Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1862-11-11
European Re cOgnition.

The hopes excited last week in refer
ence to the prospects Of a speedy. .recog-
milton, seem to be extinguished by later
news. We are fearful that our people.
have attached too much importance to
European recognition. Like the North
ern elections it can have nothing more
than a moral effect, and we fear that
would not amount to much. As the
Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist says
some OF our people imagine that srecog-
milton means interference in our behalf;
that it means raising the blockade; that
it means to open foreign ports to our
privateers and vast number of other
acts of assistance which will enable us
the more successfully to compete with
orr Abolition enemies. Far trom-'ii it.
Recognition brings us none of these
aids; it leaves us just I'M our present po-
sition, unless its moral effect may have
sufficient influence to force the Yankee
Government to follow the example of
other nations. Itopens no port to the
commerce of the world, it brings no ad
dihonal troops to our shores, it adds no
strength to our nayy--ill short, it is. of
just no use to. us at all Why, then,
should our people deceive. themselves
with the fond but delusive hopes of
peace as a sequence of recoor.;...l,to1,nr -
Such hopes are nv. ,,,,n. MIR. Gladstone
Va !, us the Justice 70 call US ma
ton. and Mr.. Pakington may express
the hope that the Chancellor means.
what he says; but all this brings
ms no aid or assurance OF peace. The
ooInlv thing that will do this, under the
|. Divine assistance, is Southern prowess,
valor, energy, determination, liberality,
virtue, and patriotism. Our people
must exercise these good qualities in
the future, and they will not fail to
achieve their independence, with or
without foreign recognition. ~ /.
i ta Must Rely upou Ourselves.
In this contest we must rely solely
ppon ourselves. From the beginning
/ Of the war to this time we have BATTERED
4 ourselves with the belief that the inter
4 ests OF foreign nations would cause them
! to intervene, but.np to the present oui
lhopes have proved fallacious. From
1 the beginning to this time, the Rich
I mond Wing says, we have in one way
! or another been the dnpes of theories
!. and the victims of false hopes. We hao
-lbetter now, if possible, abandon al
! thought of the war having any othel
, termination than the legitimate one O
= contest fought out to decisive issue
All other expectation only detracts SC
!. much from the singleness and intensity
$ of purpose with which we should de
vote ourselves to its prosecution. w
81 should have no ears, nor eyes, nor hand
i for anything else but this one, all-apsorb
91ing and all-important business Thee
a ries are too fallacious, presumptions to
n dangerous, hopes too seductive and In
sling for the snpremely lnatter-of- b.
4 lsiness of war. We must fight, fight
Il fght-this, and whatever will help L
d fight, most brayelv, most enduring1J
J, most successfully, is the only proper o.
e fcupation for mind or body, until th
: war is ended
From Charleston.
n n By authority of the /" Commission f
the city of Charleston" and with tn
concurrence of General Beauregard, NJ
! tice is given in the Charleston paper
$ lssthat it is deemed advisable that tn
le non-combatants, who are able to proyid
p for their own removal and snppo
: should leave the city, with their slave
Ian movable property, as soon as COW
nient, and thereby avoid the embarras
ments to which they=will be snbjecte
e if they delay their departure until Il
! necessity arises forsthe sudden remov'