Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-06-26
Alt8mono Enquirer.
r,ivESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, ls6;
THE DAWN.
BY TYLER & ALLEt:RE

THE DAWN.
through the gloom which has wrapped this
Cu.e,leracy, we begin at last to see daylight.
ryerywhcrc and in all its details, the crusade
O.: II. Yankee nation has failed, or is faiSing !:
~, o:ly insofar as the plumber and devas-
n.;ga o.! our country within their lines may be
,s.s-j,I IS a success. And this is dubious.
c..,;onaI,lc we think fatal, kind of sue
r,.,: f,r it has totally obliteratcd the last yes
.;r,.. of Union sentiment. One year ago, even
half a v.ar ago. there were not wanting Union
men. " what was as bad, partial reconstruc-
;oni.t !unking 10 u reunion with the North
western States. Where are they now? They
ioye since that time experienced at their own
bams>. or heard from their neighborS, Of the
:u!l n,,e.a,iou Of the third stage of the war;"
>. characterized by the President in his last
message. which has no other purpose than
-.,en.c and thirst for blood, and plumber of
private property" Unionisn, has been scourged
,u; ii thcm. kicked and burned out Of
:aem: and if there be any poor slaves now in
the Coufeleracy who would be willing to re-
enter the Federal Union, they hide their
heai, or veil their treason by e4uiToca-
ions
Then the various projects for forming colo
MES II negroes IL make cotton in South Caro-
lima and in Florida, have failed utterly; be-
caa.e cotton which costs twenty dollars per
rur! cannot pro6tahly come into market
IT, c-owls Of unhappy negroes which have
beea invited or kidnapped away from their
masters. and accumulated in Washington,
Nashville and other places, are found to be Of
,ousr 10 others or to themselves and on this
pint We refer to the charge Of Judge Brien,
q: Nashville. printed in another column. As
soldiers. the poor contrubands are found totally
rascryiceablc, save as animated breastworks
20 move in front, goaded on by the bayoncts of
,ie!- friends, and so stop the bullets of their
! iptncr owners! As TO the whole of the deal
4 io:s Of the Yankee nation in this matter of
liz negro race. they have not only been a total
failure but also manifestly fraud and false
I'cieDcc. For two years the world has stood
ASIDE and looked on at this pretended grand
! experiment. Of Human Freedom: and the re-
sa.; - the enemy is an universal sentiment Of
v.a:emp; mingled with execration.
Another grand failure has been the regular
military movement for our subjusation by fair
:::a;:nc, They have discovered, to their very
g:ca: surprise, that they are not 4 military peo-
p.e: and, wherever they meet the Confederate
q s'I.I"7y, they entertain Il reasonable expecta-
iiJn O; Icing beaten. They cannot take Nicks-
= tG7g. Charleston. nor Richmond; and now that
;ne third years campaign is far advanced, and
liz Very best and utmost they can do already
:;!ei IN vain. the long-stiled dissatisfaction Of
81 .-lr Western States can no longer be COM
?',,Sol l, was to open the Mississippi those
q Es;s, engaged in the war; to open the Missis-
81 'lgi. they have drained themselves of their
81 :ln: men, and borne 10 see the Eastern
81 Sa;e, rnrching themselves by the war, while
E Ley rev poorer day by day. To keep them
g a;hiu To the Union, New York and Boston
Il a1Phadelphia have made. or orseemed to make,
--'eui"an cforta and amassed together the
81 a'i powerful! armamcnts: still protesting that
s a:ew weeks more perseverance would surely
81 ~. % the North h-Westerns that blessed boon
81 (which they think by day and dream by
';a'-'he opening of the Mississippi. Well,
81 @e Mississippi is not opened: and people in
Il a',~ Northwestern StateAmust surely begin
s ;ssr the question (which apparently they
s. a-'c: thought of before) whether after all any
4 . Iation has the right to make thorough
e -'e and hold it by main force, through
c=;erritory of another nation, without its
emission. New York and Boston have
R1ised 10 win them the free navigation of
-HyeT hy force. Those whom the river be-
.sS 70 have offered to give them free naviga-
"aty treaty. To be sure they would have
Fse'Eed force, and they have tried it, with
@';T and desperation. They have failed ut
r. f'E and must fail forever and now they
. Themselves bound to the Eastern States,
T. "As their burthens, and none Of their nd
'aAseS-reduced to kind Of storc-farm for
';' lork, a sort of back settlement of crea-
w. god only for creating freight for the
'S'r;n roads and taking off the Eastern
e'@i;'eiurcs and imports at any price the
-'iaay cxtort. There was disafcction and
+, ,."AlenI before, and six months ago the
sS s:,'a. Caion was disquieted by the throcs of
''iVent earthquake, which threatened to
.>H II in pieces. How will it be now,
- n" eager promises to open the river,
~ :, Inc stupendous operations to that
81 IN motion under Grant and Banks,
l38 al ending in miserable disaster;
:, =. new boanscous crop coming to maturity
@s VIDE p7airics, which will have to be
more burned for fuel this coming winter,
"''s1 eastward over the railroads, paying
'0'i'e!s for the transportation of one
:, "'eh do our Northwestern neighbors
~" VIII they at last call away their
r. and fling off their burdensome conncc-
t.,,' '''' 'Ne last, acknowledge our indepen-
-, ss'eft their own, and take treaty
Will enable their monster steamboats,
,%,1 "'e " glide quietly down by the bluffs of
{. s, and take in wood securely under
I. ~ ~ I" Port Hudson? They can doit.-
Id c 'nered it freely two years ago by
es,, ."nsFess; and stand to the offer. But
e,.,s ney prefer to try the chance of anoth-
IL 'sinpaisn--b' it 70; we are ready for