Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-03-05

'rs, and by all disposed to want Of confidence
N the final triumph Of loyalty and the resto-
ration Of the Union. 1t is from the Richmond
Feb. 10th:
We have fairly entered upon the third stage
by the President in his message,
namely: that Of a war Of subjugation and ex-
termination: The people Of this Confederacy,
isolated and shut up from all the world, have
now to encounter the most horrible and demo-
MAC effort for the ASSASSINATION of whole |
race that history has yet recorded, or we be-
lieve Will ever have to record till history grows
gray. For it is net every century, it is not
every con that shows the world Yankee ma
ton. Yes, the Confederate people has now at
last to strip for battle; it is people that must
this time very literally conquer or die.
No doubt il would be agreeable to believe
that this last stage of the war will be soon
over, and must end in the destruction Of our
intending murderers. But look round the map
Of the Confederacy, and judge if we can soothe
ourselves with this belief. In the very heart
Of the country our gallant sentinel of the Miss
issippi-heroic little Vicksburg-has sustained
indeed, and baff1ed two tremendous seiges;
but q third time her citizens see pouring in
r around them from the North and from the West
enormous masses Of the beleaguering foe; iron
floating batteries again crowd down upon her;
and even as you read these words, two humid
red heavy guns may be laundering upon her
defences, a hundred thousand men may be
pressing to the storm Of her ramparts. Again
she will drive them off, perhaps, and remain
the famous modern city OF this hemisphere, the
bulwark of the West so be it, but the vision
we see on the Mississippi does not look very
like exhaustion on the part Of the foe just yet.
And again, look at the mouth of the mighty
river. New Orleans is not maiden city,
alas the base rag that has so oftenbeen rent and
trampled before Richmond and before vicks-
burgh flows from all the towers Of that defow-
cred city. Hordes of hungry Yankees, armed
to the teeth, sit in the shade of her orange
groves, and station negro guards over the man
slons of her noblest citizens. All her best and
fairest have to lament every day that their
goodly city had not been laid IN ashes before
it became the haunt Of obscene creatures. No
sign of relagatioa there ! And, but a short
way of, Mobile, by the shores of her spacious
bay, keeps diigent watch and ward, expect
ing, in the light of each morning sun, to see
the thrice-accursed stars and stripes cleaning
through the smoke of a bombarding squadron.
All along the Gulf, and round the coast OF
Florida, this omnipresent enemy, who Is said
to have just been playing his last card, is shut
ting up every riuer, and planting has guns on
eve.y strong place.
Savannah, shut in from the sea by Fort Pu-
laski, in the hands of the same inveterate Yam
kee, listens for the first boom of the artillery
that is to level her walls with her sandy soil
and Charleston, grianly calm, but wih beat
ing heart, stands aoaiting the onset Of the great
armada. Those few acres of old Oyster
Point, it seems, already swept and deyastat-
ed by conhagration, are to be the object and
the prize of the most potent armament by far
that American waters have ever seen. This
very moment 1t may be, the black Monitor
batteries are steaming between Sumter and
Moultre. No signs of relaxation or Of dis
couragement and despair in the enemy here
Pass further, and you will find the whole coast
from Charleston to Norfolk, and every river to
the head of Underwater, and every creek and
sound formed by the sea islands, swarming
with their gunboats and transports, ready to
pour in masses of troops wherever there is a
chance of plumber, bridge burning and general
havoc.
From Norfolk all round by the Chesapeake
and Potomac aue are guarded By guaboats, and
no tipiag thing (saye skulking smuggleqs) suf-
fered to enter or 90 ont On the Rappahan-
mock two hunred thousand men wait for a
drying wind to move Gan to Richmond once
more, led by o. true apostle Of determination.
At last the SaU0ge obolitioniStS of MosS0chu-
sets haze the right men "a, the right Place
Heretofore they have rather wished the defeat
of Lncoin's generals on the Potomac, because
they seemed to be soldiers and not thieves OF
assassins but with Hooker they feel at home
under Hooker they count upon owning south
ern plantations, and giving law to southern
vassals. To possess himself of the property
of others genuine Yankee will perhaps even
fight. 49,.
And Northwestern Virginia is desoated by
Milroy and his men, and Kentucky and the
half Of Tennessee, the richest and farest lands
of all the West, are entirely in the clutch Of
the enemy, while the rivers bring them up
fleets of transports, and Rosecrans, with anoth-
er large army, threatens to sweep all opposl-
ton from his path and join the other brigands
who are crowding upon Vicksburg.
Where, IN all this ride circuit, does the IN
vosion seem to be faiating or giUdag ground
AL round the border, and IN the veay heart Q,
the Contederacy, the foot Of the enemy is plant
ed and his felom flag files and it means sub
jugation and determination. 1t is indeed, the
third stage of the war, and we believe the
last but the struggle will be desperate. II
it be the last card it is one on which the stake
is life or death, honor or shame-either our
maine anu QdllOu VIII Dc tAtluSu III a
night of blood and horror, or else new sover-
eighty, the newest, fairest, proudest, will take
her seat among the powers of the earth with
the applause Of man, and the blessings Of
Heaven.
OUTRAGEs IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE
SoUTH.-Some of the troops which We're
landed at st. Helena Island under General
Eostar no 70 ho in q cf ofo If iuouhor-
dinaton and to have committed outrages, dri-
wing off the negroes to one end of the Island,
burning their houses, and destroying in day
the effects of months of labor.
1t is further stated that Nathaniel Tarr, a
Massachusetts citizen, complains that the hull
of schooner purchased by him, and the masts
and rigging of another vessel which he had de-
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