Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-05-15
EWSPAPORIAL BRAG IN DIXIE.

rebel newspapers. lhey nvariapiy as
sure their readers that the confederate
army is about to meet with great success
that the cowsrdly foe is to be beaten
back from the sanctifed soil of rebellion
which his presence "pollutes and that
soon the tide of victory will be so deci-
siyely in their favor that the seat Of hos
tilities will be carried into the Northern
States.
Our men can whip their armies easy |
enough, but we confess the rebel editors |
cannot be beaten in the game Of brag.
They fight and win battles,-on paper,-
they slay the dastardly foe" by the tens
of thousands-with the pen,-they die
tate terms of peace to the "corardly
Yankees in the great commercial en-
porium of the North that is, they prom
use in their journals that they will do SO.
And yet in the midst of all this buster,
the Union armies are steadily pressing
on,-rebel stronghold after stronghold is
taken,-the stolen forts of the Nation are
re-captured, New Orleans the great
Commercial centre of the South is taken,-
the command of the Mississippi river is
recovered, Manassas and finally York
town and Williamsburg are evacuated
the rebels nowhere being an over match
for our troops except, in a dead run for
life,-and the rebel Congress fees in dis
may from the rebel Capital now soon to
fall into the hands of Gen. Mcclellan.
But still these fighting Southern editors
talk as boastfully and arrogantly about the
bravery, valor and invincibility of their
troops, and the impregnability of their
strong holds as they did in the outset of
rebellion. Such loud and persistent whist
ling to keep up courage was never heard
as comes from these editorial whistlers,
in the grave yard of the Southern Con-
federacy. One Of these whistlers declared
that the capture Of Fort Donelson and the
fall of Nashville was mere wound upon
the skin, and would only serve to enrage
the confederate wild boar ;--another de-
clared the evacuation of Manassas grand
stroke of policy, like the drawing back of
battering ram, to get more momentum
for fresh onslaught another whistles
defiantly that the capture of New Orleans
is really no disaster, but that it is wisely
e~a.rsA Wy . HIND ano sncrcliul, put IN.
scrutable Providence for the good Of the
Southern Confederacy! And so it goes.
Doubtless the editor of the Petersburg
Express who boosted only one week age
that Gen. Mcclellan had been on the pc.
ninsula, digging about for several weeks
without striking blow, and who was sure
that the d'spicable Yankee army" would
run before the hardy bravery of the " chiv.
airy" is now whistling" over the ig.
J nominious retreat and rout of the rebe
forces, and is more and more con
WINGED every day, that the Confederacy il
gaining great successes; that the rebe
army is invincible," and that the Yam
, KEGS are sneaking cowar1s.
What a jolly set of fellows to be sur,
are these rebel editors. They undoubt
eddy drink their brandy smashes regular
ly,-swear by nothing but "mars anc
whiskers,' diet themselves on broad sword
t and horse-pistols, and are quite as &c in
r vicible !" as the best and swiftest run
l. hers " in the Confederate army.
y TO be serious, the brag and blus
ter of the towards who conduct the rebe
press does not unnerve the North Ii
homely phrase, we hard listed freemen
: know "a barking dog never bites" No
g body but stink and paltroon will ad
/. vertise his bravery in advance of cor
fiict with his foe. Southern "lords ,
n tie lash are braggarts by education, an
n towards by instinct. The present wa
u proves it of the mass, though there ar,
as we are glad to acknowledge, HONORABLE
:. exceptions. They are a Sinking, skulk
II ing foe. They have not, since the CON
,e mencement of the war, offered us battl,
upon any other terms than those of Brook
= OF South Carolina, who stealthily, crer
up behind Senator Sumner and cane
u him unarmed. Their "chivnlry ;s a