Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-02-04
AN IMPORTANT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.


The Richmond Eramtner of the 10th has a
| remarkable editroial in which it makes the fol-
lowing singular admissions:
SIT is not altogether an empty boast on the
part of the Yankees-that they hold all they
ever held, and that another year of such pro-
gress as they have already made will find them
masters or the Southern Confederacy. They
who think independence is to be achieved by
brilliant but inconsequentialv victories would do
well to look with the natural eye at the mag
nitude of Yankee possessions in our country
Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri are claim
ed as constituent parts of the confederation.
They are as much'in the power OF Lincoln as
Maine and Minnesota. The pledge, once
deemed foolish by the South, that he would
''hold, occupy, and possess ali the forts be
longing to the United States Government, has
been redeemed almost to the letter by Linco In
Forts Sumpter and Morgan we still retain. but
with those exceptions, an the strongholds on
the seaboard, from Fortress Monroe to the
Rio Grande, are In the hands of the enemy.
every consolhg and very easy to say that
it was impossible to prevent all this, and the
occupation of the outer edge of the Republic
amounts to nothing. Drewry's Bluff and
Vicksburg give tie lie 10 the first assertion.
and the onward movement of Rosecrans to-
wards Alabama, the presence of Grant in North
Mississippi, and of Curtis in Middle Arkansas
to say nothing of Banks at New Orleans and
Baton Rouge, set at rest the silly dream that
thin strip of sea-coast only is in the posses
sion OF our foes. The truth is, the Yankees
are in the very heart of the Confederacy; they
swarm on all our borders; they threaten every
important city yet belonging to us, and nearl ly
two hundred thousand of them are within two
days march of the Confederate capital This
is no fiction. 1t is fact so positive that non e
can deny it.
''Nor is this all. The President tells us, in
his message, that the troubles with the Indian
tribes have been removed, and no further d If
fculty is anticipated. The intelligence we
obtain from private and Trustworthy sources
does not confirm the Presidents sangune as
sertio1s.'' ar
The Examiner goes on to say that the con-
dition of affairs is .sdistressng'' for the Con-
federates; that New Mexico and Arizona are
for the time being, lost to them, and that s.the
state of disaffection in Tennessee and Missis-
sippi (growiDg out of the appointment of in
comp etent officers and the fancicd neglect of
that country by the Confederate Government
mot from any lack of f1rvor in the cause).
which President Davis visit was intended to
heal, is likely to revive under the depressing
influence OF Bragg's retreat and his continu-
ance in command-add all this to the forego-
ing, and it viii be seen that the Yankees have
much to encourage them in the prosecution OF
the war, and we not a little to excite serious
apprehensions as to the tuture.''
The Eraminer concludes its jeremiad by
urging the further enforcement OF the con-
scription, and says '.Lf ,vithis the nert t,Co
mouths .ce do not add serenty.fre or hundr ed
thousand men TO our forces in the South West pe
shall come TO grief.''