Washington telegraph., 1862-09-03
NonruEnx AND SournrnN REsouncEs-

| anu iauSh, ike parrots, at eag-plper,
| And others, of such vinegar aspect, Ismlc
| That they'll not show their teeth in way of
Though Nestor swear the Jest be laugable.
Merchant Of Venice.
| Whilst we would not be disrespectful of our
despondent friends. they must not take it i'll
| in us. if tfeir conduct reminds us of Shaks-
peare's HUMOROUS Classification of mankind
into the habituay cheerful, and the habitually
lusuhrious. We have amongst us class of
men, honest and patriotic, who a re ever turn
ing their backs to the sunshine and contem-
plating the blackness of the advancing or re-
| treating clouds. They remind US of men over
taken in a storm, who. blinded by dashing
rain, and terrified by crashing peals of thun-
der, cry out that the sun has left the heavens.
and ''chaos has come again. They now work
faithfully for the Confederacy, indeed, but
with the hopeless despair of mariners toilinc
at the ropes whilst driving helplessly into the
serf of lee-shore. We know they must be
very unhappy, and would fain give them some
consolation. We never could bear the sipb,
of fears and anxieties even in a negro ar 3.
child, without wishing to relieve them. Much
less the anxious and sleep-destroying gloom of
men and women whose matured feeling are
deeper and stronger
Let us reason together upon the aspect OF
| our affairs. When the war began "A large nor
ton of our population was deeply impressed
with an idea of the enormous wealth and bower
of the North. We had been ha5ituated to
looking to Northern people for all the most
essential articles of life. We saw their YES
sells covering every sea. Their whalers trav.rs
| ed the Arctic Ocean, and immense cite, l!k
New Bedford, sprung up like palaces from
Aladdins lamp. Their smacks swarmed nj!
along the fishing coasts. They were our in-
porters, and commercial palaces arose i'll al.
their importing cities. They were our baak
ers, and their capital doomed into millions. -
They prepared for magnificent resorts for
pleasure-we visited them and heard the hum
OF their vast manufactures, and the clan COR o.
| their workers in iron and brass. We dashed
along their networks of railroads, and pai..
homage to the energy and vast resources which
could 81 subdue the impelimcats Of nature. Ii
! was all very imposing and had its effect upon
unrenecting miuds.
Therefore, it happened that sucA of IL. WAS
In the position of the farmer, vino sands II y,
his own apparently barren lot of ground, ami
beholds the adjoining lot of his ncighbor COW
cred with luxuriant vines. and loaded with
enormous melons: without examing to discover
| that the roots were al upon his own soil, and
| nv has par and nf hi
neighbor, the growing vines had been secretly
induced to extend across the dividing line,
there to bear their fruit. If he did so, and
then con- luded to build a wal to preserve the
vines upon their legitimate soil he might net
complain doierously of his temporary heel
although for a season his neighb)r mig still
revel in ten porary profusion.
In the first outbreak we ight all of Us rea
bly, have expected to ne for awhile over
borne by the i'm nense mass of accumulated
wealth. AMI the dense population of the North.
Tie readers Of onr journal will recolicct thar
our hopes, though sanguin then, even conf
| dent of the result, presupPnsed the almost Ger
iainty of embarrassment upon our part. and
temporary weakness in the beginning. But we
endeavored to look beyond that. AMI thought
we could perceive the Southern Confcler.cy
| gathering strength when thrown upon its own
resources, whil=h the rushing torrent Of North
| ern power derived from its wealth, would be-
| come weaker with each succeeding year. unit
! the reservoir become exhausted. the stream
dried up and the springs eat off Nothing
| ,nnil ia ritnt nar
ton of the country from helpless impotence,
whilst we would rejoice in newly discovered
sources Of power. We thought then, that it
required no sage to utter the prophecy-''they
must decrease, aud we must increase
We have been disappointed in some of our
calculations i'll regard to the war-most c>pe
cially in regard to the conduct of European
nations concerning the blockade and our re-
cognition But in regard to our estimate of the
comparative resources of the two sections, the
| result, so far. have added strength 10 our or
iginal convictions We ask those who were
then so fearful of the contest, to look back
| and recall their feelings Could the curtain
of the future have been then lifted 50 as to re
| veal fifteen months of the future. and show
them the present condition of affairs, would
| it not have filled them with full assurance of
| the consummation of our hopes?
| We are absolutely stronger than we were Mt
first. calm comparison of the two epochs
| will leave no doubt of the fact. We have be
come so under disadvantages, too, which, then,
we did not anticipate. We have repulsel ev-
cry attack of the enemy upon land except the
attack at Fishing Creek. We never hoped to
| compete with them upon water. They have
taken portion of territory beyonj the
ach of their guDboats, that we have not re-
| linquished without contest. The battle oi
| Manassas defeated their first grand army,
which advanced with such exulting paeanS To
| the conquest of the beautiful South. Stung
by the deep humiliation. and maddened with
disappointment, they fell buck upon the boast
ed wealth and numbers to gather strength for
an effort which they thought beyond the
chances of failure. Capital was at their COM
mand; volunteers focked to their standards:
the markets of the world were open to thsir
acquisitions. For one whole year the storm
gathered which was to overwhem us. We were