St. Mary's beacon., 1863-02-26

The Situation glanced at.
Unless we have made up cur minds to
ignore facts and figures. there can be but
little doubt. that our Foreign and domes-
tic relations are now in a mnrt complicated
condition than at any tune since the war
began. For the past six months. or more.
we have been almost universally worsted
in our encounters with the .'rebcls," who
appear to increase. both in numbers and
determination. in proportion to our efforts
to. overrun Or subdue them. We have en-
countcred them with levics ranging from
$4,000 TO COG, 900. BUT all to no purpose
But few months since, We called out the
latter number. and we ask, where shall VIC
now look for them? Prior to this levy.
there could not haze been less than 300,-
900 men under arms. and where are they!
Reports DO not show, that ,aore than a
few thousand Of them have been killed.
captured or disabled. yet MIR. Thaddcus
Stevens asserts. in tho HousIs Of Repre-
.scpfatives, iha. onr farees II. =fls,d 40
mel nov number 500 00t) Chm II BE-.
ti,.t dcsc,tions from the "6aul,e of the IN
ion have been 70 numcron. as would ap-
pear BY this ssatement Or is it. that
the North did not respond to ,hc last call
of Mr.. Lincoln, and that the, public ext
gency was not such as to Justify the en-
forcement of draft. north Of nary7andp
But, it matters not from what cause, if
the Federal force is no greater now than
Mr. Stevens represents it, Ar. Lincoln is
certainly in q serious dilemma. He il
confronted BY rebel force quite equal TO
his ewn; the Government credit is rapidly
declining; o majority Of the people at the
North have declared themselves hostile to
his policy; the incoming Congress viii be
intrsctible and refractory; the Conscrva-
tive Republican press has already ceased
to support him; the Radicals even threaten
to desert him; and war with France is
regarded AZ imminent. MIR. Lincoln,
however. has friends in the present Con-
gress, who are making strenuous efforts
to sustain him. They are alive to bis
very desperate situation, and will not adj
journ without an effort, at least, to invest
him with the means of selfpreserEation.
The CONSUMPTION Bill passed the Senate
BY . vote almost unparalleled in unanimi-
ty. and it viii doubtless pass the House
BY an equally large majority That the
people may not resist this measure, stcr 8
are already being taken. A. committee,
under Gen. Wool. has comlnepcc6, ere
thsas toccunt, the arms and weigh the powder
in the city Of New York. Other cities,
We presume. viii be next wished. and the
whole North. win soon find itself as. com
pltaly under tho heel Of the despot as
arer Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky.
And. viii che people sleep on,s whilst eve
ry vestige d their liberty ID thus gradual
y swept away I We trust not. but is
thera not great danger that they will 2
The prospect Of . Foreign war will excite
them to sach an extent as to make them
less tenacious Of individual rights than
they even now are. Dir. Lineoin's friends
aud the consolidatiouists at the North will
not fail 70 profit BY this excitement. and
We may net DO astonished 10 end them
again in power. ere anoshcf year shall
have passed away. Tkat centralized
despo.ism, based upon negro equality, viii
follow the success Of the Lincoln party,
there can nd longer be doubt. That the
defeat Of this party win lead ID the down.
fall Of the Lincoln dynasty. is Likewise
equally certain. We may, therefore.
anticipate desperate struggle for the
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