The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-08-15
j1u6lit affairs.
The English and Frenc'l Press
Oh Vicksburg and Gettysburg.

on Vicksburg and Gettysburg.
DR.. M'Clintock writes to The .uetho-
dist from Paris, OH the 10th of July as
follows:
The glorious news from Nicksbura
and Gettysburg reached Paris yes erday.
AS usual with good news, Rcu er's tcle-
grams come in slowly. | received,
through friend, private despatch on
Sunday afternoon, I'm time TO read it to
the congregation,) a, least six hours
before Reuters news reached Paris.
The rejoicing of true patriots here is
only rivalcd by the di>appoin mem of
the rebels aud heir British allies. So
hopeful and satisfied we're hey, that the
pro-slavery journals of Saturday were
full of demonstrations that Ice had de-
teated Meade, and that v icksburg could
never be taken. The Times declared
that the Four of July, which acct
dent made the great day of poll zeal
history of America, seems destine to be
marked less highly in the poll zeal his
tory of the nation" Yet it was on that
very Fourth that the uncon1uerable
Nicksburg gave way, With i S $4,000
men. As to the result II Gettysburg,
the prophetic and vcraclous inns calls
l. ga serious defeat for ;hc FcderalS :"
mud adds hat, "from he other points Of
thc war, the result $ are equally doubt
full and threatening" Remember that
! am quoting the Times Of July 18th,
and that the news Of the fall Of Nicks-
burg arrived on the 10 h, and then read
what follows Grant persists in the
siege of Nicksburg, but as the Gontcder
a es are said to be receiving constant
supplies from he other side of the river.
i, l. Difficult; to see what possible hope
there can be Of reducing the city,
Both at Vickslurg and Por; Hudson a
Confederate army is known to DC hover
ing about the Federal forces and threat
en,ng to raise the siege" Tho Satur-
day Reuieu of the 18th declares the
rebels to have been the conqrcrors at
Gettysburg, and adds that sat Vicks-
burg Grant has done little to advance
the siege his posi- ion is more that of
one bes,eged than besicging." The
.7rmy md .'nry Gaseite of the 18th,
IA great military authority, forsooth,)
states that Vicksburg is making an
easy and vigorous defense, while John
ston, wi h $4,000 men, is touching
GRANTS ou:posts." | might 60 through
the whole list of London journals, ex-
cept the .te,cs, Star and Spectator, and
find the same thing in them all You
will naturally ask, however: If his was
the tone of these journals on Saturday,
and the news arrived on Sunday, and
how did they talk on Monday! The
Tunes will suffice for a specimen. Its
leader of Monday begins wi h u formula
it has used so often that | suppose it
must be stereotyped in the office: "No
por ion of modern his DRY has repeated
itself so of en- or so compile ely as that
of the American war" That sounds
wise, docs it not Not SINGLE word.
The writer Russell, it is believed to
beg maunders through column of words
about the recent ba ties, affirming and
denying, backing and filing, obviously
with no purpose except 10 mystify the
poor Englishmen who know nothing but
what they read in the T,m"s. The arti-
cal closes, however, with vcnomous
attack upon Mr.. Lincoln and Mr.. Sew
ard, founded upon report from the
paid liar, Mackay, of tho speeches made
by those gentlemen at Washington. 1t
is in this way that the public mud of
Britain has been abused and beclouded
throughout the whole war. Mackay
writes some atrocioIs falsehood tho
Times pretends TO take it for true, and
expands it in leader; and scores of
journals, religious and other, copy it
and convey it to the minds of thousands
OF good, ignorant, unsuspicious people.
IT Is deplorable state of things, indeed,
that noble people should be so thor
otughIy at the mercy of a licen ious and
immoral press, and OF degenerate set
of public men.
One Of the worst features of this de-
generacy is the vulgar hypocrisy which
accompanies it. 1t the titled humbugs
and NJ. P's who have espoused the
cause of slavery in the nineteenth CEN
fury, were bold and honest enough to
avow their true position, one might re-
spect thcm. But they pretend all the
time to have true English { hatred of
slavery. They have just got pan for