The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-05-15
ssZGel rREDERICKsgURG.
IFRoM OUR OWN CoRREspoN DENT.l
FREDERICKSBURG, MayI4, 1868.

tREDERicKsR0RG, May IL, iSt3.
see that the tate G IN. +. any G al. Jubai---
has shown his 'sfrategy by pokins bis nose
into 9 hornets nest. L. is no tine for Coutod-
crates to quarrel. 1 had forgotten he WIG in
oommard when gave you The facts i'll re-
gard to the capture OF Marye's H.ii." 1is
charges Of" misrepresentation, :" ignorance, .
&c, OF. correspondents writing in the iuter
est Of particular conmands" " il unworthy {
himself and unnecessary 80 deny. For Ole, |
shah sp&re him. S9i2wca came across, go5
Fredericksburg, and took Maryes Hill in spite
of his reiniorcemsnts. He will not deny the
the line which Cobb's whole brigade held in
the Dscamhas fl gll. Ho sas deioiant ia men
al least I have 40. censcrei him S, much
for E}rly.
Tne Yankee balloon ia " in tho ascendant -
te:d,y Sitting a. the Window of q sick room,
watching its apfetrance on this gloomy
morning, aud iootiDg out upon the scared, and
bare aad isolate hills of Stafford, Trowning
with batteries and dreary with iounging. pick
cts aud loatllsoma Yankees, a sad man might
recall from the poetic remnants of lonesome
memories tho mouFnfui picture portrayed in
the quotation
"2ys s;e s.jrg slisu. dslab svi:h sorrow,
Ike nisu who ,ayo @ tbe sGsgias .o.GsD.
Ltgeep shstr h15pY Homes sws.,
hY3 git siian:'y ~ tas znNe:a.
asznyi i.y &. tie gpcay"
The Rappahannock, stained and swollen by
the reee,s ra.ns, like ''the yellow Tiber,
tioas past q ruined city. Bat the ruin time
has made, ,ine also hallows Destruction
there " us grsNina' ard is far remove d unlike he
devastated homea and perisAed households ali
:sgound us here. War is tef9!ble aad sorrow
full enough but bioodshed iu a foreign land
ard in former time is nothieg to that ponred
at onr own doors and quenchiug the light ci
our own heasths.
For-one cause, at least, / rejoice i'll the stSt
tered dissolution OF tie good old town, When
General Les replied To the demand for ita sug-
render, through its authorities, last December,
in such manner IS to gain time TO mature
his plans the town iteelf was slsndered by
the ignorant for failing to respond more fero'
ejousiy, which would, in the ciroumsta aces,
have been only folly. Gensral Johnston died
st Shiloh 'repnlsing calumEy. by elorioas
deeds" Fredericksburg has silenced her de
famsrs at lssst by glorious suffering
Aud even ye. 1t Is preferred and cherished
residence TO mary of her children. "MaFins
sitting amid the rnias of Carthage was a
| melancholy commentary on human greatness
| Here we can show a Lonesome bank director
| the destroyed temple ef Plutns, in 'waien ne
| ones clilciatea. Iadeed, vho eersnity which
| fairly shinss from the fassa OF the grsatisss'
| sufferers is wonderful calm traDqnliiiy
| which they would hesitate to confess and ne
| wholly unable to explain. The reasen ID
despair brings tranquility"
nas you Will Gay, peace purehassf ut IN
| price OF hope Ii explosive. With q profanet
and desec ated past, It's most priced and cher
ishad monuments aud msmeatoes outraged
mutilated, or destroyed with no oorner.s.olr
On which to build the pals and purposes an'
amhiiens of tho funre, how can this stran
| guilty exist I Why does not indignation
snmisH sorrow eatirg care, and gnawiul
| snxieiy look out from every-eys and depres
even ths stufdisst spirit simply because th'
past u 20 rsusditess, and 4passiOn has rags
Itself 10 rest," ," and the future h uttsFly bey0p
control With no. ioundatsan u h1id On, -