Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-08-27


 the lying reports sent across the Atlantic by the Yankees, the truth sooner or later unerringy reaches Europe, and that credit has been just ly given to the Soath for great victories at Wiliiamsport, Shiloh and Chickabominy. If those battles have raised tho South so high in European estimation what will not be the effect of our overwhelming victories at Richmond. Federal Victories and the Subjugation of the South.
 l Such battles as those of Shiloh and Richmond cannot fail to have strong efec. on the mlnd l of the northern people. Already, indeed, we | seem to hear the quiver of apprehension Tn
 which the shout for each SC called triumph dies
 away, and to detect the tater of douot Tn the
 uneasy earnes,ness O. each mans assertions.
 For the federal victories, though great glorious, 1 splendid, and so forth, have to be explained,
 indeed. you would har.ay know thev were victo-
 ries unless you were t5lQ so by, some one who was in the secret. It needs to be demonstrated 1 by arguments and diagrams that secession IS 1 being duly crushed by the anaconda and swept l away by the avalanche, and engulfed by the
 moral earthquake, as foretod in the t,gurative language of it's opponents. We now have an Q 'al,orate compassion of advantages the loss Of battery of artillery is compensated by q succ >ssfui bsyonet charge, sUd g slaughter which s known to be heavy by slaughter 1 which is corcluded to be enormous. inc Con- federates did not attain their object, therefore 1t was a federal victory. Gen. McCla!lan,s ar- my recovered the han ai'e ot ground, and still holds its old position-th ,srefore It was federal
 victory.
 The siege of Richmond still goes on-there ! fore 1t was federal victory. Such IS the Gighy .,fx xno, fhoep y,.S, ! the federals must feel 1t rather descent to be- l come strategetical andtopographical. The bat ties may be very good battles, very fit for F ! future Jonen to describe. They may exhibit l interesting facts for the student respecting ex- i posed wings, or the position of batteries, ats ok 1 in column, attack in lpe. and what not. II the 1 tederals come 10 delie.t ID the art Of Horace 1 Vernet and Won. they may cover vast expanse { of canvass with the lnasteriy inaneGvers and
 dashing charges at V Williamsburg, Shiloh and 1 ChckahooAn5 But this is not exactly what
 we were led to eAp~ct. Anything iess like
 crushing and sweepitn- ,. h2s seldom been our
 lot to hear of. It must begin to draw upon the
 minds of most people that fl tnls sind oI t2ht- ! lng is to go on the conquest Of the Southern ! States will be greates achievement then even the acuteness of Mr. Lincoln anticipated.
 The truth is that every successive month
 
 ing the Union by force of arms. When we ! look back on the deiutlons which regned little i more than year ago at the North, ard which
 were shared to some extent by many Of us in England, we are astoni.hed at their msrn-
 ,ude and the absence of any trace of truth.
 It was asked with wonder few years since how
 the English in Iudia could have lived in con-
 stant intercourse with the natives, and yet ID total uncoDsciousness of their nature. The faithful Sepoy, the ' mild HndoO,h were i'm
 plicity trusted. Just as much as il was taken
 tos granted that tha SikE was l-reconciab4y hostile, the native prynces, ambitious and eager
 to take advantage of our weakness, while the
 populations were anxious to escape from thelr
 power to the shelter of British law. The histo-
 r7 of the mutiuy the history of seemingly | inexcusab!e error on the part ot the statesmen,
 generals and magistrates.
 But what were these m,stake2 10 the deluslons
 of the northern people respecting the race which
 lived in political communion, and constant com,
 mc-cial and social intercourse with them, which
 bought and gold with them, called them feliow> . citizens in e!ect!0nsarlng speeches, sent lts { children to be educated at the same school, sat !, s.do !;- side with them at hotels. served n the
 "a regir., g, sailed in the same men. war, sah ~itb them of American greatness in I"as'eu |" >Uany, and ,~ the foreiyn sPec'a, 'nn op',.d mart .: the same ro~. o''' anu ,,,d;9;.;hle9 They ns,, - recoeci that th- "" ,r,,ors oIancsd ,oyether, s,'d they despised the ,nr1h4roe-. that they hated .HiIn as Peoian and a creditor, and that, while appearing 10 .rlorv in the union. they were ready, almost 70 ,san. 10 destroy it at the bidding ot the ieadeFS il. whom they couiided. How the soulhefheFs hid heir i'm pulses and their resouuone,is 'noeeo extraordinary for to the last the ch'ei men III tjae union did not believe that even South Caro-
 ;na was eafne5t in secession.
 Since that t nay be said that the North has been deceived ia everything. First 1t could not believe that the Coniederates would be able to raise an army at al. President Lincoln asked for 75,0 900 men for thres montas, and there is no reason to doubt that he expected the num- Der and the time sufficient. Then it was said that the southerners could not fight, had not the qualities of soldiers, were too wild tor dIsci- pline, and would obey only guerrilla chlef.-
 Let the attacks and still more the retreats of the Confederate generals declare how far this opin' ion was well founded. The most conspicuous errors have related to the unaninity of the South? and it's position relative to the negro race.- That 8 large union party would raise wherever the fedctsls appeared IS fancy now cruelty dissipatec, and with it vanishes the only justiil> cation of the war in the minds of impartial men. But yet more remarkable fact IS the attachment of the slaves to the white race in the South.
 Both the northerners and those who echo them in this country were .aeTer tired of repeating that the Confederates would not dare to offer any real resistance, inasmuch as they held Tn bondage four millions of their fellow creatures, who would obey the natural instincts ot humani ty by massacreing the women and children as soon as the men had left fer the war. But at last the crucial experiment has been tried The southerners have gone almost to the last man to the war, the victims 10 tyranny which IS described as so savage and revolting that " 1t uutes in itself all crimes are left almost un- controlled and in some places absolutely mas. ters yet there Is rebellion. federal gen eral stationed in region where the negroes are four-ftihs of the population, isues proclama. ton declaring the slaves of those States free. Yet there is no uprising for liberty. It IS a melancholy tact for phianthropists and literary ' ladies; but there IS none. The only thing left 1 now is to declare that the negroes have been SO degraded by oppression that they have no 1 desire for what's within their grasp.
 1 The fact seems to be that the Southern com> 1 monwhealth is socially far stronger than any one either at the North or in Europe had sup> posed. Nothing was more natura! than for the
 great q priori easoners to demonstrate that 1 300 00O slave owners could never induce sever. al millions of" mean whites" and four millions ! of ,erroes to aid them in an aristOcratic reyO-