do in the next battle if they had
something like an even force to fight At
any rate, the rebel army has been cooking
eating and sleeping for nearly three months
past at n safe distance from Arlington Hights
and all the while the hoofs of the Northern
invaders have desecrated the sacred soil Of
Virginia" While Mcclellan has been organ
izing to perfection great and powerful army
on the Potomac, gigantic naval expeditions
have been fitted out, and soon the Southern
coast, from Hatteras to the Rio Grande, will
be visited by more of the 4" invaders" viii
not the troops which the several rebelious
States have furnished their Dictator, and
which he has made so little use of in Vir-
ginia, be peremptorily ordered to their re-
spective homes by the authorities of those
States? And if South Carolina calls for the
Palmetto regiments now near the Poto-
mac, doing nothing, who shall dispute her
authority? Is not every State sovereign
The Secession oracles all say yes. Must
Cottondom perish that Richmond may be pro-
tected? The first positive information re
ceived in Secessia that rebellion is to be as
sailed in its hot-beds, where it should be,
will be the signal for the passing away of the
Confederate army Ii will vanish Ikea dis
solving view, and those that escape the pur-
suing army Of Mcclellan will fly to the de-
fense of King Cotton and their own States
Every arrival from the East brings new in
dications that the fears of the cotton States
are thoroughly aroused to the he'll pless con-
dition in which they have placed themselves
by sending all the forces they could raise into
a remote corner of their mock Confederacv
When the blows Mll fast and heavily upon
the original disturbcrs of our national peace.
treason will be weak in the border States,
and Union throughout the South will feel
that the day of their redemption is near
Those who now find nothing to praise in all
that our Government has done, and ,is still
doing, will doubtless be loudest in protesting,
a month hence, that they always knew that
the assaults upon the Administration were un-
just, and the results of ignorant prejudices.