"Bet your Pite."
The polite and accomplished
Ingalls — he is a General under
Grant — informed the people of Yankeedom, on the 12th, that the "old Republic" was safe!
His words were, dated from Spotsylvania Court House, these: "The old Republic is safe--
bet your pile!"--He adds: "
Grant is a giant and hero in war."
Ingalls would, no doubt, bet his pile on that, too, the more especially as
Grant had it in his power to throw him a crumb or two for his eulogy.
Ingalls is probably a gambler, and likes to see betting going on, even where the chances are too slight to hazard his own pile.
To stimulate others around the table, he assured them that although the
Confederates fought "like devils," "we (they) will have them this
pop, though it may take a day or two!" The "day or two" has come and gone and the "pop" with them, and the
Confederates still survive — nay, the heroes of the "pop," with their "Giant," have moved off and left the field whereon the "pop" was popped unsuccessfully, and without demonstrating the safety of the "old Republic," or of any "pile" that anybody may have bet on it.
But
Ingalls is merely helping the "Giant" and the
Yankee Government in the fraud which they are ever practicing to give spirit and force to the war. They are endeavoring to deceive their own people, and stimulate enlistments and reinforcements.
There is an army of "
ninety days" men in the
Northwest which it is important to get in the field.
These must be deluded by all sorts of lies.
So must the army that is fighting under
Grant, and they are told, in orders from headquarters, that the rebels have been whipped in divers places — that
Petersburg has fallen and
Butler is besieging
Richmond; while the troops under the Beast are informed, for the same reason, that
Grant has whipped
Lee!
A
Yankee Colonel, who was taken prisoner, gave an account of the preparation of one of these orders by
Grant and
Meade.
Grant proposed to inform his men of the capture of
Petersburg and of sundry victories over the rebels, and to add his felicitations upon the victory won the day before over
Lee's left.
Meade deeming it best to omit the victory "over the left, " suggested that as the army knew as much about that as
Grant, it might throw doubt upon the balance of the story.
The "Giant" acquiesced.
Fraud is indeed a great agent of the invasion.
We see a President of an immense people not hesitating blasphemously to call everybody to thanksgiving to God for events which he knows have not transpired; and the next day, in his vulgar facetiousness, he alludes to the man who had achieved the unachieved events he wants everybody to thank God for, as the "man who had climbed the pole and pulled the pole up after him!"
How wide the contrast between these dishonest blackguards and the leaders and rulers of the
Confederacy!
Let us thank God that we are separated from the
Yankee nation!
