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The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Rapidan. (search)
tter condition for the collision than the United States, with all its power, was for assault.--They did not leave a good cause to take care of itself; they did not expect that the angels would descend from above and drive the Yankees from the harbor; but they acted upon the maxim of Cromwell, to "trust in God and keep your powder dry. " They acted upon the principle that "faith without works is dead," and that the Gods help them who help themselves. The consequence was that they shelled Major Anderson out of Fort Sumter in two days, and that, when they had him out, they have placed the same fortress in such a condition that it has resisted a siege of more than three months by the most powerful armaments under the sun. And yet Fort Sumter is only one of a mighty cordon of defences which encircles the Palmetto city, and each of which the Yankees will have to pummel to powder before the coveted jewel falls into their hands. Nothing has been left in the measures for the defence of Charle