The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-31
CHARLESTON. "A telegram published

Friday says:
"Sen. Sherman says II Gilmore has taken
Charleston and fails TO lay the city in ashes,
he will be sacrificed by his troops. His IN
periors--the Northern peoplc--dcmand the
utter destruction Of Charleston"
The usual grandiloqucnt and Bombas-
ties Furioso style Of Yankec bulletins! :''if
Gilmore has taken Charleston (which he
has noi,) he will be sacrificed by his
troops unless he burns it down at once,
that and nothing less being the demand
Of his suptriors--the Northern people.
What very short pattern Of humanity
Gilmore must be ifthe Northern people
are his Supporters, But they need not
dread any characterization on the part of
their subordinate tool He has shown
an inclination to burn Charleston before
taking it by launching without notice
his incendiary shells among its women
and children, which ought to satisfy the
most truculent Of his many headed mas
tiers He has doubtless come to the sage
conclusion that il he defers the burning
of Charleston till it is taken, its destruc-
ton may he postponed till the final con-
IIagration Of the universe
The fiendish malice Of the Yankees
against Charleston, after all, may not be
gratiiied. They arc gloating over their
triumph in advance, and may possibly
. have yet to drink the cup Of disappoint-
ment TO the bitter dregs. We have not
lost our faith in the capacity Of Charles
ton to hold the rufiian hordes at bay,
and finally drive them back thoroughly
discomfitted. Most sincerely do we hope
that the glorious old city may come out
like gold refined and frightened in the
furnace. Not that we consider Charles
ton, or any other seaport, of vital impor-
lance to the Confederate cause. The en-
emy might take it and every Southern
seaport, and be no nearer the eventual
triumph Of their cause than the British
in the revolution But for the reason
that they hate Charleston we love
and respect it. Because it always was
their foe, because it always knew and
always despised them, because it is
the capital Of one of the most virtuous
and heroic Commonwealth in Christen-
dom, we earnestly pray that it may come
forth unscathcd from this terrific ordeal,
and that the polluted ensign Of Yankee
despotism will never he permitted to
wave over the PROSTATE Palmetto flag
For the sake Of Commonwealth which
has ever been noted for its domestic p,Iri-
ty, its commercial integrity, and its high
toned honor; for the sake of city which
has been the synonime of refinement, in
1elligencc, virtue, order, and above all, of
q systematized charity which has left no
class Of helpless sufferers unvisited by its
refreshing streams, our profoundcst SYM
pathies are enlisted in the salvation Of
Charleston from the dismal fate Of Yam.
kec subjugation.
Better. far better, than such fate, that
Charleston should be laid in ashes, either
by its barbarian foe Or the hands of It's
own brave defenders. That which Sher-
man threatens Us the extremity of YAM
kee vengeance, the burning Of the town,
is mercy compared with its occupation by
Yankees, with the living death OF New
Orleans. But we believe it is destined to
neither Of these calamities. 1t is defend
ed by people who are in profound ear
nest, who know that the eyes of the
world are upon them, who intend to fight
in every street and every doorway, ard
whose General is Beauregard.