The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-05-09
SATURDAY MORNING. MAY .. 1863.
The End or the yyer.

The crisis Of the Revolution approaches
We are, and FOR some time past have been i'm
pressed with belief that the enemy is making
his last grand struggle for supremacy in Amer
lea. AS tho last lhroes and contortions Of The
dying serpent are the most violent and terri
BILE, 80, in its Gnal agony, tie Anaconda Of sub.
ieggatien wdthes aud struggles aud rears lis
"horrid from" against its impending but iuevi-
table fate. Tho thirty days, the sixty days,
inc ninety days terms nave c1Pirod. II i'
now, to the inpatient impoverished, North
aad North.west--"gve us until the summer
closes aud If then we have not crushed this
rebellion, al efforts 10 that end shall be aban
doned."
One more season is allow cd them, to po'so.
we're in The great undertaking; and no stone is
70 DO ef unturned in the accomplishment
thereof The disoyal are to be sent beyond
IRE to be rendered useless to the sympathizors
with the rebellion, the rivers are TO be turned
from their natural currents, the ncgroes are to
be armed and hurried into the field, the inlan-
try are to be mounted aud seat in heavy col
IN MS in several different directions through
tho Southern country, burning aid laying
waste tho factories, and the growing fields OF
grain--in short the Southern people ate to be
exterminated under the same old ianatcal cry
of 1.-THE Gag" which the Aboli.onisis have
wrestcd from the hands of the American PEG.
pie, to fold about the sacred form Of the "cti-
zen Of African descent,
How far the enemy has advanced in this
undertaking, the Lessons OF Charleston and Of
tho Rappahannock concusivey show. The
FIRST was an absurd failure, the second resulted
in an inglorious defeat, aud their gunboats.
instead Of reducing Vicksbuig, have been
sunk and blown almost out Of the water by
the angry guns of that impregnable little city
Of bluffs.
The cavalry raids so far have all proven
fruiiless. The raid into northern Mississippi
was barren of results The raid into the
neighborhood of Rome, Ca, resulted in a
heavier loss to the enemy in point Of its moral
effect than they could possibly have risked in
general engagement with one Of their grand
armies.
They have been industrious for the last two
weeks and in the Summer to come we believe
they will be buster still Necessity, time
money compels them 10 be active while the
opportunity affords. Every demonstration Of
such character upon their part but simu-
aes and strengthens our cause the more.
The Southern men are being driven to terri
bic earnestness They are beginning to I'M.
derstand aud appreciate the nature. Of the
war their enemy is waging. Everywhere we
rejoice to notice, the citizens are already pre-
pared and organized for deiende. There is
too, disposition manifest on the part Of ALL
whether the participant or the non.combatant,
to press back the invader and fight him on
his own soil. The enemy must be made to
feel the war in all its horrors before he will
fully appreciate the blessings Of peace and
if NO would have ms visits into the very
heart of our country less frequent, the ie aver
prisoners we take tie better.