The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-30
starvation

The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes tn
prices fixed for wheat by the VTgini
Commissioners, and tells its readers T.
cheer up, that the Confederacy is abou
''going up; they can't stand 1t snothc
year"
Yes, we are going we trust, cup;
for that is certainly not the direction il
which the Yankees will eo We are
moreover, rapidly acquiring that condi
ton most favorable for ascension light
ness Of BODY, freedom from ileshly solid
ty and ponderosity. The Yankee war OF
starvation has reduced us all to a state
Of gauntness that foretokens nation OF
skeletons; aud one day the wcll-feI
hordes OF Northern barbarians and plum
ileshless men, who will so resemble the
escaped tenants of the grayeyards that
their adyersaries, horror stricken, will
| deem the day of judgment come, aud
bowling, abandon themselves to despair;
for the enormities they have done will
| make that day one Of unimaginable
wretchedness and misery to them. Be
fore an army Of ghosts they could never
staed; and it is plain, if we can get
nothing to cat, TO that pass we must come
for starve or not, We mean to resist
Let, then, the Yankees take no courage
from the last Of the dire auxliaries they
have conlured up from hell Even IA
NINE We will endure rather than
submit to Yankee domination. We
have, as already confessed, given strong.
proof of this. We are living on short
allowance The head Of the War De
paltinent IS sort of representative OF
the physical Southern Confederate and,
as it has been already stated, his bones
are heard to rattle as he descends the
stairs OF his hotel The President Of
the Coniederacy Is a mere shadow. He
has become even transparent, and like
the chameleon, borroWs his hue frOm.the
color of the nearest object. When stand
ing by a brick wall he is ruddy, and when
resting under the shade of tree he IS
green Only think of all this, Yankees,
and dance and shout over the poor Confed-
eracy, reduced to skin and bones, and
about to- go up" The bare eonteln-
plation OF this is enough to make the
Puritan go mad with JOY, and at once
renew his thanks to his maker that he |
us not like other men," which he,
nevertheless, cannot do with half the |
sincerity and emphasis with which |
other men" do thank their God that |
hey are not like him,
The Philadelphia inquirer, witt. the
Example Of the increased cost of all |
Kings, because of the depreciation in
federal greenbacks, might have explained
ugh prices here on the same principle
he depreciation Of Confederate currency |
But it is just as well that we should en-
ourage the Yankees to believe that their
cheme OF starving the South is sue
eeding. They are continually lelicitat
ng themselves with the impression that
is. The demon who attempts to re
uce his victim 10 submission by perse-
ulon, even to the extreme of Starva-
on, and fails, suffers a modification and
retchedness proportlonate to the cru
lty and brutality of the means he had
mployed. So the Yankees, when they
nd that all their villainies, all their hor-
ID brutalties, Were yainly exerted
salnst the spirit, the valor, and loyalty
the South, will he driven to the deep
st despair. We doubt whether their
loral sentiments are sufficiently humane
make the feeling anything like re
orse or repentance. They will be cha
incl and disappointed to desperate
egree. On large scale, their feeling
i'll be that of the sheep-stealer caught
the fold, with the sheep on his back
lie annoyance, modification, and shame =
detection or defeat, but no repentance.
hey will be ever ready to return to n
eir evil practices Though, under ad- i
rse circumstances, they may even for
year theln,) when the opportunity of r
rs. They are ruthless and remorse-
IS, and there is no hope for any one in o
cir power. Nothing but the force Of 7
sistance can defend the right against
EN-. But the world will Judge them 81
,ht, and also their day OF retribution is :
t TO be denied them.
North Carolina.