The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-01-23
War IniellIrrace.

GLOOMY PROSPECT.
The Dixie newspapers locin 10 realit
jN porais situation OF the tODel cause,
may judge from the following article, pub
IN the Memphis ARoUs, Of tao Cd
Price Is in full retreat southwark. HoI
PROBABLY COZ tnue in full retreat, for thu.
severai--indsed, no less thau threo-P.I
Eniss, each as largo, better armed and 4
equipped converging upon hin. His p.sti
torres have Teen rendered valued. A. Fei
torcts have boon II assed in Kentucky to, 81
tor man OF Sidney Johnston's oalibre 10 }
turo TO ditdct ana the paralyzinR o.
through the Withdrawal OF McjullOch bsn
deied the overunuing Of Missouri to tho
kansas frontier an easy task 10 the Ped,
Wo'to tUc,d back out Of MiSsouri-ct1
nNoo IN Kentucky. CnAse has Oh ainodi
n onty in Wall street.
The blockade is unbreskabo BY US a. Yeti
ono word, we're hemmod in. We've Aid
tho hoinont OF victory 70 pSAs. We wui
a. Aious watching the operations Of Engli
that NO stand aghast on tuinir z our eve, bdI
waid again, TO find ourselves tsn.fold vorsa
thAn We were ere the commend emont cf PrIl
last forward march, and that accur> div n
Snsai iOnisn, the arrest Of Mapu. Matoo
Slidtl. Day follows day, and N lieu of b.I
weakened We find the Federal atmio,. Atl
poin,s, being stieyg 9Th, ned, lmost oyeiy j
CO OF manufacturing and dome. tic ncse.
quadrupied in price, and our morey will q
be exec, ding scATcs for lack Of paper ana N.
board whtfewitn TO m,ka il
We pay fifteen cents D Gee for spo,m /,
1los, and are told that We ought TO be pIAi
tet them at that. Our tS,lvo months
diers time will soon DO up; AID we cannot nj
sakirR, a. they do Themselves, what have IN
been permitted or led TO do2 Ii is an old !
ever proven truti-m, that whore two natl,
are At war that which has the least meArs IN
lind success in carly and rapid action, for Il ,
gain little by time, while IN, other finds in ti
the POWER 10 bring into ,fii;e,. >1tsrris..s M
iten'ly would be, cur shortSvkw 49, No, "a mn
noble policy was 10 find in iuaia.'.... use Of !
eaily revolutionary entIusias n an oyerm a,
for the slower and less sphitod, but m,
enduring North. Where shall wa AJAX relic
Where shOuld we AK IL save in the canpa
whom have been lavished cur hearts blood. q
hcpe-, our wealth. our whole wher, but I'm
the banks Of tho Potomac? When will We 7,
Oh etd OF tbs farce there being on ted Al q
expento?
Indirectly every mou,hful We eat is tan
our babies wear taxed caps and shoes, ou- b
write on taxed paper our ri Is wear taxed c,
coos, our men DO taxed business, and hopels
ly ride in a taxed hearse to a taxed grave. AZ
we, torsooth, are hurting "the cause" if We q
to turn from MeSsrs. Mason and Slidell TO ln
at the country We were born and bred in, ar
having looked, we are hurting the cause If
dare to tell what We soc.
Our cause is right, it is holy. Our sufroriu
maJ 10 Gods price Of success, but who, soeiI
what might have been, and knows what ia 4
ing suffered through its being undone, can r
train from cursing tho solfshnoas or idiocy Ii
stopped the c. nquering BE ,uregard, that AFRO,
eli the march Of Price, that checked the gala
Jackson.
We have gazed imploriugly on the lion, viii
the fox has b,on weaving bis tolls Our pr
AID our people have trusted far enough. VI
now ask, are We to continue heumed in for
other six months and lack ali things, or shS
our armies IN 10 Washington, and lick nothing