The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-04
The Southern Press on the recent
Defeat.
From the Charleston Courier ]

trOm Inc ChafiS5toH
We have sustained heavy loss in muni-
tons of war; our country has been de-
prived OF the services of several Thousand of
her best disciplined and bravest soldiers,
and parents and wives weep 10 the bitter
ness of grief over those who will never
again bless them with their smiles. The
enemy pushes on, flushed with victory, to
win more triumphs, and cause other hearts
to bleed.
We feel these reverses. We acknowledge
them openly. We would rather overrate
than underrate their Importance and mag
nitude. Truth demands that we chronicle
the battles and their results, Withholding
nothing, concealing nothing The MARIA
tives of these unequal contests should be as
full, as minute and particular as we would
like to have them, had they ended iii the
disgrace and discontinue of our enemies,
and increasing the glory that covers our
arms. Far be il from Us TO initiate the
cowardiee and meanness of our foes, by
claimiag victory when we have sustained
defeat; by inventing falsehoods, under the
| fear that an honest and correct account will
have harmful effect u.nnna aaarlRs women of
these Confederate States.
A resolve as firm as that which sustains
and actuates our hearts is not to be shaken
by series of reVerses of far greater mao
nitude than those we are called upon to
bear. Our faith in the final and complete
success of the cause rests upon the con-
seriousness of superiority to our foes in all
the attributes and qualities Of the soldier, in
the nature of the great work we are doing,
IN the Signal tokens Of favor and approval
which Heaven has designed 70 vouchsafe.
We are persuaded that our people win dis
play the rightspi under these discomfit-
nres that they will look these disasters IN
the lace with clear, undaunted gaze and
contemplate them with all their probable
consequences, grow the stronger. the more
determineds the drawer for the defeats and
the menacing dangers. 80 aaa
These reverses serve to show US the ne.
cessity Of greater watchfuness and in
creased ZEAL They appeal with trumpet
tones TO every freemen in these degenerate
and dlsenthralled States, calling upon every
one to come up to the supported the qIori- |
Gus eause. Our foes aim at our subiuga-
ton, and if they cannot CONQUER us they
will put forth all their skill and mower To |
ruin and destroy us. In endeavoring to ac- |
complish our subjugation they have inflict- |
ed on themselves terrible evils. Bank |
ruptcy threatens their Government. their
merchant princes are reduced to want, a
cloud rests upon their glory, the scepter has
fallen from their grasp. They lay the blame
of the evils they are suffering under, OF the
they have been forced 10 submit
q upon rs, and all these things have in
IensHhed their bitter hatred, and made them
ne m0re determined 10 accomplish their
base and wicked purposes. /
Fheir overweening vanity is unspeakably
aefls afea &C the saccess won by their gun
SUN Han y.
With wrath, they viii now put forth ali their
trength. they alEead Z. .ssss4ieice in anticina-
5g9s q 7 s,es street and exchange eopgratn
4tlon5 on the speedy restoration of the
/, mon. In their judgment the strngole ia
most over, and the future will nresent a Il
cries Of victories for their arms. W p,nst
repare Tor bloody battles. We must meet
nr soes, resolved to conquer or die We
e brothers, and wiping ont all State Inns
e must realize that we are one. We ara. g
lenaced by common danger, we share dis /
race and glory. He who refuses to fipbt ia
coward He who shows dfscord IS an d
lelny. Let us refrain from ftult Ending
~ accusations. Let us learn the lessons
4 feVerses teach rs, make a rise use Of
lSt errors and shortcomings, and not waste u
ne ana embltter feeling by harsh charges Il
ID unavailing censures. ~
. ' ~ eAPect 70 gam every BAT :,
: we should be prepared for Ieverses. Oh
IS not victories that develops the ebarac. bi
and power of a people; the noble ouaI- OF
IS OF manhood are called into exercise bv
'Aster ana suffering. If we were cast -
"n oy these ealamities, we would show
fseiyes unworthy Of the cause in which
are engaged, and unequal 10 its acconn-
iheht- with hope unclouded, with con- sia
snee mistaken, with courage strong 90
'inted afresh for the great work Heave3 =
commissioned us to perform, let us grid Co
the IONS of our minds and strike with a Ce
Ger strength, and suffer with a higher
oism.
'hesNew Orleans Delta is alarmed about wiz
ganeoats, and says the Only way q, take Ea
a is by-boarding. The Delta should re- ing
nber that this is impossible. Hose, con- said
Cd "ish the boilers, run to every part 4