The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-13
ruuasoAY MORNING.. ...AUo. i3, 1852.



". lately pablishsd from . Massachusetts,
,.vspsper statement Of the puissxnt editor
,h., tho only terms the North would give the
: nth would be 70 hang . bundrsd Of thAxins
,..dsrs. make the Southern States pay The debt
,f ihs war AMI hold them thsnosforth 40 ter :.
,,,rles OF the United States.
And eupposs they could do II, the South
wauId even then hold RrAudsP plscs 10 his.
,ory than the victorious North. They cannot
a,srade us; they cannot humiliats ne; they
cannot rob the South OF It's place among the
Iumortsl. Does not Hungary, conquered BY
colossal odds, hold higher place this hour 10
The estimation Of all mankind than Austria
Ia aot the blood Of martyrs for the truth more
nrseiou, in the eyes Of God and man than the
brute force which dragged Them to the stake 7
IL cot the fallen osk, uprooted by the burri.
cane, a noa!sr object than the wild winds
witch hare laid its leafy gioriss in The dust Z
Suppose ws could be snbjagassd, and our
.sze ssd country taken from us. they cannot
lake away our place In histcry and in tho sd.
miraiion of all mankind. They cannot obliter.
sse the fscfihst feeble population heroical-
~ bsttls4 for years against four times i.s mum.
le.s having tho Iesourcss and the men Of the
whole world at its command, and only sue
enmbed wh en resistance was no longer possi-
tis They cannot blot out the sacrifices which
men and women have made through all this
war Of life and worldly goods, and sase and
home, fos the sake Of principle and liberty
They canno. achieve for their own name any.
thing but the intsnse sooru and disgust which
all mankind mus: fee! for nation which can
only cverc J,ns i's adversary by an enormous
prep ,Edsrsnce Of numbers aud W hieh Is base
enough to giorify Itself On account Of victory
thus achieved. Who would not rather hold
the place in history Of the heroic South thus
conquered than Of bsso!tsd couqusrors, who
have proved taemsslYts Inferior to their fallen
adversary in every thing but brute strength
No. Even If we perish we shah live and
triumph. Every Southern battle field will
shine On the pages Of history IN Immortal
light. Every Southern soldiers grave will b.
spot more sacred thsn the snemy's triumphal
afch of si,tory. The heroic dead Of every
valley shall rise and stand upon their feet. and
lesi Tbs vanguard Of all faturs struggles of
the oppressed for liberty. Every Southern war
riors tomb shaii bs kept green by the tears o f
sr,.ie iai generations. and their posteiity shalt
h.. proud of the blood that once coursed through
their veins, whist the descendants OF their
eopqueror shall blush to remember that 1t was
only by four to one, and by piling upon the top
Of zach tremendous odds hordes of foreigners
aai negroes, that they could efcsh u struggling
haaifa 10 the dast.
Bat, Heaven helping rs, we shall neither be
conquered nor crushed. Ii there were no
Goi If Numbers and cannon we're God, IL
E.ernsl Justice were a dream, wa might have
dsspaired of the result at the beginning. Bat
The same Providence wbi ch has GO sigualIy
delivered us from the beginning 10 able s.iii 10
yiadcsts the righteous cause. We are In lets
danger of sutjugstion at this moment than We
were q. the vsry onsset of the war. II we
learn 10 pat our trust Ia God, aud nut IN lnau,
God who has SO often crowned our arms with
victory, will conduct our armies to still more
slorioGs succsss. All in HE own good time, He
will achieve Cur deliverance, and vii! chastise
with retribu.ion as gigantic as their crimes the
iuc.rnats tisnds who are painting for our de-
suUc.i0n