The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-04-13
The Evacuation of Richmond.

Richmond has fallen. This brief and signi6-
cant announcement ere now has penetrated every
portion Of this continent. The exuberant and
yaciIlating population of the North are in bowling
ecstacies ever the long that sin
gle object for which they have expended enough OF
blood and treasure TO have established an empire
that goal to which, for more than four years, they
have been looking with-eyes distcnded and gaping
6 mouths. Atlast, after the most obstinate strug-
Cling and desperate fighting, coupled with a per-
severance unexampled, the proud old city is in
their vandal grasp With the thousands and tens
of thousands who have been laid. low in the dust,
in this effort to capture single city, the people of
the North have nothing to do. They only know
that Richmond is occupied by thercmnant of those
grand armies which have marched and counter
marched before her gates, and hitherto with want
Of success. Scarce a sigh escapes from the moth
ers and wives and sisters of their land for the
frightful carnage and loss of life. In this they
have no interest-ther sons and husbands and
brothers are safely ensconced at home, while the
hired minions of their pampcred master have been
led to the slaughter. They rejoice and make mcr-
rys over The graves Of The slain. Its enough that
Richmond has succumbed in the end to their re-
I peated and furious assaults upon its approaches.
How different with the people of our own sunny
homes In all this contest for Virginia's glorious
capital, every true man and woman in the South
has bent eagerly forward to catch the swelling
notes of victory or learn tile fate of some loved
friend or relative With each encounter came the
,e,-o &c holoya6 rno out do,rn IN Tho
vigor of life All along through these years .of
doubt and hope, the shonts ofeSultation have been
hushedS amid the scenes. of sorrow and grief And
now, that place which has been defended SC
gallantly and heroically, by the costly sacrifice
of precious blood. has fallen from Our hands, the
Southern heart is beating TREMENDOUSLY for the fate
of those gsterling patriots, who have again and
again barred their breasts insits defence, and were
compelled, after all their noble sacrifices, to Wit.
ness it's evacuation,
Truly are we;humiliated IN this respect, and are
taught another lesson, sorrowfll and sad, of the
evanescent nature ofhuman hopes. Gutapart,from
the seriousloss of men during the few days before
the capital was uncovered, We chqlld not be dis
I. couraged. History will record the defence of
Richmond as the prondest IN tne Annals Oh war !:
and it has been surrendered now because Of supc-
rior numerical force of the enemy, and not from
any lack OF ability our Generals or want of cour
age among the soldiery. Their duty vas fully
and faithfully performed, and .iae last days of their
defence may be pointed to with equal pride and
SSllonor. as the first.
the language of our noble President, s'let1is
not despond. Y vi honorable past We
done. Renewed seasfg and determination
l5nld be written in every mans counfc cnance, and
s&eSstrepgtb Of our manhood be brought to assist
in this struggle for freedom. With steadYeeiancc
upon the God our fathers let us press forward to
the attainment ofliberty and Independence those
s;nestinable legacies bequeathed US by yirtuous
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