The Shasta courier., 1862-03-08
The Pr spect.

ample assurances that, ere long, the Unitsd
States will cease to be rent by the internal
strife which has for the last year disturbed
u.s. Better than ever do our loyal people un-
derstand the policy of those in authority, and
a greater confidence is to-day felt in the ca
pacitics Of the Government to maintain itself,
than has been felt during our national exist
ence. 1t is remembered, for no one can for
get, that at the time of levying of war by Da-
Wis against the United States, that, owing to
the action of corrupt and imbecile prece-
dent Administration, our country was almost
defenceless When we remember the small
accidents that have so so far abundantly pre-
served US, in the early stages of this sad con-
test, we can but feel that that God, whom
protected us, in our day and hour of sore
distress and need. If at any time before the
fight in the streets of Baltimore, almost any
sort of an attack had been made on Washing
ton City, that place would have been cap
tured and if had fallen, such was the con-
dition of the public mind, and so great was
the influence Of traitors that Government was
then nursing, that the success of the rebel
Davis and his sham Government would have
been assured. Time enough was allowed the
nation to collect itself, and it has vindicated
its ability to withstand any attack that hu-
man power can make against it; for surely,
when we have crushed this monster rebellion,
no one will pretend to say that we are not
able to withstand any and every assault that
could be made against us. Our very defeats
and disasters have redounded to our success
and advantage. The defeat at Bull Run sent
two hundred thousand men into the field in
ten days time. In looking over the list of
engagements our troops have had with the
rebels, we find that with perhaps a half do
zen exceptions, our forces have been uniform
ly successful We have raised, equipped and
thoroughly drilled an army of more than
a half million of men, and have rescued from
the grasp of the secessionists four States
claimed by them we have seized and now
hold every strategic point in the bogus Con-
fedcracy, with the exception, perhaps, of
Memphis and few points en- the Mississippi,
all of which must fall into our hands at an
early day. The rebel Davis fingers at Man
assas, not able to either fight or run, and is
held by Mcclellan in a ''vice." The term
of enlistment of one. fourth his army is now
near at hand, and it is openly said and be-
lieved that none will re-enlist. Drafting may
then be resorted 70, which will create side
difficult to settle than is now imagined. If
luck holds, in three months time we can
throw open the cotton ports, except those that
have been destpyed. The settlement we
shall'have to make with the chiefs of this re-
volt, and the future condition of the reyolted
States are not just yet before the country
Doubt not but that Justice will be meted to
all.
The FLAG.-Our National ensign is now
floating to- the breeze in every one of the
United States, except, perhaps, in Alabama.
1t waves in Texas, opposite Ell Paso; on Ship
Island, in Mississippi; at Key West and
Fort Pickens, in Florida in Louisiana, be-
low New Orleans; at Tybce Island and Sa.
vannah, in the State of Georgia. at Port
Royal and St. Helena, in South Carolina at
Hatteras, Chowan, Elizabeth City and Eden
ton, in North Carolina; over half of Virginia;
all over Maryland, Kentucky Missouri and
Delaware; at Forts Henry and Donelson, and
the city of Nashville, in Tennessee. Soon
will it be raised from every flag staff in the
whole country.