The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1863-03-05


the world a Yankee nation, Yes, the
Confederate people has now at last 10
slip for battle; it is people that must
very literally conquer or die,
| No doubt It would be agreeable TO be-
lisvc that this last stage of tho war will
soon be over, and must ond in the spec,
dy destruction Of our intending murder
ors, But look round tho map Of the
! lConlederacy, and judgeifwo can sooth
ourselves with this belief. In the very
heart Of the country our gallant sentinel
of tho Missisippl-heroie little yicksburg
--has sustained, indced, aud bOfed two
tremendous sSiges; but third timo hct
citizen see pouring in around them from
the North and from tho West cnorn GUS
masses ofthe brlougucring foe; iron hoa.
ting batter again crowd down upon
beT and even as you read these words,
two hundred heavy guns may bo thun.
dering her defenses. hundred
thousand men may be pressing to the
storm Other rampars Again she will
4 drive them of, perhaps, and remain tho
famous maiden city of this hemisphere,
the bulwark OF the West; so bc III but
the yisionwe see on the Mississippi does
not look very like exhaustion OF despair
on the Pah of the foe just yet. K, has
And again, look to the mouth OF the
mighty river. New Orleans is not a
maiden city; elasl the base rag that hos
so often been rent and tampled before
Richmond and before Vioksburg, flies
from all tho towers of that dcGowered
city Hordcs Of hungry Yankees, mr.,
med 10 tho teeth, sit In the shode Of her
orange groves, and station negro guards
over the mansions Of her noblesl citizens,
4 All her best and iaireSt have to lament
J every day that their goodly city had not
been laid in. oShes before il came haunt
Of obscene creatures No sign Of rldra.
tion'Hierei Aud, but a short way of,
Mobile, by tho shores OF her spacious
bay. kceps diligent watch and word, OK.
pee log, in thelight of each morning sun
10 sea tho thrice .accursed stars and
stripes cleaning through the smoke of
a bombarding squadron. Al along H.
p Guy, and roand the coast Of FLORIDA. his
omo'present enemy, l0ho Is said % hare
Ijwt been playing his last card, is shutting
Gp erery rfver and planting his guns on
eUery strong place. Savannah, shut in
from the sea, by Fort Pulaski, in the
lIhands Of tho same inyelerato Yankee,
listens for the first boom of tue artillery
thai is 10 level her walls witt ner sandy
oiliand Charleston. grimy calm, bat with
y 9satal1 ikari.astgn9s tcaifipg tis Ont 4f
lie great armada. Those few acres Of
old Oyster Point, il seems, already swept
aud devastated by conaagrations, are 10
be the object and the prize of the most
potent armament by tho far that Amer
ican wsters have ever seen. This very
moment, il may be, the black Monitor
batteries are stesming between Sumpter
and MouIirie. No signs Of rcIarqtion or
1 Of Encouragement and despair in thc enc
my herei Pass further, and you will
| find tho whole coast from Charleston to
Norfolk and every river to the head Of
lidewater, and every creek and sound
formed by the sea islands, swarming with
their gunboais aud transports, ready to
pour in masses Of troops wherever there
is chance Of plunder, bridge burning
and general havoc.
From Norfolk all around by Chesa.
peoke and Potomac pe ave guarded By
gunJoqts, and no liging Thing (saue skulk.
ing sntagg'ers) suffered 10 enter or 90 out,
On the Rappahannock two hundred
thousand men wait for drying wind to
move "onlo Richmond" once more, lea
Iya genuine apostle Of er,rmination.-
Al lat Me sagago AJoiitaaists of Massp.
chasctss hare lie righ man in he right
place. Heretofore they have rather
wished the defeat Of Lincoln's generals
on the Potomac, because they seemed to
be soldiers and not thieves or assassins;
but with Hooker they feel at home; un-
der Hooker they count upon owning
Southern plantations and giving law 10
southern vassals. To possess himself
Of the property of others, genuine
Yankee will perhaps even fgM
And Northwestern Virginia is desOla.
ted by Milroy and bis men and Kentucky
aud the half Of Tennessee, tho richest
and lairest lands Of all the West, are en-.
! tirely in the clutch Of the enemy, while
the rivers bring them up fleets Of trans.
ports, and RoSecans. with another large
army, threatens to sweep oil opposition
from bis path and join the other brigands
who arc crowding upon Vlcksburg,
Were, in all his whoie cireat does
The hrd&;oq sen, % bs jiissiug Or gigjsg
goAad?H AR rOand Me Jorder, and IN