Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-05-08
From the Augusta CoDstitutionalist.
The Capture OF New Orleans.

The Capture OF New Orleans.
The capture of the Crescent City by the Yankees IL
wolves serious loss to the Southern ConfedeIacy. 1t
of extensive depot of supplies for our army and
curtais facilities for the manufacture OF and
ammunition 1t virtually gives the enemy the control Of
the Mississippi river and deprves us OF our supplies OF
sugar and m0lasses. Ia short, it is severe blow to
the Confederacy, aud an immense advantage for the
enemy But admitting all this, it does not signify that
the Conederacy is about to be conquered that the
rebellion, foes pleased to style efforts for
independence, is about to be crushed We have time
and again asserted that the capture of seaboard
Cities of points subject to the visits OF the Federal
gunbOas, would not involve the conquest of the South
The London journals take the of the subject;
and need only refer to the history of the American
Revolution to sustain this assertion. 1t is true, the
loss of these cities is a sad disa3ter-deplorabe
rences-but not sufficiently so to US to "despair
of the Republic
When New York, Philadelphia, Charleston Savan
nah and Augusta in the bands of the British,
fathers did succumb to the terrible power Of their
enemies but with answering faith In the justice oil
their cause they gained fresh ardOr and pursued the
struggle for independence with renewed energy and
untaeriDg devotion. Shall we prove ourselves un-
worthy sons of such noble sres? Shall we, with re-
sources much superior to theirs, with army SO
much larger than theirs, with population SO much
greater than theirs, taer for 10 the defence
OF our liberties and OF our nationality? Shall we des-
pond aud be cast down because we have met with re-
South become the hewers OF wood and the drawers Of
water for despotic and impiacable foe? No! the
patriotism of the people, refined in the crucible of ad
verslty, must, like pure god shine the brighter their
high resolves must be renewed upon the altar OF their
countys independence, their Willingness to bear suffer-
log, to give all and risk all for the Conederacy, must be
reaf6rmed and made apparent by their acts OF patriot
ism and devotion to the cause.
Away then, with despondency-with despair-it is
disgrace to freemen-to struggling to be free
They know but resolve but shbboe,h and that
one is {: Victory or DEATH With large armies in
the fed-Wth brave and accomplished leaders at their
head, with just cause, and the favor of overriding
ProvIdence-what have to fear? The water courses
may be overrun by their gunboats-the seacOaat may
be seized by their 5es-cties and towns may fall into
their hands but have the interior Of the Uontdera-
cy-f need be- the woods and the mountains-in which
aud upon which to concentrate armies ald thence
drive back and rOut the invaders Of soil But we
need not fear such an altern alive. The enemy will be
whipped at Yorktown and at COrinth-and when bis
broken cohorts aud flying pbalaDxes go flying back t.
their Northern homes, ed and dispersed pursued
by victorious armes-then will captured cite
be given up and the independence of our Conf racy
acknowledged. This is ide dream 1t is a reason.
bic hope, aud which needs but patriotism, energy
and deermin ton to accomplish. Then, we ak ou
readers-oar whole pecple-to cast away all feelings o
despair or dependency. In the words OF the poet
80 1t is wiser ard better to give up,
Than once to despair; -
and in tue language of Beauregard, to be Of goo(
cheer; our cause is just, and God will yet give US tn
victory"