Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1862-09-06
Comments Of LIr. FGrrcy.


WASHINGTON, Sept ;, 1862 The capture
Of Washington ~ the Confcderates would
probably enable them TO dictatc terms 10 the
regular Government of the United StateS.--
They knew The cost 0f the venture when they
made it, and they arcri>king all upon It. They
are also fighting for the shadow Of foreign re-
cognitjon. These temptations have stimulated
them IN all their late movements, as we'll in
this important department as on the other mil
itary theatres.
Although the Federal Capital is to-day ,nore
imprcgnahlo than it has ever been, It's seizure
would make It one vast r'lln, and would cor
vert every loyal. and every one vino IS half
loyal man to-day in the free State INTO fierce
and t3natical soldier You, OF Philadelphia
and New York would then begin to realize the
horrors which have so long been familiar TO the
deIuded people of the South Your idle men
about town would find new opportunity to CON
sumo their leisure Your stores and places OF
amusement vouId be closed, and every interest
and avocation would be absorbed by and en-
and enlisted in the great warlike duties Of the
hour 1t is this spirit, compiled with the des-
pcrution that springs from slavery, and with
the earnest longing for foreign aid, that has
enabled the ConfeCeratoS to conduct so fearful
a war upon its authority. With them the
wal has been a reality; with us a pasrlme.-
They put their substance into the fight at once;
we only those who have gone forward TOR occu-
patton: Or volunteered from patriotism. They
have put nearly their whole fortune upon
single card we ri>king q moiety Of our oppu-
lence trusting to the comfortable theory that
victory must be ours, because they were eight
and we twenty millions. The hour Of service
and Of sacrifice is coming, to every man and
every woman in the loyal States Of the United
States | disdain TIE taunJ that | may be
writing as all alarmlst. am not. seventeen
months ago when. in these very letters L
called upon the civil authorities OF PennsyIva-
nil, to put the State in a condition OF military
preparation, was 50 accused. Andyet, though
NV tone was changed in Difference to this opln-
ion, even then the traitors were ORGANIZING Tor
the results over which they are now rejoicing.
Cincinnati was as comfortable and complacent
as Philadelphia 3 weeks ago, and yet to-day,
she is vcilantly awaiting an attack from
the Confderates. Her men of peace are now
men of war; her politicians patriots; her
candidates for Office, in the ranks OF the army
PENNSYLVANIA is in fact, nearer to the most tor
midable army of the rebellion than ONO, ana
with no such dividing line Us the Ono rlyer
Covington, opposite Cincinnati, conlm2nded by
the batteries of Kirby Smith and John I;
Breckenridge, might fall, but how long would
franklin, York r Adams counties lie able to
hold out against the advancing. hordes OF Stone
wall Jackson, with no intervening river to pro-
tect them? s..,
The people of the free States must be accus,,
toned to war. The men who have discussed
among themselves the possibility OF avoiding
a draft must volunteer. Our gentlemen must
abandon the practise ofinvoklng the Workmen
to 50 into the army Among the very nrst 10
encounter the hazards of the battle in the
South where the politicians; and If you read
over the lists of killed and wounded, YOU Will
find that those who advised Secession and
1,4J n; ,,,,:on fouoht and blnu and died