The retribution.
That there is to be a retribution commensurate with their crimes visited upon the Yankees we have not a doubt, as we believe in the justice of Providence. We are inclined to the opinion that the present movement of Gen. Lee will be the means of administering an instalment of the debt due to them. Of course anything that the great man who commands the Army of the Potomac does will be done decently and in order. He will not allow "plundering;" which, as a man of discipline, he knows is destructive to discipline. But we cannot, but believe that he recognizes that even-handed justice, which would commend their own poisoned chalice to the lips of the Yankees,--and that, too, in a manner most advantageous to us and most injurious to them. While anticipating this, of course we could not expect a development of his own plan and mode of procedure until he had disposed of the defeated. Bombasts who hangs upon his right, and whom he would not leave in his rear without due attention.The Yankees knowing the enormity of their own offences dread a righteous judgment, and hence their terror at the bare announcement that General Lee had taken up the line of march towards their country. While he moves, the fires of our Southern homes and manufactories are illuminating our Southern skies. They may well tremble at every report of the ravages of the robbers and murderers they have sent amongst us. Yet General Lee is both deliberate and determined, and in the measures it may be in his power to take he will have in view alike a just retaliation and the safety and welfare of his army. We may confidently expect this from a man of his well attested wisdom and sagacity.
