Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-24

The Rebel Leaders not Jubil0nt.
They are not cheerful at Richmond; and
the Richmond Enquirer, the special organ of
the rebel government, shows as much dis
couragement as any of its traitorous contem-
poraries. They are all respondent, more so
than they have been at any other time since
the war began. The rebel leaders, it appears,
are just beginning to realize the magnitude Of
the work they have undertaken. Until re-
Gently they have believed the war would very
soon end in their favor,-that it could
not outlast the spring, = that the fed
eral government would find Itself una
BILE to rally force sufficient to crush
them. They felt sure that the north was
about to be hopelessly demoralized and weak
ened by the influence of their friends, the
copperheads; but this hope has departed, and
they see before them struggle, which, it is
evident, they have not the means or the force
to maintain. The Enquirer now denounccs
''the stupid rumors about the decentralization
of the Yankee armies" curses ''the imagined
friendship of the northwest, and believes that
S. S. Cox himself would rejoice over FALLEN
Vicksburg and crushed rebellion" 1t insists
that the rebel soldiers must be told that they
are now only right in the middle of the war;
and that ''the Yankee enemy is only begin
ming to fight" 1t is evident that the leaders
of rebellion do not believe they can carry on
the war successfully; for, says this Richmond
sheet: 40 buy provisions for the army at
current rates would call for the imposition of
a great debt upon our postcrity, such as
would make our children curse us in our
graves
1t is the duty and the purpose of the gov
eminent to rescue the south from that bloody
reign of terror to which it has been subjected
by the Richmond consprators; and the signs
indicate that its success is near at hand, much
nearer than many suppose. Could the gov
eminent Immediately bring into the field a
half million more men we should probably see
the rebel power give way without much more
fighting. Nothing could end thewar so speedi-
ly and with so little bloodshed as a general and
resolute rising of the whole north. Before
such demonstration the dependency of
rebeldom would become despair; the
leading traitors would find themselves de-
serted; and the southern people would begin
to make peace with the government by re-
turning to loyalty and leaving the malignant
traitors to be dealt with as outlaws. There is
more Union feeling in the south than has
lately found public expression; and much
more disposition to end the war by renounc-
ing treason and returning to the Union, than
there was six months ago. The rebel leaders
are as malignant and desperate as ever; they
will never become submissive and loyal;
when hopelessly defeated, they will probably
leave the country, all of them that are not
caught and punished; but there is a southern
sentiment which they do not represent, and
which they cannot always restrain.
1t is the aim of northern copperhcads to
prevent such termination of the war. They
have no sympathy for southern Union men,
and no friendship for anything at the south
but slavery and the rebel leaders. 1t is one
of the most remarkable circumstances con-
nected with the war, that these northern sup
porters of treason are permitted to operate
among us with so much impunity. 1t is
phenomenon that battles comprehension. The
whole tendency Of their influence is to make
the war long and bloody, and to continue it
with as much disaster as possible to the
government until their friends, the rebel lead
ers, are able to dictate a peace on their own
terms. Our revolutionary fathers did no+
scruple to exterminate such creatures
by the swiftest methods; and these northern
enemies of the government can not now talk
their treason at Baltimore or Louisville with
safety. The real Union men of the south
loathe such men and will not toleaate them.
The time is approaching when they will not
be tolerated anywhere, unless it be among the
rebels in whose behalf they work so faith
fully.