The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-02-28
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traitors Ia Charleston hafbor. After
four yssf. ~ Continuous vauare, the
flag Of iip rniga i, raised over ihe
ruins o. lie iosi uhich Thea ssrren-
dsrcd. smi iLc s,rrsis q Charleston
are SLED wrh byal troops. Tie ma
,sonAl honor Is yiadicsied, ard Just
vengeance has oyeriaken ihe tvbcll'oua
city.
The cifcumst4necs attendant ufon
The surrender u Fou Suapier, are
veil remembered The balconies Of
The public buildings On the plers y
Charleston we're croaded With ladies'
in their gayest apparel ~ho ~aried
The smoke Of the distant conflict and
listened s~dminngly 70 the roar Of n.
tillery. The city guards, in splendid
uniform, we're scattered here and there,
sharing utth the bate Sights Aha
sounds the attention of the brilliant
audience above, who looked upon var
as a pretty pasiime. All Charleston
took a holiday 10 see the flag Of the
Union trailcd in the dust. The fort
fell. aud lis fan was welcomed with
the ringing Of bells, and The firing Of
salutes, and every demonstration OF
delight. II in tile midst Of that great
rejoicing, the curtain Of the future
could have been raised upon the next
four years, x.:h what horror would
they have started back FROM the pros
pect. They were in%auguraiing an era
Of bloodsbed and suffering such as has
seldom been recorded. The bells that
we're rinein. so merrily we're SUM
moning them to their death. In re.
joicing over the fall Of Sampler, they
we're rejoicing over the destruction OF
their city, the d~epopulation Of the
South, and the devastation 0 fthe fair
est country on the continent. In a
distau. city, yer tue same news, there
was a meeting Of a different charac-
ter and 40 eloquent voice was pro.
claiming, IN words that were echoed
throughout the North, that the day Of
peace would never Gene until the tat
tered flag Of Sumpier again foated
over It's walls.
After the fall Of Fort Snmpter the
troops were hurried 80 tho North, and
the war va transferred TO distant
fields. The Border States were made
the battle-ground, and the nursery o.
secession seemed in little danger o.
being ovcrrun by hostile armies. But
the war became something more than
a gay parade for men and a pleasant
spectacle for ladies Mighty battles
we're fought. and the dead we're num-
bered by thousands. -Four years Of
warfare as terrible as ever shook the
plains Of Europe, have left but few Of
that Palmetto chiyalry who rushed SC
madly into the war Of secession. The
daughters Of South Carolina who wit.
messed with such exquisite pleasure
the bombsrdment OF Sumpter and
chetred on the troops as they left foI
the Northern wars, are in mourning FOL
those who have never retuf ned a .
her sons who went forth so gaily fol
the capture Of Washington are under
the sod Of baiile-iclds over which the
fay Of the Union waves in triumph
For four years the Union columns
have struggled IN towards the hear
Of the C~onfederacy, and the circle o.
fire so long seer from a distance has
at last swept over the soil Of South
Carolina. Tie people Of that State
have sown the wind and reapt the
whislwind. The little tide Of Ssr
which il,y rolled NorthWard
with iaunis and glbes, has come back
upon them the mightiesi conflict Of
abe age, with pestileuee, fire aud fam
inc, in lis train. Tie disgraced flag
which they sen, Norlh with a handful
of released prisoners, has been brought
back again by an army Of an hundred
thousand men. Whatever else the
future may have in store for u, we
have The co~rsolauenof know ne HAT
the State responsible for Ibis great
crime Of rebellion has % escaped With
out some ofibc horrors Of tbe war.
The State Of South Carolina. viii
ali lie elk arsus instincts, had "a eye
10 inieres, 81 opening the var as i
did. Tie boflcr Sta,es sere 70 bs
drawn into lhe cont Ct add made the
battlc-Gcll. ID order ilat lhc cotton
States mi !. be free iram lie greater
part Of the esils Of the war. VIRGIN.
h was hexilSi re. afsa For, Sumrier
was taken Tor the Yzrgssr o. drawing
that State into the vortex 0. secession