ohnston outgeneraled Patterson,
and achieved what military genius always does,--he had his force
in the right place at the right time.

The effect of the Rebel victory at Bull Run was at once visible in
the rigorous policy adopted by the Confederate Government. The
people of the Confederacy knew that their numbers were less than
those of the Union, but Jefferson Davis had in effect told them
that fifteen Southern men might be relied upon to put to flight
thirty-five Northern men, and on this ratio they felt equal to the
contest. The Congress at Richmond went to every extreme in their
legislation. A fortnight after the battle they passed "an Act
respecting alien enemies," "warning and requiring every male citizen
of the United States, fourteen years old and upwards, to depart
from the Confederate States within forty days from the date of the
President's Proclamation," which was issued on the 14th of August.
Those only could remain who intended to become citizens of the
Confederacy. With the obvious design of avoiding every thing which
could chill the sympathy with the Confederacy so largely prevailing
in the Border States, the Proclamation excepted from its operation
the States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, the District
of Columbia, the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and the Indian
Territory. This was a manifest declaration of what they expected
to include in the Confederacy when the National Government should
finally surrender. Wherever a slave was held, the Confederate
leaders adjudged the people to be their friends and their future
allies.

CONFEDERATE CONFISCATION BILL.

This warning to alien enemies could not however be regarded as a
measure of special harshness, or one beyond the fair exercise of
the war power. But the next step was of a different nature. A
law was enacted sequestrating "the estates, property, and effects
of alien enemies." Mr. Judah P. Benjamin, who was at the time
Attorney-General of the Confederate Government, proceeded to enforce
the Act with utmost rigidity. The exception of the Border States
and Territories, already noted, was also made under this law, but
towards the citizens of States of unquestioned loyalty no mercy
was shown. A close search was instituted by Mr. Benjamin, in which
agents, former partners, attorneys, trustees, and all who might
have the slightest knowledge of a piece of property within the
limit