Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-10-11
Superiority Of the Yankee Soldiers.

6uper1orlty OF tne 4a0kee O0I0Aers.
A writer in the New Orleans Delta of the
18th August, thus acknowledges the superb
ority of the national soldiers:
The dash upon Baton Rouge proved total
failure. 5000 Southern soldiers, the sons of
Southern chivalry, with Bteckinridge, the
arch traitor of Kentucky, at their head, have
been totally routed and put to flight by halt
that number of Yankee soldiers. This is tho
naked, sober fact, and no mistake, as all must
know who live anywhere in this latitude.
But the fact never will be credited; it
will! be considered as utterly a mistake by all
who live in the latitude OF Mobile or Rich
mond. How can it be- they will ask them
selves and one another, that one Yankee has
been able to put to flight two Southerners.
when it was a foregone conclusion long ago
and no one doubted it, that one Southerner
could whip three Yankees!
He adds:
l have been resident of the Southern
States tor many years, and l can assure you
that the impression was almost universal, that
what the South lacked in numbers, in the con-
tingcncy Of a war, would be made up by the
superior valor and courage Of the Southern
soldiers. / never was secessionist in my
lite, and whenever l ventured to suggest, as
Il reason for holding to the Union, that the
North could raise an army three times as
strong as the South, and would finally suhju-
gate us, it was no use-I always met with
tho reply, either that the Northern men were
too cowardly to fight, or that one Southcrner
could whip five Yankees. heard this opin-
ion repeated so often, in different places and
under different circumstances, that it was gen
l..H c.,
Had JEFF. Davis and his horde Of periured
traitors believed that the Northern troops
would fight only half as we'll as they have
fought they would have been content to re-
main on board the good old ship Of State a
little longer. can account for this general
belief in regard to the superiority Of Southern
over Northern soldiers in the field Of battle,
only by supposing that these slaveocrats who
know not what labor is, look down with a
kind of contempt on all who are under the
necessity of laboring, and therefore regard
the Northern people as a sort Of plebeian class,
possessed of the same cowardly and servile
spirit as their own slaves. Indeed, you
know that one of these Southern women in.
suited q soldier in the streets of this city by
calling hima Yankee plebeian."
A SOUTHERN View OF TIE REBELLION.-
The letter Of prominent Southern gentle
man to his wife, who is in distant country,
was recently found on board Of a vessel that
was captured by our cruisers. The writer
gives bis view on thu war he is aiding as Sol
lows:
"This accursed attempt of one section to
set up an independent Government must
se,,sr Or later fail. and fail ignominiously: l
am bsvsd in duty to share in the burdens
apA 70 do what may to alleviate the sulier-
ings which the attempt has brought upon
those among whom was born, but ! will
take no ofics in 1.-THE highest would be no
inducemsnt-nor will share in the terrible
responsibility. No words can depict the hor.
rors which | witnessed both at Richmond
and upon my journey there and back. The
deaths then occurring at Richmond were fully
equal 20 $50 day. More than $4,000 sick
and wounded are now in the Richmond hos.
pitals. The recent seeming success Of our
arms will only serve to accellerate the down
fall of our short.lved Confederacy."
When Richmond is ours, and the army
now defending it il broken up and destroyed.
W. shall find thousands Of men like tha au-
thor Of the above extract in the front ranks
of those VINO seek TO effect peace upon the
basis Of rsstorsd Union and obedience to
the Constitution and laws. Rebel resources
we're strained to the greatest tension prior to
the late battles how can the cord tail to
snap asunder when the Union army shall have
besa reinforced by 100000 fresh men Sac
rnmesto LxioS.
~ Amendments to the Constitution Of Cal:
iiornia were adopted at the late ELECTION, pro-:
viding for biennial sessions Of ths legislature; !;
afour.ysar's term for the Goxsraof; makes
slsctivs the Office Of Secretary Of State; abol'
ishss ths court Of sessions; makes separate
election day for Judges; aud five instead OF