Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-06-23
OVER TEE BORDER.

No use to-day in writing leading articles on
general su! jscts. Nobody would read them.
Our gallant s.my is over the border. Penn
sylYania government officials have packed up
their archives-for they remember what the
Yankee forces have done in Jackson, Missis-
sippi. All.slong the rich vale Of the Susque-
hanna Dutch farmers are gazing on their full
barns in despair, for they think upon the
ravagss done by R,secranz in Tennessee, by
Grierson in Mississippi, by Butler snd Banks
cattle are driven off to the remote mountains,
and trembling families preparing to flee into
the woods. All! for the 6rst time they think
with conjunction upon the Confederate wo-
men and children, driven half naked into the
wilderness, by the light of their own burn
ing homestsads.
lions or intentions of General Lee; but We
do know that the heart of his country is
burning for vengeance. We. know that the
Presidents own plantation has long since
been rsvsged and plundered; the estate of
Gen. L,e long ago confiscated. Tho richest
regions Of Louisisns and Of Tennessee arc
smoking deserts this day; and thousands
upon thousands Of helpless creatures, routed
from their homes, are huddled within our
lines, living on charity and wishing they
we're dosd. We have not forgotten
trust General Lee has not-the formal sin
strucslors' lately issued by the Yankee Sec
retsry Of War, and re-published in the "Eu-
qnirer" two weeks ago; from which sin
ssruct:ons." lest anybody should have for
gotten them, We repeat An extract:
military necessity allows OF all destruction
ofproperty, and obstructions of tho ways and
channels Of traffic, travel or communication !;
aud of Withholding Of sussenance or means of
life from the Enemy; of The appropriation Of
whatever an enemy's country ,fords, pecss-
sary for tie subsistence and safety of the
army" &s..
Whether this Yankoo law of war be sound
or not, it is their law, and their practice
Here, around the COATS of this very peninsu.
Ia, within forty miles of Richmond, bands of
their brigands have been landing in every
creek, burning, spelling, reducing to -desoia.
ton all tho lsbozs and possessions of man
they have passed through our land like ds,t2
stroyIpg demons, panic in their vap<s and in
their rear wreck and ruin and ashez
Would it not do mans heart good to get
ono glimpse of the fat burghera, and highly
bedizsnsd ladies' of Philadelphia At the mo.
ment when the first brigade of Missisaippi.ns
march down Chestnut street! Ye long
enduring, immortal, nsmeless horoes of the
far-off South, has your hour come at last -
Do you think to-day upon your wives and
children, driven out before the bsyons,s of
the Yankee, climbing, footsore and weary,
the rough mountain, and looking back ono
asst time, With hot eyes that cannot weep,
upon the blazing rsftsrs of thsir peaceful
homes! o., for one twenty-four hours
shopping in Chestnut street
What with Confederate money' The
ensmy's newspapers, We observe, say that our
troops force the people TO take Con tedsrats
money in payment. Now Confederate money
Is too good for Yankees. lift be not to. day
equal to gold, it is their fault; the fault Of
those who made this atrocious and Infamous
war. we 60 not think, however, that they
ought to be forced to take any of it. Besides
it is in Philsdslphis, principally, that enter
prisiDg snsrsvers have issued thousands of
realms Of counterfsit Confederate paper, sad
sent it South, warranted to ohea. any Bank.
BY some accident, osrthin bills Of that issue
might b in the hands ofscme of our soldiers;
and 1t would DO wrong to run tho risk Of pay
iug in bad money shosestoIe ksepsru whom We
may pstroniEs In Chestnut street.
But private property, a. w sssa in tn