The New York herald., 1862-04-29
Rebel Accounts.
from the Mobile Evening News, March 81

THE SITUATION IN VIRGINIA.
~",ld seem that the tug OF must come very
soon in Virginn. iho .namy arc certainly ndyonciny
rom sne Io'onac M ana up the PENINSULA if any reliance
Whatever Is TO be placed in the seemingly most
and reiterated intelligence to such effect Probably at
least two hundred thousand of the best Lincoln has
under arms compose the forces which threaten tho Con-
federaeS in front and Gank IL they have taken up the
advaucc ao OF march they fight us or retreat ds-
honorcd ami defeated without blow. II decline to
fight thcm, we must yield Richmond, and that is giving
up Virginia. If pe G9M than and sgn0ly dfedted,
Richnond and Prgio lost for nohing ,o.u eria 10
stem the inrourtag of TIE h0rds OF cicoYs. II fight them
and defeat them, wo CRIPPLE perhaps fatally the
power and war spirit of tho North.
Mcclellan himself, tho patent '' Young Napoleon -
made to order by the ingenious rail splitter TO meet the
exigcnces Of events is in tho field Ambitious OF the
glory OF personally crushing rebellion where rears
highest its horrd front no abandons The Cabinet for the
tent, and the silent wcs Of strategy for hard knocks
He gives up tho portfolio OF Commando in Chief grasps
his dreadful sword and goes confidently forth give
rebellion the coup de grace under his own immediate
supervision Let us be assured that Mcclellan does
take the field aud risk his fame without the means to
back up his ambition. With unlimited powers, ho had
tho making OF his own army Therefore he has spared
nothing that 1t shall be tho army that he rely upon
Ihis is the army we hqus 5o 10 whip Trgind is lost
the capaiot the confderacg is Ioathe headquarters,
worries, aorehouses and million of popuction pass from
he cor'rol ond reduce he Of thc conferac
1t is not to be believed tina. loso this great
te. The stake Is too enormous but that II will be
fought for with an unconquerabo energy and dotofmi-
nation by the Confederate army to whose conduct 50
much is now entrusted We believe that our govern
ncnt has not lacked the wisdom and foresight keep
that army on which much depends in force adequate
TO any gency When other point o, dcreacc or
this had To be neglected. the decision favor or
this and it was cared Tor We believe that Mcclellan
marches on TO dcfcat immense and spcnddly equipped
as his grand army Is, and that the result will be victory
whose lot will be akin 10 that OF Waterlooand greater
for VIC shall triumph heavy odds. Let tho pra
OF Christian patriots ascend in behalf of on that
day of dreadful battle-that 1t may be aides ira to
our tyraDnous 0pprcssors and invaders.
lfrom the Norfolk Day Book, April 24l
THE WAY TO FIGHT THEM.
The policy naguralod by General Ma sruder, OF fight.
ing tho Yankees Whenever they appear without regard
to numbers Is evidently the theory Of conducting
the struggle from this time. The enemy should not be
allowed to make stop forward without encounter
bloody evidence of the xod and unaerabc purpose Of
our people TO resist the nocrabe yoke 80
exultany prepared for our subugaton. Walls OF mourn
ing must be brought home 20 every household in tho
North aud the returned of their dead will in
strict them, "trumpet tongucd," OF their fruitess
attempt TO foil people thoroughly bent being Tree
General Magrudcr partakes OF an intense hatred com
parable only to the nan whose aversion TO snakes led
him to kill them, though they inoilensivey ex
hbited in the mcnagsre, and when upb raded by the
kcener, replied, damn 'um kills um whenever see
fum