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WYTHEVILLEDISPATCH.VOL. II.WYTHEVILLE, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1863.NO. 6.WYTHEVILLE DISPATCH,PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY.II. S. MATIIEWS, Editor.D. A. ST. CLAIR, Publisher.TERMS.The Dispatch is furnished to subscribers at $1.50 for six months, $1.00 for three months, single copies, 5 cents.ADVERTISING-.One square (10 lines) or less, one insertion, $1,00 Each additional, 60 cts.Liberal deduction made to yearly or quarterly advertisers.Announcements of Candidates will be inserted for $3,00 payable in advance.Tlie Democrat Yankees.This section of the alien enemy, which is now endeavoring to reduce our country, by fire, famine and slaughter—even the best of them, even the most peacefully disposed of them—have no idea of making peace with us except on the basis of re-union—that is, submission. Vallandigham is the best and most peaceably disposed ; and in his late “great speech” we can find not one single practical idea except a plan forgetting rid of the Republican cormorants who now devour the revenue, and putting in their place the Democratic sharks who swallowed it before, all by the help ofUn-tlie South, in a reconstructed ion. For this great end, so sacred in Democratic eyes, he thus suggests a mutual forgiveness of injuries :And, sir, let no man in the South tell me that she has been invaded, and that all the horrors implied m those most terrible of words civil war, have been visited upon her.— I know that, too. But we, also, of the North and West, in every State and by thousands, who have dared so much as to question the principle and policy, or doubt the honesty of this Administration and its party, have suffered everything that the worst of despotism could inflict, except only loss of life itself upon the scaffold. Some even have died for the cause by the hand of the assassin. Andean we forget? Never, never. Time will but burn the memory of these wrongs deeper into our hearts. But shall we break up the Union ? Shall we destroy the Government because usurping tyrants have held possession and perverted it to the most cruel of oppressions? Was it ever so done in any other country ? In Athens ? Rome ? England ? Anywhere ? No sir ; let us expel the usurper, and restore the Constitution and laws, the rights of the States, and the liberties of the people ; and then in the country of our fathers, under the Union of our fathers and the old flag—the symbol once again of the free and the brave—let us fulfill the grand mission which Providence has appointed for us among the nations of the earth.we injured the North? Was it we who erected that “worst despotism” under which they suffer ? Was it we who shut them up in Fort Lafayette, and arrested their editors, and seized their letters in the post-office ? “But shall we break up the Union,” cries the Democrat! Just as you please, sir, it is no affair of our’s. “No sir,” cries he, “let us expel the usurper !” Mr. Lincoln is no usurper ; you have regularly elected him; we wish you joy of him. We cannot ally ourselves with a faction in a foreign nation to displace its regular government— Such proceeding would be contrary to the law of nations, and we have a great respect for the law of nations.As for the “old flag,” we presume that Mr. Vallandigham means the flag which has been waving over the ruffians of Butler, the brigands of Milroy, the flag that has symbolized to us burning towns and households desolated, the flag that we have seen flying before us on every battle-field of Virginia, the flag that we have torn and trampled with a malediction into the mud of every swamp between Yorktown and the Rappahannock! The Democrat will excuse us ; we can never again hoist on sea or land that dishonored banner.We have no obiection to Mr. Val-i»landigham and his Democrats dethroning “the usurper.” On the contrary, we encourage him in that enterprise ; but he must expect no political alliance with us, and may as well drop the subject of that old flag.—Richmond Enquirer.sia, but never with perfidious England, if she can help it.Other indications are manifest that something in the shape of interference or mediation is soon to take place. All this may be premature and unfounded, still we are doubtless approaching a crisis in our national affairs.We may not be pleased with the complexion our public affairs are assuming, still we know the utter folly of resisting the inexorable logic of events. If we cannot, or have not, put down the rebellion, we cannot expect nations which suffer much by our quarrel to look on as disinterested spectators forever.Old Abe’s “Big: Job.”Mutual forgiveness of injuries is a beautiful thing ; but how haveThe strongest indication we have yet seen, that Old Abe is getting tired of the “big job” of conquering the South, is the following taken from a late number of the Washington City Republican, the organ of the abolition Administration :We are confident we are on the eve of some developments respecting foreign mediation. There are many straws which indicate how the wind is soon to blow.The Richmond Dispatch said, some days since, after the battle of Antietam propositions of peace ought to have been made, that both parties could then have made proposals of this nature with perfect propriety.The New York Tribune has a well considered article upon the subject of foreign mediation, proposing the Swiss Cantons as the mediatory power. It does not object to the French Government making an effort in this direction, but is not so well satisfied with England. Our people might be satisfied with the interference or mediation of the Swiss Cantons, or even of France, or most certainly of RusKkntucky.—The following items are from the Louisville Democrat: “Kentucky has given over 40 regiments to the Union armies, and they have borne the brunt of battle shoulder to shoulder with the bravest ; but under the effect cf the radical programme they are dwindling away by resignations and desertions, from full regiments to mere companies. The 20th Kentucky, which distinguished itself at Shiloh and captured a rebel battery, is reduced to 120 men. Another regiment advertises 200 deserters, and the . e^ge desertions from all arenearly up to that number. The 15th, which fought so desperately at Perryville and lost all its field officers—Col.Pope, Lieut. Col. Jew-itt and Major Campbell—has lost nine other commissioned officers by resignation. Captain M. C. Taylor Lieuts. Winloch and McGrath and six others have quit the service.” “Desertions.—There are no less than 100 deserters from the 3d, 15th,23d,and other Kentucky regiments now lurking about Newport, Ky. A squad of 18 cavalrymen, in one body, was sten a day or two ago not far from that place, and efforts have been made to arrest them, but without success.”upon which it stands, for its sides seem to have been used in past years simply as a mark for sportsmen to try their skill upon, so they are literally covered with dents caused from buckshot and bullets, which have been sacreligiously fired at it, while it has no enclosure whatever, there being a small graveyard a few steps distant well enclosed by a brick wall, containing a few ancient graves.I cannot account for this strange neglect of a monument which was intended as a token of respect to the memory of one who reared him who won the admiration of not only his countrymen, but of the world.I could not but feel while standing and viewing this revered spot, what a burning disgrace it was to see it in its present condition, and I hope that whenever peace shall be restored, that this place shall be fitted up in a manner befitting the memory of her who has so long been lying beneath its sod. History aver$ that “Mary, the Mother of Washington,” is inscribed upon the tombstone. I looked in vain to see it, for no inscription can be found upon it to tell the name of the dead, only hundreds of names being written high upon its sides by them who were desirous of their names livi«#«ywith the revered dead.__________________ y/vThe Grave of Wsisliing:-ton’s HI oilier.A correspondent of the Petersburg Express, writes the following from Fredericksburg, in regard to the monument erected over the remains of Mary, the mother of Washington :I visited a few day3 ago, the monument of Mrs. Washington, the mother of the Father of our country, which is situated on the northern suburbs of Fredericksburg, on a beautiful knoll of ground. The structure is of beautiful marble, and is at present only some fifteen feet high, for it seems that it has never been completed, as a large stone in its rough state, intended for a capstone, is still lying by its side awaiting to be smoothed and elevated to the place it was destined for But little care has been taken either of the monument or the groundFrom Missouri.—The Richmond correspondent of the Mercury, uu- ^ der date of January 20, gives the following:Some Missourians, who have been d for months in Yankee prisons, have just arrived here. They represent the state of feeling in Illinois and _ Indiana as all we could wish. Undying hostility to Lincoln, the war »-and New England is the motto of a the democracy. We have no idea of what Missouri has suffered.— *• These gentlemen declare that fifty ^ thousand of their fellow-citizcns are -in dungeons, all U’e prisons in Mis- « souri being full, and thirty prisons “ in other States crammed. Thou- u sands have been expatriated ; even *lt; the wives, daughters, mothers, chil- lt dren, in fact all the female relatives of Southern men, are being driven [ out. Still the spirit of Missouri is undaunted, her sons cling to the cause, and she would to-day vote ione hundred thousand majority in 3itfavor of the Confederacy.They say there is a fearful day of j reckoning for the robbers and assas-sins who have hunted them from r their homes. One of them brings 0 a Cincinnati paper, which confirms my views about the capture of _ Springfield. It admits the place I was taken, and two and a half mil-lions of dollars worth of stores de-r j stroyed.»0The last words of Gen Rains, who fell at the battle of Murfreesboro’— “Forward ray brave boys,Forward.”
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