Washington telegraph., 1862-09-03

This much has the South accomplished. I'M
der disadvantages, which, if foreseen, would
have caused the most sanguine to doubt We
have battled, unsustained by foreign aid-un-
cheered by foreign sympathy our ports closed
from the world-our cotton, the -.ain element
of our wealth, consigned to the fiames-with-
out an organized army for a nucleus-without
magazines for arms-without vessels of war
without clothing but from internal resources
Under Ill these disadvantages we have grown
| in strength. We till our grounds and feed our
| armies. Our women resort to their looms and
clothe them, and we remain fronting our foe,
with force which not content with defending
the soil, threatens an invasion of the homes
and firesides of the enemy.
If the South has done all this in the past.
and stands so firmly in the present, where Is
| the evidence of her weakness? Is it in her
debit She owes nothing abroad. Her debt
is to her citizens. With them her credit is
undated.
Is not this sufficient to inspire our desp md
ing friends with bright hopes Of the future?-
Are not their fears abated by these evidences
Of Southern strength? Let them look, then,
to some signs of Northern weakness. The ter
rifle wealth at the North has not. at its fullest
tide, accomplished the crushing effects from
which they shrauk so fcarfully. SO much OF 1t
is exhausted that the signs Of the end begin to
appear. They may issue piles of treasury
notes mountain high, but it does not increase
it. They have no means OF restoring 1t, Tor the
sources are cut off. They no longer ma Ike I'M
portations for they hav- not gold wherewith
to buv. Their boasted manufactures ianguish
or are silent They have no cotton to spin, nor
FOREIGN markets of purchasers. Their ships
no longer enrich their owners by the carrying
trade The vast agricultn raj pro iucuo's "i
the Northwest, by the trade of which the
mighty city of Chicago sprung mp almost IN n
dav. no longer find the way to market. The
signs of decay appear .amongs. the m on every
bond-sure prognestic. Of the coming ruin.
Have Won seen the capitalists of the North
giving bounties to volunteers, and do you con-
Strue it into public spirit which augurs our
les ructions Rather let us rejoice Mt 1t. for 1t
is the struggle Of capital against despair.
rrrnat and patrotic people anxious to rush to
the all of their government. would need no
baunties. They shrink from the contest, and
the earnest proff.r of bounties. properly con-
srrucl is the shrek Of capital in view of the
on,r;nr Gulf of deStrurti m. without volun-
tcer. they are lost. That they urge them so
vehcmcntlv. is proof that otherwise, the vast
pornl, alton Of their crow Il cities would fur
nish M volunteers.
Strength is vt left them for further efforts,
hut each exhaustion of str myth wastes them
without reaction. The contests already won
for the South. 1t neeis but to be m 'intained-
Every effort must b. put forth to MAINTAIN II
well. and exhaust them speedily Each revi-
val of hope on their part prnlpngs the contest,
but Il cannot alter the result.
We speak of political cheer. The sorrow OF
private families is with higher power. and
too sacred for our comment. We can enc1ur-
arc no man with assurance % perSo1rl safety
We ID MT wish to Il 81. lis life i his conn
try's. Gut the South, orr beloved South. i
sure of her destiny. She viii dsentlncle her
SELF form the loatlsom, connection with tn c
sortlil and hcartlcs- mammon-wnrshippers 4
he North, and stand before the world. free and
independent. with character of her own.
bri ghtcnel by contrast with that of our neigh
bors, which has already excited the scorn OF
the world.
Who doubts it-let him % pray! NJ human
reasoning can relieve his fears.