Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-08-14
A CHEERFUL VIEW.

bered and honored for the great patriotic :
speeches he has made during the rebel {
lion, each one OF which seems better than
the last. In his speech at great war :
meeting in Boston, Wednesday evening,
he made the following truthful and en-
couraging review of the work already
done
"Let us first look at the state of the
country. The war, into which we were
forced without preparation, has been car
red on actively for about sixteen months,
over territory rs extensive as half of \
Europe, and upon the whole with great
success. Beginning at the North, we have
saved Maryland; we have re-opened one .
of the great lines of communication east
and west, which had been cut off by the |
rebels early last year we hold the capes |
which guard the entrance OF Chesapeake
bay, and have re-kindled upon them the
beacons of the worlds commerce, which
the barbarism of secession had quenched.
Fortress Monroe and the navy yard at
| Norfolk, which control the outlet OF the
great Virginia rivers, are in our hands.
The gallant Burnside and his brave troops
have given us, with the exception OF Will
mington, the seacoast of North Carolina,
and with it the great inland sounds OF that
State. | know in military history no
brighter example of what may be effected
by the indomitable energy of command
err, when supported by the right sort OF
men, than the success of the expedition
against Roanoke Island, shattered as it
seemed to be, by that tremendous storm
of last November. Admiral Dupont and
his brave blue jackets have given us Port
Royal, the finest harbor on the southern
coast between Lynnhaven bay and Pensa'
cola: and from Fort Pulaski we command
Savannah. An il-concerted attempt
Charleston has failed, but the wholeS ,tI
ern coast is efficiently blockad~ + ~
efficiently, for it is PHYSICAL ;n ~ Il
: so to blockade an extens' No Inc of ooas
Astounding in creeks nd ;nlot ~ % ~ t IU
| vessel of light dr. 'i'o i'il1'1' 90 'h"'
Vc :m VI a.. alt, propelled by steam
5 VIII ho' o0'' ,ionally get in or out of
= oafh n,SSn' The same state of things e:
= lS' III . .e Gulf of Mexico, where we hay
2 wre' ,ted Pensacola from the rebels, al
he entire coast of the Gulf States is III
der an efficient blockade. That Mobi
- has hot been captured, is merely owing
u the fact that the mortar feet was in grea
!. err request elsewhere. Then we have thi
= most magnificent success, the bombart
d ment of Fort Jackson and Fort St. Phi
t. lip; the capture of New Orleans, whic
n, we owe to Porter, Farragut and Butte
TT and the admirably handled expedition
49, led by them, giving US the command
> the outlet of the most extensive system
I'd internal navigation in the world. VIII
this has been going on below, Admir-
il Foote and Captain Davis and their gu
boats have swept the noble river down
\, is Vicksburg ; the Cumberland and Tennt
- see far up into Northern Alabama h
# been redeemed and the single city
in Vicksburg, which, without any militia
adj operations, will fall with the next flood
the Mississippi, is all that remains und
I'd hostile control from the falls of St. A
- thony, for two thousand miles, down
-. the gulf.
O On All organized resistance to the cover
- ment has been driven out of kentuck
N. Missouri and Tennessee, though in ]
&C. eion so vast, and in parts SO thinly pc
Piled it is impossible to prevent the inro
'as of partizan corps, who dash at mldnlg
ais into an unprotected town, plumber t
u houses and steal the horses of peace
y. citizens, vanish at break of day like
an guilty thing and then in flaming bull
cir tins, boast of Capturing city Tn
ing too, western Virginia has, after years
t a discomfort under the oppression of caste
'de Virginia, been at length emancipated, a
off, the rebel armies which half year a
l elo threatened Washington and blockaded
.als Potomac have been compelled to fall be
,oss on Richmond. Rallying their forces fir
Ups. the entire South at that point, they hi
rds been able as might be expected, to b
esh the Union army in check, not so 10
en- en-, however, by very far, as the Russi
uiu held the combined forces of England &
-, France iu check at Sebastopol; not
eld long as the armies of France, althou
,tly Napoleon had an Austrian war on
md hands at the same time, held yelling
bis in check within the lines of Torres Vedr
me not so long as Washington was held
I Oh check with $4,000 men before Boston
5000 British troops, which he allowed
/. is escape without the loss of man.
mel .Such, fellow citizens, is work Q
arm year and third of this extempor;
pu- war, and such the present state of alta
'an' Where in the history Of the world
'ne, more been done in shorter time?
'O honor, then, | say, to the gallant ar
an and navy of the United States, and Il
bin brave and patriotic commanders +