The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-13
AUGUST 13, 1863.
Rebel Desperation.


10 have lately taken possession OF the
rebel mind and for the usual exaggerated
tone of Southern proelamations' we
should hesitate to receive as genuine the
address from jeff Davis to the soldiers
of the Confederacy, contained In the
Richmond papers Ct the 9TH inst. 1t Is
an atrocious document, stopping not at
the most hagrant and bare-faced false
hoods with regard to the purposes OF the
Federal Government When Mr.. DAVIS
says that the "enemies Of the South,
in their " malignant rage, arm at moth
ing less than the eXterminatlon OF your
slaves, wives and children, seeking to-
destroy what they cannot plunder, he
utters a miserable lie, which ougaS to
bring the blush Of shame TO the cheek or
one making not half the pretentions to-
Christianity that he does. The asser-
ton is utterly and unqualifedly false,
and Davis knows it. And the address Is
replete with similar diabolical misrep-
resentations. There may be few who
would "incite serviIe insurrection, and
light the. fires Of incendiarism, as this
so called President solemnly declares to
be the design Of the whole mass of Union
adherents; but Davis knows that, so far
as the assertion quoted relates to the
great body of our people, it is blister
ing untruth. And SO of other reckless
and most extravagant charges.
By this dsgraceful address, meant to
work upon the passions of a people
deceived for long period by designing
leaders, who are getting to be altogether
destitute of moral principle, JEFF Davis
gives the best evidence of the terrible
crisis in which the rebellion is now
placed. Defeated and despondent, these
"head devils . resort to the viIest means
to arouse whatever spark of confidence
may be slumbering in the bosoms of the
Southern citizens, and iDfuriate their
victims through the most shameless cant,
dishonesty and fabrication. Weak, in
deed, must be the cause that requires
such mendacty to uphold it. And yet,
in giving this irrefragable proof Of the
drained resources of the rebellion,
Mr.. Davis has the singular audacity,
speaking of the war, to say that the
Confederate final triumph must be in
evitable." If so, why do we find the
lCDSl newspapers uGilf leCbuilI2 CIOdh-
ers," and filing their columns with
articles exhorting every remaining man
in the South, Of whatever age or condi-
ton, to go into, .,the army. Why does
Gen. Lee himself appeal to the people of
the State to send forth every man capa-
bic of bearing arms, to strike for the
safety of their homes" unless the re-
bellion is in articulo merits? What
means these peculiar voices, showing
distrust of the stability of the Richmond
Government that reach us from North
Carolina, Georgia, and other parts OF
the Confederacy? Mr.. Davis says we
aEge "uqpfHgg sdd4tfd With reespt &c sgsesissaff
in proportion than the lamentations go.
ing up from every part of the South?
Did not Davis himself call Vicksburg a
vital point? Was not the Mississippi
river, which has been recovered through
cut its whole length, the great artery
supplying the rebellion with life? Was
not Lees army, which was defeated in
Pennsylvania and driven back into Vlr-
ginia beyond the Rapidan, the most for
midable in the disunion service? Are
not our enemies now trembling for
Charleston and Mobile? The rebel Gov
ernment can do nothing to repair these
calamities. It's communications with
the outside world are now almost cut off
With gold at twelve hundred per cent.
premium at home, it finds its stocks
gone down to next to nothing abroad.
The long and short of it is, that unless
aided by powerful European combina-
tions, the doom of the rebellion is GXed.
By itself it cannot stand, but must go
down before the accumulating forces Of
the Union-jSt Louis Republican.