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carried along with them Union sentiment, we might admit that a restoration of the Union was not yet impossible. It would then be a question of arms, dependent on the accidents of war; it is now becoming more and more a question of feeling. Every advantage gained by the North but adds to the bitter hostility of their kinsmen in the Southern States, who already hate them as intensely as ever Englishmen hated Frenchmen in the long wars of Europe. Let us quote on this point the evidence of Dr. Russell, a man certainly not prejudiced against the Northern cause: "A gentleman who had a good deal of conversation with the Confederate prisoners at Roanoke says they spoke with unanimous bitterness of the North, and that he could not detect a trace of ' Union sentiment,' though they were in captivity. Burnside's expedition has failed to elicit any ' Union sentiment' in North Carolina, which was said to be bubbling up with it, and sent a ' bogus senator' to represent it in Congress. In C
of still, to catch up with him, and it seems certain that they do not mean to stand still. The fact is beyond dispute. England has lost the supremacy of the seas, and, for the time, the Yankees have it. Lord Russell has fairly muddled away the English superiority. Had he opened the ports ten months ago, the war would have been at an end. There would have been no Merrimac exploits and no Yankee fleet of gunboats. We are by no means surprised at the overreaching of so small a man as Russell by so artful a man as Seward. But that he should ever have been able to impose upon so able a man as the Emperor of the French, is truly astonishing. That potentate is, however, in the same boat with the English Foreign Secretary, and he must share the same fate. He cannot now break the blockade, if he should desire it, and he can get no cotton until the blockade is broken. The result of the Merrimac's exploits has been to open the eyes of both France and England, when it is already too
D.--Abuer Va. England, Captain; Douglas B. Benson, 1st Lieut; J. T. Vannerson, 2d Lieut; E. M. Dunndvant, Junior 2d. Ashland Grays, Company E.--St. George Tucker, Captain; Chastain H. Taylor, 1st Lt; John C. Govers, 2d Lieut; Henry C. Jones, Junior 2d. Emmett Guard, Company F, declined electing officers, and they will be appointed by the president. The old officers remain in command. Henrico Southern Guard, Company G.--Hamet Clarke, Captain; Joe M. Gunn, 1st Lt; John H. Allen, 2d Lieut; J. K. Russell, Junior 2d. Young Guard, Company H.--Campbell Lawson, Captain; Geo. Charters, 1st Lieut; George W. Berry, 2d Lieut; Charles Bailie, Junior 2d. Hanover Grays, Company L.--J. D. Waid, Captain; George P. Haw, 1st Lieut; John W. Davidson, 2d Lieut; Wm. Passeley. Junior 2d. Marion Rifles Company K, declined electing officers, and they will be appointed by the President. The old officers remain in command. *Lieut. Taylor declined occupying the position.