Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-08-24
News From, RichmOna.
From he Richmond Examiner, Aug.I9
ADMISSION OF MISSOURI INTO THE SOUTHERN ooS-
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ADMISSION OF MISSOURI INTO THE SOUTHERN coS-
FEDER4cT.
We have the information that bin has been re-
ported from the Military Committee, in secret ses>
sion of Congress, for the admission Of Missouri into
| the COnfederacy.
1t IS known that the people Of Missouri are now
contemplating measures to make that State 3 mem
Der of the COnfederacy and the action Of Congress
in admitting her is intended to be responsive to
this disposition of the people of Missouri and to en-
| courage it to prompt determination of lis pur-
pose.
The bill as reported from the Committee, provides
for the full admission Of Missouri upon an equal
footing with the other Confederate States upon the
condition that the Constitution for the Provisional
Government of the Confederate States shall be adop
ed by her. upon official notice of which fact by her
Governor, the President shall by proclamation, an
nOunce the fact and her admission shall beconsid-
cred as complete.
The bill also authorizes the President to cO>ope~
rate through the military power of the Government
with the authorities and people of Missouri in de-
Tending the State against INVASION and maintaining
her Independence, with power to receive and mus
ter her volunteer troops into the Confederate ser
yico, and to extend the protection of the Govern
ment over all her citizens engaged in resisting the
lawless aggressiOns Of the United States.
The bill is subject TO some amendments of detail;
but the sense OF Congress is reported to be luaai-
for the admission of Missouri before the ad-
jOurnment. The admission viii probably be au-
thorized to-day by unanimous vote, and Virginia
and the people of the entire COnfe1ersey will hail
the intelligence Of the addition thus secured of an
other star to our national galaxy.
THE SITUATION.
Three months ago the fiat went forth from Yam |
keedOm that the "rebel Congress should not meet in
Richmond in June, and that at all events the cam
paign in Virginia must close by the 1st Of Septen-
Der, so as to allow the operations of the Grand /
Army" to be extended by the fall months to the |
Lower Mississippi, Charleston, and other contuma>
cious localities. How stands the account of our
Yankee masters? The third quarter Of the August
moon is exposing ITSELF and find that up to this
time the work Of invasion has proceeded but slow
ly. Tho ''rebel Congress has been in session at
Richmond for two mOnths-has transacted much
business, and talks even Of adjOurning. Butler st
Old Point has advanced nine miles into the interior
once, was then ANONYMOUSLY whipped back into
his Fort and has no; veutured three miles since
from under cover of his garrison guns The
"Grand Army" vast in numbers, and with all the
appointments of Oriental opulence and magnif-
cenee, started out for Richmond under Mcdowell.
1t advanced unmolested for fifteen miles, and was
thea driven back with the most disgraceful and
disastrous defeat ever sustained by any army,
within rifle shot of Washington city.
In the West owing TO the treachery of q portion |
Of the population but more to the utter ineficency
of the early management of affairs there in per
hitting the trsitOrO1s railroad companies to pre-
their lines for the enemy, they have effected
lOdgment and are Oprating some seventy or |
eighty miles IN the interior. But they WILDE speedily
lriVen cut and the roads destroyed, which were
10 criminaly or stupidity made present to them by
Jur State authorities for their purposes Of invasion
In the valley of the Potomac they collected |
arge army under Patterson and made mock imi- |
alton of the illustriOus captain who marched his
neu up the hill and then marched them do IN again.
They marched and cOuntermarched, but always |
.Yoided fight and finally retired in precipitation
rom the State, permitting Johnston to effect his
unetiOn with BeauTegard and destroy McDoweps
rmy, when with perfect ease they could have de-
eated the whole maDGuvre.
Here then Is the footing up of the immense Yam
zee summer programme of invasion. In the East
rn part of Virginia, the theatre Of their serious
on Richmond they have progressed
bout three miles with their march. They have
lsd unlimited resources of men and money. They
ave had the control Of arsenals and fOundries !
Without limit, all the new and improved artillery,
lesides bondless command of superior firearms
he immense workshops at the North to supply ac-
and clothing have had, in word,
verything which the very refinement of military
esire could suggest, with which to equip and ap- 8
Oint their army, and with sH have signaly failed. ,
Ieally, our Yankee neighbours are not mEch better
han the Chinese or the race of SambO, in whose /
ehaR they affect such sOlcitude!
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