Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-27
Progress the WAR.

I1e ankeeS nave TAKEN zaIOl1ef STEP 10
wards the invasion and subjugation of the
South by flying precipitately bfore one
fourth their number of Confed crates at the
late battle near Leesburg. Another and
signal difference between the manifesto and
the performance has been illustrated by tue
rapid flight OF u superior force; ard Yank, g
valor, so conspicuously displayed at the Ma
ssas races, again challenges our admir- -
ton by the pedestrian peifoIm anees OF the
warriors of Leesburg-
No one is surprised at his result, for no one
doubts as to the issue whenever the two ar
mics meet in any proportion short of six or
eight to one. All Bethel we fought them five
to one and drove them back, and now We dis
perse and scatter them with one fOuth their
number. with interior artill,r ~, and with no
advantages of position or entertainments.
1t is not necessary to assert that Yankees
are deficient in courage, to account for these
repeated repaises by an inferior force Ills
sufficient to say that they are fighting in
wrong cause aud that they know it, and that
the stuotest heart auaiis when coneious OF
guilt. Even as brave man, convicted of
cheating at a card table, cannot bring him.
self 10 the point OF resenting a denunciatiOn
therefor, so the Yankee feels his arm palsied
and his courage ooZ;ng out the moment be
finds himself confronted by those whom be
knows he has injured and oppressed. This
war will set aside the Napoleonic idea that
Provide nee smiles upon the heaviest artil-
lery, and will revive the fine sentiment of the
days of chivalry that the wager of battle is
always decided by the justice of the cause.
We can well imagine, if these people have
a proper conception of the disgrace of the
performance, how they will feel over tie
fact that they have been driven into the river
by one-fourth of their number, in their eager
haste to escape The deadly storm of the Con-
rushed into the sea, when possessed with the
evil spirit, as related in holy wri', will sug-
gest itself to every one as a performance
now repeated by subaqueous Yankees,
drenched and drowned in their mad struggles
to escape from the pursqin foe. 80
ssHow many more defeats it will take to
convince these people that the South cannot
be conquered; how many more lives are TO be
sacrificed. and how many more millions are
to be squandered in the preposterous attemps
ARE things for the future alone TO decide.
The question would be determined at
once if the whole North were not carried
| away By fanaticism and filed with impotent
rage. As it il, the conceit must be whipped
out of them again and again, until, reason
resumes its sway, and they agree to let US
alone with our separate and independent
Goyernment.-N Q c,sssnt: &1<sAl
SUpERLATIvE MEANNEss. That the Lincoln
Government aud its agents, tools and min
| ions had sunk to depth of infaIny and
meanness that no goVernment ever reached
before. has been we'll known 10 our people
from what they read, but the full extent OF
that meanness is not now and never will be
| known. i Wv Es4@AA<ts Az
Lincoln scouts, from Paducah, have lately
been securing the country about there and
| Cumberland river, aud not only annoying
and insulting the people, but stealing every
thing of value they can find. friend who
lives in the region infested by these commits
stoned thieves, interns us that when they go
to house they take away with them every
thing that meets their fancy. or that Is at all
valuable. Woman 5 person, be says, is not
secure among them, for in several instances,
jeweiry and other articles OF value have
been taken off their persons and carried
away by them. This our friend says he
knows is sol And yet these are the kind
of people who are seeking to compel a ma.
ton Of gsntgsnen to affiliate with them
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