Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-10-17
rusThrougb Northern sources.

quarter show that the habit has progressed
until Munchausen himself is in danger o.
losing his ~laurels. In times Of excitement
great many uufounded or exaggerated state
ments will inevitably gain currency; an annoy
ance from which We at the South are, also, BY
no means, exempt. But the misrepresenta
tions to which we above allude are Of another
character. What are we to think Of the posi-
tive declaration, now current at the North, OIL
the sinking of three Confederate steamers and
the killing and drowning Of many hundreds OIL
our men at Chickamackomack What are
We to say Of the brilliant victory" which Is
now claimed, and on the strength OF eDFe'aI
1espateAcs, to have been won by the Northern
troops at Greenbrier river-where they were,
in fact, severely chnstised and whipped back
by Gen. H. R. Jackson's gallant boys?
The spirits Of the North are evidently ut a
low ebb, or they would not need such hsaVy
stimulating. The truth is to be concealed
from their people, in the hope that the efforts
into which they may be deceived by glowing
pictures of success, will rctrivc their present
d:sperats fortunes. They set out to subjusate
tn South in one short campaign. That cam
paisn is nesrly ended. The frost has come
The forests are turning brown. The hollow
winds ofmid-autumn are already whispering OF
theapproaching winter. What have they done ?
Tncy have, indeed, spent a great deal Of money.
A million and a quarter of dollars a day are
still gong. Secretary Cameron's son or
nephew has, they sag, made a large
fortune. These who wait in Fremonts
ante.roons are also said to be thriving finely.
These things have, it may be, their value in
tho eyes Of Northern patriotism but we again
ask what has been done in the way of suhiu.
CATION? The "Grand Army" is trembling be-
hind Qualifications within view Of their capitol.
Oacc they marched out, and they got as far as
Bull Run. They came out one way, they
went back seven ways; aud the world is not
yet done laughing at the difference between
the coming ont and the going.in. They have
an army in Western Virginia, but it is shiv;.
ering among its bleak hills, and amid
the rains OF i season more inhospitable
than usual. They hold but the ground
they stand upon. By the aid of high
walls and deep bitches, they retain a spot at
the mouth Of the James, and another at Fort
Pickens. They are whipped in Missouri
They are losing Kentucky. Maryland they
can only hold down by enormous pressure
The time they asked, is up, and this is the pro.
gress they have made towards Southern sub
jugation!
But they must encourage their people,
Hence their armies are ever victorious, though
they either retreat, or at best but mark time"
in their own tracks, like the swift charger that
yet galloped all day in the shade Of the same
tree.
The statements which reach US from North.
ern sources, being, therefore, more than ever
unreliable, we are the less willing to devote
much space to extracts from the Northern pa.
pers now before US, and content ourselves with
the synopsis aud condensation to be found in
another column.
IngratItude Of "tho North-Svestern Ter
ritory.0
The present attitude of Ohio and the other
States, comprising the old North western ter
ritory to Virginia and the other Southern
States, presents one of the most remarkable
instances Of ingratitude of which the history
Of nations gives any account. The bare state
ment Of the case-wonld bring "manifest
shame" to the cheek Of the people of that
region If they were not dead to every honora-
bic and generous emotion. They obtained
their land through the generosity Of Virginia;
and when their infant settlements were about
to be broken up by the merciless Indian savages
this glorious old State, then embracing Ken
lucky, went bumanely to their relief at an i'm
1nense cost of blood and treasure. They were
thus freed from their Indian enemies, a few
years after the close of our first war Of indie
pendence. But q quarter Of q century later,
upon Grca: Britain's second declaration Of war
against this country, the Indians again arose
in arms against the people Of the North. west,
deSola;ing their frontier with fire and toma.
hawk, and threatening their whole extended
territory with destruction. Again were Virginia
troops sent to their rescue, and Kentucky, the
gallant daughter of Virginia, went forth in her
strength to relieve the North west of its British
and Indian invaders. After going through hard
ships almost beyond human endurance, and
losing hundreds and thousands of their bravest
men, they gloriously triumphed. They re-
lieved Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.
Where were the Ohioans at that e~ventful Pc
RODS Where the New England Puritans who
had settled in that quarter, and whose de.
scendants are. now the ruling spirits there 2
Echo answers, ,vhere? But few of them were
heard If IN connection asoiM military affairs
till several years later, when the Questions Of
Army pension" bounty land warrants" and
the like, came up for discussion in the
Federal Congress- Then 1T was discovered
that Ohio and the free territories adjacent
had furnished IN enormous army for the
defence Of tho frontier in 1872; and the
Federal Government rewarded them according
to their pretensions Of merit and service.
Thus did thousands and tens Of thousands of
Northwestern men obtain pensions a large
number of whom were not twenty days in the
United States service, aud some Of whom, it's
believed, were in the employment Of the Bri-
fish Government
And now Ohio and the States constituting
the old Northwestern Territory, are putting
forth their strength in m effort to destroy their
Observation-Disclosures aud Kentucky. To &C
complish their unholy, their villainous purpose,
they invoke the aid of "ths Psopleof al! ma.
tions and languages" Did any one ever hear
of ingratitude more base and cowardly!