Year: 1862

iting effect upon the rebe leaders in Rich
mond. They had intended to have ar
Inauguration Ball but the Richmonders
were in no frame of mind to dance, and
the ball was abandoned. A prominent
member of the Rebel Congress, in view Of
the disastrous state of things is reported
to have said "that they might as we'll a
bandon the atempt to gain their indepen-
dence, lay down their arms, return to the
arts of peace, acknowledge themselves fair
ly vanquished, and submit to whatever
terms the North may see fit TO dictate


The tone of the Richmond press is lugu
brious, and the same time terriically ter
rible. The Dispatch, edited by North
ern renegade, says:


The crisis of the war is upon US, and
reverse upon reverse comes in quick success,
sion. We-have scarcely recovered from
depression consequent upon our defeat at
Fort Henry and Roanoke, ere we are call
ed on to meet still heavier calamity in
the fall of Fort DonelsoD, and the surren
der of our brave troops holding that i'm
por.tant post.


If these bloody barbariaus, whose hands
are now soaked to the elbows in the life
blood of men defending their own homes
and fresides, dream that they are now one
inch nearer the subjugation of the South
than when they started on their internal
mission, they prove themselves to be fools
and madmen as we'll as savages and muir
derers. They have taught US lesson we
admit; they have admonished us TO be
more wary and circumspect, to husbands
with greater care our limited resources,
and not to underate our enemy.


Their success at Fort Donelson, gained
only by vast superiority of number, will
only have the effect of converting the
whole population of the South-men, wo-
man and chiIlren-into an immence army,
who will resist them at every step, and
everywhere "welcome them with bloody
hands to hospitable graves"


The old Richmond Enquirer also groans
and raves as follows.


The fortitude of our people is again to
be tried, and the metal of which their
courage is made to be tested, by the last
news from Fort Donelson. We have met
with heavy disaster there. The wretches
who are invading our country were enabled
by the facilities of river transportation, to
bring up reinforcemsnts to their previously
whipped troops, and overwhelmed US with
numbers.





But this thing we must do. BY the
mangled body of every man who fell at
the hands of the scoundrel murderers who
have invaded the country of those who
never id them any harm-by the homes
we have established by our industry
by the beautiful land which we have inner
tied from our forefathees by the fami-
lies that we love-by all that is noble and
patriotic and brave, and in the fear and
fevently invoking the favor of God-we
must all resolve, in our inmost souls, and
VOW with an irrevecabe vew, that we will
resist the enemy to the last extremity,
and that we will die if we can not become
freemen!


And this VOW we must set about max
ing good. Let towards tremble if they
will Let vile niggards count their treas
ures in agony: But what brave or generous
citizen would wish to survive the ruin of
his country? Who would desire to live
when odious and vulgar despots have foot
upon our necks! No, fellow citizens, let
US, as did our fathers, pledge our honor to
each other and to the world, that our
lives and fortunes be devoted to the vim
dication of liberties; and that, if these are
lost nothing shall survive the wreck, for
nothing would be worth saving.


Courage then, people of the Confeder-
ate States: