Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1863-10-22
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Signs eff Flagging.


All the Yankee papers which receive are
filed with braggadocio-speaking always oi
| the crushing oet Of the rebellion. as though it
we're already ar accomplished fact, apd con-
santy threatening France, England and Spain
With the vengeance of the all~poweriul Yank ee
nation. ii we look little below the surface,
however, it is not difficult TO discover that this
| is all talk ani nothing else, designed to delude
| the multitude and encourage them to persevere
| in the prosecut ion of ta!e The signs Of
exhaustion are so pspaoia thai they cannot be
mistaken bv the least experienced eve.
In the first place, the New York World tells
as what we had previously heard from q source
entitled to credit, that the draft has proved a
complete failure, not having secured the servi-
ces OF 60 900 men. all told, Throughout the
whole YANKEE States. Now these so 900 men
will go but a very short way to fill up the gap
made in the Yankee ranks by the campaign e.
1868, at charlottesville, at Gettysburg, at
Chickanauga. at Vickshurg, and by sickness
and dcsertion, which have prevailed to n1oss
uuusnai extent throughout the Yankee armies
every where.
Secondly, the New York Times, short time
since, in the course Of an editorial designed to
spur up the tagging energies OF is Government
stated that the greater part Of its army would
20 out OF service next May tnat the winter
and the mud wouia prove mos powerful aux
lliaries to our troops, as they Gid last year aud
the year before; that the rebellion must, there.
fore, be crushed before November, and that if
not cl ashed before that time it could not be un
til next fall. 1t stated that the only troops it
would have on hand for the grand crushing op-
eration next May-the earliest day at which it
vouo be possible to open the cam paign; would
be the new conscripts. 1t rated their strength
at 500 600, bat the estimate of the World, we
hap ic he
Thirdly. In commenting upon the failure of
Rosencranz's Georgia campaign. the New York
Herald revealed the fact that it undertsk
en- for the purpose of seiZiug several hundred
thousand bales of cotton known to exist in that
State which i: deemed essential to support the
credit of the Yankee finances This is mos
important revelation. 1t was hoped by the
Yankees that thus cotton would be sold in Eu-
rope for specie, and that by means OF the nlon-
sy thus acquired, the credit of their Govern
ment woud be sustained. Bet the enterprise
has failed, and he relief is not afforded. The |
indebtedness. of Yankeedom to Europe certan>
ly does not fall short Of 100000 900. Eu-
rope is growing impatient, and must have prin |
ciple or interest ia specie. Ysakeedom, its pi' |
ratical inroad into Georgia having failed, can
pay neither principal nor interest. There are
lively hopes of q general crash, and when her
financial bubble shall have exploded, what is |
Yankeedom to do :!
Fourth and lastly. In order to reinforce |
Rosencranz the Yankees compelled to take
heavy edetaehments from the army of Meade at
the very time when that officer is expected to
make a fresh son to Richmond and when ao |
cord ms ito the New York Herald there can be
no doubt of his success. II the Yankees have |
the overwhelming force OF. which they boast.
why is it necessary to deplete one army in orr
der to strengthen another In order TO rein |
force Roseneranz, also, they are stripping the
whole lower country Of troops, thereby expos
Ing it to re occupation by our troops Why all
this, If they have the hosts they pretend to
hsve9 The fact is, their mighty armies are tor
the most part, ''men in buekram." They exis,
nowhere but 10 the imagination of Seward and
their editors. Their real strength is not great-
iy superior TO ours. q ttts~s. @.
Our people, when they fee! disposition to
despond, should think these things. They
should reflect that if they straitened, the
iiankees are exhausted They should observe
aat they cannot strengthen one army without :,
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