The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-12-08


einia and the lovely Shenandoah vsAey, ths Para
dse OF America exhibit can be- iikenad only TO tbs
Falatinate after Tys Anal visit, as Tbucyddea
psinfs it, after the annual LacsdSmGn tncnrsion
during tbs Peioppcnnes,au war.
THE UNITfD AND DETERMINED FEELING AT THE
SOUTH.
hsvo Travelled far and wide through Virginia;
have conversed with men, women, stripiings and
children in that State aud ia urMsryand; have seen
men. formerly substantial and thriving. whose
everything is devoured by .he Fsdersls; bl. never
in one single in8tanca have heard word Of re
erot by reason OF tbs wsr, trnid note sounded In
regard 10 its issues, sigh brsa;h.d over the de
parted Union, ghost of a desre expressed in ia.
vor OF eonpro'oiss or reconstruction. On the con
uary, one universal chorus echoes through tho
length and brs&dth Of The land "rhs net 10 bro.
ken, and we ara delivered" Mr Everett and bis
votaIies, WHO stl believe IN imprisoned LOYALTY
as existing ia the South, might Gs wall ssarch in
the British Islands for maa who desired them to
be annexed TO France. 30 united so Homogeneous
community as the States Of the Southern Con.
federscy finds 10 psralSA in our annals. No war
that England has wages for a hundred years has
met with sn,h cordial unanimous undivided sup.
port.
The war against the French Republic had It's
Charles Fox; ths war against Russia its Richard
Cood5n. There ia no such character In the South.
ern States. The victory Of the Federals in this
asperated struggle MEANS not the defeat of the
southern armies not the possession Of Richmond,
Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and Kew OrIeans
which would no more lead TO a conelusicnof the war
than the seizure Of the Isls Of Nan. A Fedseal
victory means nothing On earth but the externins-
ton and ennihiiation Of every man, woman, and
child In the Southern Confederscy There is no
passion, no frenzy, in the universal language The
intensity of the hate lushes the cheek and cluches
he teeth bus finds little expression In feeble wcrds
Ii nytbing, the exuberanoe of 2nimosity is more
paFeeptible In the fasAing eyes and eager earnest
ness OF the woien, bu. the settled and unconQuer.
aole hfmness of the men requires nothing to bs
edded toll.
IS IL, f.Ji
discussed, and preparations have long bssn made
for such contingency. surprise is expressed
tEst the Feoeras have not long sgo possessed them.
selves OF several other Southern cities well AZ
rev Crieana The possession OF capital city In
these days O; railroads in a very different thing
froIn what it used TO be in the days Of Wasram and
Jena. Great suffering might be 10 iicted on women
and children if Mobile aod Charleston fel-sutfer.
irg which there s only too much reason to fear
would BE most acceptable to the Federals Judging
from the record OF thsr deeds during the last year
and half, But every considerable city in the
South might De reduced to ashes without changing
the mood undermining the resolutions Of the fee.
best heart, if any feeble hearts there be, In the
Southern Confederacy.
HOW THEY BEAR THEIR LOSSES.
sm told by the highest authority tbs. ths official
statement. comprising the most minute details Of
the Confederate loss at the battle OF Autietsm
Creek, estimates the Confederate loss in killed,
wounded, snd missing, at 5000 men Another fact
is noticeable. 4 Federal loss of infinite magnitude
would evoke no sigh of sympathy, no moment of
ssdnesF except SO far as it was supposed to defer
the restoration of the Union But the whole Con.
federacy bewsils the 6,000 victims at Antietsm
Creek with h-otherly affection and sympathy.
Nor is tbs. appalling Indifference which amszes
snd peraly zss the spectator In Washington and
New York affected here. Scarcely a lady but
wears mourning, proud to display that she has lost
Il relative fighting III dearer to her than
life; s"arceiy person hut speaks s0rrowfully and
with sfction of loss which seems to them appall.
flfr han ff~l ~c a.,
i0fiieted upon tier poc0 cHrdnte foe.
THE SOUTHERN ARMY.
Well may nation be connlant Of winning its
Independence which can exhibit such spectacles ss
every day produces wherever Southern army is
in the field There, in poverty hunger, and dirt,
shoeess with shirts ragged and rent often without
hats, their feet bleeding they drag their weary
lrba through dust and briar, are serving in the
Earss the gentlemen ard the saaSre azHl of the
South. manv nan who, until the commence.
m5nt OF the war. hsd scarcely thought beyond tbs
Cafs Eoy sni the Boulevards OF PSris, and to
v hose morning toilet every diversity of cosmetic
was a. necessary ss water, has fer non.hs been
marching uEder EluGke:, without one single change
Gf raiment, feeding or green maize and raw pork
lying at night on the bare earth, with single
blanket between him and the canopy Of heaven
Aud these men, many of them bearing some OF
England5 tncSt IGNORED names and descended
from EnEi and's best families arc in Ahe field aud
have been so for nineteen months fighting against
moEcoaazies who have repUdiated England, as
though she were governed by Nero, and have
escaped from German penury and coascriptiona
Whatever may have been the truth las. winter i.
is not pretended that the Northern armies ara
not ainly composed OF men of forsian birth =.
Where are the native Americans Of weight and in
Ausnee s.rs ing IN the Northern armiesg Why
does not Wendell Phillips take the held7 Men
older thsn be are serving by dozeDs In the South.
ere ranks. Where Is Charles Summers musket p
Tbe Senate could spare Senator Baker, In no wiso
Mr.. Summers inferior in intellect and it were no.
bic enswer 10 the South which sneers At non duel
lists for wan. OF courage to show how one Of that
class can eempcrt himself upon the psriIous edge
Of battle II is but probable that with unopposed
command of the and tie great rivers during
their autumn floods, the South may lose thousands
more OF he's cons, in addition TO that great sea OF
blood which has already been oheerfully poured
out IN her defence But let ber be lef. without q
single city or village, WITH nothing but her later
nal fAsIuesgos and her immense area Of territory
and though every man in the North under hfty
were to take the field. they would ps inefficient
over to make such nation as the South lis at the
lest of her enemy.