Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-06-24
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Should we be Discouraged
Our fortunes are incomparably more promising
and bright to-day than they were just. twelve
months ago. The prospects of tho foe are far less
aa.tering than they were at the same period.
Our army never was 20 numereus-so well
eouipped-.o : " oil disciplined-so we'll clothed
and fed-so well cOmmanded-so healthfnl and SO
confident of success as at this moment. 1t IS mp
parent to the dullest mind that the enemy is dread
fully afraid of us. They plan, and scheme, and
proclaim what is to be done, but they do it net,
nor attempt it. Gen. LEE, after having most Sg,
nally defeated Hooker at Chanccllorsville, is now
sweeping on Northwsrd, or, for all weknow, West
ward. Why may be not 60 into Kentueky as we'll
80 into Pennsylvania? Already 10 hear Of his
brilliant successes ; Winchester has fallen, and
Harper,s Ferry $50 say Northern papers) been
evacuated without a blow being struck. What
may be tho Interior designs of Gen. LEE, no pri-
vate citizen knows. He is ono of those uagaciops
military men, who instead Of being controlled by
circumstances, avails himself Of them to carry
on t his own designs, which at the same time in
volve the honor and interests Of the Confederacy.
OF one Thing we may rest satisfied, if he has with.
drawn the larger portion Of his large army from
the heights Of Fredericksburg, and has marched
them to sumo post higher up the river, or even
beyo nd tho river, thai he hae certainly n0tieh
Richmond unguarded against any md every con-
tingepcy; and if he proposes to penetrate tho
enemy's country, di,posing of any opposition that
he may encounter from Gen. HOOKER or any other
Yankee General on the way, that it is because ne
is q brave s7d skillful man, and thinks that the
time for offensive operations, and perhaps for in
~vasion, has arrived, and, relying on the God of
battles, means to venture on .iem, COME that
may.
In the meantime, our own d'snatches from
vieksburg, via jackson and Mobile, mesgre and
indefinite though they be, continue to be iarora-
BILE, AID derive at least partial confirmation by
intelligence received from the. North. All the
assaults upon tho Notifications at Vicksburg have
been most disastrously unsuccessful; the Yankees
havo now sent for spades, and hereafter the work
of reducing yicksburg will be done more by dig
ging than by charging. but in that hereafter,
Gen. jos. JOHNSON, Gen. KIRBY Smith, the bad
water and bad climate of the lower Mississippi,
will al! play important roles.
After the crushing repulse at Charleston, oil the
boasts and hopes of the foe seem to have "van-
i,hed into air-into thin air.. aud they have COL
lapsed into distrpst Of their monster irOn-clads,
and acknowledge Charleston impregnablc. AID
u1aAL FoorE has succeeded the unsuccessful DU-
POINT in command of the South Atlantic Squad
ron BIO will come, will cut o capcr," and then
ego down."
The little success recently achieved in Louisiana
is on 4 small ,csle, and can have little to do With
the ultimate Issues o. the war. The Yankees
have learned that It is not oyerrunning territory,
but eonqueriny armies that alone can give them
tho mastery.
So far Rom destroying our great armies, they
are afraid to engage them in conflict. Meanwhile
the Yankee government grows into di'repute and
contempt with its own people, and among the
nations Of the earth. Opposition to the war grows
in strength and intensity daily, and q party-for
peace promises to sweep over the States OF the
North.
Meanwhile Europe manifosts Its confidence In
our permanency in the most unmistakabla manner
by the test Of credits advanced in geld.
Meanwhile the sickly season adrances-that
Same arm of Providence which dismissed forty
men from Halleok's army a year ago.
Meanwhile, if we may believe what We read, q
steel. clad feet of war, equal to all the tasks
before it, is being prepared, which viii open our
ports, restore our commerce, relieve our %seaports,
and send their garrisons into the field to drive the
Yankee to his own soil.
1t is all going right. Courage and action now;
patience and hope, and all will DO vol!
eB- Mrs. Mary Hampton, relict of the late
Con. Wade Hampton, died in Columbia on Fri
day, aged over 80 years.
g There is a fellow in Lynchburg, Va, who
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