The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-24
The Sorrows of the Rebels.

OF Oeatuc OleSsedhesS, or undlstur0ed serenity al
this moment, but on the contrary are finding their
Jordan decidedly hard road to travel.-We are
disturbed considerably, and Democrats of the
coppsrhead persuasion predict our utter ruin and
discourse patheticaly and touchngl of the worth
lessness of onr "rag currency" because the spec
ulatots have managed to run gold up TOT premium
Of fifty cents, or whereabouts. If this be SO, and
the country near everlasting smash because Of
tEs premium, will some arithmetcal copperhead
If such one there be- advise US how long
Jeff. Davis can probably maintain himself when
at Richmond, according to the Dispatch, the
brokers are now giving five for one for gold, and
selling at 1925 premium. Silver is selling at
81 to 81, TO-" and even bank notes are nearly
hundred per cent. premium. If we are going to
pot with incredible speed, what must be the ye-
locity With which the Southern Confederacy is
gravtating in the same direction?
But the rebels are not plagued alone about the
worthlessness of confederate bonds. They have
other grefs.-Ihey are starving. Already their
Government impreSsing food for the army,
and the flour, if there is any in the country,
Keeps away from the vic nifty of the camp. Fabu.
lous prices have put the commonest necessaries of
life almost out of the reach Of any but the rich
And their papers desp airngly howl over this ter
rbls state of affairs, and curse the authorities and
the luck which have thus added to their other
dlstresses the cravings of hunger. Their papers
at the outset Of the rebellion made hideo US
mirth over the anticipated bread riots at the
North, but the galows they thought they were
building for US is ready for their sacrifice.
And they have their sorrows at conscrption
Many of them, Notwithstanding their devotion to
Southern Rights, and their readiness to shed the
last drop of their blood to resist the Yankee in
vaders, are seized with desire to avoid the
dangers and prvations of the camp and the field a
Distance lent enchantment to that view, but on d
nearer prospect being vouchsafed through the n
sonsiderAte kindness of jeff Davis and his Con- a
gress, they see the matter in an entirely different
light. 1t is not so inviting at close quarters and a
short range. Accordingly, when the officers are al
about hunting up conscripts, these rebels are "
moved to patronize the advertising columns of I'D
their papers, inquirng with pecunary cons.dera- n
tions for those patriots who are anxious to shed III
their blood in the sacred cause of Southern indie 'o
pendence. In late number of a Richmond pa &C
per no less than sixteen persons appeared anxious IL
ly bidding for substitutes, and proposing for III
mercenary equivalent for this vcarous patriotism, Ill
in soae cases as high as $1,000 These gentle 10
men evidently prefer bleeding at the pocket, to
bleeding at the point of the bayon9t. 10
But these are not all the unpleasant conditions IN
of rebellion. The traitors begin to have doubts Cd
whether in fact the blessed rule Of jeff Davis is, 6
after ALL in all respects, equal to that which we al
are led to expect in the millennium. They have VI
some doubts whether they are in fact enjoying the
largest and most unrestricted exercise of ration Ill
al liberty Laws have been passed informing the all
planters what it is the pleasure of Congress that 81
they shall SOW and reap. Among other things u
the culture of tobacco is put under restrictions Il
The Richmond Examiner, on the whole doesn't 7"
approve of this nor of the mpressme1t of private III
property for the use of the Government and ven VI
tates its opinions in the following vigorous style NJ
CT
"The temper of our people revots at injustice -
and arbitrary violence. They are accustomed to %
the enoyments of their rights unimpeached, and
until recently, they have been strangers to wrong Nj
and insult from Government officials. If they are 80
properly compensated and equally dealt with {,
III ,L; Iohor I'D oovrco 60 49, thu
Government and give them cheerully, but if these PEI
exacted arbitrarily, and with ,nsolence an M to-
suit they will not only give nothing all, but tEey sv
affnr mo IN he