Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-11-20
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, NOV. -, 1865
ALL WELL.

sure. There is more fighting to do, indeed
more sacrifices to make; moro priVations TO
bear. More men must be put IN tho held;
and those who have hired substitutes, and
have enjoyed exemption for years, must now
acknowledge the duty Of fighting in their own
persons. All exsmpts must turn out; the
clergy themselves must march with their
focks, as the Swiss priests used to do against
Austria. Disasters and defeats, too, may yet
have to be sustained; famine and pestiience
themselves, usual eonccmitants of long war
fare, may make havoc in our homes; yet,
through all, through pr!vation ard sacrifice,
battle and defeat, and pestilence and famine,
the end is sure. Because the mass of our
people, and the army, which is the pick and
choice of our people, are resolute never again
to be united with the Yankee nation.
We do not speak to encourage the persons
called ''croakers;' il they by their croaking
can decry the currency of the country, SO that
they can amass guilty and filthy fortunes in II,
that is all the encouragement they want
j
peor creatures who are for 'peacc on some
terms" peace on any terms. With them we
reason not; but take certain yindictirc
pleasure in assuring them that they can have
neaco on no terms whatever. The thing is
out of the question for good while to come
Peace cannot come save by utter defeat and
prostration of the Yankee military power;
and that is not accomplished yet-though By
help Of. bankruptcy and social anarchy at the
N nth, it is in q fair way. No, there can be
n, peace till then. The army will never al
low it; and the army is tho only part of the
population of this country whose opinion is
both sound and potential. It is in vain for
those peace men "on some terms" to express
themselves quite ready to go under the yoke
and to fasten it on the necks of their childrcn;
they can by no means be allowed to have peace,
whether on honorable terms or on dishonorable
they will net get leave to debasc themselves;
they will be coerced to stand erect, and to re-
frain from grovelling, by o force called the
major ris. 1t is no longer free country;
men are not permitted here to eat dirt, though
thew may have an appetite for it; nor to be-
come the serss and vassals they feel them
selves fitted to become. Thcy must be Tree
Confederate citizens, and bcget free Coniede-
rate citizens, whether they will or not, under
this grinding tyranny which brushes their
ripht Of priyate Judgment.
We do not argue with them: nor with the
deserving interest The deserters, we learn,
arc deeply respondent about the fortunes OF
our Confederacy; but it is not encouragement
they need-it is Rogging, and the death ola
dog.
In saying, then, that all goes well, we 3D.
dress ourselves only to those good and faithful
Confedera,es, mostly in the army, who are in
no hurry for. peace who want no peace save
OF. the basis. of absolute independence; who
SEQ in disaster no reason to despond, but
Only to work and fight; who are not piling up
stacks of Confederate money, which they first
decrv and undervalue for that purpose
Thank God! our people, with an. unanimity
quite sufficient for all practical purposes, are
thoroughly resolnte to make the whole of this
fair land field of ashes aud cindcrs, and a
place of skulls rather than accept reunion
upon any terms whatever with the base ma
ton which has the impudent prctension to
sabdue us. 1t is to encourage and inspire
these worthy Ccnfederates we point out the
bright signs ahead. This third winter OF the
struggle is almost upon us; aud there are
symptoms that the Yankee Government IS 10
even a more urgent hurry than ever to get
the ssrebellion" crushed within certa. n weeks,
or the great burst up Of their own system will
be upon them at home; and then, adieu to
the Union and the. big wars! They drive
Meade forward; they goad him, and tauns
him; they p,ur out, to swell his force ard
lava him no excuse, most of their Washing
ton garrison and the grand army is still be-
yond the Rappahannock, almost where 1t was
three years ago. "On'to-Richmond" is still
the cry, and on to Richmond Meade dares not
come.
Then. with the immense resources in naval
armament and gunnery, brought to bear upon
our seaboard, our enemies have not yet taken
one of our important seaboard cities between
Norfolk and New Orleans. Mobile, Savan-
nah, Wilmington, have not even been attack
al. while Charleston, on which great fleets
and armies heve poured a fire of helr' for
one hundred and thirty days, wears them out
and wcaries them as they impotcntly thunder
nnon her forts and their eyes are still scorchcd
with the sight of the saucy Confederate banner
floating over old Sumter, terrible in ruin. On
the Southern corner of Tennessee, indeed,
there is mighty struggle impending; but
there. also, the best chances are ours The
charm of victory-or at least of pregess-
which so long attended those Northwestern
troops was broken, when, on the bank OF
Chickamauga, they met our Geargtans and
Tennesseeans, Alabamians and Mississip-
plans, exasperated by their recollection of
rayaged homes and wasted fields, and insulted
families. Movements now in progress in East
Tennessee promise to wrest that fine. country
from Burnside and his Abolitionists; and,
once rescued, it will never fall under their
sway again; for whatever may be the varying
fortunes of armies in the field, the Yankees
are efficiently aiding US and preparing our
ultimate triumph, by the manner in which
they deal with regions which have fallen for
q time under their military rule. We know
how the actual presence and domination of
that foul race have operated in our Valley of
Virginia. In Winchester and its nelghoor"
hood there are fewer "Union men," there is
more intense desire and resolve to be rid OF