Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-06-24
should we be Discouragedf

should we be Discouraged
Our fortunes are incomparably more promising
and bright to-day than they we're just. twelve
mouths ago. THE prospects of tho foe are far less
Aattering than they werc at the same period.
Our army mover was so numerous-so we'll
eouipped-so we'll disciplined-so we'll clothed
and fed-so we'll communicable healthful and SO
confident of success as at this moment 1t is ap
parent to the dullest mind that the enemy is dread
fully afraid of us. They plan, and scheme, and
proclaim what IL to be dore, but they do it net,
nor attempt it. Gen. LEE, after baving most s'g-
nally defeated Hooker at Charlottesville, is now
sweeping on Northward, or, for al weknow, West
ward. Why may be not 60 into kentucky as we'll
as into Pennsylvania Already wo hear of his
brilliant successes Winchester has fallen, and
Hsrper's Ferry $50 say Northern papers) been
evscuated without a blow being struck. What
may be the Interior designs of Gen. LEE, no pri-
vate citizen knows. He is ono OF those uagacious
military men, who instead OF being controlled by
circumstances, avails himself of them to carry
GU t his own designs, which at the same lime in
volve the honor and interests Of the Confederacy.
OF one Thing we may rest satisfied, if he has with.
drawn the larger portion Of his large army from
tho heights Of Fredericksburg, and has marched
them to sume post higher up the river, or even
boyon tho river, that he hao oertainly not loft
Richmond unguardod against any and every con-
tingeucy; and if he proposes to penetrate the
onemy's country, disposing of any opposition that
he nuy encounter from Gen. HOOKER or any other
Yankee General on the way, that it is because he
is a brave spd skillful man, and thinks that the
time for offensive operations, and perhaps for in
vasion, has arrived, and, relying on the God Of
battles, means to venture or them, come what
may.
In the meantime, our own dispatches from
Yicksburg, via Jackson and Mobile, measre and
indefinite though they be, continue to be favoya-
BILE, AID derive at least partial confirmation by
intelligence received from the North. All the
assaults upon the Notifications at Vicksburg have
been most disastrously unsuccessful; the Yankees
hsvo now sent for spades, and hereafter the work
of reducing Yicksburg will be done more by dig
gins than by charging. But in that hereafter,
Gen. JOE. JonNs OK, Gen. Kirby saith, the bad
water and bad climate of the lower Mississippi,
will all play important roles.
After the crushing repulse at Charleston, al, the
boasts and hopes of the foe seem to have CYAN
ished into sir-into thin air.. and they have col
lap,ed into distrust Of their monster iron clads,
and acknowledge Charleston impregnablc. AD-
u1RAL FoorE has succeeded the unsuccessful d.
roxr in command of the South Atlantic Squad.
ron bo will come, will "cut o capor," aud then
"go down."
The little success recently achieved in Louisiana
Ia on a small .cale, and can have little to do with
the ultimate issues of the war. The Yankees
have learned that it is not overrunniug territory,
but conqueriny armies that alone can give them
the mastery.
So fur hom destroying our greut armies, they
arc afraid to engage them in conflict. Meanwhile
the Yankee government grows into disrepute and
contempt with its own people, and among the
nations Of the earth. Opposition to the war grows
in strength and intensity daily, and a psrtyIor
peace promises to sweep over the States Of the
North.
MehnWnlle EUROPE mShiioats eounue"oo III
our permanency in the most unmistakable manner
by the test Of credits advanced in geld.
Meanwhile the aickly season Rdrances-that
Same arm of Providence which dismissed forty
thousand men from Halleck's army q year ago.
Meanwhile, if we may believe what VIC read, q
steel. clad fleet If war, equal to oil the tasks
before it, is being prepared, which will open our
ports, restore our commerce, relieve our Soaports,
and send their garrisons into the fold to drive the
Yankee to his own soil.
1t is all going right. Courage and action now;
patience and hope, md all will be we'll!
a- Mrs. Mary Hampton, relict of the late
Con. Wade Hampton, died in Columbia on Fri
day, aged over so years.