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usumter has fallen i" Such was the
iovoua exclamation Of o friend, few |
ago; as, with countenance
beaming with delight, he made his way
from room TO room, in one Of the Depart
ments. announcing the glad tidiDgs Of
the downfall Of this rebel stronghold
Never we're so few words iraught with 90
great meaning. Never, since the his
tory Of the present rebellion, have the
electric wires flashed news ~ full OF
comfort to the loyal hearts so full Of
despair 70 the enemies Of our Govt
Other events have accomplished more to-
wards weakening the physical power OF
the Confederacy, but none have effected
30 much in strengthening the corhden Q
of the people in the ability Of the nation
70 work out its salvation, and in filling
the minds of the rebels with gloom at
their future prospects. The reduction OF
other strongholds has opened up to our
armies broader and surer avenues to the
very heart Of the South, and contributed
more to the decay of that Empire the
Missionaries of the cotton States SO iondly
hoped TO establish. But there 10 no re-
cord, among all the important incidents
of the war, to which the nation will look
with 80 much pride, as to this one, which
chronicles the utter humiliation of trea-
son in the seat of ito power. The FALL
of Sumter" and Surrender of Charles
ton" are invested with q deeper interest
than that which attaches to them when
considered simply as a demonstration OF
the superiority of Northern over South
ern energy, tact and endurance. Charles
ton first Graded the child Of Secession,
and nursed it for years until it had at
tanned its growth in the present manhood
of armed rebellion against the righttul
authority of our Government Charles
ton was the college from which the
'Chivalry" of the South derived their
peculiar notions of the mental and mo-
raj superiority of = STAKEHOLDER over
lovers of freedom; of the Divine right
of slavery as il existed among them: OF
the advantages Of an aristocracy found
cd on human bondage, over that system
of equality which free labor secured: of
the possession, by them, of all the virtue
and piety in the land, and the sad state
Of religion among the "mudsills" Of the
North: of the necessity, therefore, Of
the establishment of a separate Oonied-
erAcy or Empire, by which they coult
ever afterwards be free from the con-
Eliminating influence of Northern man
ners, customs and religion. From
Charleston continually went forth the in
sane cry to the world, "God, we thanl
Thee that we are not as other men are!
In the principles of this faith the follow
ers of Calhoun and the lesser lights o
South Carolina were matchmaking th'
native population of the slave Statee
and when the result towards which thu
practical working of such doctrines nat
urally tended, could not be secured
peaceAbly, from Charleston, there issue'
the first note of that unhOly war whicl
has ragged with fury for over two years
from Charleston the gun was fred whic
cast the frat dishonor on our country
flag. In the fall, then, of this city, W
see more than the wane of the physics
strength of the Rebellion. We zee th
complete overthrow of all those princi
pies upon which the South had rested he
hopes of success in the present enter
prise. From the smoke of the battl
and the crumbling dust of the doom
ed city, we see the god
like form of Truth, rising iroi
the earth to which she had been crushe
and speeding her arrows of light far owe
the land, while the remotest border {
Texas and the sea-washed shores {
Florida are filled with the knowledge (
her triumph, There was something MOI
powerful than powder that hulled ii
deadly balls against the walls Of Sumte
Treason stalked within those walls
all her giant-like proportions, while Il
father Of the monster, Pride, and i
mother, Slavery manned the guns al
shotted them for the aiicay. To the ce
tain death Of these the iron messengers
our feet were hurried on and guided /
the breath and hand Of the God Of Tru
aud Liberty! The soil Of the Carolin'
and the States which strengthened t
rebellion, has been crying out TO I
Almighty for vengeance on the Cypress
of our unfortunate race, the degraders
our humanity. How appropriate II
the entrance to the inner temple of slav
nv and treason should be effected BY
despised negroes whose backa have Il
the lash of tho tyrants, and that
ediace should be undermined by
hands that have been compelled TO su
port i'll II is surprising to US that
Southern people are so easily duped a
victimized. We remember, full well, I
unlimited confidence which the disloy
citizens of Nashville cherished in
impregrability Of Forts Henry and Da
elson. When their weakness had be