The Nevada Democrat., 1862-06-14
Southern Papers Then aud Now.

There can be no more pregnant and in
slrnctive contrast than the tone Of the
southern newspapers year ago and to-day.
The wild yell Of defiance, rage, contempt,
ana eXecration which burst from them then
has significantly changed.
The North has hO officers to command
or drill the cOwardly, motley crew of starV-
ing Foreigners and operatives that il pro-
pUses TO send South to fll bitches aud as
food for cannon, because 1t has no room in
IFS penitentiaries aud poor.houses to receive
or sustain them" "Our people can take Il
(Washington), they will take it, and Scott,
the arbitrator, and Lincoln, the beast,
combined, can n OF prevent it. The Just in.
dignatiOn OF an outraged aud deeply Injured
people will teach the Illinois Ape 10 repent
his course and retrace his journey across
the borders of the free negro States stil
more rapidly than he came; and Scott, the
traitor, will be given an opportunity at the
same time 10 try the difference between
'ScOtps Tactics and the Shanghai drill for
quick movements" "It is not TO be endured
that this flight Of Abolition harpies shall
come down from the black North for their
roOsts in the heart of the South, to deflle
and brutalize the landn "They never did
fight, and never will fght, except for pay,
for pillage, and plunder. Once satisfy them
that no money is to be made, no plunder to
be gotten by invading the South, and no
power on earth can lash and kick them
south OF Mason and DixOn's line"
All these things the Richmond Examiner
said. A year has passed, and 1t says: "The
destiny of the COnfederacy is trembling on
the result of Yorktown. II successful, il
will give us six months for carrying out the
conscription act, arming and equpping
large army, and launching a feet of Mer.
rmacs; but II unsuccessful, Virginia is
lost"
"The action of these chnrch.burning.
-four plundering, swinish groundlngs has
no terFors for any but their Northern mas.
teTs," said the Richmond Dispatch last
year. Last week it says: "We may ex-
pect TO hear of disasters wherever the ene-
my's gunbOats can be brought to bear on
all the points still in our possession.
Having made himself master of the rivers
and sea-bOaId towns. tbe enemy, IL he wish
TO conquer us, must come into the interior
There he will have TO beat our armies with
out the aid of bis iron-clad boats, before he
can boast of having subdued the country"
but these mercenary birelings these
ArnOlds, are Influenced alone by the thirty
pieces of silver, aud are not possessed Of a
sentiment half 70 sublime as that which the
Devil placed 10 the bosom of Judas" This
is the Norfolk Day Book last year. This
year II says: 1--WE have faith in our ulti-
mate success; but should this prove falla-
cous we can remember The example Of Sam
son-remember and emulate It,"
"COme on, Abraham! You are wanted"
said the Newbern Progress, last spring.
This spring the Newbern Progress appears
under the auspices of General Burnside.
The Memphis Avalanche was a prophet
last April: ave predict that JEFF Davis will
be on the banks Of the Hudson within thirty
days; that Mr.. Lincoln will fly, with what
little may be scraped together from bank
rupt treasury, from Washington, and that
General Scott will bear bim company; that
nothing will be left, 9 month hence, OF the
old Union except possibly New England;
and that the special session of Congress
called for the Fourth Of July will not meet
nearer Washington than Portland, Maine,
II il ever meets at ALL" This April the Av-
alanche says that the Southern people are
fast losing all confidence In their river de-
fenses, and II is generally admitted that the
Union army can no longer be successfully
resisted. 1t also intimates lack of conf
dence in the stability of the Southern Con-
federacy, by advising Its patrons to invest
whatever money they have in real estate,
while purchases can be made with the mon
ey now in circulation, which is principally
rebel treasury notes.
These extracts carry their own moral.
The newspapers express the EXTREMIST pub
lie sentiment; and what consciousness OF
ghastly failure betrays itself in every word
of the expiring gasconade of this Infamous
rebeIliOnl-[H [HaIper's Weekly.