Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-08-30
GALLANT LMTLE, PETERSBURG.

GALLANT LHTLE, PETERSBURG.
Tho sympathiesSof your sister, suffering
tro,a siege which, fer three long years.
drained her blood and wasted her resources,
ars with you, gallant and anring city -
Thrioo worthy tobo called sthS" 'Cockade". OF
the game old mother Ct us oil. You have sent
your sons to battle, your women into exile,
and devoted your homes to destruction if the
fate Of war or tho need Of your country de-
msnd it. You say your city is but as any
other spot Of ground. only to DO valued aS It
contributes to the common safety. We do
maud that the world. which protends to see III
this war hut AN obstioato conflict for the PEI
petustion Of slavery, shall look ~
this spectacle fredericksburg, Peters,
burg, Charleston, Atlanta-all nhab
tied hY shareholders. They havo lost
map7 of their slaves bat have they becn "a
ralyzed by shells rained without ihtermission
upon tbess people? Arc they terrified By
hsuGs Of their own slaves. clad 10 the unitofm
AID marching unSer the fag OF their
f,e? llavs they intimsted wish te
save what is left by admitting the just de-
truotion CT that which they have LOST No, it
has proven in this war, as in tho case of the
msn of u, tae greater the loss, the higher
ttle truat upon the arm Of Him who has thought
proper to fict US for His own wiss purposes.
The submission of the Southern heart is to
Him alone. II beats in Incorporating de-
E,nso ard ctornal resistance to the infamous
Instruments of our aiiicti0n. But tho brave
and defiant endurance Of tho Southern cities
will not DO without thoit reward. They WILL
be ever held in respect and admiration by the
re,rls whu-e interests they have defended
Tins jealousy With which cities have boen
regarded BY uone will DO renounced as q
shumofu. thing when their services and suffer
inrs in the oauss are remembered. The rival
ry which may have existed among the cities
themselves must disappear when they remem-
Der how essential tho force of oil has been to
tho protection Of all, ard when they, too, learn
and sac in d renewed trade and in reopened
commerce. :, harvest too large for the abilities
of oil. thay will cooperate cordially in all
that vii! tend TO develop interests in which al!
may participate. We tender words Of cheer
and admiration to our sister city. Wewill re.
member what both have Undergone in this great
trial, nad when the day Of deliverancc shall
game. as it assuredly will, the deeds Of courage
and the higher heroism of II homeless and
broadcast people will have IT'D honor in the
gratitude, confidence and admiration of &
ires people. Would that Norfolk, tho ocean
enporiula Of Virginia we're with us in our
Trial and endurance. Better this than raise
her fst,crcd hands in despairing protestalion
against Ito opprsssor. Better hunger, want
and nakedaess, hotter tho bursting bomb ind
tho midnight 1eveillc, than the dead letbarey
Of hopeless AID helpless sutmis.i n. But
we will como to the help of tho cortives.-
Virginia will redeem them with the sword
She will persist in her resistance until the
mercenarv columns, sArunken and dispirited
shall reeaau from Our borders, and the sons
ard daughters Of the old and unterrifed sova-
reign -.uore than equal ss she is to the virgin
Oaeen from whom she derives her name in
virtue and courags-shall triumph over hired
hosts, Yankee armalas, and tho combination
Of foreign despota.