The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-08-06
Thc Gloon. Of The Rebel co.feAs.a,c.y.


From the Louisville Journal, July %.
Rebel sympathizers here have said within
the last two days, that the prospects of the
Contederacy were never brighter than at
present. If they think So thew are the in.
aanest beings this side Of the moon. They
would, in q moonless and starleas and
lampless midnight, swear that the sun was
shining in mid-heaven with glorious efful-
gence.
We ask the attention of all, the disloyal and
the loyal, to the extracts given in our special
dispatches On the first page of the Journal
from the chief organs of the rebel Confedera-
cy. Those extracts show that a gloom as
thick and black as Dantes Inferno or Satan's
Inferno has settled upon the rebel mind. The
organs still talk desperately about fighting
as long as any human beings are left in the
South, but undoubtedly the human beings
themselves will have something to say on
this interesting subject. The organs, 30 the
reader will see, recognize strong disposition
on the part of portion of the people to end
the dreadful war and their own dreadful suf
ferings by coming back into the Union, and
assuredly that disposition in spite of the vio
lent threats of a feeble government and its
feebler newspapers, will increrse and spread
and strengthen until its end shall be accom-
plished' Rebel editors and ofice-holders may
tell us that the Southern people, rather than
accept q return Of the old conditions of glori-
Gus prosperity, will flee with their wives and
children to caves in the rocks and mountains,
or into hollow trees and logs, and starve to
death or subsist ON roots and blackberries,
but only fools will regard such miserable fool
ishness. Why, the worst rebel amongst us
will take an oath as big as a mountain rather
than live one week upon the respectable fare of
our Military Prison. s...
The President of the rebel Confederacy, it an
pears, in view of the terrible condition Of the
Confederacys affairs, has issued his proclama-
ton that all persons between certain ages must
jointhe Confederate army Immediately, and
that, if they shall neglect to do so, they, will
for that simple neglect be treated as deser-
ters-that is, they will be shot Oh, how our
rebel sympathizers in Kentucky and other 10y
al States must now wish that the rebel authority
extended over them, 80 that instead of the en-
rollment, against which they are ready to take
up arms, they would have the blessed privilege
of choice whether TO go into the army without
either enrolment or draft, or be shot as fell
ons This new and horrible form of conscrip-
ton will avail the rebel authorities very little
for there is very little material upon which it
can operate Its only important effect must
be to break up all the avocations of life in the
South, and thus hasten the advent of the flesh
les skeleton of famine. 1t can scarcely be-
gin to replace the more than eighty thousand
officers and soldiers killed, disabled and taken
prisoners within the last two months. 1t is
evidence of despair, and it will spread and
deepen despair and misery. They, who, UNI
der all the circumstances, encourage and EN-
deavor to enforce the holding out fthe re-
bellion, deserve that the walls and shrieks Of
their millions of victims should ring in their
ears through all etertity.