The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-09-03

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of mOdesu history. u e posei6le "a cosare{vy
q struG91e more un1qunl Ia nu,njseyas eIsns q,
ment. 20 20 every material resource thsn that
i In the 10Th century, between tho seven n
1 sargent provinces 0f the NefherlaIatIs. beuf.r
/ ming with two OF them Only. and the w1snl.
weight and power Of the 6fslllish mouarths
/ Ia lis meridian OF spaendor. when. in aaillf
ton to the resourcessOf rs Iaroe 3oninior,
/ in italy, the Netherlands. and lie Peninanla
| including Portugal. Il vleI13e,i the riehes &,
| America and the Indies unifedi And YET hs
/ the indomifAhla c0sIrnre ana r,erscvSvancst
Of civil and relieious liberty. and in enite 3
calamities aud disasters which tried TO III
uttcrmost the heroic stuff Of which the,
were made, leaving to then often' no otnc,
resource than, by cutting their dykes. to cal
IN TIE aid % thai destructive element Il hntl
cost them ages Of labor and toll to shut out,
they redeemed their native land from the re-
mOrseless surges OF despotism more fero
eious than the sea. triumphantly established
l hn' ind xlrrS,<
| nowned dCommonwealth. which. for two hun.
dred>years. proudly held its place in the first
rank Of the powers of Enrone
II we wish further to see what prodisies
an undisniaycd spirit of national indepen.
denee. battling upOn it's own soil for its
hearths and its altars is capahle of accom-.
plishipp against tIe odIs of force and nm
bers. look 81 the EXAMPLE ~ the. same moo.
pfc under the third William Of ORANGE
magnanimously bidding defiance to the mi
ted and powerful armies of Innis XIV, OF
France, and Charles H.. of England hook af
Prussia, under Frederick H.. in the memo
rable seven years. war. successfully contend
ing against almost all the powers of Cont
mental Europe-Austria France. the German
States, Sweden, and Russia-ali banded TO-
gether at the same mhment in The Invasion
Of hef territory. look. aoain. at the mira.
cles of successful vaIor Accommodated some
thirty years later hv tho raonle of rovoin-
tionarv France In tho enthusiasm Of Hhertv
and in vindicat;on Of the r;ght Of nat;ono,
selE.vovernment aoa;nSt q second and moro
formidable combination of all Europe, both
fnsular and continental
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-, '. no. 'uy Va snooo PovP,: S
We "ie caPapie"S1 accomplishing. We nave
tne same love OF nDe.ty, we nave tne same
devotion to our native land; we nave the
same martial ardor; we have the same, and
even greater. motives to exert every faculty
for our deliverauce. With the most of Them
the great stake involved was national indie
pendence and political rights. With us, IN
addition to all this, everything precious to
the human affections, everything sacred TO
the human heart, is at issue. From the ruth
less spirit in which this war has beenswaged
by our adyersaries from the specimens we
have had of their Infamous pro consular
Governments in parts of our territory Occu-
pied by them from the appeals they are now
making to the vipdictive and brutal passions
of an unciyilized race as their allies in this
unboly crusade against us, it is impossible
FIR the imarination to picture a fate more
horrible than eurs would be If we were once
subjected TO their power. l know no Ian
gnage which. in that case, could adequately
paint the depth of our degradation AID cX-
tremity of our wretchedness, unless it be
those burNing lines of an English poet, in
which he gave vent to his feelings OF horror
and indignation when deprecating the iron
rule of vulgar and hypocritical tyranny in
his own land:
Come the eleventh plague rn ther than this should be
Come sink US ra her in the sea;
Come rather pestilence and reap us down..
Come dod's sword, rather tnin our own.
Let rather komsn come agar,
o., ~ honaa rns % - ..'1 IAN oa"s ..
". rr;aved we s;ohsa We want. we never b,usbed
before
In the foregoing remarks. il has been as
sumed that the enemy's forces were. in num-
her. much greater than ours. This has. uu-
doubtedly. heretofore been the fact. But
am firmly persuaded that, notwithstanding
the immense difference in the actual popu-
lation of the two countries, We shall hence,
forward have ;ln army i'm the field at all times
fully equal in numbers to theirs and that,
surely, is all we need desire. The energies
of the South are Just beginning to be tho
roughly aroused.A We already see propo-
sitiOn in the Legislature of Alabama to ex-
tend the limits Of the military age below
eighteen years to sixteen, and above forty
FIVE to sixty. This was the old Spartan rule,
and prevailed long time in England, until
the institution Of standing armies, and her
insular situation, made hdr careless with re-
gard to the military organization Of the mass
OF her population. But our circumstances
NAV wen Justify a recurrence. to the ancient
rule, SO far. at least, as to call out the sup
Elementary classes for local defence. The
spirit of the people, there can be no doubt,
would nobly respond to such call, while
the demands of the crisis, appealing to the
instructive courage of men, and enforced by
the Pleading loneliness Of woman, will keep
our active army full with in the limits OF the
age heretofore prescribed for it.
The situation OF our adversary presents
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