Rebel View Of The Great Battle

Prora the Sen (Mwin l'ic.vuue, 23d. Our telegraphic dispatches this morning teil a glorious tale tbr the South. - It is not the bulletins of our friends alone, which announce a grand victory for the armies of the South. It is confessed iu all its greatuess and completeness by the waihugs which come to us from the city of Washington, the headquarters of our enemie.s, It is told in the groans of the paaio-strickea minions of tyranny wbo aro quaking behind their intrenchinents with apprehenaions for the approach of the avcnging soldiers of the tíouth, driving before it the routed remnants of that magnificont arniy which they had prepared and sent fotth with the boastful promise of an easy victory. From Richinond, on the contrary, come the glad signs of exeeediiig joy over a triumph of our arms, so great and overwhelming as though the God of battleg had fought visibly on our side, and smitten and scattered our cnemies with a thunderbolt. Our readers must gather the details for themselves from the copious reportg in our telegraphic columns, Such a rout of such an army - so large, so equipped and Lso commauded - was never kuown before on this continent. Wholo corps disorganized, regiments cut to pieces, artillery captured in whole batteries, and a mighty body of disciplined men converted mto a panicstrickeu mob - such things have not been heard of except on that smaller seale where the disciplined troops who bore Scott into Mexico encountered the feeble races of semi barbariaus who parted before him like sheep before a charge of cavalry. It is the same iron race which took Scott upon their shoulders, and carried him iuto the capital of Mexico, which uow bars his way to lUchmond with a wall of steel and tire. The sense of guilt palsied his owu arm, and the vcry hands which made for him the laurel crown of conqueror havo torn it from a dishonored head. The loss of that renown which was the passion of his life, and pride iu which made him an ingrate and a traitor, scarcely so much affects the ballied Scott as the thought that the honors ho bad so basely lost shall cluster around the brow of the man he most hatcs. Nor can wo calcúlate coolly on the cousequeuces of this astounding reverse upon : the plans of the enumy, and his opera ! tions. In its least doubtfuljj resulta it must disconcert and demoralize his whole i army. Such a terrible reverso has no i recuperativo power - in the sonso of a i great duty to be maintained at all costs 1 - a country, liberty, and a home to ! j fend at all hazards. The leaders may ( clamor for new aad greatcr efforts, for ' tho straiuiDg of the resources of the ' - pcople and the gatheriug of largo armamento to be precipitated upon tLe South in the desperate hope of retrieving the fbitunes of a day so doplorably lost. - We will not venture to say to what estont rage, disappointment, baffled cupidity, and thirst for revengo may carry a deludod poople, but the confideneo of the South will rise high, that no continued and often repcatcd struggles can be entered upon in the face of such obstacles which have been fouud in the eourugo and constancy of the Confedérate army, and the geniui of Lis illustrious chicf. But Lincoln and Scott havo lost another State, for wliioh thoy wcro playing high. We say nothing of thoir need-to inspiro confidcnce among the tax-paying and money-Ionding people of the North by some striking proof of thcir superiority in arras, but thoy have to racet in the markets and Cabinots of Europe the rewards of that arrogant boasting with which, as of ycsterday, they warned the world to keep hands out of this quarrel, for they were a powerful governmeut, which had only to stretch out its hand n anger to crush out the rebellious malcontenta of the South. The cannon at Manassas, thundering after the fleeing olurans of Scott's routed array, will disípate tlicso raists, at home and abroad. H every corner of this land and at every capital in Europe, it will be reccived as the emphatic and exultitig endorsement, by a youug and unconquerablc nation, of the lofty assuranee President Davis spread before the world on the very eve of the battle, that the noble raoe of freomen who inherit these States will, whatever may be the proportions the war inay assume, "ronew their sacrifiocs and their services from ycar to year uatil they have made good to the uttermost ttieir right of selt-government." The day of battle shows how they ] deemed this pledge for them, and in i versity, as in victory, it is the uudying pledge of all. i