The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-24
A SOUTHERN VIEW.
F.om the Richmsnd Examiner June 10.

6 May God Defend. the Rlght.'
F.om the Richmsnd Examiner, June 10.
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 p" On to Richmond is now
the watchword and reply" Whole army
again in motion" 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 affirms, 'is again out
generated by that mastorly 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 enseonoed ,in
his works, ascay zoe 90 around lis tanks
and 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
clea'' Those most mercurial and irrepres-
sisle official circles were in just as high
spirits on the same night gone two years.
Teen, also, On TO Richmond was the
watchword and reply; and yet the uncon-
qpered young Napoleon had reached, with
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-sink
it over and over in the very depths of de-
spondency, still it springs up again as
merry as ever, singing out, g 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 eighty-eight. This proves
to our minds that those at the North who
know best, and Who have the most imme-
diate 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 embowered
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 1t is true
they know that a mighty power has gath
cred countless hosts around this place COM
missioned tO raze it utterly, and leave not
one stone upon another true, they know
that accurate plans of the s'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 manged bores and srat-
tered brains. True, aso, 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
eveey day-the Yankee acoustics are ,r-
rect-the roar of cannon flaming in front
and flank of that enormous host, advanc-
ing" with celerity never known before :"
they are well aware that this very night,
before the stars shine out-if 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 we're done; and then, in a pyramid
OF lire, the city of their pride and love
would rush skyward, with all its pleasant
dwellings, with the hearths at which it's
old people have sat, and the cradles 10
which its children have been rocked. Its
murmuring river, reddened with flame and
blood, would flaw hereafter past MI unds
of gore-clotted cinders, which should stand
for generations a 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
oc
or insensible to the unutterable evils
and curses which would come in q mo-
ment upon them and theirs in case
of the enemy's success. They know well
that the fortune of battle is doubt.