, 1863-05-25
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A'teoe Ache II AAAb tucGc was silence III
}icksbu1g as the last steamer, whose ad-
vices reach us, swept up around the bend
for her trip to Cairo. Study the situation
up to that time. Grant and Iii. five times
victorious army had closely invested the
place, and had even turned the guns Of
the captured first line Of works, upon the
rebel water batteries below. In the river
Portcr's gallant tars were flying the town
with shot aud slcll. All was confusion.
alarm and disorder unutteruble. Follow
iug this state Of lings. what could silence
mean, tthe silence htonl by the Hannibal,as
s aHibc,nian might say3 What, but surrcn-
der and success: Our news stands COM
plctc up to TINT roi.4t- Il is progressive
and cumulative. Again and again had
our army NIT the desperate foe, and every
time Tie rebel line If defence is broken
and their lordes routed or captured.
There is no stayin. TO count the loss. The
gaping ranks Of cur brave fellows tell Of
fligltlul work, Lut fresh divisions are
poured il. The work goes on though
thousands fall. Time to mourn the fallen,
and honor the 3cud, when the end, in
Which they freely gave their lives, is gained.
Gained it doubtless has been.
nVicksburg is taken, the vengeance has
fallen heavily upon the first city that
echoed to the sound Of hostile cannon in
this rebellion. Three months before the
attack on Sumter, and four days after the
formal secession Of the State Of Mississippi,
On january 5th, 1861, Uhc first to follow
South Carolina) d frantic and crazy crew
Of artllcrists calling themselves tie Quit
man Ba,tery planted their field
pieces On the bluff at Vicksbure
ard on Tuesday the 18th, brought to the
first river steamer, the a o. Tyler. She
has, by the way, III very pretty retributiye
justice, been trans formed Into a Federal
Gunboat, and has avenged herself nobly
on the rebels. At that time was lust es.
t3b1ishcd the blockade On peaceful traytl
On the Mississippi. Established, too, when
get all the States bordering On the river,
save the Statc Of Mississippi, were still in
the Union. The act should have due
prominence in the history Of the rebellion,
At that time the press Of the country were
receiving Associated Press dispatches from
the South, and the act Of Gov. Pcttus and
his crazy Vicksburg gunners was thus re-
corded in our columns Of the 18th:
JAG JAsEsck, , Miss, Jan; u, 1ssl.-Ar,llcry was or
10 hail and bldg 10 all rassiI. boale.
What State action thus impudcntly in
augurated, the Confederate authorities
adopted and made cyca more formal by
establishing, in February 1861, Custom
House near the State line Of Mississippi, ut
Nclnc's Landing, piece Of pompous alb
surdity TINT had only short lived duration,
tic rebel batteries proving that nothing
less brazcn than brass cannon coulI
carry out the rcbcllious farcc Of restrictions
upon river trade. 1t is not the time now to
draw up, in their order, the succeeding
events pertaining to the blockade and Fed
eral movements to break it. Such will
best be given when the recital can be
crowned with the known fact of complete
SUCCESS. But 1t is against precisely such a
point, and bearing such prestige Of infamy,
that this fierce and Tesistless tide Of war
has been turned, and if the site Of Vicks-
burg be cleared Of al1Eign of human habi-
tation and sown with salt it were retri
button none too severe for q city the earli-
est to turn to the par1icidal work Of armed
rebellion.
Ofthe effect of the fall Of Ficksburg
columns might be written. It breaks the
back Of the rebellion. It opens, before the
troops Of tho Northwest the long closed
channel Of the Mississippi, 1t cuts in twain
the rebel territory. Louisiana half haltine
between the relics Of rebel pride, and the
rcmcmbrances Of the old Union, is per1na
ncntly severed from contaminating ALI
ance. With Texas and Arkansa:
rebels, our leaders make shor
work. Mississippi has been penc
trated and riddled by our recen
movements Gtierson has traverse,
its cnlire length. Grant, has swept
broad arc studded with brilliant victories
Preliminary to I'LL this success on her sol
We have adopted the better wisdom, dc
MED to our blindness earlier In the wal
We arc now ready to make use OF the tru
Union men Of the South without consid
ering their. color. Mississippi offers u
from loyal black population Of 10000
lie stalwart material for an amy whic
will not only keep rebel white men in aw
but giye direction and hold in check II
energies Of the joyous freedmen themsclve
The fall Of Vicksburg Is the event +
which the war has waited. The rcbe
could better have spared Richmond al
every prominent port on the scaboar
That would only have been striking Il
scales from her armor; this plants q dea
Jy wound in the very heart of rebeldo,
Our next issue must furnish the crowns
event, for which it will be better to let t
excess Of enthusiasm wait. All is goil
On well Grant has done nobly. E
noble Western army has made. itself il
mortal. The cap-stone Of the column {
1h's is in place, but the record has not j,
reached us. Patience get a little while.
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