The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-06-24
From the Richmond Examiner.
NAV God Defend the Right.

Yankee nation. once more, as II MOTH
ing of the sort had ever happened before,
it is announced that Con to Richmond is
now the Watchword and reply.' "Whole
army again in notion" as if it had never
been in motion before, and "By night we
will be within four hours march of Rich
mond - Why, they have been ere now
within two hours march Of Richmond,
yet somehow failed to arrive there
Lee, also, the same despatch aflirns, sis
again out generaled''-by that mastery
movement, namely, from the Rapidan to
the Pamunkey, at cost of seventy thou
sand men, which might have been accom-
plished without the loss of one. Nothing
could be more CHEEKY than the jolly STRAIT
egy of this saddle correspondent
He says playfully, "Once getting Lee
suugly enscouced in lis works, away we
60 around his tanks and into his rear"
Capital fun Nor is it the saddle CORES
poudent alone who is so jovial. Secretary
Stanton also announces despatch from
Grant, "that everything comes on finely"
and another despatch from Washington
says, There are the best possible spirits
tonight in official circles" Those most
mercurial and irrepressible official circles
were in just as high spirits on the same
night gone two years. Then, also, On to
Richmond was the watchword and reply;
and yet the unconquerred young Napole-
on had reached, without the slaughter Of
seventy thousand of his troops, position
quite US close to his predestined prey. 1t
is now announced, and received, doubt
less, with jubiation throughout all the
North, that "every cannon fired the last
week has been heard in Richmond" as if
Richmond had never heard any cannon
before. Marvellous, indeed, is the elasti-
city of that Yankee mind. Crush it to
the earth dozen times-sink it over and
over in the very depths of dependency,
still it springs up again as merry as ever,
singing out, Who's afraid Victory is in
our grasp at last Once this, or once
that position gained, and "away we go!'
o would almost begin to fancy that
the enemy is really persuaded this time
that he is indeed on the eve of the capture
Of Richmond, but for the one trfing cir
cumstance that gold has risen to one hun
dred and eighty eight, This proves to
our minds that those at the North who
know best, and have the most immediate
interest in the matter, do not believe the
Yankee army is ever to come on to Rich
mond at all-which is also decidedly the
opinion of Richmond herself If those
highly excited official circles Of Washing
ton and delighted newspaper readers of
New York and Boston could but see the
tranquil serenity of these embowered
streets at iris day how respectfully our
people 60 about their business; how quiz
city they buy and sell or even marry and
ar given in marriage as in tn day when
Noe ente ed into the ark. 1t is true thew
know that mighty power has gathered
countless hosts around this place commits
stoned to rase it utterly, and leave not
one stone upon another; true they know
that accurate plans of the Doomed City,"
multiplied by the hundred thousands,
pint out this very moment every approach
to their peaceful homes, and indicate each
most advantageous method of crushing,
sacking and burning the place, drenching
these leafy shades with blood, and strew-
ing them with mangled bones and spatter.
ed brains.
True, also, that they feel in their souls
how much more blessed On that day of
doom, if it should ever dawn upon them,
would be the mangled dead than the land
less, houseess living; they do hear every
day-the Yankee acoustics are correct
the roar Of cannon flaming in front and
flank of that enormous host, advancing
"with a celebrity never known before :"
they are we'll aware that this very night,
before the stars shine out--if only one OBJ
'Stacle were removed--there might be
hundred thousand brigands in blue swarm
ing in every street, rampant in every
house, until the work of slaughter and ra-
pine were done; and then, in pyramid
of fire, the city of their pride and love
would rush skyward, with all its pleasant
dwellings,, with the hearths ut which its
old people have sat, aud the cradles in
which its children have been rocked. Its
murmuriug river, Redeemed with fame
and blood, would flow hereafter past
mounds of gore-cotted cinders, which
should stand for generations monument
of Yankee vengeance,
Yes, they know all this; yet tonight
they will lie down peac, fully to rest, trust
ing in Providence that the morning sun
will shine as serenely into their windows,
through the whispering trees, as on any
morning Of the la hundred years. /, is
not that our people are boastful or pre-
sumptuous, or unconscious of danger, or
inseusible to the unutterabe evils and
curses which would come in a moment
upon them and theirs in case Of the enc.
my's success. They know we'll that the
fortune f battle is doubtful, and that each
Instant of time may bring on the great ar.
bitrament. But they are not demons ra.
tive, nor by any means histrionic. The
roll of the great artillery is in their ears
but they only set their teeth within closed