The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-04-17
THE SITUATION.

Onward progresses the glorious cause
Of our Country! Every days mail brings
US news of additional laurels wreathed
around the standard Of our Country by
the invincible hosts now in the field de-
Tending the Nations hcnor-striving to
transmit to posterity the glorious legacy
inherited by Us. That the God of Battles
has smiled approvingly on their efforts all
will admit as plain-that success eventually
attends the cause of Right, is another de-
mons:rated fact. Patriots no longer doubt
the issue, but with that simple faith in the
God of our Fathers, cheerfully and pa
tiently await the result.
That popular and somewhat ridiculous
fallacy, which has transformed numerous
class Of people into almost traitors, which
sought to establish as moral and physical
impossibility the reconstruction Of the
Union on the old basis, BY the means en-
ployed by the Administration, is being
rapidly dispelled by the victories attending
our arms. Time only serves to demon
strate the wisdom and patriotism of those
at the head Of our Government, and to
consign to eternal infamy those who, at the
beginning Of the struggle, disparaged every
effort put forth by the Government to
defend itself from the most treacherous
citizens any Nation ever had to deal with.
Nor do circumstances favor the idea that
the reconstruction of the Government will
be any halfway measure; on the contrary,
all things tend to prove that it will be a
Union in spirit as well as in fact. The
feelings Of the rebel prisoners now in the
hands of the Government remarkably illas-
trate this fact. We predict: then, that in
the future the haughty southron will have
higher estimation of Uncle Sam, and
less veneration for King Cotton, and a
lower estimate Of his power. The people
of the South have been made to feel terribly
the power Of the Government and they
cannot but love it as intensely as they
hated it before.
But to the glorious news now being con-
veyed to every patriot ear by the electric
current over the entire breadth of the land.
By one days mail came the news of sur
render Of Island no. 10, 19ether with 60O0
prisoners, one hundred seige guns, and a
great amount of other military stores. All
were awaiting impatiently the next mail
for full particulars. But by the next news
the victory at Island No. 10 was almost
swept into oblivion by the intelligence of
the terrific battle at Pistsburg, Tennessee
All accounts set it down as the most terrific
battle of modern times. The fighting lasted
two days, and resulted in the complete rout
of the rcbels-the grandest Bull Run the
world ever saw. The Federals we're COM
manded by Grant, and the rebels by Beau
regard and johnson. johnson was killed, |
md Beauregard had An arm shot of |
About 10000 men were engaged in
The battle, and the slaughter is reported |
Is dreadful. It will also be seen that the |
rebels have been repulsed in New Mexico
BY less than half their number.
But while exulting over the victories
perching on our banners, let rs also re-
member the anguish and desolation these
'ictories cost. Think of the many hearts
Tri.hing in agony over the fall Of . loved