The howl of rage and excitement raised through the
North over the death of their chief bully of the Zouaves, is second only to the uproar which they raised when they tried to intimidate
Virginia from hanging that eminent
Ohio saint, the late
John Brown. What an exceedingly moderate, modest and rational idea, that they should invade our country, with the most horrid threats against all we hold dear, and that if we raise a weapon in self- defence, it is the most infernal outrage upon these excellent people ever recorded in the annals of mankind!
They expect their men to go to war, and if one of the ‘"Lambs" ’ gets killed, it is an unheard of brutality!
They expect to come on
Virginia soil, and profane it with their accursed presence, and not be ‘"welcomed with bloody hands to a hospitable grave."’ We can tell them that
Jackson, who fell at the thresh hold avenging nobly the infamous act of a piratical invader, is but a type of Southern millions, who are ready to die, if need be, for their flag, and who would count death a joy and triumph at any time rather than be subject to such a people.
But dying, they will make their enemies pay the full cost of every life.
On that certainty the invaders may as well base their calculations from the start.
Our unerring marksmen will take down the leaders and officers at every crack of the rifle.
We have now before us an envelope of the Young Men's Christian Association, of
Rondout, New York, sent to the Young Men's Christian Association of
Richmond, in which that eminently pious, saintly, meek, Christian body represents
Jeff. Davis hanging from a gallows, which is guarded by the Zouaves of New York, under their chief.
Their chief will not be present to superintend that operation.
He has gone where a good many of his followers will ere long be, and where the Young Men's Christian Association of
Rondout would join him, if their courage were equal to their malignity.
