The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-23
Highly Interesting from Rebel Pa
pers--GrOans aad Despair of the
Charseston Traitors.

Highly interesting from Rebel Pa
pers--Groans aud Despair of the
| Charseston Traitors.
WASHINGTON, July 20.-Late Southern
papers are at hand.
The Mobile Advertiser says: "The
Confederacy has seen darker days and
| emerged from them. 1t is not dark
enough to justify the prudence OF. those
| who are ready 10 submit and anxious for
peace and the security Of their property
| on the basis of submission. There have
been some signs of this white feather
| futtering during the few past gloomy
| DAYS. Let US warn them that il is base
| to feel so, and dangerous to be premature
in the advance Of such sentiments. The
land has made too many sacrifices for its
/ freedom to falter at the last hour.
aThe timid aad faithless must not I've
allowed to fetter the footsteps Of rebel
lion. II must roll on to triumph, al
though the wheels have TO roll over them
and their fortunes ~
The Richmond Examiner, the organ of
jeff. Davis, shows it's alarm in a long
editorial, in which it says: "The only
salvation of the Southern Confedsracy is
in calling out levy en- nsasse, the sppli-
| cation of martial law to the whole
country, absolute control of all trading,
| the abolition of substitution, exemption,
and foreign protection, the material en-
largement of the Presidents power TO
revise elections OF officers, to make ap-
pointments, aud get rid of incompetent
| officers"
The Columbia, S. c., Gazette says
"The people of the Confederate States
| will soon be called upon TO undergo q
grayer trisl=-one that viii fully test the
| sincerity of professions heretofore made.
We cannot escape the ordeal. The time
for trying mems souls is not far in the
future. Many, we fear, viii be weighed
| in the balance and found wanting on the
dreadful day. Many will be the articles
and subterfuges resorted to in order to
shield oowa-dly skulks and chicken
hearted patriots. Already DO we begin
to hear murmuring, gloomy predieticR,,
and visionary speculations. /"
A proclamation by JEFF. Davis appears
in the Eaqmya, calling out, under the
Confederate CONSUMPTION act, all white
men between the ages of eighteen and
forty-tive, TO serve for three years, Under
the penalty of being held for des,rtion
in case of disobedience TO the appeal.
They are offered the privilege of forming
volunteer organizations before the enroll
| ment.
rrba -. -. sa,sa az, off,c;.i j;s,,o..b
from Charleston received yesterday
morning states sail was quiet. The
enemy are throwing up works on the
south corner of Morris Island
The Charleston Mercury of the 10th has
the following st appears TO US 10 be
useless 10 disguise from ourselves the
situation. By whose faultwe got into it
is vain now to inquire; the Yankees have
| possession of the southern half Of Morris
Island. There is but one way to save
the city of Charleston, and that is the
sturdy and uniiinching use of the bayo-
net. If the Fight on Morris Island is to
be now fight by engineering contrivan-
ces and cannon, surely the advantage is
now on the side OF the enemy.
with their iron-clads on the water
and their men in occupation of the land
it is likely to be mere question of time.
The fate of Fort Wagner ends in the fall
of Charleston. Fort Sumpter, like Wag-
ner, will then be assailed by land, and so
| will end. The fate of Fort Pu! aski will
be that of Sumpter. Gen. Gilmore,
commander of the department, was the
man who reduced Fort Pulaski. Charles
| ton must be saved as Richmond was.
The greater part of the soldiers who
achieved triumph by the bayonet had
| never before been in charge.
'The Yankees have as yet few or no
formidable works; they have but few
thousand troops. If our soldiers and
| officers here are not used to the kind of
fighting fought by the army in Virginia,
and tried by the Yankees against such
works as Fort Wagner and Grasseville,
then Charleston falls. This, il appears
to us, is the only course of safety, and
we may add, too, for economy of lives.
"Other means may protract the fighting
for days and weeks, and postpone the
termination Of the struggle. No other
means, in our opinion will save the
city. We believe it can be easily saved
with promptness, energy, and dash. 1t
is too late for engineering alone. Specii-
lasion and delay are fatal.
Lees army is moving slowly down
the valley towards Richmond. He is
evidently either confident that he has
the advantage in his route, and that be
can move his forces on the south side Of
the mountains unmolested, or he has as
surance of cooperating with the force
advancing to meet him, or his army 10
so worn out and exhausted that 1t can't
move rapidly"