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SAVANN AII DAILY HERALD.
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Imijortant Extracts.
[Prom the Richmond Dispatch, Feb. 55
We learn that the raiding party of
Yankee cavalry who 1 were reported to be
advancing by way of Tarboro’, N. C., on
the Weldon Railroad, have- returned to
Washington. AYe have been unable to
obtain any information as to the amount
of damage done by them.
(From the Richmond Enquirer, Feb. 25.,'
If it be correct that the Confederate
Senate has decided definitely against ne
gio soldiers, then it has deliberately and
defiantly disregarded the earnest appeal
of General Lee and the well expressed
will of the people; it has criminally
jeopardized the liberties of these States;
recklessly hazarded the success of our
cause, and presumptuously set its judg
ment, or rather the judgment of thirteen
men, against the will of the people, the
earnest" appeal of General Lee, the re
quest of the army, and with indifferent
eyes looks upon the calamities that now
beset our cause and the imminent danger
that now imperils these States.
The liberties of these States must be
preserved; we should rejoice if this could
be done and the Legislature of the coun
try remain intact; but the public safety
is imperative, and since the Senate will
not consent to the use of a great element
ot strength, there remains but one thing
for the President to and that the re
public sustains no detriment—and, lor
this end, without law, call upon the peo
ple to send their slaves to the front; aye,
take the negroes and use them. The
public safety is above laws and constitu
tion, and if a mistaken respect for the
laws and constitution permits the public
safety to be compromised, there will at
tach an awful responsibility to the Exec
utive, which will be transmitted through
all times in the miserable slavery of
these people and tlieir descendants.
When the assumption of extraordinary
and s'upra-coustitutional power is in ac
cordance with the will of the people,and
exercised lor the protection of the gov
ernment and the defence of the public
liberties, it is right and will be justified.
It may be said that this is revolution
ary, dictatorial. But it would be revolu
tionary only in form, not in truth. The
will of the people—certainly in Virginia
—has been expressed through her press,
her soldiers and her Legislature.
Senators have undertaken to disregard
that will; they are in revolution against
their own people.. The President may
exercise this power, and would do so,
with “the consent” of the Virginia Legis
lature. It is not desirable that any con
vention of the people of Virginia should
assemble during the excitement of this
war, but if the supposed interest of slave
holders is to be permitted to stand be
tween the use of any and every means of
public defence and the*’ preservation of
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1865.
the liberties of these States, then a con
vention ought to be assembled and the
institution abolished. If the will of the
people is not to be regarded by Senators,
then they set themselves up as an
garchy, superior to the people.. This
cannot be submitted to. The Legislature
of Virginia should see that the will of the
people of the State is obeyed and re
spected. These States and this cause
stand to-day in need of a dictator —ot a
man who will take the power of the
people and use it for their preservation;
and such a man, -whether President
Davis or Gen. Lee, would be borne.on
the shoulders of a grateful people, if
either of them would with strong hand
* seize power and exercise it vigorously
for the public safety. At such a time,
and amidst such perils, it seems like
mockery to hear the action of the Con
federate Senate called conservative.
Sherman is rushing through the Caroli
nas like an avalanche, and report says
has captured one hundred thousand
bales of cotton at Columbia; Grant is
gradually and perhaps surely extending
ins lines around Petersburg and Rich
mond, and threatens every moment to
burst over the lines that intervene, and
the Senate is doing the conservative.
History furnishes no parallel to this.
[From ihe Richmond Whig, FeD. 25.]
A gray-haired merchant of this city
offered the other day to give the govern
ment half of everything lie owned in the
world, to close his store, and to devote
his whole time, without charge, lo hos
pital duty, if thereby he could ensure
the success or promote the good of the
cause. Another old gentleman living in
the country, in renewing his eubeeiipilot!
to the Whig, writes that, but for his in
firm health, which confines him to the
house, he would, in spite of bis seventy
winters, shoulder his musket and fight
under the black flag rather than submit
to be ruled by the Yankees. Slill
another old gentleman, writing from the
implores Congress to do its duty
and lay on the taxes. The people, he
declares, are willing to be taxed any
amount, to endure any privation, in or
der to benefit the cause.
This is the true spirit of patriotism—
the genuine, unselfish love of country.
Were all our people actuated by motives
as ardent and principles as noble as these
white-haired sires, the success of the
cause would not admit of a moment's
doubt—the great stake would virtually
be won and our independence as sure
as the sun in heaven. And if the old
man be moved by impulses. so exalted,
certainly the young men ought not to be
backward. Nor are they. The glowing
resolutions which regiment after regi
ment, brigade after brigade, and division
after division of Lee's glorious army con
tinues to send in to the papers, showi
conclusively that the pick and flower oj
our youth are fully up to the mark,
ready as ever to peril life and limb in de
fence of the lovely and beloved cues at
home. /
If the old men are eager to give the
half, and if need be, the whole of ticir
substance, and the young men are ready
to lay down their lives lor the goal of
the cause, where, then, is the iron He ?
It is to be found in that middle elms of
men, neither young nor old, wiling
neither to part with their goods n»r to
imperil their lives for the sake of thd in
dependence without which worldly pods
are a curse and life but a degradation. —
They are the men who give up the «ause
as lost before they have made th^first
effort to save it. They are the med who
tell you on the street tbat it is impossible
to check Sherman, and useless f pro
tract the struggle. Strange that ihf very
men who have borne the hardslips of
the struggle during four weary ydtrs are
determined to struggle on to tie end,
while they who have never struggled at
all are anxious toj prevent from
struggling.’
And yet it is not strange either. Faith
without works is dead. He who has
worked most for the cause ought to have,
and, in fact, has the most faith in its suc
cess ; while he who has not worked at
all, very naturally, has no faith at all. —
Hence the obvious inference that if we
would revive our faith, we must renew
and increase our works. Especially is
work needed in Congress. Four months
of twaddle is enough in all conscience.—
The time has arrived for action —prompt,
vigorous and united action. Robert E.
Lee has wrought manfully, and main
tains the faith heroically. His hands
should be strengthened. As many negroes
as he desires should at once be placed at
his disposal. Negro blood is not more
precious than the blood of our sons and
brothers. The enemy is in mortal tear
lest we should arm the negroes, and
presses his campaign through the winter
months in hopes of overpowering us be
fore the nearo troops can be ready foi
the field, is the Confederate Senate piay
ing into the enemy's hands ? It really
seems so. And y T et we ought to beware
of an ill-timed assault upon the Gulf
States. It comes with bad grace from
the papers of the State of Virginia, both
of whose Senators are as actively hostile
to the use of the negro as are any ol the
i Senators from the cotton States. We
| want harmony, bold and conceited ac
-1 lion ; not ti renewal of the stale quarn*^
' between the cotton and border
| Such a quarrel, at such a Vme, if not
| quickly hushed, will necessarily prove
: iatal to the cause. The enemy will re
gard it as the surest of all signs of our
failure.
Let us look up. There is hope in
North Carolina. The people of that
much maligned State will, as we firmly
believe, shows a front to the fob which
will bring a blush to the cheeks of the
Georgians and South Carolinians. Hol
den is a North Carolinian, but North
Carolina has sent more, soldiers to Lee’s
army than any other State except Vir
ginia. Some of the best troops and cer
tainly one of the very' best brigades now
in that army (Cook’s) is composed oi
North Carolinians. The people of the
Old North State are a brave and tena
cious people. They will teach Sherman
a w holesome lesson. The clans are mus
tering, the forces are gathering together.
“God,” sain an intrepid and devout cler
gyman of this city, “has a hook in Sher
man’s nose and is leading him to des
truction.” W t o trust and believe so.—
Where he least expects popular opposi
tion, there will his fate be sealed.
A Polyolot Item.— A young French
traveler recently spent several months in
London, and has been heartily laughed
at*fer dating all his letters in this singu
lar manner. “No. 4, Bill-stickers Beware
street, Leicester Square.
*We can beat that all to pieces. There
was dime a German Music-teacher in
New Y'ork, who for four months, until
be learned that a sign-board on the com
er doesn’t necessarily bear the name of
the street, dated all his letters home,
from “ Commit no Nuisance ” street,
New York.
Peace —How Boon ?—The following
story is told :—“How soon do you ex
pect peace ?” was atked the other day
of an ofGc»dl confident of the President’s.
“The problem of peace, ”he replied, “is
a very simple one. It is just a question
of walking §o many hours a day. Cal
culate for yourself how long it will take
Sherman’s army to walk across South
and North Carolina, and you have the
answer.” Tried by that test, and with
the more difficult march from Atlanta
south, which proved only “a pleasant
walk,” as a precedent, the problem is in
deed limited to very narrow and simple
conditions.
DRAMATIC.
The initial performance at the Theatre
last evening was attended by a large au
dience, who manifested their approval of
the various entertainments offered in the
most emphatic manner. Many of the
songs and dances were encored, and all
seemed to give eminent satisfaction.—
The performances of the ladies, “La
Belle Louise” and Miss Lottie Howland*
elicited special approbation. These la
dies are possessed of very versatile tal
ent, for one finds them on even
ing appearing in Extravaganza, Farce,
Song and Dance, and doing ail satisfac
torily, and some of them in a truly ad
mirable manner.
Messrs. Sweatnam and Scott also pro
duced a good impression, the former
being a good comedian, and the latter
one of the finest singers in the dramatic
profession. They were well supported
the other members of the comp
in fact, so well pleased did t’ vuefiunce
seem, that we cannot <tolVbt , at the
h °T. t °; Dlg ) t be crowded. The
en.iie cruel* nment p lsse( i of well, save 1
some of those hitches and irregr.-
Lurities which seem to be inseparable?
\ from a first night s performance. Tne
| music is under the able superintendence
|of Prof. Weigand. The same bill will be.
repeated this evening.-
Theatre ix Charleston. —Wc lean*
that the Military Hall, on Wentworth
| street, near King, is being put in repair,
, and will be fitted for theatrical eutertaiu
! meats, by Messrs. Strahau 6c Parke?,
! late of the Howard At hen mum, Boston.
; The Company - are on the way, SMth will
| commence to delight the soldi
j citizens, as soon as the fittings cun
i completed; The Company is composed
| of excellent talent, and w*; wish them
every success.
A Fruitful Country.— ln his “Ad
chess on California,)’ the Rweivnd Lr.
Bellows has the following;
“A respectable Presbyterian clergy
man told me he planted a peach pit, and
in fourteen months it had grown to a
tree ten feet high, and he ate peaches
grown upon it.”
After endorsing that as true, the Doc
tor gives a little story ofi his own hook.
He says:
“One man cut a stick which he cur
ried as a cane for a 'week or two, and
then sticking it in the ground as a sup
port for a weak sapling, it sprouted, and
in tw T o years he gathered a peck of pears
from that very cane! We Lave no con
ception of the activity of that soii.”
Os course we don't doubt the wqid of
cither of the clergymen. It is all v< ry true,
but it reminds us of the hero of one of
Col. Thorpe’s or some other joker's story.
He, however, placed his lertile soil in
Arkansas. There, a crowbar having
been placed in the field at night, sprout
ed ter.penny nails by morning. The
hero meets a man from New York who.
had visited Arkansas.
“Were you at the Shirt Tail Bend of
the Roarin’ of Arkansavv river ?”
“Yes.”
At Col. Thunder's plantation!”
“What did you think of the sile thar?’ ’
“NoUinuch. In fact, it was all red
cedar stumps and Indian mounds.”
“Red cedar stumps an’ Injin mounds!:
Why, stranger, them red cedar stumps
was* beets, an’them Imin mounds was
tater hills.”
But, as we like peaches and pears bet
ter than beets, and potatoes, commend ua
to California.
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