Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-10-25
From ysstsrdaS'I E''"i"g hd'''0'A'
Shirt Of the Morning Pres.


The EraHginSr says nobody Goes, because noeooy
need feel discouraged sby ths rsH' Of another
ShsriSsa-Vicsory in the Valley. Stanton and Sheridan
hsvs been telling the world for more than month that
Early vas dee roysd, -. EIly has continued 10 give
them batns a. d they gain no solid result Sheridan
never gets as far up the Valley - Hunter did BE has
forty thou8and men, ten thousand picked cavalry yet
he has been held through the eAnpAgu in two eoun-
sies Of Virginia. The army which, SCcorang to bis
Mexican bulletins, has been 90 oftSn GH.erninAted
missed only great victory the Other day BY the Pur.
suit of 100 much "The Confederate force attacking
was but ten thousand. The infantry attacked num-
bsrsd thirty thousand, With eleven thousand excellent
cavalry on their nkL We lost most Of cur captured
cannon in ds6ls and twenty pieces Of our own.
Rat We lost few or no uuvounAOd psisonsrs sXep. the
tssmStsrs and cannon drivers Whs Hs have, and hold,
nineteen hundred uuuoundsd prisoners taken from the
snsuy, WehAve and We hold them. Oar rSsItGtng
troops ls miles Of dad and wounded 1anEseS 6shnd
than, And the enemy VhO hrNgs oftA aosi Splsnde
victory, did net puFsua."
Ia second artisls the EsS-iHH illsuStI the eiusss
AID phases Of ihs universal unlSJ AAi hes RisSt she
Yankee rGss Log lnsl ef ARo1ssd kings AsSS ot'sA
ended IA . slaplsteA or 4 unAtsk eas ihiJ d The ohg
Instance n history Of Rho!S naldiH3aoas nhsish Pm
sins mad together With . steady oVS.s'sis hspslsss
lansey "Thsy nus, have the Union = hey gill lnAsh
40 he universe and tear deNn the pillars Of the globe,
.Aas they will ana shA, PrScouL that un'psakAee
Union" Reasoning Ike lInAliskS, they have tAnosd
that pace only eeuld ave tbs CenfsdOESCy, whereas
he direct opposite has been the truth: this ContSdef"
acy had need Of VAR and without must have fAisc
u REQUIRED at least four years Of var 20 relentless and
sspRuirary A We have and Il new seems probable
that four warn more are needed in order TO TIE
durable harmony Of the Southern Stats constituting
ths COrfsderaey and the AuAl dIApPeArADeo from ths
auth Of the last remnant Of that dSoOmpOSOa and pc.
trd old "Union," which they iguOrAntly Worship
With the prSssnE Adnins.rA.ion, then, and under
the War treatment, there il no danger Whatsoever o.
our ever seeing ".hs Union" again. The only dArgeI
We have TO guard against nd uS nay b trusted for
thIO is Of bsr IuhjugGtsd or tKirpatsd. With
Northern PrsSdsut Of the CIeAsO pattern there might
Be Sems dAnEsr-thcugh one might hope the time Vas
pls. for thas-oI lapsng back into shameful Union;
aud this, though t would bring ~ peace, we're thou
sand times worse than var. We have seen something
Of Vie horrors Of var; and can bear thsn-hut the
horrors Of Iu5h peace, Who could oeArt"
The EnqIirsr oAstS lie vision across the Atlantic, and
that "a Struggle gigantic proportion" i fore
shasowsdp The Vbole of the Continent sssDS to be
uphesV ng And hronsn tosssr Ald nations chuor aloud"
Tney have no time to give iheir sympathy or attention
to us, but I've vii yss sOrqlsr. Ard when all the ma
tons of The Cd World battling With each other,
and enc After another sink eXbl listed uudsr tbs burden
their old age enables them longer to bear us shall
ri,s ike the p - III from the ashes in fresh youth and
renewed Vigor. fEugst BY Adversely tried in furnace
Of Gre Ne shall have learnt rely ourselves In de-
perdsnoe o. the Almighty alone and be ready to run
our rses and % fuA our vocation among the great ma
tons Of the earth"
Ths SntEsl continues lie comparison o. the indaet-
sdness Of the United States end Great Britain, showing
from statistics that hs American dab has already at
tanei nsgniiuds Vhies vii nuke lie pressure more
En:olerable than that Of Great Britain"
at ia evident that ths United States have already
reached the very prec Of bankruptcy and repudiA-
ton; that nothing prevents immediate explosion but
tie blind madness OF the hour which renders than in
sensible 10 their condition; shat every month plunges
them deeper in the gulf Of hnAIc 81 ruin
The resolves Of the GoVrnors lAtOly In council the
Ssasissl thinks. vii be greeted With the popular seslA-
matiop, md will 30 productive Of much good.
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