The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-03

A wounded Yaukee prisoner, nh" ma' viii
An old acquaintance OF The Confederate army
after HE arrival III this city, = ie1 days since
made a confession which is worthy IF beng
noted He informed his fiisnd that If the
Copfedet ate armv whipped McClslisn's the
war would coon end for that Mcclellan ~
ny would never fight any more If II were de
fsa,ed Il had been promised Richmond, and
if it were disappointed it would abandon the
struggle. Whether the prisoner is correct or
not in his idea of the effect of de feat upon the
doubt as TO the assertion relativeto the promise
made 70 them. Do we not bshoid the Federal
Congress, by law parcelllus out the estates
of southern people TO loyal citizens and or
deriog them to be cut up Into small farms for
the occupation of eng psrson' WHO may
have served in the army, the navy, OF the INA.
zine corps of the United Safes These 'any
persons are foreigners, last stepped, as it
were, upon the shores OF this continent, who
have not acquired tbs rights OF eitil sLship, but
who have acquired Ii right to occupy the lands
of southern people 10y reason of their Joining
tke crusade to rob and pluuder our people ana
desolate the South. The inf usnce of that prin-
ciple and policy which are thus avowed by
che Congress. and By it embalued in a legal
enactment, it may with reason he assumed has
not been withheld from the largest + sderal
army engaged in the most important exps3i.
ton yet undertaken by the military power of
the North. II is the principle OF PlaHdef and
spotsat,oH-the appropriation CT all that is
valuable TO the benefit and behoof of the con
7uerors.
They have been promised Richmond. They
have been promised the South. We do not
euppose that Mcclellan has told his men that
Richmond should he divided amongst them. He
is, if not too scrupulous a man, certainly too
prudent, to say that but while he mas deals
IN ideas of eclAt and glory, there are Others
~ho have put very iHsrent ones in the minds
Of the multitude which follow him in his "on-
ward to Richmond. The Congress ia daily
,mpsrting widely different notions 20 them
Should they get Richmond even. the plumber
ing may not be very general at first, but as
soon as the Military Governor is fairly seated
N his authority here, the system of spoliatioa
for the benef. of the army, plainly shaped BY
the law of Congress-, will begin. Then comes
the redemption of the promise of Richmond
and Of all the Sosth ae far es the Yankees hold
tho power.
We need but look to the Valley of Virginia
cue Of the fairest spots Of earth on the globe
TO zee the truth of what we say. Yankee
sauattszs had already set themselves do wn i'll
come of the finest mansions of the Lower
Valley, and were holding possession with IA
view 70 coming in hereaf or under the pre-
emptioh feature of the act of spoliasioa of the
Federal Congress. 1t was a righteous retri,
button that drove them from the places they
had usurped. General jackson sent many of
them, terror-striekrn, flying upon short notice
back to that North which sent them forth
that pandora box OF all the evils that ati ict
mankind.
VIII they get Richmond That Ia q,.ss
ton soon to be solved, tbs lighting OF Sat
mday aud Sunday could hardly have eneonr
aged them OF frightened thsi' picepects, wb,ls
1t has given lncf cared confidence To oui sol
diers and citizens that we must ~triurieb over
the invader, aud drive bio d~,scomfised iiuu
our borders.