Posted on 03/02/2025 7:34:01 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
VIRGINIA.
THE PROPOSED ABANDONMENT OF RICHMOND.
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 1.
Richmond papers of Monday contained very important admissions. The Sentinel admits that the removal of guns and stores from Richmond is going on and endeavors to quiet the apprehensions of the people. The Sentinel says that the members of the rebel Congress have fled one by one until there is only a quorum left for business. Gen. LEE begs that Congress will not now adjourn, and leave his hands lettered and unprepared for further resistance.
From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 27.
In the extraordinary message which Mr. DAVIS recently addressed to Congress he declared that "if the campaign against Richmond had resulted in success instead of failure; if we had been compelled to evacuate Richmond as well as Atlanta, the Confederacy would have remained as erect and defiant as ever. Nothing could have been changed in the purpose of its Government, in the indomitable valor of its troops, or in the unquenchable spirit of its people. The baffled and disappointed foe would in vain have scanned the reports of your proceedings at some new legislative seat for any indication that progress had been made in his gigantic task of conquering a free people. There are no vital points, on the preservation of which the continued existence of the Confederacy depends. There is no military success of the enemy which can accomplish its destruction. Not the fail of Richmond, nor Wilmington, nor Charleston, nor Savannah, nor Mobile, nor of all combined, can affect the issue of the present contest." In the African Church, a fortnight ago, he reiterated these extravagant propositions. Mr. BENJAMIN afterward took up the theme on the same rostrum, and spoke of evacuating this city with equal flippancy. Inconsiderate persons and newspapers,
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