New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-28

thew abandon the valley Of the Missouri and
all north Of that river and commence pre-
cipitate retreat TO Arkansas. JEFF. Thompson
invites conflict with an equal force in the
South. East, and is routed in no time, saving
nearly his whole force by their alacrity and
Aeetness in fight. Their recent defeat by tar
inferior force strongly posted at Camp Wildcat
in Kentucky is fair offset to our similar failure
at Great Bethel. Give them great odds in num-
bers, the advantage Of position, tid an assur-
ance that they cannot be Outfanted aud the
Confederates fight well as was SHOWN at Bull
Run and Edwards's Ferry; but they have no
where shown persistent courage IN surmount-
inc obstacles or confronting odds. If the antag-
onistic armies ever meet in battle with nearly
equal numbers on equal ground, tie defeat OF
the rebels can only be prevented W some ex-
traordinary display of incapacty on the part oil
our generals
III. Enormous powers Of fabrication on the
part of their leaders and journaliIts, with
blind intense fury thereby generated among the
turing skill which the Confederstei have ex-
hbited throughout this contest No one dare
utter q syllable of demur to the justice and
wisdom Of their rebellion throughout The extern
siye region that owns the sway of Jdi. Davis
so that the romancers have full swing, and they
improve their opportunity. That the North en-
yies. hates, detests the South, and las made
wicked, wanton war upon her in ord,r to de-
vastate her homes and massacre her people, has
been reiterated until the great mas of the
ignorant, with many whose good sens should
have taught them better, really seem t. believe
it. The frenzy, the malignity of Secession,
even as evnced by the female aristcracy of
Baltimore and Washington, is scarcely less
than demoniac: judge, then, what it must be
at Richmond and Nashville Here at the
North there are few or none who wish worse
/ TO the South than that she should be sell rid
of the unprncipled demagogues who, by per-
sstent lying, have involved her in disaster and
wretchedness; on the other hand, the average
manifestation of popular and Of Journalistic senti-
ment with regard TO the North is noting less
than atrocious. Such paroIysms are n their
nature transient; and this can hardly fail to
give place in time to a calmer aud Juster
feeling.
/ ". That Union sentiments, though their
manifestation is repressed, are yet prevalent at
the South, we have abundant evidence. The
White mechanics and laborers of that region
we refer TO that large class who are not de-
scended from nor related TO the Shareholders
cannot help seeing and feeling that they are
exposed to delrth Of employment and Of bread,
70 spoliation and CONSUMPTION, in behalf of a
cause wherein they have no real interest, and
by whose success they are not to be benefited.
While they have little work and scanty wages,
they are compelled to pay esOrbiiant prices
! for the necesssries OF life ard TO do without is
! Injuries Bacon il treble the usual price.
Salt is enormously dear; Clothes are scarce
and costly; Tea, Coffee, Cloth, &C., are moi
Only very high, but eau scarcely be bad at any
price. Suffering is almost and discomfort quite
universal; utter desttutlOn is the lot of tens
of thousands. Multitudes Of poor men i'm
pressed or inyeigled into the rebel armies have
left their wives and children without subsist-
ence. and there is no general provision for the
support Of paupers. There are millions Of poor
Whites who curse the rebellion and its au-
thOrs, and would rejoice TO hear Of the extnc'
ton Of both. The bankers, merchants, &c,
of the South, with thousands Of rich slave
holders. perceive that they are exposed to ruin
by the rebellion; for negroes and cotton are
unstable; trade Is nearly at stand for want
of goods and money; while stores and banks
are being emptied of their contents in exchange
for Confederate bonds Another year Of this
war will consume nearly all the movable wealth
of the South. Keen-sighted capitalists see this,
and curse in their hearts the architects of ruin
in whose praise they are compelled to shout
buzzas in public on penalty Of personal out
rage. This cannot 60 on forever.
V. OF the Four Millions of slaves, there are
not fifty thousand who do, not know that the
object of the rebellion was the extension, per.
petuation and aggrandizement of Slavery; and
they logically conclude that the defeat of The
rebels must stagger if not demolish the internal
system which keeps them toiling from birth tc
death for others profit. They secretly hope and
pray for emancipation, and in that hope they
maintain fearful quiet in an agony of alarm
and expectation. A few Of them have by per
sistent lying been made TO believe that the North
is fighting to capture and sell them to Cuba; but
the great majority know better. They are too
shrewd to squander their lives in foolish hopeless
instructions; they bide their tine but if any
one really believes that any great body of slaves
ever preferred Slavery to Freedom, or chung to
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