Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-03-05

1HE INVADERS INVADED.-Ohe year ago, the
traitors were busily engaged in arranging their
plans for the invasion of the north. The
taking OF Washington city was considered as
the work only of march across the Long
Bridge which spans the Potomac, while the
victorious hosts of the exulting chivalry,
would march through Maryland amid the plau-
dts of their friends in that State, until they
reached the border of Pennsylvania, where
their real triumphs and rich conquests would
commence. Pzzaro, in his dreams, as he
slumbered after his Intoxicating Peruvian
revels, never had pictured to his bloated and
distempered vision more gorgeous scenes of
yulnptuous splender and i'll concealed ascivi-
BUSINESS, than those which fluttered through
the day dreams OF the southern traitor as be
contemplated the certainty OF his invasion OF
thenorth. The gold which Pizzaro treacher-
ously received from the imprisoned Inca,
dwindled into insgnificance when compared
to that which the wild mobs led on by the
slave drivers, were to wreSt from the people
of the north" Philadelphia was first to fall into
the hands OF these ruthless invaders. Its
temples, IFS treasures, Its palaces and dwellings
were all TO afford the richest booty Harris
burg was also TO feel the presence and the
tread of the same invader. and. then from this
point and from Philadelphia, the southern in
yaders were to reach on TO the rich cities OF
the east, their presence hailed and welcomed
by the dough. faced Democracy, and their pro-
gress but little imIseded by any force which
the craven and cowardly north could bring in
armies against them. But these authorizations
and dreams have been sadly frustrated and de-
ceitful. Nts the inrdtterS Uho hare been inp0ded.
Instead OF southern armies marching across
the Susquehanna, the Hudson and pursuing
their conqaering steps until they reached tho
Merrimac, they are falling down, down, down,
where their lying numbers have almost reached
the shores OF the Gulf of Mexico. They are
leaving their intrenehments and their camps
without firing guns striking tents. They
are begging for quarters where escape is i'm
possible and battle unavoidable. They are
begging for terms of easy surrender when a
manly contest might give them a victory
And what is far more gratifying, is the fact.
that the people claimed as being zeaiously de-
voted TO the confederate traitor cause, hail the
federal troops as the real deiverers
Of the south, and fall PROSTATE beneath the
stars and stripes, as the banner of their love
and the panoply of their protection. Surely
4 people whe have thus failed to make good
heir boasting-wto have failed in their bragg
CART claim as superior in arms--who shrink
rom battle and fly from the foes they haUghti-
y invited to the contest-surely such peo-
Die must become hereafter the. mere depend
,ntS on the leDiency and liberalty of those
Who conquer them without blow and make
hem prisoners by the mere crooking OF
niger. Old Virginia anu Old Kentucky may
hereafter live in negro minstrelsy and rude
iegro wit, but in the annals of true chivalry
md the recital of manly feasts Of daring and
ndurance, they will flnd no mention excent
{ is by such comparison as will perpetuate
heir odium. The history of tn invasion of
he invaders will afford prolific themes for more
han one fertile pen.