The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-03-28
EXTRACTS FROM SOUTH ERN
PAPERS.

From the Richmond Dispatch, March 10
AS soon as the Yankees get foothold on
southern soil, their leaders issue proclama
ton, in which they entertain US with de-
scrption Of their character and purposes
According to their own account of them
selves. they are the most humane and hon
est people in the world, and have no inten-
ton Of interfering with the property or rights
of anybody, not even with their lives, if they
will so out of their way. Perhaps the We
racious Burnside company would have us be-
lieve that the war did not begin with proc
lamation Of Beauty and booty in New
York that the women, when the soldiers
left that city, did not invoke each Of them to
bring back the head o! a southern man, and
that the New York IriJune did not declare
that the war should not end till southern
men We're driven from their homes, and were
compelled to look upon their wives and chill
dren famished and in rags. If he says all
this is falsehood he must charge 1t upon the
New York papers, which contained these SEN
timents, and not upon the Southern leauers.
burnside AYERS that this desolating war has
been brought upon Your State North Caro-
lina) by comparatively few bad men in your
midst. Influenced infinitely more by the
worst passions of human nature than by any
share of elevated reason, they are still urg-
ing YOU aS,ray to CRAFTY their unholy pas
sions." The man that wrote tbs knew fall
well that North Carolina, like Virginia, ney-
er dreamed of leaving the old Mon till she
was driven out by Lincoln's proclamation,
calling for an army Of 5000 men, and that
the war began by the squadron sent by the
same tyrant to reinforce Fort Sumter.
The following compelled tribute to Yam
kee valor is in letter from Richmond to the
New Orleans Crescent -
"You will naturally desire to know how
the people in the confederate metropolis
stand these trying timcs-tor it is evident
that we are not safe in these days of light
draft gunboats and high water. | answer
in the main, We stand it very well. Some
to be sure, are down-hearted, and nobody
wears as broad grin as they did the day af
ter the battle of Leesburg. Still there is {
universal determination to do or die-to &C
down if need be with our harness on. war
ring like a brave people to the last. pass
ed Gen Wisfal on my return from dinner
and asked him if there was any news. No,
said he, 4 don't believe we have been whip
ped since dinner: expect, though, to heal
of another defeat in the next FIVE minutes. =
Somehow ] can't help thinking of Halleck
assertion by telegraph to Mcclellan, tina
'the Union flag is on the soil of Tennessee
never to be removed This is brag, but tn,
Yankees have, up to this time, stuck lik
leecheS wherever they have effected land
ing. They intlench themselves, and at tn
first spade-full of earth thrown up by them
our generals give right up and say all is lost
| They have attacked US repeatedly in trenche
and forts. and carried the latter invariably
) while we, with the exception of the st Mich
olas affair and few others. have not done
. daring thing through the whole war. Ar
other noticeable difference between the Var
:. KEGS and ourselves is that they follow u
their victories, while We squat down in GU
tracks the moment battle is ended Th
! is shameful fact, which dsheartens m
S more than anything else. | have no hoE
!! now in anybody but God and Beauregard