Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-08-14
From the Mobile Advertiser and Register.
what of the Night.

From the Mobile Advertiser and Register.
What of the Night.
Let those who think because. Vicksburg
! has fallen that we are whipped, use what
little brains and heart they possess, to res
+ feet aud feel
! The Mississippi river is conquered they
say, and is open from its mouth to its trlb-
utary sources to the uninterrupted COIN
merce of the enemy. Let is tell them for
their comfort that Yankee trade on that
river slumbers on volcano. In sixty days
that great current will become river Of
death from New Orleans to Cairo, and no
Federal prov or bale of goods will dare to
tempts its waters The plan is laid and
ripe for execution. Look to the West and
disappointed foe The blow will be as sud
den and unexpected as it will be sure and
deadly. Brave and energetic men are en-
gagged in It, and the Government backs the
enterprise.
From beyond the seas there. arises bea-
con of hope and succor The British courts
in the case of the Alexandra have given the
in,prinaotur of LEGALITY to the construction Of
| Confederate ships. in English dockyards. 1t
will be vigorously improved The contract
for the construction Of. those. of our vessels
already under way, ends with this month
We iaay soon expect to hear of navy
afoat and some of the ships iron mailed,
arc match for whole fleet of Yankee
wooden walls
From the yet extensive land boundaries
of the Confederacy come up cheering words
OF strength The great State Of Texas, at
an empire in itself, and a conquest single
handed Of no ordinary magnitude by the
raost powerful nation, stands intact in her
strength. Not Federal soldiers footstep
pollutes her soil. nor is one Of her ports iii
hostile possession. Louisiana west Of the
Mississippi conquered and oyerrun six
months ago, has been since wrested from
tie grasp ofthe foe, aud with all the strong
points in our possession, is defended by skill
full Generals and the brayest Of troops. Mis-
sissppi is only an occupied on the borders
Of tie great river, and to these borders the
enemy can Ee restricted if Mississippi will
put on her arrnor, send back her truant sol
diers and gag the mouths of her tirnid
croakers Johnston, Ruggles and Chal-
mers, each with an army and at least eight
thousand cavalry, are on her soil to defend,
and, with the help Of the people, can de-
fend it, and drive the Yankees to their gun
boats.
Alabama is fseer from the enemy than
she was year ago, and has only to unite
her reserved force to that CT Georgia and
join General Bragg, for deliyering both
States from the presence CT the enemy.
Except an occasional raid On tie Atlantic
coast from gunbcats, the powerful State of
Georgia holds the integrity Of her soil.
We hayelost that part Of Tennessee between
Murfreesboro', and the Tennessee river,
Butt is only to en- lrrass & checkmate Ro-
senorans in his movements. Even in Ken.
lucky, the guerrillas are busy. and we just
read of their driving the Federal troops
back into Columbus, Kentucky, and, hold
ing sway over all the country around it.
/ South Carolina, except a few Islands on
the coast, is free Of the enemy, and is now
CALAMITY breasting the fire and steel Of the
enemy at Charleston.
The same may be said ofNorth Carolina.
| Virginia, God bless her, stands cree. Id the
fulness Of her manhood and and the pano-
ply of her arms, with not one plume in her
war creast dropping although the fires and
storms of battle have been poured upon her
devoted head. Never was the Virginia
press so buoyant III hope and SO full Of the
spirit Of fight. Lee is yet at the head of
an unconquered and uDconquerable army
that has proved It's mettle and its discipline
on City battlefelds It fights next on the
sacred soil Of the ''Uld Dominion" a
ground every inch of which is known 10 the
commander. and almost every mile Of
which has been made classic by its vitto-
lries.
Of materials Of war we have abundance,
arms powder and ball. Of food, God has
given us harvest Of unprecedented boun-
ty. Of men, there are enough Oh the rolls
of the army to ontnumber the Lincoln
forces in the field, and OFF of these rolls
enough to clolhe FIVE hundred thousand in
the harness and mail of war.
With such element of strength as these
| in afauent abundance, to talk about being
'sovcrrun" and whipped. The work of
whipping has not fairly begun, much less
nearly ended. When the Yankees shall
have taken every seaport, Mobile. Savan
nah and Charleston, aud we are driven to
| the interior, the real troubles of subjuga
ton will just have commenced Then
comes long marches to the interior Of a hos
tile country, huge and unmanageable sup-i
| ply trains, the perils of communication cut
| off, of starvation, Of enemies from behind
every stump and tree, and all those insur
mountable obstacles which a people deter
mined to be free can ever interposo to an
army of invasion and subjugation. No we
are not whipped" and we neuer shall be
until we throw down our arms and bend
our backs like slaves to the lash Of the Yam
kee master
LOUISIANA.
! In conversation with one Of the Vicksburg
prisoners, who came BY the way Of New Or
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