Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-11-15
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. Is, 1861.
A Brave Man and n Patriot llust Never
DespoHd.

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Despond.
series Of successes has the effect of making
men sensitive to even trivial disappointmen's.
After long familiarity with triumphs' We arc
prone TO despond under even unlmportaht re-
y.r.es. Let the current of prosperity oe ou'
Mcs interrupted, and there are those VINO
tfsnrble like the rich man who tesrs starvation
S%iSsSIleyer his revenues are abridged.
Perhsps in no war that the world mas ever
before seen. bot 81 parties OF anything like
equal strength, has brilliant victory so uni
formly perchcd on one banner, while the other
has been shrouded by almost unbroken disas-
ter. So signal and so glorious hsSe bsen our
Successes, tbs: from one end Of the country to
the other, in the pulpit and in the army, men
have bowed the head in reverence and graft.
tide, Ard said, that Of a truth God was on our
~
This continuous prosperity has so elated our
expectations. that they can scarcely be salts
h;A with anything short Of q new victory on
esca now day. And now, because the enemy
has Ships, and men who know how to sail them,
and has sent an armament after long prepare.
ton and a. vast cost, against i little sea-cosst
island. and has, with four hundred guns. sue.
ceelsa. in out shooting thirty.fve-thc spirits
of som. are seen to sink, like the Thermometer
when cold comes!
What SOFT of men are these, and what ali
haze .hay Lsen breathing? What would such
persons say if ace had lost the battle Of Big
B.;hel7 Or if ace had fled st Bull Run and at
Msasssss: Or If Springfield, and Lexington,
and Be:mon. had witnessed our defeat and
humiliation? Orif oar forces had been de
stroyed at Leesburg, aud eur soldiers drowned
in ths swoln Potomac!
Thrse disasters, and more, the enemy have
hal % endure that enemy whom we by no
means adini. to be our superiors in courage or
foi:iiudc. Il they hive hsd to bear this, sbal!
ws -ep;ne, or grow long in the face, because 4
giant hast has succeeded in taking a little
is'sni' or because a war steamer bas lombard
81 q little village, and succeeded in shhltcring
q church door ard killing q hare:
When the C:rcc;aos before Troy, long baf-
hel by frequent failures, began TO lespond,
iIom4r makes one Of his heroes speak those
words OF singing :eSuke: "O:. G'cclsn AGO.
mca!!-Grec;sz men no more!" And when the
leader Of their army himself showed ~irresolu.
tioo. 6ns of his chiefs boldly denounced him to
his face, and said:
-sh .ers Thy sway III. curse ot%esasr powers,
aad thou the shame OF any host hui Ours, !"
If We, too, should ever meet with heavy re.
Verses. o. have to endure the burden Of a long
war. and If our men or our leaders should prove
umucuSi 10 the ;risl, and relax their resolve and
;iar enthusiasm, VIC trus. that there will still
b. .vund smong us enough Of brave and gone
rou> spirits to rouse their tagging zeal and
rekindi: the waning battle! This struggle
cell know, aod will know, no other end thsn
e:orioua triumph for cur cause!
Hrt ;or any to repine aa~. is in the last de-
gree craven AID unreasonable. Is it, indeed,
so dreadful = thing that Lincoln has entailed
upon himsnlr the necessity Of defending an
o.i.rr spot "a little island bounded by the
marshes ard ll.c sea, and whence his armies
dare not advance: 1.-THE British have taken
Philaj-lpiiia,' was the news which reached
franklin ut he Court Of Paris. "Philadelphia
hss taken the British was the response of
Franklin, b. which he showed to the French
government the real effect Of that occupation.
A Federal feet and army are now to be shut
up at Port Royal, MS at Old Point and at Fort
P:ckens. The gallant Carolinians and Geor'
CLANS ale focking thither to chastise them if
they venture away from the water. They
went there in search Of cotton, We are told,
to r~eliave the thousands who have been spin.
Ming yarn and spouting Abolition at Lowell,
bu. are row beginning to starvc. The eype.
d.ti0a cost them probsbly fifty millions Ct dol.
lars they will get possibly ten bales Of cot
ton Is that an achievement over which ue
should rapine?
And what il incendiarics know how to ap.
ply torches shall persons who wear boards
anal call themselves men, sigh and despond at
what is familiar to every city's experience.
liz short. a war without reverses is q
~:2te: without storms; and he whose courage
and enthsiss;n require 10 be fed with continual
Successes. is : person who ought in candor
to confess that he has the soul Of a dwarf,
MD :!,st he knows nothing Of what men
mcsa by ',nc patriotic fame" or of that
ar,iAr and ior.itude which the love of country
an'i Of home, Of family and Of freedom, are
expected to inspire.
P,sang ~ these timid ones, these tremblers
and cloud. watchers and ~repincra, and address,
INK ourselves TO the reuL men and women Of
thu cruh;ry, we would sound the words Of
caeertu'noss and encouragement, because VIC
have abundant reason to be encouraged! Not
only has the campaign, now closing, been
crowded with glorious successes for liz, and
boon tuli Of ai.smc ard disappointment for our
eaeininH. lat the future is no less promising.
We hnrs. indeed, hardships TO encounter, and
We hsvo h.rd fishliag to do-for this is war;
bu; where Is j; tina! HE enemy CAN hope for
advantage, c. davcs hazard the attempt to win
it? Ia m:y steal n lax chickcns-any thief
may tn that De nsy burn a few dwellings
and . few churchcs-any incendiary may dc
that. But his army in Fairfax, and his army
at Port Roy.l, and his army at Fortress Mon
roc, and his army at Fort Pickcns-which of
those .cs Re Care move from behind their mar
row entertainments: To move, he is afraid.
To Stand still forever, he cannot afford ut two
millions per day. He cannot afforl to occupy
TIC Southern States by planting n man on eve.
ry square ysrd-and he has no other way
Let lis ,hon bo patient. When he lies still he
is exhaustipg himself When lie moves we
whip him. In other cass wo arc winning the
day!
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