The Anxiety to "Bag" Charleston.
The Northern papers are on the anxious bench about the coming assault on
Charleston.
The New York
Herald says "nothing can be more certain than the utter destruction of the rebels, not only at
Charleston but also in front of
Vicksburg," The Louisville
Journal is not so vivacious. "If we succeed," says that paper, "we shall then be able to push our fortunes in sober earnest, and to batter purpose." The
Washington Press deals in hopeful incentive.
Forney remarks, for examples that "we will soon put such a spider into
Beauregard's dumpling at
Charleston as that
person never dreamed of before.
It is fit that the end of the rebellion should be witnessed and experienced by the author of the beginning."
Greeley thinks "success at
Charleston would enable us to snap our fingers in the face of all
Europe." Evidently the attack will be made with spirit Upon the God of the just and the strong arm of our commander do we rely for success and re-tender them to a fresh faith, the wholesome welcome we gave them nearly two years ago. To show how much the Charlestonians are affected by these threats, we give the following extract from a latter from that city:
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"Everything here looks gay and business like.
The ladies parade the battery of afternoons in crowns, looking as beautiful and happy as if no war prevailed.
Frazier's wharf presents as lively a scene — with rattling drays, ships receiving and discharging cargo — as of old. Meeting
street, too, especially in front of the
Southern Express office, looks as busy as a tree in a tar barrel, with its numerous wagons in front of the door, receiving as well as discharging freight."
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