The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-22
Gloom Of the Rebels.

Stoo" Of tHc RcDSis.
The large city daiies have recently pub.
lished lengthy extracts from the Ric h mond
papers-particularly from the Eramine,
and Whig-flied with the most gloomy
forebod;ngs for the rebellion during the
coming winter. They dwell on the i'm
nense armies the government has now in
the field, its great naval strength, ard
then on the impoverished and destit.te
condition of the rebel States The Wing,
for instance, mentions the fact, which the
editor saw wI.h his own eyes, that on q
recent occasion, 4 number o. regiments
marched through that city on their way
to join Lee, in which the men were clad
in summer clothes, although the air was
freezing cold, and half of them were bare
footed, although there were three inches
incl, es Of snow on the ground. From nu-
merous articles in the same tone, We copy
the following from the Examiner, on what
it calls ESGLAxps DErErIsH Policy"
The greatness of :. msrica is recent
revelation to Europe With the North
and South confederate under the old
Government the United STATES possessed
a military power and an abunda uce OF re-
sources of which her citizens, even in the
excuses of their self cu,npiacency, neyer
dreamed. Blu: few minds in Europe bad
any idea of the power Of the Young giant
of the Western world. One or two of
their pablo men, as Cavour or NAPOLEON,
mirht have apprehended, by the force of
their genius. the military magnitude of
d.
speculation in ESrope. Our boasts of mi-
litary proves were frequently ridiculed
by the English press and passed as trans
atlantic buster But this war has shown
that even these boasts fell far short of the
reality. 1t has revealed to the world an
enormous power that evershadows what
ever there is of military display in modern
history, and has amazed the an ost arrogant
nations of Europe.
Within eighteen months Of tbs war
the North and South have raised armies
larger than those of the first Napoleon
iron clad fleets have been launched eapa-
BILE of destroying the combined nayies OF
England and France; 1000 600 of men
have been put in the field and vet the
internal system of the industry of the
country and the ordinary pursuits of peace
have been but little interrupted, unless
from the exceptional cause Of the block
ade of the Southern sea coast. Had the
North and oouth continued as one nation
there would scarcely have been any limit
to the achievements of their military
power. England could never have check
ed it. We could have oxergn the CONT
nent, taken Canada in the teeth of COM
bination of all the European powers, and
crushed England alone as an egg shell
under the hammer.
The bloody and unhappy revelation
which this war has made of enormous
military resources has naturally given to
Europe, and especially to England an ex-
traordinary interest in its continuation
Nothing could be more more contrary to
the wishes and policy of England than
the war should end in the reuniting the
North and South, and consolidating and
renewing in rivalry to her military power
which is now wasted in internecine strife |
That the Union never shall be restored is
foregone and settled conclusion with the !
British Government. 1t would not hesi- |
tate for o moment to recognize the South |
unless firmly persuaded of our ability and |
resolution to carry on the war, ond unless !
it had another object to gain besides that !
of a permanent division in the nationality |
and power of her old rival. That object |
is the exhaustion OF both North and South.
England proposes to effect the continue
ton of this war, as far as possible, to the
mutual ruin of the two nations engaged in
it, by standing aside and trusting that,
after vast expenditures of blood and waste
of resources, the separation of the Union
will be quite as surely accomplished by
the self devotion of the South as by the |
less profitable mode Of foreign intervea-
ton. To these advantages she hopes to
gain from this separation, she desires TO
add those which she expects from loss
and rum to both Nazth and South in a
long war. Her present policy of neutrality
with reference TO she warts founded in
the confidence that the South is able to
achieve her independence, and that the
of hossilities does net risk
her subiugation. s.i I'll -5.3
In this unchristian and inhuman calcu.
Iatioa, England has rightly estimated the
,pirit and resolution of the South. We
are prepared to win our Independence
With the great prices of blood and suffer.
ing that England has named. But wa
understand her in this matter. Behind
her mask of conscience and phara.aical
precision, there Turks hideous and deyel.
sh purpose. r13fa !,