Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-16

ington- Dalton, Chattanooga, East
Tennessee, and Mobile.
ICorTespondenee Of the World
wAsHINeTox. March IL.
SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH.
The first fact which falls under my observation.
and without which il would be impossible for any
one 10 form an accurate esiina tie Of the temper
and resources Of the Southern people, is the
readiness With which they comply with the arbi
/ trary Orders of absolute government. and the
self--scrihcing spirit with which thew accept the
I heaviest burdens This spirit prevaGes all classes
/ IL actuates the rich and the poor and transforms
individual exertions into acts OF the highest de
4 votion Whether this absolute devotedness 10 a
wrong cause originates in the oftiest aspirations
/ or in the blindest preudices. not to say 10 the
/ most cruel OF all the passions. Is not for me 70
say. nv province being simply 10 relate facts.
and not 10 investigate moral causes. But that
such Is the state OF public sentiment in nearly all
parts of the South. not only eye-witnesses but
| evidences OF an unquestionabe character abun-
dainty prove. | could mention hundreds of facts
10 which the self-sacrifcing spirit 10 which
have just alluded has manifested itself in its
loitiest forms The hundreds of women who
have sent their husbands and sons 70 the battle
/ feld the hundreds OF widows xho have parted
reds Of citizens who have given their last dollar;
the hundreds OF ladies who have given up their
/ last Jewels and the hundreds Of ministers who
have shouldered the mu, ket during the last month
/ in defense of the sacred SOIL are as many evi-
dences in support OF nv assertion There y
Captain OF a regiment. Mr. Ch4tard. sending five
hundred dollars 10 sister OF charity for the re-
lief OF the sick and wounded there is an Ala
ba ma brigade re-enlisting with the oath that they
Mill livo hraa ali and har tod
rather than leave the flag under which they have
1 fought during the last three wears here meet
the fact OF an old acquaintance OF mine. Howell
1 Cobb. proposing to sell the government 1000
pounds of bacon and 10000 bushels OF corn at
lis own price; further Wade Hampton. the
wealthest citizen of South Carolina sending
order for all his slaves, his money, and his Is
tates to jeff Davis. Add to this the farmers
pouring their crops into the government graneries
the planters turning their cotton and rice 70 Us
credit, the people cheeriully giving up eight hund
red millions of dollars of their hard wrought
earnings to be converted into bonds bearing a
low interest. the payment OF which is by no means
certain. and conserving 10 be burdened with an
issue halt n large, and YOU will have faint idea
) of the spirit OF devotedness and self sacrifice
which now animates the South. This is not "A
fancifu, but real picture. rather below than
above ruth
. STRENGTH OF THE GOVERNMENT
OF course, a government supported by 80 nu-
merous acts OF personal abpeg ttion. bv 80 gene
raj a sacrifice OF individual will 70 the interest OF
the commonwealth, by so many continuous dem
onstratonS of devotion and unbouuded enthusi
asm must be strong indeed IL must be strong
not only on account of its own political skill but
bv reason of the strength which unfaltering ma
iorties and the support Of an immense army
often victorious and never annihilated. must i'm
part to il: strong in the public spirit which per
vades all southern communities, and which is
revealed to- in the unmistakable accents of
their public prints: strong in the readiness with
which their armies filled up; strong in the
devotedness Of its adherents. flying to arms un
rewarded unfed, and uncad strong, in fine, bv
that strength which no words can describe. and
which great revolutionary crises alone can pro-
duce.
As proof of its strength and of the hold it
: has on public opinion, will mention the numer
; Gus demonstrations of sympathy which the rebel
: President and his cabinet received the
sion of the pretended bloody manifesto which was
found in Dahgren's coat pocket manifesto
which, as printed in the Richmond journals
) threatened jeff. Davis with immediate hanging
and Richmond with instantaneous conhagration
On the evening of the day in which that news
was disseminated. delegations FROM all the de
partments. attended BY all the generals present
the president of the Senate and OF the House in
cluded went tn the residence of jeff Davis, and
expressed IN his presence the liveliest sympathies
for his person. and the pleasure they experienced
in seeing he had es aped 80 imminent a danger
Gen. Lee, Gov. Brown of Georgia. JAS. Chest
nut OF South Carolina, Ives of Mississippi the
heads OF the departments, attended by their chief
clerks, l. q Washington. Robert TYLER, Judge
Campbell Gen Cooper Tibali, &c were also
present ana testified their devotedness and regret
to the President. In the course of the converse
ton the visitors we're very violent against the
Federal raiders, and demanded that example
should be made OF them. The president who is
opposed by character To any violent measure in
stantly gave orders To double the guards AZ the
Jail. so rs 10 preserve the prisoners from the
dangers of a mob But "a he could not very
well escape the outward pressure which was ex-
ercised upon him on that occasion. he ordered
them be put in IRONS and so appe sed for a
while the impatient anger Of his friends ard the
excitement Of an Infatuated multitude
THr KlLPArMoK.RAiD EXCITEMENT.
You will Judge from this OF the eii,ct produced
by hlpatrick's raid upon the Richmonders
This effect is unmistaktb IL has increased TO
an unprecedented degree The detesiation OF the
Southerners for the Yankees. " and rendered
reconciliation with the North more difficult thar
il ever was Ii has exasperited the Virginians
and exposed the life OF three hundred of the
bravest soldiers the North has ever sent 10 the
field. Those three hundred men are now prison
erS, and unless the utmost vigilance be exercised
by the re0el government they may 40 any mo
ment be the victims of the Richmond rabble
Gen. Bragg. | understand. Is bow busY in organ
lzing Sirong body OF patrolmen IN defense OF the
prison. and has ut the same time, made a call for
the organization of municipal body guard one
thousand i've hundred strong, " hose special duty
will be To protect the city against any surprise
and clear the country around from all bands
which NAV in the future he found rowing about
TINS Is the first official act OF Gen Bragg since
his elevation to office, which took place on the
oath of February last. and. strange to say this
act resembles more police measure than mill
tary order
THE ELEVATION OF BRAGG.
The elevation OF Cen Bragg to the rank of
Commander IN Chief of the Confederate armies
a nomination which has been iikened 10y South
ern paper 10 "bucket of water thrown upon a
newly kndled hre. i another feasible instance
OF the power OF the rebel government doubt
whether any crowned head would AT this moment
dare TO openl, public opinion defiance.
TO act so cOntrary 20 The instincts and feelings
OF an outraged people a JEFF DAVIS has done on
this occasion. None but arbitrary power can
allow Itself such strokes OF fancy. none but very