Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-05-14
VICIssITupEs OF WAR

FlClSSIfUDES. OF WAR.
Inc recent successes OF, the enemy IN capturing
some OF our outposts and obtaining temporary foot
no.ds upon our SOIL have inspired the Federals with
brilliant antcpatons of the speedy suppression Of
1ne :" rebellion" and the subjugation of the South
lney nave also caused grave apprehensions on the
part OF some amongst US, which the history Of IN,
past will not justify.
Ihere IS striking parallel in the causes of tn.
wars OF l776 and 1861. Our fathers were subject
to tyranncal oppression but among their grievances
they never complained Of the operation of wrooss
winch would OF necessity bring upon them, at no
distant, day, the horrors of servle Instruction
unless, averted by revolution. They comyaind
OF unjust taxation-but their burdens were small
in comparison with the tribute which the South has
been paying to the North under the oyeraon of
prohibtory tariffs and fishing bounties, and egsls
tive enactments that built up the manufacturing and
commercial interests of one section at the expense
OF the agricultural pursuits of another The neces
sites for revolution were not SO great then as now
Yet the American Revolution has an honored page
in history. go
The Colonies had scarcely one eight of the popula-
ton OF the nation arrayed against them. Their in.
duerent arms and scaDty. military stores were con-
temptble when compared with the equipments of
the armies they encountered and they were almost
destitute both of manufactures to make them and
ships to bring them from abroad. They had no
Navy to meet the Mistress of the Seas. Yet, actu-
ated by stern purpose and upheld by firm convic-
ton Of the justice Of their cause, they entered upon
the unequal contest, committing the issue to the
decision Of just Providence.
Then, as now, the anaconda" scheme was the
means resorted to for ''suppressng the rebellion"
Navies on the water and armies on land sought to
crush it, as between the upper and neither mill
stones while the royal forces could be rapidly trans
ported in shils, our fathers had not as we have the
advantage of railroads for therapd concentration Of
their troops. Steadily the coils Of the anaconda
were contracted upon them. The conqueror's BAN
ner was unfurled in every rebel province. Defeat
followed defeat Victorious hosts captured or &C.
cupied almost every city or town in the whole coun-
try. The royal armies overran New England, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania they took
Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Newport
and New York, Princeton and Philadelphia. Mary.
land and Delaware were under their feet
Virginia suffered severely from their ravages.-
The British feet bombarded and captured Ports
mouth Norfolk and Gosport with immense quaint.
ties of stores, ammunition and cannon, which were
carried away or destroyed. They took Suffolk, and
burned it to the ground Petersburg fell into their
hands. Warwick, on the james river, then town
larger than Richmond and very important to the
prosecution of the war, was burned with its maya
Its tan-houses, and its Touring mills Richmond
was captured by a Burnside Expedition under Bene-
dict Arnold, and its cannon foundry and magazine,
and many public and private buildings and ware
houses were destroyed Williamsburg, the former
capital Of the State was also taken. The Legisa-
ture of the State fed from Richmond to Charottes.
vile, whittier they were pursued by the ferocious
Tarieton, and some of its members captured the
rest escaped to Stanton Virginia seemed doomed
to the alternative of submission or desolaton. In
the meantime North Carolina was devastated by
victorious British army highly elated by their grand
achievements at Charlestonand Savannah, who were
marching through its very heart committing the
most fagitous outrages in their course.
South Carolina and Georgia suffered more than
their sister States The seige of Charleston is one
Of the saddest pictures of the war. Provisions in
the city were becoming scarce. The Loyalists were
busy fomenting 6isaffection among the distressed
Inhabitants. A: FIRE from the feet was opened upon
the city. Bombs were falling in every part of it,
killing men, women and children, and setting houses
on fire. The town militia, in utter despair, had
thrown down their arms, and at length, after gal
liant and desperate resistance of forty days. the city
was surrendered The enemy obtained between five
and six Thousand prisoners and about four hundred
cannon-an appalling loss to the enfeebed Colonies!
The fall of Charleston and the loss of the army par
alyzed the Republican strength immense numbers
accepted the offers Of pardon that were proclaimed,
and gave IN their allegiance to the crown and even
entered the royal service. The British commanders
confidently believed that the finishing stroke of the
war had been given. Gsrrisons were placed in the
interior and the voice Of the rebellion was hushed.
This was in My, I7Sl.y
But our determined fathers, though conquered,
were not sut5agatsd. The menaces of bayonets,
the obligations Of extorted oaths and the threats OF
tyranny and cruelty could not suppress people
determined to- be free land in the following August
there was another army 10 be met and another des
perate battle to be fought and at Camden we suffer-
ed another disastrous rout and another Of our
armies was annihiated. The victory of CORVALLIS
on that desperately contested field was complete,
and for moment the hopes of the PATRIOTS partcu'
iarly ct the South were crushed their only chance
of success seemed to be the Intervention of European
nations.
Within the space Of three months two armies bad
been annhilated aud our most active military corps
scattered 70 the winds CORVALLIS considered tho
susjagation Of South Carolina accomplished snd'
conitdsht Df future success, moved to- the Nof'1
Stake,to establish Royal rule there Then followed
his march to and retreat from Charotte-the de'eas
Of his detaehments at Kings Maintain and 'ne
sCowpens the pursuit Of Greene-the battle ~
0uiford 1.-The retreat Of the British to wilmington
their march into Virginia, and the final capture OF
CORVALLIS army Il Yorktown-c closing the first war
Of American independence in blaze Of triumphant
glory, only two months alter that hour q oackest
darkness. = C1ristian Oossrvoy -.
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