The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 12, 1862 Page: 1 of 2
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thick would not
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Rebel determined to resist wrong
are not MtfJ eoaqnerwd, sor to their
crashed ^- We like the
«nd "rebellion," Ahey
retail to mind the daysot Washington
■ad the 'times that tried men's souls.
They speak of the deep instincts of
of, injured humanity—God has made
msn a rebel against wrong, end wel "d that we will fight in eornéet. knd
was
• crop are
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alt., a
.andtwo
subscribed. *■ jE,
sabscibing one
■track la the |teat
now ragsa than appeared
thank btm for • it, "Resistance to
tyraüts to obediaace to God"—And
fM trust oar enemies, ss they have
felt, shall still hare cause to
might that nerves the 'rebel's'
arm.
Pew people either Horth or South
entertained anything like the present
state of things ss the result of secei
sion witb us of the South, secession
had buen regarded as so clear a right
that by many It was deemed scarcely
possible tbaji it should proVe the
actual cause of war at nils much less
a war so vast in its proportions, and
so bitter and unralemting in its charac-
ter as that in which we are now en-
gaged; while others thought and
hoped that tbe boasted cbriatsin civi
lation of the nineteenth century might
find oat and suggest some other and
better solution of the disputed ques-
tions of political right, than the bar-
boufous and bloody «^conclusions
of battles could offer—And even after
hostilities had actually commenced
bow few then* were who seemed to.
perceive and appreciate the real con
dition and tendency of things, or to
bring their minds to a jast conception
ef tbe magnitud* mad Mriousn«s of
thick—•coming" e veuts—rWe said
"the war tobaund to be a short one,"
to Jgbt,
"we can whip them *asNy"—'ofie of
' equal to three or four of them.'
ny've got nothing to fight for and
stand the expenses of a
ton is King, and rules the
ngland and France cau
come that calls for earnestne*- end
self sacrifice on tbe part ol i e «11
We mnst fight, 'necet-slty in . id upon
us, yen, woe be nnto us' if We do n o
fight—the recent prompt response
to the country's call for volante.*
gives ample assurance that tbe fight
lug spirit is abroad among our people'
of private
fe,Jf
P|
HUH
have
get along without our coltpn,' nod it
they dont recognise us and mis the
blockade they shall not have our
cotton*—'The blockade íb bound <o
be raised In sixty days' dcc.fcc. Our
said they would make the
war «short, short oufl decisive'—'The
rebellion will be crushed out in thirty
days' aaid Mr. SewardwOn to
Richmond.* they shouted and started
in that direction if all the pride and
and circumstance' of Military
. y. glorying already in anticipa-
tion ot certain and easy victory.
They have not reached Richmond
y ru-jWe'll strve oat the Soath
with our blockade' they said—The
lb «tUriivos' unatarved.
¡mehas demonstrated ttat all
tbeee speculations and predictions
were at fitalt, all thsap • teakoniugs
wrong, and we are now in the midst
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^ [From the Civilian FxtraJ
CalvbsTon, April 7th $8—The
Federal steamer MagnoliA. Copt-
W n er appeajed off tbe West end
about 30 miles West Of Galvest*n "at
Saturday and cama to anchor
r'\* ^
te
exhausting1
not saught
rnd* oat
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long npdhard. aqd not grow weary
fiight ro day, and to-morrow, and the
next day, and the next year, and keep
on fightingas long as there i any
sense in fighting, and until the last
foot print of the foe is wiped off from
our soil.
Our recent reverses though some-
what huuiilating, ought not to di
courage us at all—Let none despond,
Letuo mau's gr< woman's heart fail for
fear because of them, they are as
nothing coin pared with the reverses
our 'revolutionary father! suffered.
There u no duug*r that we shad be
subjugated if wt> are true to ourselves,
and to our country. Tin? bistoiy of
>ke world i'utni-he* no v mid of
brave people so numerous as we, and
with the resources we possess tve
having been conquered by an euetnj
however superior in strength. resoui-
ces ond m litaiy appoint ot—l et
eveiy tuuii, woman and child iu iht
Southern Confederacy tío but onh
op# bait ot nhal they are capable ot
doing in their sever ! sphéreÜ for tbt
cause, and our ultimate
God's blessing, is
by
venture—In our vocabulary Ut
be no such word as fail, and
shall not tai, '
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8an Louis Pass.
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•She hoisted the Confederate flag
and the fore FngHsh colors at the peak
at tbe main and fired a gun. '<■ ?■
A boat was sent out from the fort
at San Louis with a white flag but
as the steamer did not show one she
returned, after reaching riftsbnr when
the steamer fired another gun.
Lieut. Edwards and Mr. Alexander
Follett then weut out With eigUhnen
in a boat and boarded the steamer
where they were iftcherously detain
ed no doubt under under the excuse
that the steamer had n^var shown a
whits flac. . n. - -l
At half past 7 o'cloek In the
ing, two boats with thirty men
ved with carbines, eUtlapses, re
volver* and boarding pikes, and
hoarded the schooner Columbia, wti
was lying inside the bar with 27
bales of cotton. At 8 o'clock Capt.
Davidson, of the Columbia arrived
from Galveston in a small sloop, and
w|S| firad <m by the Federals,
his own vessel, OS he Mpf
They did not lijar himHoweVeV,
Í
warp her oat, bat
tbe captain, crew and
in all, aboard their
"chooner on fire. Tlie
er with the sloops small boat
Uuvidsou were taken to the
where they remained all night
' ^.bout 0 o'clock the flames burst
out on the schooner and lit up the
whole horison.
[' She burnt all night and in the
morning fragments of cotton were
afloat in the vicinity.
| Tbe vessel and cargo are a total
loss. They were tbe property wf
Messrs It. A, D.6. Mills,
The men at the fort, give as a
reasqn for not firing, that thqy were
afriil of killing some of our men*
Yesterdav|V(Suiiday) morning Lieut
Pickering of the kontgonu ry. who
HVP$,
Of the -
had charL
Davidson, that lis could take
smitll sloop aud boat and go
with his crew and passengers, a priv-
ledg# whic h be willingly took.
After they had partid from the
nemies boats, two guns were fired
upon the Utter from the iort at San
Luis. They were answered by two
|rtaUrl|e Steamer and "
tired frotn the Fort on
l/£W Isíterg s
LyKl
r *
GXtiVl
WHEltEAS, i
remove 1
W. Jeffries, i j
Kirhy's batta
proper tribute of i
ry, Do
loss I
ry, but all appeared to fill short. Th- ¡
Columbia reports^ to have bee* jSSf*'*
'lUrnt within lesa than a mile of the
jf
I -p\
H,r pap vs were demanded of capt.
Davidson,, bat he had prudently put
i hem oat of reach. I
|, T% plontgoinery left Sund
ig, standing to the west
i Th
thirttl
eighty ve
e on New Orleans. A
thei¿ilki^' I#¡í'were , forty
b# t«. They said the obstruc
on th > Mississippi were to be rornov
wl on Saturday night 3th inOt. in*
order to attack Fort Jackson.
publication.
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Kashvilu* liAiUKB FBDBBAL RHI.B
—A® -the condition of affairs in Nasb^
vile w
must be of more than ordtnsry interest
to our renders, we group t be followiug
trom various sources. The Peters
(Sa.) Express of the 17th. has
following: ^
"Since the occu
the liucoln authorities
Hon. Albert G Rlwa,
from Logan county,
£dwin
and have sent them to
tobe
ii iL_r..,JLrBrr
Bates's Tenn.,regim(
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Elliott, B. F. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 12, 1862, newspaper, April 12, 1862; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177040/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.