The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-06-03

ALL the Journals nave more or less to say,
of Admiral Dupont's repulse at Charleston
The following extracts are a correct indication
of the spirit which dictates them
BITTER
From the London Morning Post.
The particulars of the engagement at
Charleston, which have reached as by the
Canada, place it beyoni a doubt that the Fed
eral feet has sustained a decisive defeat. Not
only have the Forts commanding the en- trance
to Charleston not been taken, but any future
attempt 20 reduce them has been definitely
abandoned.
The fact appears to be that the impregnabil
iy of the Charleston defences has been dem
onstrated to the perfect satisfaction, or rather
dissatisfaction of the Federal commanders
The loss of the Keokuk will not perceptibly
diminish the streng d of the Northern navy,
and the injuries received by the other vessels
will doubtless be speedily repaired, but hence
forth the Federal government may abandon all
hopes of reducing Charleston. This is surely
one more ad ed to the bitter draughts the
North have of ate been obliged to swallow
Twice the number of iron-clads would no.
have effected a different result.
~"ANoTHER LESSON FOR THE NORTH"
From the London Times.
By land and by sea the Federal fac has
been pursued by calamity. If war has a for
| tuHG VI us OWu,L udt power has SHOWN nerSSli
unusually faithful to one side in the conflict
For the Federals one great reverse has follow
ed another, and now the last blow they have
received is met on the very spot, and within a
few days of the anniversary, of the first open
defiance on the part of the Southern revolt.
The total failure of the attack on Charles
ton had caused "great Encouragement in New
York, and received the popular clamor for a
change in the Administration" The sam
depression and the same clamor have followed
so many other great reverses, and been so soon
succeeded by the most buoyant humor, and a
"]oyalty" to the Government almost fcroeious
in its zeal, that We fear the latest disasters VII
not have a more lasting effect. A battle lost,
half an army destroyed, or a feet swept from
the sea, seem to make no deeper impression
than in former days would have been produced
by a railway catastrophe Or the explosion Of a
steamer. A few official assurances that the
reverse really brings.everything into a better
position than before, a smass meeting or two
to confirm that opinion by a string of resoIu
tons. and declare it treason deserving death
to express any dissent from it, cover the dis
aster, silence the clamor, and even the car
mage of a field like Fredericksburg passes into
oblivion. The inplic faith with which the
American public seem to rely on those who as
sure the community it is strong and irresisti
bic, in the face of repeated checks and re-
verses, is astonishing, But if this faith can
survive under the pressure of the events which
arc now testing it there mus be something
marvellous in it's strength. One disaster is
following another, and the telcgraphs which
converge in the bnreaux of y ashington bring
but messages of dismay. The clouds of mis-.
fortune are growing darker on every point of
the horizon.
President Davis has taken the opportunity
to issue an Address to the people of the South
eru States on the present condition and future
prospects of the Confederacy. He refers to
the late discontinue of the Federals at Vicks-
burg, Port Hudson and Charleston, and de-
clares that the forces Of the Southern Gov
eminent were never so numerous or efficient
as at this moment" Do not facts Eccm to
support the declaration. Hopes reversed, de-
signs bafaed, al! effo, is madein vain-is there
no lesson fer the North in this stern teaching
of events, if passion could read them rightly,
or If reason we're allowed a voice This naval
campaign was to retrieve all previous disasters
and to avenge them. 1t has ended in a catas
trophc more signal than any reverse the North
has yet sustained. Continual Failures are not
mere accidents. The object of the North is
impossible. Those who appeal to arms should
surely be prepared to accept the decision of
the field. Even if the conquest of the South
were TO be achieved; it would only destroy the
! North by turning it into a Russia of the New
World, compelled TO be the despotic oppressor
of the Poland of the West.
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