The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-24
A SOUTHERN VIEW.
s. May God Defend. the Hslsht.o
F.Om tbs Richmond Examiner June 10.

F.om tbs Richmond Examiner, June TO-
That wonderful dispatch from the
Headquarters in the Saddle" which we
published yesterday, certainly shows most
cheerful buoyancy of disposition in the
Yankee nation. Once more, as if nothing
of the sort had ever happened before, it is
announced that On 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 our 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 dispatch afirms, sis again out
generated by that mastery movement,
namely. from the Rapidan to the Pamun-
key, at a cost of seventy thousand men,
which might have been accomplished with
out the loss of one. Nothing could be
more CHEEKY than the jolly strategy of this
saddle-correspondent. He says playf~lly,
"Once getting Lee snugly ensconced in
his works, aacay sce 90 around lis tanks
aud into his rear" Capital funl Nor is
it the saddle-correspondent alone who is so
jOvial. Secretary Stanton also announces
dispatch from Grant that everything
comes on finely" and another dispatch
from Washington says, "There are the
best possible spirits to night in official cir
cles'" Those most mercurial and irrepres-
stale official circles were in just as high
spirits on the same night gone two years.
Teen, also, On 10 Richmond was the
watchword and reply; and yet the uncon-
qpered young Napoleon had reached, wish
out the slaughter of seventy thousand OF
his troops, position quite as close to his
predestined prey. 1t is now announced,
and received, doubtless, with jubilation
throughout all the North, that "every can
non fired the last week has been heard in
Richmond " as if Richmond had never
heard any cannon before! Marvellous, in
deed, is the elasticity of that Yankee mind.
Crush it To the earth dozen times-sini,
it over and over in the very depths of de-
spondency, 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!'" One 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 f,r the one tri-
fling circumstance that gold has risen to
one hundred and lightweight. This proves
to our minds that those at the North who
know best, and Who have the most imme-
date interest in the matter, do not believe
that the Yankee army is'ever to come on
to Richmond at all-which is also decided.
ly the opinion Of Richmond herself. If
those highly excited official circles at Wash
ington and delighted newspaper readers of
New York and Boston could but see the
tranquil serenity of these EMPOWERED
streets at this day; how respectfully our
people go about their daily business; how
quietly they buy and sell, or even marry
and are given in marriage, as in the day
when Noe entered into the ark 4! 1t is true
they know that mighty power has gath
cred countless hosts around this place com
mlssioned to raze it utterly, and leave not
one stone upon another: true, they know
that accurate plans of the "Doomed City,"
multiplied by the hundred thousand, point
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 mang'ed bores and srat-
tered 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
landless. houseless living they do hear
eve'y day-the Yankee acoustics are @ "
rect-the roar of cannon flaming in front
and flank of that enormOu, host, advanc-
ing "with celebrity never known before )"
they are well aware that this very night,
before the stars shine outfit only one OBJ
stacle were remOved-there might be a
hundred thousand brigands in blue swarm
ing IN every street, rampant in every
house, until the work of slaughter and
rapine were done; ard then, in pyramid
OF hire, the city of their pride and love
would rush skyward, with all its pleasant
dwellings, with the hearths at which its
old people have sat, and the cradles 10
which its children have been rocked. Its
murmuring river, redeemed with flame and
blood, would flow hereafter past m, unds
of gore-clotted cinders, which should stand
for generations monument of Yankee
vengeance. Yes, they know all this; yet
to night they will lie down peacefully to
rest, trusting in Providence tina: the morn
ing sun will shine as serenely into their
windows, through the whispering trees, as
on any morning of the last hundred years
1t is not that our people are boastful or
presumptuous, or unconscious of danger,
or insensible to the unutterable evils
and curses which would come in a mo-
ment upon them and theirs in case
Of the enemy's success. They know well
+bot tho fnrtnna of hottlo :, IL.