American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-05-23
Another Letter from Russell.

OF OPERATIONS.
The. expedi,ionary force is nearly al
embarked and concentrated at Fortres:
Monroe or on the mainland between ths
James and York rivers. Before thi.
letter leaves Boston. it is probable tha
I shall have reached the scene of opera
lions, embarking either here or at Alex
andria or Washington. as the case may
be, with my companions. The General
commanding, and The staff. have not vel
gone on board the steamers de-
tailed for their use, but the utmost is
done to get stores and all the variety oil
materials connected with such an army
and such an expedition in readiness. and
no doubt this week will witness remark
able events around Fortress Monroe.
HIS OPINION OF ISLAND NO. 10 AND NEW Or
LEANS.
From Island No. 10 comes an admis-
sion of failure, though The bombardment
was renewed on the Goth. But it Is
/ hoped that, as soon as the river falls,
the Federal troops will be able 10 adj
vance, and thus clear the river and the
news of successful attack on New Or
leans is confidently expected, after which
the Unionists consider the Mississippi
virtually in their hands, notwithstanding
the Notifications above Memphis, and
the immense leves at Corinth and other
places near its shore. New Orleans,
however. may prove as formidable as
Island No. 10.
THE AMERICAN PRESS AND Mr.. STANTON.
In one of Wilson'S or Anderson's or
astrological papers there Is an account OF
the wonder and fierceness of certain
sort of American woodpecker when it
was first put in a cage. All the present
actions and behavior of the American
Press are described to the life in it. AT
last it began 10 tear out its own feathers.
Here is Mr.. Stanton the man of an hour,
the lawyer of yesterday the hipodamos,
the press-tamer of to-day. How he has
grown, almost in moment, into life and
power So did Danton. so did Fouche,
SO did Robesperre. But. remember,
they had no such cause as ''the Union"
If they thought they had, they were no
doubt wrong. If any one desires TO read
the finest, purest, most highflown works
that were ever uttered about liberty.
purity and morality, let him turn to the
pages of the French Republican journals
in the time of the worship of the GODDESS
Reason. Let 10 one suppose the wri-
tiers were not sincere, though the lady
who sat in the Car might have in the flesh
undergone the ordeals OF the correctional
police. Let none suppose that 1.-The Uu-
no
heart, and move the souls of these great
masses which have lain SO long beneath
the weg hit of dollar bags, from the Can
adian lakes to the Susquehanna aud the
Ohio, to-day with a fresh current of
thought and feeling new arterial sys-
tenn of hope and action has been put in
to them. One CT the great triumphs of
their young career is that they have
slain the mother that fostered and bore
them which had. however, become
and tyranized them to death.
There is no one in Congress, there is not
in Senate, in House of Representatives
in pul pit, or stump, or in the forum, q
man who has word to say in this year
of grace, 1862. against war on the press
with which there has been
nothing known even in the days of An
drew Marvel. The utmost the boldest
journals venture upon is to give warning
to their agents to flee from some doubt
ful wrath to come. And the American
people are very glad of it; leastways,
they don't appear at all dissatisfied
Here are billiard table keepers and wills /
getting up public meetings,
and all sorts of interests moving against
taxation, but not a man crys out "mur-
der" or even robbery" far less ''fire."
at the visible extinction of all life in the
press in its function of giving news. De-
votion to the Union cannot do much
more. When an American is content to
do without news in his newspaper, he
has exhausted submission and forbear-
ance and made his sacrifice.
MR.. RUSSELL WILL WRITE FROM FORTRESS MON
ROE, ETC.
Ny next letter will be from the neigh
borhood of Fortress Monroe. The RI |
nazdo is still lying off Old Point Comfort,
and two French vessels, one the Cati,aat,