We have a dispatch from Texas, of another success of Gen.
Magruder at Sabine Pass, wherein he destroyed a large amount of the enemy's
stores.
But we are calmly awaiting the blow at Charleston, or a Savannah,
or wherever it may fall. We have confidence in Beauregard.
We are more anxious regarding the fate of Vicksburg.
Northern man as he is, if Pemberton suffers disaster by any default, he will
certainly incur the President's eternal displeasure. Mississippi must be
defended, else the President himself may feel the pangs of a refugee.
“That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me!”
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 255-6
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