The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-08-21
The Rebels Finding Cons olation in the
Hour of Despair.

The Rebels Finding Cons olation in the
Hour of Despair.
Tho Richmond Dispatch cudeavors, in u
'aborcd article, 20 persuade its readers that,
Notwithstanding all tho recent unfortunate
experience of the Rebels, there is mo cause
for dcspondency." 1t admits that they hnvc
mot with some great dislstors, and seems
fully conscious that moro without number
arc impending over their hoads and yot it
is not only hopeful but buoyant 1t derives
consolation ard encouragement eycn from
defeat, which just now is rs 40 cxhaustless
/ fountain. Listen to its words
"Whle tho Yankees think thoy have sub.
jugatcd us 10y taking Flcksburg. We tepoat.
Ia tho language Of Pdul Jones', we have
NOT begun 10 fight
Such is tho spirit OF our people. such tho
resources OF our cpuntrymon in their own
determined will. such tho obstacle which
The enemy viii Eavo to overcome beforo hoI
can ever subdue us. Wo havo lost Weeks.
burg aud Port Hudson. What of that ::
suppose We losu Charleston, Savannah.
Mobile, Whining tOu---nll our sOaporls. What
OF that, NO ark again
----'Wha, though tLo fold bo lost
All is not lost ! Tho unconqnernble will,
And study OF revenge. immortal hato.
And courage never 10 submit or Weld
AL these remain
These VIZ woad still havo. though every.
thing materially woro gone"
The language so appropriately quoted by
tho Wspdtch. TO express tho feeling which
animates It's rebeIIous editors heart, occurs
in Milton's Paradise Lost, and is attributed
to Satan after he had boon cast out of
Heaven, aud when
-"he. with his horrd crew,
Lay vnnquishcd, rolling in the fiery guilt,
Contounded, though immortal"
80 spake tn apostnte angel, though in pnin
Idunti"g aloud, but racked WtM deep despair"
reference 10 tho context will show that
tho circumstances undor which Satan spoke
were similar to those under which his Ian.
gunge is now quoted by this indomi,ablo
Rebel, and tho spirit in both cases the Same
Never since ho and his compoers ieli from
their celestial estate to tho "p!ace eternal
justice had prepared for those rebelllous."
has there been such a fall as that of the
political fionds who. in their wicked and in.
satiubln ambition, thinking it
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven"
have preclptated our once'happy county
into rebellion and war. And now, in this
hour Of their hopeless discomfiture,so much
like that of the fiends in hell, to whom can
they look Tor Inspiration and courage to
proIong their struggle for the mastery, but
to their great original, tho Arch FIend
himself:
| We'll, wo must acknowledge that, though
| beaten, theso Rebels havo some grounds fol
hopo and consolation. Their case is, by M
means, as desperate as it might be, and al
we trust il will be. They are rs we'll Off III
Satan was when he thus consoled himsolf
and impotently resolved
With ralli'd arms, to try what might be yet
Reguined in heaven, or what more lost in hell
He was then in tho enjoyment of his just do
sorts; 'boy have hardly begun to receive
theirs yet Thoy aro capable Of doing in
fntely moro mischief than ho could d,
with impunity. All sinful as he was, Their
is no reason to believe that no had an io.
more of that childish vanity aud concoit-
: that Obliyiousnoss to all moral oblgation-
8 that contempt for all just aud righifu
aurhority--that boundless and overmasteri
arroganco-and that uttor and hopeless ig
noranco Of tho nature and consequences o
, wrong. .doiDg-which SO distinguish then
from their fellows, and enable them in thoi
mad career, TO bid defiance to tho laws of botl
God and man. Nor had hc, aside from bi
immediate band Of oonspirntors. SO man,
faithful and Industrious coadjutors as they
ilo bad but ono serpent. doubtless. a cop
perhead,) to aid him, while thoy havo many
more WHY and venomous, Let them b,
consoled by those reflections, if ihoy can
for thero is no other real source of consola
ton left them.
Ey The Richmond EaguIer, in an
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