Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-01-27
w. d. wALLACH.
LATE NEWS FROM DIXIE.
EgEvERY NAN TO THE FRONT.
Under this heading the Nashville Banner Of

to Kentucky, and from the line of the Potorn al
70 that Of the Ohio. Columbus is the Man assas
OF the great basin Of the country, holding a
sure and secure gateway to the valleys as the
Mississippi. Oumberlsnd, and Tennessee, IL 1t
Is successfully defended. Nashville to-day
occupies somewhat the position of Richmond
before the battle Of Bull Run. In the mingled
fortune OF war We are about to take our turn
% little Of its hardships. Our brothers Of the
Old Dominion have seen the elephant, aud
heard the lion roar, have experienced the
pressure Of hard times, and suffered the ankle
OF such struggle has at length turned the
rough side Of the war up at our own door.
We very greatly fear that many of our good
people who have been jog-trotting along their
prosperous routine are sorely puszled and per.
plexed at this state Of things. and are but illy
prepared to face the muslo. To all such weak
kneed and supple-jointed there can be but one
argument addressed. We are into the war
no matter how We got into it-and the surest
way to get out Is by cannon, sword and rife.
And TO those who, In the trepidati which
seizes the tame-spirited, lima axine that there Ia
probability or possibility Of the enemy plant
Ing Its tmpious standard-(a standard which
once claimed the homags Of all of US, but
whose very folds are now blackened by the
hideoos atmosphere Of tyranny, infdelify and
erime)-if there are those who dream that the
bsnner staff OF the enemy will be driven fur
ther into the soil Of Tennessee than in that of
Eastern Virginia, We have only to say-peace
to such miserable delusions
There is no question in our mind Of the re-
suit which this winter campaign will close il
We are true to ourselves Now is the time for
sction. Let no man think to escape the re-
sponsioility which has been imposed by the
great, good God on every mau, on all men here
In the struggling South. Let no man console
himself with the heartless sophistry that he
can live under any government Such q spirit
Is 1t for slaves, no, for the heaven sent i'm
pulse OF freemen. No southern man Of an up
right, Independent, manly nature can ever
live under the Lincoln despotism. The craven
who contents himself with skulking like pig
with bis nose in the gutter, instead of breath.
Ing the air Of Gods blue welkin, might man
age to exist, and TO fish out Of the missma Of
his own degradation a disgusting subsidy, like
the rag pickers who hlch livelihood fror, the
alleys and sidewalks Of life.
The writer Of this paragraph knows some-
thing about Northern venom, Northern tyran-
ny, Northern illiberality, Northern suspicion,
Jealousy and hatred. The decree of q sepa-
rate existence has gone forth, and it should
now be the burning resolve Of every true ms
70 be driven from the face of the earth, to die
and rot, rather than yield his home to deyas-
tation, his household gods to destruction, and
the whole future Of bis life and the life OF his
country 10 insult, soorn and disgrace. Now is
the moment for action. We can almost feel
the sulphurous breath Of the enemy tainting
our pure atmosphere. We can almost hear
the hiss With which he is preparing for the
blood-shot eyes glittering savagely over our
ramparts. Let no man pause for an instant
The crisis Is at hand. Within forty days we
shall know all.
HUNTER rs. DAVIS
IFrom The Richmond iva. Examiner, Jan. 20 I
As the day Of election approaches, that po-
itioal fac ton whose personal hopes are an
chorsd on the election Of Mr.. Secretary Hunter
TO the Presidential chair Of this or some other
Confedsraey at some future time unknown,
evincss symptoms Of desperation. They be-
sisge the Legislature, lay violent hands on the
veak-minded members, make requests un-
known in Virginia manners, enforced by ar
guments yet, happily, new to the Virginia
Legislature.
What may Be called the plan of Peter Funk
of pretended public meetings at the County
Courts OF January, with strings of resolutions
instraoting members TO effect the separation Of
our Presidential Secretary from the unpopular
administration Of Mr.. Dayis-has utterly and
notoriously failed. No such resolutions could
be passed IN any open meeting in the State Of
Virginia. Yet the clique which urges the Le-
gislaturs TO perform afatal act do not hesitate
still 70 talk Of the vengeance Of the D eopls on
those who viii not obey Hunter.
Mr.. Hunter never had any personal strength
with the people Of Virginia. He had q strong
support from them once, but il was the result
Of advsntiTious circumstances which have
ceased TO exist, and which, in the nature OF
things, osn never exist again = .
We no longer belong TO the southern party
Of the Union, but are altogether in an inde-
pendent confederacy. No man here is suf-
fciently shameless as TO take any other than
one view. There is no longer great fight in
the Senate between Virginia and New Eng.
land, in 1hish Mr.. Hunter, Virginia's repre-
sentative By law, participates. The patriotic
obligations to obey him on that ground exis,
ID longer. He stands on his personal merits
now, and his party 10 only the clique that cre-
a'ed him by the aid Of chance, and who have
shared the power with the tide of national af.
fairs which rolled TO their feet. That sm all
organization consists Of about ffty indi Viduals
oil told.
All Of them hold ofice either in person or
by proxy; and the only principles or aim tha
they seem to have siDce the dissolution of the
Union is the absorption OF more power. In
harmony with all their latter history, they
have issued orders TO the Legislature Of Vir,
ginia that IL halfdeprise the State Of the Vir
ginia representation In the Cabinet; that II
shall participate BY that act In an open decla
ration Of war on the Confederate Chief; thai
IL shsll give this supreme illustration Of slayist
Obsdienes to Mr.. Hunter simply because hs
wants It. E e si-s-a'E -# -z1o -f-1
They still slumbsr In the blissfui belief thai
Virginia, with everybody and everything in H
Is their private preserve and farm In fee sim pie
And it is now time to awaken them They
have been obeyed, but not submitted to, al
this time. Their reign 10 ended. Another and
an abler generation, more earnest, better in
formed, and less selfish, the real choice of vir.
ginia's heart, advance upon the same, and will
neither rest, essse or retire from II, until they
have cleansed the coqntry Of their petty an
bition. = - ~ =. 81
UNNATURAL PUNIsHhENr IN fHE REBEL ARMY.
Ifrom Richmond Examiner, Jan 0l
The times when the cato mine tails was the
instrument Of naval discipline, and soldiers
we're strapped TO the ground, and their backs
nanglsd with the soourge, have passed, for rs
at least, into the traditions Of another gener-
alton. We are shocked, however, to hear that
q navy punishment has been invented In our
army, which surpasses the horrors Of the
sooarge, and has borrowed is suggestion from
the paaishnsnts Of the Inquisition.s It IL the
thumb torture. .1 '-s.'
The mode Of punishment h 10 hang the SOL
disr Nv xf<s rs On khs thumb xo that Ne tr>.