The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-21
III. Ahiri. .hA PsePlo.

The Spiri. CT she PseP'o.
II A people az numerous AS those OF the
Southern States desire TO be free, they cannot
be sabIuga,ed by any power on earth. The
dining is All impossibihty. All depends upon
the spirit and temper of the people for, even
If their Government should prove incompe-
tent, 1t would not destroy the vitality or i'm
pair the recuperalivs energies Of people
determined 10 be free. Again we say, ali de.
ponds upon the people. If they will not be
subjng ,ted, they cannot be subjugs,ed. II
they s,ill thirst after the a4shpots of Egypt
and demand vi their Moses and Aaron to
know why they brought them oLt to perish 10
The Wild rness, thon tuey may expect Pharoah
10 come again aud reclaim them to his ser7ices'
Less fortunate tan HE Jews, they will not
die in the desert but may return to make
brick without straw rom Paaroah and 10 bow
down their uecks 10 his taskUaeters and TO
yive up thar substancs - ills axgatherers, TO
wander Impoverished begs,rs from their own
estates, lie ncetoIth occupied by Yankees from
Cape Code aid Wetaef.held, and 10 realize
the triumphant b,as OF :, Yankee 'urnaI that
1.-The Northern lnatrou viii preside III the
over IL. washing tab
To suppose thaJ tn people of the 5 nth are
Wiling T. .U,cuinb 10 Lin, olilem, after The
nu.d5is, deh,emeut, c,i4i ,caIJn, ahd over
throw o. ali eUn,titutUnAi, to!uitil, auo civil
riguts " hicu have lnu5 Ia marked tails atIo-
clous war, wouic te To reduce thsln 10 de-
graduation belo y ANY thing that laukeedom IT.
self has ever reached al abyss OF shame 10
which even Chiua aud Mexico have never dc"
seconded AT this very moment Mexico, u lit
tie, miserable, Impoverished nation OF half
bre d., is harinonzng lis Intestine feuds ano
unilipg its Glecofdau; faction, TO ree!st tie
eombiued armies % Eng land. France, aud
SpaiU whereas, if the Suth should succumb
10 YanseedoIn, 1t would yicld 10 power
which has just proved itself beneath Mexico
Ia honor aud puoiic cpl it, having ing!or,ously
baekei on; from u ilhs with only one Of tue
three empires whose combined power Mexico
CALAMITY dcf-s Snch spirit wonid sink the
South below the contempt OF mankind, and
ALLEVIATE from her the symlalhies Of all the
world She would Indeed bs unworthy OF
sympathy Gle would be worthy only the
poaition to which her own inferiority Of will
and baseness of spirit had consigned her
that Of being q n.nial Of Yankeedom lite
rally, q "servant OF servants and slave Of tho
devil We hesitate not to say that, instead
Of such being the spirit and temper of the
Sou, bern people, i, i. just the last people on
she face of the earth which, Individually or
collectively, can be forced to do even that
which is right, much less tina. which is wrong,
low, bass, and con,epp,i ,ls. Therefore, We
again reitera.s what wa have hundred
times sai, tha, the snbjuya,ion Of the
South is impcs IDLE, and We would hold
the same conviction III every Southern city
/. the Mississippi Valley and On the Al
l.u.ic eeaboaFd were il Yankee hands. Not
OIly cities, bet VII, ole States were in the pos
~. SION of the British for years during the
Revolution-New York for Fix years, and
only given mp when peace wa declared; and
vet, it never affected the determination Of
either the Northern or Southern patriots of
the Revolution. The South is an agricultural
people, no, dependent upon it. cities, and itf
vitality ami strength would be untouched if
each of them should fall at once into YANKEES
hands, or he swallowed up by an earthquake.
We are not quite sure but that il ,hs Gov
eminent should take the proper precautions to
remove the munitions OF war from its cities,
and TO keep the public stores from falling into
the enemys han Is, it would even SO much as
weaken Ia any considerable degree its mill
tary operations, If the enemy should be per
mitted to seize and occupy dozen of those
Imagined centres Of trade and power, the
cities Of the ruth, not one of which happily
has any more influence on the power, pros
psrity, and the morals OF the COUNT y, than q
wart on the face Of giant.
In the darkest hour Of the Revolution,
Washington GeCiar- d that he would unfurl the
standard OF liberty, if necessary, i'll the noun
tains Of Augusta, aud there secure the indie.
psndence Of his coul airy. We need Not sort
to these mountains for any such purpose,
though the SONS Of these men OF rs. whose
in.xhaCstihle constancy aud i"viuciole deter
nina ion elected from Washington that
declaration, have proved themselves in the
"Stone all Big ,dc" of jackson. worthy
SONS Of those valiant sires BIT We would
supply eas, in thee tic darkest hous of
bouthern fortunes, il III, men OF the South
sAould fail here, we would place her tlag aud
her CAUSE in the hanis Of tho women aud feel
sure that they would n-ver yield in batting
for their dear native LAND ill they yielded life
itself' II tney couli not avenge our quar-
Pals with their gentle hands, they would teach
their children aud their childrens children.
~ suck In rebellion with their mothers milk.
aud svenge their mothers cause. The sons
and brot..fs Of such women cannot he subju-
gated, nor eau they he even ovsrrun if the
people are brave aud resolved.
vi. Burnside Fleet
AZ nothing hss been heard OF the Burnside
Feet Tor 'oms days, it is not Improbable that