The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-02-27


victory seemed to be universal, ringing
out in merry peals in honor of the brave
sons who had SO nobly fought and won.
See what change few days has wrought .
We have gained confidence in ourselves.
Only few days ago we were looking out
upon the darkness broodiug everywhere,
vainly looking for a CLEAN of hope, fear
inc that the menace of BRECKINRIDGE,
when he seeded, that he would drive the
invader from the soil Of Kentucky, might
prove true Now we can tell OF the bra
very of GRANT, Of BURNSIDE, Of HAL
LECK, and host of other patriots who
have SO molly fought TO sustain cur gov
ernment, and see in the triumphs they
have achieved, only the glare and glory
Of military success. The victory St 1lil!
Spring, freeing Southern Central Ken
lucky from the grasp OF ZOLLICoFFER-
the triumph at Fort Donelson, the great
est victory of the war--the success at
Fort Henry-the evacuation Of Bowling
Green-the reported surrender Of Nash
vile and Savannai,-have inspired all
loyal citizens with fresh courage, and i'll
led every heart with deep sense of graft
tude for the prospect of speedy victory,
and the triumphant standard Of our coun-
try unfolding over the smoke and carnage
Of the we'll fought field.
We suppose that Columbus is now the
only point occupied by the Confederates
in Kentucky, even if that has not already
been evacuated. Our people need give
themselves no trouble about Columbus.
there, his railroad communication with
the South viii be very speedily cut OF,
and be will be but too glad to make his es
| cape anywhere he can. He proclaimed
to the world that he took possession Of
Columbus as military necessity, and he
will unquestionably unaertak TO eyacuate
it as military necessity, without amy pro-
c,amation and with az little parade as
possible.
When the American people were fret
ting at the long and apparently unneces-
sary delay Of our armies, we appealed TO
them to be pGtieHt-to have confidence III
our military commanders. We knew the
appeal was right and now the whole coun-
| try believes it. Our Generals have glo-
riously redeemed the confidence OF those
who conided in them, and, surely, it is
| best that they did not yield to the impor
tunitics, the denuneiations, the threats
and the sneers of those who would have
urged them prematurely to battle. Now
Kentucky and Missouri are redeemed
from rebel invasion, and the march Of re-
| demption through Tennessee and the
South will be beautiful and majestic
spectacle for the eyes of the country and
the world. The Confederates need not
think to stay it by the interposition of
armies and the fragments Of armies they
might as well attempt to stay the progress
of confagration by piling up high mas
mes of dry grass and wood in front of the
rushing flames.
Our enemies would now be appalled,,
even if-they had four times the spirit they
actually possess. Recent events, follow
ing each other like successive peals of
thunder, would be enough to appal souls
far Drawer and stouter than theirs. The
defeat of HUMPHREY MARSHALL, and
the utter disbanding of his troops, the
overwhelming of ZoLLICoFFER' army,
the striking of our forces for Cumberland
Gap and East Tennessee, the capture Of
Roanoke Island with ali It's heavy artil-
! lery and its army Of three thousand men,
1.-THE rapid seizure of Elizabeth City, Eden
ton, and various other cities upon the
Southern coast, and the effective prcpara-
tions TO take Immediate possession Of Sa-
vannah, the defeat and fight of Gen. JEFF
! THOMPSON at Fradericktown, the more
recent fight of Gen. PRICE and his hot
pursuit by the Federal troops, resulting
in the deliverance of Missouri from the
dying grasp of the rebellion, the evacua-
ton Of Bowling Green, in Kentucky, SO
long occupied as a stronghold by the
great Confederate army OF the West, the
/ capture of Fort Henry, and fnally the ta-
/ king of Fort Donelson, commanded by the
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