The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-12-30
Northern Faith and Southern Distrust.

Northern RAIN and southern Dlstrust'
The Richmond correspondent OF the London
Times, in bis last letter, dated Nov. i4lh, give
utterance to some vry remarkable sentiments,
considering the source from which they come and
the organ which gives them to the world. We
make the following extract
"The Confederate States are evidently approach
ing stage in this war which will test more than
ever the stu5bonness and tenacty of their temper
and patience, and can only be successfully encCun.
tered by national spirit systematic as it Is
resolute. Their enemy, with as much pertinac,ty,
and far more sagacty than heretofore, hens in
the edges Of the rebellion on every SIDE avoids
the frequent recurrence OF pitched battles and gen
eral engagements, pOunces with hawk-like swoop
upon isolated and ntdequately supported bodies
OF men, eviuces possession OF admirable secret in
formation keeps the Confederate Generals con-
stanlly on the rack, and harassed by irruptors Of
cavalry, makes his superiority Of numbers and
still more his abundance Of supplies for horse and
man, more and more felt, and finally is investing
the ports Of Secessia with a GORDON Of vessels So
numerous as for the first time 10 thirty months TO
make access 10 Tho Confederate coast really dam
gerous ana difficult On The other hand, in rob
eldom Itself the Fede..ls have wonderful ally 10
circumstances which, to my tli king, have from
the beginning quadruped she magnitude G.. the
Confederate task
No one who has been conversat with the
northern States during the l.st two and one half
years Can have failed To uo4ce V.h aH0nisument
the filth, stronger han death, which The north
srners have exhibited in their star their man.
fest destiny their religion their Alpha and
Omega, their dream OF dominion from sea to sea,
and to quote Mr.. Eyeret,'s words) from the
icy Pole to the flaming belt of the Equator No
para lei faith has ever Oeen exhibited by the con-
fsderate States in their future. Six great south
ern victories in the field and three drawn battles,
eXhaustlng the nine principal C llisious of the
war, the entire absence Of any such panic routs
az But Run or Cn,cNamauga, the tried efficiency
of the Federal blockade, the unmoested flight of
Alabanas and Flordas at sea, have altogether
failed to inspire the masses OF the South with a
1.-THE of that confidence in themselves which Meth
er defeat, nor disasar, nor hope deferred, nor il
lusons dispeled have ever shaken out of the
Nor rners.
Deny it who may, there is something sublime
in this shadowy earnestness and misty magnif-
cenCe ofNorthern faith and seIf-reiance. Would
that could see promise of the future and final
Southern triumph in any corresponding quality
Of the Southern mind.
| 10 many fashions Southern unfaith crops up
and recoils upon the Confederate Government,
making, for instance, Mr.. Memmingers task,
though he takes bis stand upon raw material
worth sixty seventy millions of pounds stirling,
Herculean as compared with Mr. Chases, who is
sues vastly larger promises to pay on a security
of breldstuff exports worth only sixty or seventy
millions of dollars. There are, Of course, other
reasons to account for the fact that three dollars
| -, & Oh, I,,,, oil IN al
while it requires thirty paper dollars Of the Con-
feceracy to buy like sum; but the fundamental
explanation of the discrepancy in value of the ir-
redeemable paper issues of the two sections lies
in the vastly superior faith in themselves Of the
Northern people. For many months we have
head throughout the Confederacy the cuckoo cry,
{ Do something TO arrest the depreciation of the
currency, or we perish; but hitherto nothing
has been done, and as is now seen by everybody,
we are on the brink Of precplce.
1t is universally admitted that the country is
richer in everything that constitutes wealth than
it was twelve months ago that there is a suffi-
cheney OF meat and lar greater abundance of cere-
ais than last year that fruit and vegetables have
been granted us in unusual abundance that Rich
mond has supplies OF coal ard wood vastly in ex-
cess of those laid ia against last wnter-in proof
of which may mention that the streets are now
as well lighted as those of London, whereas last
year their Cimmerian darkness was avorite
theme of the New York HeraId; but in spite Of
all these facts uniaith in Confederate currency
grows apace, the farmers refuse to part with their
crops on any terms, -four ietches 500 per barrel
and Is rising, bacon is close upon 50 pound, ev-
erything is proporuooately dear, and nothing
is plentiful, save Confederate currency, until at
last woman going to market has been heard to
exclam: ." carry basket to market to hold
money, and carry pocket-book to fetch home
the slice Of beet which it buys"