The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
Yankee Preparations.
rFrom the Richmond Dispatch.

ION that unless the Yankee armies and
fleets do something very decided within
the next sixty days, the great powers Of
Europe will inevitably recognize the indie
pendence Of the Southern Confederacy,
and it urges upon the Yankee command
ers with all the eloquence of which 1t is
master, the absolute necessity of abandon
ing the defensive attitude TO which they
have been reduced, and at once entering
upon an active aggressive campaign.-
What effect this advice may have upon
Mcclellan who does not seem as yet quite
ready to advance, remains to be SEEM
But it is very evident that it has already
been anticipated in other quarters, and
by other Yankee commanders. Com.
Porter, we are told is at st. Louis, making
arrangements to carry a powerful feet
down the river. We may therefore pre-
sumo that Vicksburg will shortly be at
tackled once more, for the Yankees have
neither forgotten nor forgiven the de-
fence made by the gallant town. Beast
Butler has left New Orleans TO superin-
tend operations against Mobile, where al
ready seven or eight men-ofwar have
congregated, to be followed in due time,
no doubt, by much larger SQUADRON
The late affair near Charleston is but the
| beginning of prodigious land and naval
expedition, which it is designed to send
against that city and Savannah. Every
thing indicates a design on the part of
the Yankees to capture the remainder of
our seaboard cities, if they can, during
the winter, and thus to cut us off still
farther than the blockade has done from
all intercourse with Europe, and to secure
on all sides gates by which they can poor
their troops into the interior Of the coun-
! tt..yy. Should they succeed, it viii not adj
vance them single step on the road to
subjugation, for before we can be con.
quered the whole interior must be sub.
dued. They have New Orleans and al
most the entire navigation of the Missis-
sippi river, and yet they have not advanc-
ed one step in their favorite project
They are no nearer success now than they
was when the Confederate flag flew over
every town on the farther of waters.
Our Government and our people have
deliberately made uptheir minds to q con-
dition of affairs which shall see our re-
naming seaports in the hands of the en-
envy, and they see no obsticle even in
such an event to the indefinite contin-
uance of the war. As long as our great
armies remain unbeaten in the field-as
long as they continue to face the enemy
with that heroic courage which has al
ready won for them the applause-and the
admiration of the civilized world-as long
as the people remain true to the cause,
and prefer any hardship, any loss, any
suffering, to the domination of the detest-
ed Yankees, so long is conquest an i'm
possibility and any partial success Of the
enemy only the herald Of reverses yet to
befal his arms. They remembeE that in
the war of the first Revolution Charleston
and Savannah were both in the hands OF
the British. and that the lion of st. George
flew over every port on the Southern
coast. They remember that rot for that
did the patriots of that day despair, but
that on the contrary they gathered fresh
strength from every defeat, until, at last,
they conquered their inheritance from
the strong grasp of the spoiler. They
know that the men fthis day are no way
inferior to the men of that-if they are tc
be judged by their actions, they are, in
deed, greatly superior, and they take
courage accordingly. Nevertheless, it i:
not to be supposed that the Yankees will
obtain possession of these seaports with
out desperate struggle. We expect it
and we are prepared for it. The example
Of New Orleans will never be inflated du
ring the war. Thanks to Beast Butler
and the lesson he has taught, that is i'm
possible. Thanks to that other, and fal
different example-thanks to glorious
little Vicksburg, our people have learned
what resolute spirit can enable men
even in the most desperate circumstances
to accomplish. Thanks to the Legisla
ture of Virginia, which chose to see tn
capital of the State reduced to a pile o
ruins rather than surrender it tamely t,
a semi.barbaiious foe, the blood of tn
country is completely stirred. Their
WILL we venture to pre- dict, be no NOR
surrenders for fear of being bombarded
, There will be no more talk about savin
the towns because they are our towns
! Better would it have been for the wretch
3 ed inhabitants who were caught by But
, Ter in New Orleans, that they had permit
r ted their city to be burned to ashes rath
err than have surrendered, to become tn
sport of murderer and robber, such a
Butler the Beast.
The people of Charleston, and Savar
nah, and of Mobile, have plain duty t
~ perform. il is never to surrender thei
cities as long as one house be left stant
" ing. If they choose to lombard, let ther
. do it. Let them remember New Orlean
and Memphis, but above all let them II
member Vicksburg, We have no fea
% for these gallant cities. Their sons wi
~ defend them to the last.
!. Gen. Mcclellan.