Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-06-18
The Rebel Press on the Campaign
ExTRAcTSFR0M RICHMOND PAPERS
fFrom the Richmond Examiner, May 2sth.l

fFrom the Richmond Examiner, May 2sth.l
1t is sad enough to have our people burned
out and pillaged, our women bullied and in
suited; but it Is doubly humiliating to suffer
such evils at tire hands of a people we have
always despised. 1t does indeed cost US heav-
ily TO rid ourselves of an connection with the
Yankee nation; but then this radiance is
worth the cost.
And perhaps we should never have set the
right value upon the independence we fight
for if it had not cost us so dear. We might
never have been so fully and deeply consci-
Gus of the great necessity which was upon US,
for our own honor and our chiidren's we'll
being, to cut off that abandoned nation from
our society, if it had not been permitted to
develop and display, at so many points and
for so long time, all the dark depths of its
hateful character, all its bastard cruelty and
mean thievery, and unparalleled fertility OF
falsehood.
=. Now we know fully from what a rotten ear
cass we have cut ourselves loose and to
escape its pollution no price is too great
Rather than to submit to that foul
embrace again, we would bid higher, and still
higher, until nothing we're left to the few sur
vivors of us but bare life.
In this sense we may almost be said to be
in some sort obliged to the Yankee nation
1t has more than Justified our secession, aud
has left, in the regions of our country which
have once fallen withinits military lines, GER
tain bitter and burning memories which, in
ages to come, will cause mothers to teach
their little children to thank God in their
nightly prayers for the rescue of their native
land out of the clutchesof an evil generation.
The many unmistakable symptoms of des-
peration visible in this years campaign-the
employment of Grant himself with absolute
dictatorial powers, because he was known to
be the man who would either effect his pur-
pose or throw away his army-the insane
drunkenness in which he drowned the senses
of his troops before hurting them up against
the muzzles of Confederate cannon-the
reckless and unsparing ferocity with which
quiet country places are devastated and Gov
cred with smoking ruins, and soaked with
blood of unresisting people-all these things
ought to encourage US they consist well with
what the enemy's public press has at any rate
plainly avowed: that if the grand combined
movement of 1854 should fail, then all was
lost; that armies could no longer be raised to
continue the INVASION; that anarchy and f.
nancial ruin would break up their whole social
and political system, and that the United
States would be no more a nation.
And that campaign (may we not already
say p has failed; its force is expended and
broken. OF its four grand armies, one, in
the Trans-Mssissippi, is no longer an army |;
another, in Bermuda Hundred, has no care
save to protect itself from destruction, in
front by entertainments, in rear by feet,
the two other armies, and the two greatest,
have advanced indeed with tremendous waste
of men and material, to the points at which
Lee and Johnston at the head of fresh and
eager troops, say to them: No further !!
hitherto shalt thou gow All the elan, all the
drunken vigor of the opening campaign is
gone the pluck is taken out of it; and the
invincible Yankee host or what left of them,
can do no better than turn upon the already
plundered population in their rear, rob a few
houses, ravish a few women, cruelty few
"secesh" planters and go home.
If this be indeed the last grand effort of
the enemy, as we hope and believe, then,
how dear soever our independence shall have
cost us, we shall still say it was cheap. We
do not envy our enemies their plumber. Such
wealth will never thrive with them; let
them keep the spoons and the jewelry.-
Hereafter any Yankee-we were about to
say Yankee woman, bullet US Say miscegene-
trix-will be afraid to wear a diamond in
reputable company, lest persons shonld com
her good taste in briliants. As for the
choice books and pictures which some con-
noisseur thieves had packed up and carried
to the North to adorn their libraries and gal
leries, and to give them some idea what
books and pictures good taste might admit
into decent house, it is doubtful whether
these acquisitions will do them much good
When a nation has grown thoroughly cor
rupt, it can never learn anything more-only
unlearn what it once knew.
On the whole we can well afford to make
the rogues welcome to all the profit they
have got out of their invasion, especially as
with the last day of their last campaign our
cost ends and theirs begins. "Nations hav-
ing no future state, always expiate their
crimes in this world !" and no nation ever yet
ran up so long an account of crime, or so
amply earned hell upon earth, where shall
be wailing and crashing of teeth
From the Richmond Sentinel
THE LAST TWO WEEKS.
During the past two weeks, the war has
ragged with a fury unexampled in all our pre-
viOus campaigns. The forces of the enemy
have been directed by general whose one
idea is to hurl them into battle. Reckless
alike of the lives of his soldiers and the
arts of strategy, he has trusted for victory to
the momentum of his attack and the rapidity
of his blows. He has hoped to crush his en-
envy by his mere weight He fights by
g. main strength and awkwardness," combined,
it must be confessed, with great industry and
pentinacity. As a consequence, the opera
tons when have ensued since his crossing
of the Rapidan present a series of great bat
ties and severe skirmishes not before equaled
in the war, accompanied with a sacrifice of
life on the part of his soldiers that should
touch the profoundest sensibilities of mon
ster if that monster were their general.
Here follows list of engagements in all
of which GRANT is represented to have been
repulsed with great slaughter.
Serious and Fatal Accident ON the Lake Shore
Railroad.
A serious and fatal accident took place on
the Chicago and Milwaukee railway last Tues
day just this side Of Kenosha, at the south
end of the bridge there. The cause of the
accident is said to have been the accumula-
ton of sand upon the track, blown there from
Filings recently made. The engine, by this
obstruction, was thrown from the track, and
went down an embankment distance of fifty
feet. The mail and baggage car followed, and
fell on top of the engine, and the express car
fell on top of the mail and baggage car. The
second class car next to the express car, and
full of passengers, was partially thrown off
the track, hanging by the two hind trucks.
The Engineer with great presence of mind,
Immediately upon the discovery of the dam
ger, reversed the engine and applied the
steam brake, thereby stopping the train and