The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-02-22
The Shouts OF victory!

'ictoFy i'll the EaS, VIC DRY IN the
West, victory in the South; victory
in the new world and victory in The old.
Every breeze that blows bears to our
ears the shouts of victory From
Albemarl and Pamlico sounds the glad
tidings are borne, that the rebels are
swept before our fleets and armies like
chaff before the wind. Burnside and
Goldsborough have swept the sounds
and the rivers entering in o them with q
Bosom of destruction. The dash of our
feet upon the rebel gun boats huddled
in the river in front of Elizabeth Ciy,
challenges the warmest admiration
But VIC cannot dwell in cxulta'io ion over
any single victory, for the roar Ct Burn
sides cannon is met in answering peals
from the Tennessee and Cumberland
rivers. Fort Henry has scarcely fallen
before the resistlcss fire of our gum
boats, ere Fort Donclson is bcsieged
by land and water, and before power
that brooks no check, the stronghold
of the rebels in Tennessee, the key to
the whole Southwestern country, is
stormed and commanded to surrender
unconditionally; and large army is
captured at one fell swoop. Scarcely
making halt to destroy these important
keys to the rebel empire, our gallant
army and navy dash forward to Clarks-
vile and Nashville, scattering death
and dismay among the traitors in their
onward march.
From the Southern Coast, too, wall
of terror is coming up from the heart
of the rebels. Across the Potomac, at
Blooming Gap Lander routs the cohorts
of despotism, and opens the Baltimore
& Ohio Rail Road to Hancock. In
Missouri Price and his plunderiDg army
are flying before the Federal forces like
frightened deer, leaving everything
behind them in their fight, while more
of the rebel soldiery are falling into the
hands of their pursuers than they know
what to do with. We hear no more
vainglorious boasting from traitor sources
that every one of the Ch,ualry is equal
to six " Northern mudsills," and that the
"greasy Yankees" can't stand the cold
steel of their " brave boys" The whole
thing is reversed by the stubborn argu-
ment of facts. At Roanoke Island, the
rebels fled from their batteries and forth
fcations at the sight of the cold steel,
and before the Yankees could reach them.
At Dcnelson our troops attack them at
great disadvantage, driving them from
their outer works, and when ready on
Sunday morning to storm the fort and
give the rebels chance to redeem their
vaunts about "cold steel exercise,
like towards they surrender uncondi-
tionally to an equal number of Union
troops, works that are almost impregna-
bic, under protest from their comman-
der, the raost ludicrous on record.
Compare the fighting Of these boating
rebels with the defense of Lexington,
Missouri, by Colonel Mulligan, where
that brave officer with 5000 men defed
Price with 10000, holding his position
until starvation forced him to surrender,
and what commentary have we upon
the boosted prowess of secesh.
The lac arrivals from Europe, too,
bring tidings that the rebel cause there,
which showed for while, few sickly
buds of hope, is going down as rapidly
as at home. But the narrative Of
defeats published in our columns which
treason has sustained within the last few
days, speaks more eloquently than
anything we can write. The mighty
altar that it had reared, and on which
the rebels have been sacrificing for the
last few months to the father of lies, il
vanishing like frost work before the
MONDAY sun, and when the flowers o.
spring bloom, they will be woven il
chaplets on the victors's brows, who
will have laid treason in its dishonored
grave, in every foot Of our fair country.