Ready for action.
--The Jackson Guard, Capt. Hiram B. Dickinson, (or the majority of them,) being ready for action, will start in a few days to join the Wise Legion. The company is named after Mr. Jackson who was murdered in Alexandria while attempting to prevent the larceny of a portion of his property by the chief of the Ellsworth zouaver, on the entry of that band of assassins in Alexandria. The standard of Gen. Wise is now raised in the West, and, as a Southern contemporary says--‘ "We expect to hear soon of the best and most brilliant work that will be done during the war, should the enemy meet him, from the column under command of the fiery and impetuous Gov. Wise. He is the right sort of a man for the work before him — hard fighting and plenty of it. His tireless energy, his restless ardor, his impulsiveness, are the very qualities to make a great warrior, and just what are required now in Virginia. In war nothing can be done too quickly, after it is determined on. Celerity is the first element of victory. The end to be accomplished is to drive out the invader from Virginia, and to conquer him finally. Are we not able to do it? If not, we ought to cease blowing. But we are able — we have the men to do the work, they have gone for that purpose, and it is time they were at it.
"Wise is the man for the business, and we expect him to fight when he meets the enemy, let the odds be as they may; and if the enemy will not come, he will go after him. But he will have to meet the best troops Lincoln has; Western men, many of whom have in their veins Virginia and Kentucky blood, and there-fore may be counted on to come to time. It is less glory to whip the New England, New York and Pennsylvania men, than those hardy pioneers of the West."
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