Richmond Whig

THE CAPTURE OF RICHMOND. AND ITS RESULTS.

The Philadelphia North American and Gazette, in acknowledging the fact that General Weitzel's troops were received with the most enthusiastic expression of joy by the people of Richmond, says:

We cannot say that we are surprised at this exhibition of pleasure at the return of the old flag to a city which had once been so honored, as the people in must once have become wearied of the terrible and disastrous struggle for the possession probable relief to them. It has also been long known a happy fact that the charge must be an index. Tmd above were in many staunch and patriotic lovers a Union in that capital, who in secret have desired an efficient aid, and befriended our prisoners whenever the opportunity was afforded them.

These manifestations of joy in Richmond movable ant of the future in the entire South at the termination of the war. These people are evidently preparing to welcome back the old standard. Ms their own once more, and not as that of a foreign power holding authority among them: they iy egh of conquest. It illustrates how thoroughly wistirn were the persistent declarations that the Borian people would never submit again to the idsle quietly, no matter how much they might bea mryuared by our armies. For if any place in nasth might have been expected to become c:m- phty abscred in the rebellion, and identified with thaumh of secession, it certainly was Richmond, wbd bas enjoyed all the advantages incident to the Jowtien of a powerful Government de facto during fnswy am of a gigantic war, and which, besides the gurt patronage thereof, has enjoyed all the ju- Hatra and glorifications of repeated rebel v c- tarle.

We have not merely taken the town of Richmond. We have captured the capital of Virginia, the capital of the Rebel Confederacy, the bulwark of all v'y in Virginia, and by all odds the strongest military poinwin the State. This event will do more to dhaaunge the rebels than any other event that exheoappen, short of the utter dispersion of Lee's BYOy.

Virginia, although dragged reluctantly into this war by the infernal machinery of a secret order, which a grerawed her State Convention and forced the paamgs of the Secession ordinance by violent means, casged beon the bulwark of the rebellion from o sry hoglaning. Her troops have far outnumbered those of all other States in the rebel ar- mloa, and have uniformly fought better on every ocnrka. Her faith in the rebel cause has never wared, under any discouragement, however great. Eer generals have been the best in the rebel ser- ve. Without this aid of Virginia it is extremely doptit the rebellion could have lasted half so kog. As evident, therefore, that the success which bns ottoadd rebel military operations in Virginia beoauytson from nothing which the Virginia soldiers bold in common with those of other rebel States, butaatber from qualities inherent in the Virginians uddy to those of the Northern people. Thel wansowepstarribly wrong, but the awful losses they hame endured in its behalf, the military abilities toar officers have displayed, and the discipline stomioens and obstinate courage of their troops, en- wtle ben to the respect of those against whom they brwg been arrayed.