By this proud reliance, and the isolation resulting therefrom, more victims have fallen than by immediate adversities. It was a necessity, because the colonies of America had attained that lawful age in the development of all the elements of national existence, which claims the right to stand by itself, and cannot any longer be led by a child's leading-strings, be the hand which leads it a mother's or a step-mother's. We have no such bankers in Hungary, and but a very small inconsiderable number who have invested their fortunes in such loan-shares. I will not act the part of crying complainants about our misfortunes; we will bear them. I, however, perfectly agree with the noble count, that the nation, once more restored to its constitutional existence, and free from foreign yoke, will have the unlimited right to dispose of all the affairs of the country, and consequently of the executive power. A week afterward, Jackson finished the great campaign of the Valley, by defeating Generals Fremont and Shields at Port Republic. The force has been placed by Northern writers at only thirty, or at most thirty-five thousand. General Pope had procured the work at home it is said, by impressing the authorities with a high opinion of his energy and activity.
The action began a little after noon, when the Federal right, consisting of the troops of Generals Banks, Sigel, and others, advanced and made a vigorous attack on Jackson's left, under A. They have seen, with profound indignation, their sister State deprived of every right, and reduced to the condition of a conquered province. The arrival of General Sumner, however, completely changed the face of affairs, and, as his fresh troops advanced, those which had been so roughly handled by Jackson had an work at home to reform. These extracts from General Burnside's orders and testimony clearly indicate his plan, which was to assail both Lee's right and left, and, in the event of failure, direct a heavy blow at his centre. The Southern people, from Virginia to the utmost limits of the Gulf States, resolutely persisted in regarding Lee as one of the greatest soldiers of history, and retained their confidence in him unimpaired to the end. Hill, whose division had not been engaged, was sent work at home and ordered to advance to the front, thus affording the disordered divisions an opportunity to reform their broken lines.
Lee was about to follow up the discouraged forces of General Hooker as they fell back toward the river; and, as the Southern army was flushed with victory, the surrender of the great body might have ensued.