The Shreveport weekly news., 1861-06-17

,rho classic soil Of the old Domin-
On bids fair to be the theatre where
he Moody scenes Of ne Southern rev.
,lufion viii De euAcsed. Already isl
he clangor Of arms ringing from her
heights. and through her
alleys, where naught has been heard
but the gentle wlisperings Of love
and peace. the ,read Of mailed le-
Eions is rcsouuling. Soon will her
fair fields that now smile with the
harves Of plenty. tre,nble beneath the
shock Of contending armies; soon
viii her streams that were wont to
bear upon their bosoms the argos'es
Of wealth and the winged messengers
Of commerce be crimsoned with the
blood of human beings; and soon
will the breeses watt from her
shores the sound of deadly cannon
md shouts Of victory mingled with
the signs Of the dying soldier
She waited patiently and long be-
fore assuming conspicuous part IN
the tragedy ofrsvolution. She stood
Is an impossible barrier between the
couteading sections. immovable as
the rucke Of her mountains, and ex-
senaisg one hard North and the 9th
IL South she counselled peace. But
&hsh she saw the determined spirit
Tf the North to fasten upon the South
the badge Of bondage; when she
heard the proclamation Of the rulers
At Washington calling for men to
overrun our sunny land and snbju-
cate our free born citizens, the old
State put on her ccrselet and shield
and placing snowy plume in her
helmet took the post Of danger a: the
head Of the forlorn hope.
It seems now as if her soil had
been sown with dragons teeth. Arm
ed men spring up from every quar-
ter and. her territory is one vast en-
campment. Her drum beat is heard
from the valley of the Shenandoah to
the line Of the old North State from
the peaks of the Blue Ridge to her
cities on the sea.
Nobly thus far has she sustained
tho prestige Of her revolutionary re-
nown. The blood of her fathers still
flow in the veins of her children. and
the eventfal present reminds her o.
the heroic days Of yore. The glori
;ous motto-sic semper tyroSsis, which
she Haunted in the face Of George thu
Third, she bears high in the heavens
to day and if Lincoln and his myr
midons have not felt its terrible i'm
port before now, it will break upo1
their bewildered visions ere the lde
Of july. And when that pompou
renegade and uhgratefal son. Win
field Scott, raises his parricidal arr
20 strike his dear old mother. h
will find there is yet n Yorktown il
her dominions, and that the fate 9
CORVALLIS will be revived in his d.
generate name.
Although VIC of the Gulf State
have done much to strengthen th
arm Of the noble Commonwealth, "
can do more if it be needed. w
know full well, if cities are to be sacl
ed and fields dcvasted, hers will t
the first Nor have we forgotten thu
the shafts which were whetted Fl
our bosoms will be averted by h
broad shield. We feel almost n
sured, in the acknowledged comp
tency of her leaders and the know
bravery of the troops now in Il
field that the scale of battle will tut
in our behalf but if the cry for he
should come. the whole South w
respond in a voice that will eau
moas terror to Lincoln than blanche
the check Of Bslshaxxar, when in h
unholy festival he read the unknov
writing upon the palace wall al
its Interpretation will be as fatal
his hopes. as was the prophets Of t
synbolic words to the King Of Bah
Ion.