The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-03-02

lny Shall Silttcr Der me Grave
Forever float that standard sheet
Where breatbes the foe that falls before Us
With Freei-fnss soil beneath feet.
And Freedoms banner streaming Ger Us
Yes Flag of the Free thou hast been
insulted, tainted and defied by rebel
| foes; but bravely hast thou fought. pa
tiently endured, and VIGOROUSLY achiev-
ed Much hast thou vet to do, but
twill be-doae; and from the top of
Sumter now, and soon waving from every
pinnacle in the land, thou wilt be what
| thou vast, the sign of hope and triumph
to every people on the earth.
/ Nearly four years ago BEAURsG ARD
/ telegraphed the rebel Congress at Mont
! gomery, from the batteries of Moultrie
whether he should fire. Fire said the
rebel Secretary, WALRER-whose house,
home and fortune have long since gone
to ruin. Then they laughed round the
board, as if they were just beginning a
! game of nine pins-and fearful game
/ of nine pins it has been. They have
been rolled down, till life, homes, for
tune, all have been broken and ruined.
OF all this Fort Sumter has been the sign
! and emblem. OF no great consequence
in itself, it was the one great sign Of the
rebellion. The true national patriots
have never for one moment, forgotten
that there the rebellion began, AMI there
they would again plant the Flag Of Free
dom, in spite of all enemies upon earth.
1t is done, and this fact stands out as a
grand, moral evidence that the rebellion
is practically at an end, and yet there
may be battles and marches of great mo-
ment. All is not done in a day
In connection with Fort Sumter let rs
look at the conduct of the civil and mil
itary authorities of South Carolina
Never were any community so thoroughly
disgraced. There was the boosted 'chiv-
airy, there was the .'last ditch" there
was where every man was TO make 4 ram
part of his breast, and there was where,
like the old Spartans, they were to- make
grave for themselves or their enemies
what did they? We leave Che re
portcrs and the Generals to tell the story.
AS near as we can get at it, every man
who could bear arms, especially fire eat
ing editors, militia Generals and Gov
errors, with BEAUREGARD at their head
scampered off as fast as they could
This is not by any means the worst of
it. The great Shareholders, secessionists
and fire eaters moved Off first, and left
the poor, the old and the helpless, to
suffer as they might, to crown the whole,
for the sake of few cotton bales, they
set fire to the city! The Union people
have no possible objection to their burn
ing every stick in Charleston, and throw
ing Richmond into the flames with it, but
look to the manner of it. Look to the
land of chivalry and gallantry for an ex-
ample of barbarism which Sparta might
have envied
A fine specimen of what the whole
Secession sect are, is the Proclamation
of theEying Governor of South Carroll
ma, McGRAw. Lying is the element in
which it lives and moves. When Satan
set up Pandemonium, he established ly-
ing as the first principle of his Empire.
McGRAw asks: when did we ever in
wade their soil % We should be glad to
know what he called Fort Sumter, on the
18th day of April, 1861 Whose flag
was it that waved upon its summit? Who
built it? Why, the very rocks in its
foundation were brought from the Hud
son River, and Massachusetts,. The very
tide water which rolled around it, was
acknowledged by all people, and all Gov
ernments, to be the waters of the United I
States. But we pause. The Govern /
ment has indicated its right, stated in I
Mr.. LINCoLN's first Proclamation, to re
take, and plant its flag on every fort, /
port, building, arsenal, and territory on /
which it ever waved. We do not blame I
the rebels for evacuating Charleston or
retreating before SHERMAN If they did +
not behave so meanly after Dragging so
loud, there would be nothing discredit-
able to them They could not help
evacuating The progress of war brought .
our armies to their doors and they must +
+it- An
what next? We have already stated
LEES position and the probabilities of
the case. Something more may be added .
to that. The real question now IS, whether .
LEE will evacuate Richmond? And that
is question not to be decided by any
one outside of Richmond If LEE and
DAVIS think that Richmond can be de
Tended after SHERMAN arrives on the
railroads of North Carolina, they will
stay there. If not, they will evacuate.
hard rs the case mav0e For ourselves
we can answer it definitely. Richmond
cannot be defended after SHERMAN ar
rives at Danville. From some indica-
tions in the Richmond papers, that seems
to be understood there, but that leads to
no inference. The Richmond Examiner
says, that if SHERMAN cannot reach the
Danville road, he might as well not have
started. We are of different opinion;
but we readily admit that unless be can
seize the Danville road, the fall of Rich
mond is not q necessity. The Examiner
and Gen. LEE seem to think SHERMAN
can be arrested before he reaches the
Danville road How is it to be done
We suppose the troops sent to BEAURE-
GARD, those who escaped with HARDEE,
the garrison of Charleston, and those
under HoKE at Wilmington. may alto
gether make an army of 10000. This
is not more than half enough to resist
SHERMAN What is to be done? Sup /
pose it were practicable-which we be-
lieye to be utterly impraeticable-for
LES to send $4,000 more men to BEAURE
GARD His army then-making 10000
troops-would be able to meet
SHERMAN But what are ies TO do? The
23d army corps detained on the Poto-
mac BY ice J, is 10000; the troops under
TERRY. GILMORE and others, number 20,
IN 900 s9f s0tT-A