The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-04-08
Richmond Has Fallen?

1pS glorious news That was fashed over
the country on Monday last, Richmond is
ours !"'sent thrill Of JOY to the heart of
every loyal man, woman, and child; and
doubtless a sickening sensation Of shame
and despair crept through the bosom Of every
traitor in the land. They see now how the
strong faith Of the patriot has been realized
which inspired them with almost. the gift Of
prophecy in seemingly the darkest hours of
our nations peril, that the Ruler of the Uni
verse, who holds the fate of nations in the
hollow of His hand, would, in His own good
time, overthrow the naughty tyrants of the
slave pen and shackles, and rear in triumph
over every spot of territory of our wide
spreading country, the glorious "banner of
the stars
Those of abiding confidence in the ulti
mate triumph OF the Republic, and the final
overthrow and ruin of the colossal slave
power, are now bcholding the glorious re-
suits Of the right and might of free people
trampling beneath the iron heel of the cou
querer, the accumulated pride and arrogance
Of an INDUCED, and petted slave aristocracy,
that drew the assissin's knife against the life
of nation that fostered them till they grew
to giants strength.
Let us glance Back over four years thick
with terrible events, flied with blood and
tears, and anguish, and breaking hearts,
with widows and orphans, all sacrificed on
the black affairs of slavery, to appease that
Internal pride which filled the hearts of its
devotees. Four years ago on the 18th of
April they, in Jubilee of demons, held
high carnival in the city of Charleston over
the humiliation of the emblem of free gov
eminent. Their orators infamed the
people with proud boasts of the greatness
and glory of the new nation which was that
day baptised with fire, and whose corner.
stone was human bondage. And the ladies
of that proud city by the sea passed resolu-
tons to dance and revel no more in the
United States. Could they have seen the
dusky spirits from the regions of the damned,
and the grim king of terrors grinnng horri.
bly, over their victims, and have realized
how literally true their wicked resolves
were to prove, they would have shrunk with
horror from the vision which met their sight.
But dark weeds Of mourning which they
were soon to DOM for sons, husbands, faith.
ers and brothers, whom they literally drove
! out to fight against their country, with their
beautiful city by the sea, where the high
born danes of secession reveled in the
shame and crime Of treason, in blackened
ruins, were hidden from their view The
spectacle of the armies of the despised and
'hated Yankees marching through every
part of their country ''conquering and to
conquer" planting the despised emblem in
high places and treading to martial music
! the streets of their cities, while the proud
and naughty chivalry fee, fugitives and
wanderers from home and family, leaving
them to the congueror. This is the bitter
cup which their own hands mixed four years
ago, and which they are now draining to the
last drop. Ruin, hopeless, irretrievable
ruin has at length overtaken them. They
who unsheathed the sword with the exulta-
| ton of fiends, have persisted by the sword,
to be unmourned by history in the ages to
come.
Those who prophesied these things in the
early days of the rebellion we're laughed to
scorn by the high. fiers of secession. Now
that the predictions of the men of strong
faith in the righteousness of our cause are
more than verified, the sympathizers with,
alike the greatest crime and the greatest
folly in history, hang their heads in sullen
gloom. The hate that was born of secession
haunts them still; as the felon's enmity
rules him because of his crime against the
human race.
Let every Union heart exult now in the
| day and the hour of victory, and with manly
pride and independence, despise, in the day
of your country's glory, as yen did in the
day of her darkness and danger, those sui
len and unrepentant rebels who have been
thrust down by the nations mailed hand in
the dust at the feet of justice.