New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-25
CoNFEDERATE HOPES AND CRUEL
REALITIES,

CONFEDERATE HOPES AND CRUEL
REALITIES,
Poets have sunSOf immortal Hope; and how
she springs exultant in the human breast; and
how che tells flattering tale and how she
does a great variety of things too numerous
70 mention, and not worth mentioning. even
if they were fewer. The propensity of Ger.
tain market.maid, who bore upon her head
collection of merchantable eggs, in her wide
awake dreams transmitted into yellow gown,
which. alas she was destined never to wear
tbs brilliant but fatal propensity has long
given warning in the realm of juvenile instruc
ton, and urchins still mourn for the chickens
that wero never hatched The Confederaey,
although il would be droll misnomer to pre-
figure it as a virgin, has been going to market
for great while, and at one period OF its
peregrination thitherward, carried notable
basket of eggs. Only few weeks ago, GER
tain newspaper The Chattanooga Reeei) as
serted that "the horizon Of the Confederate
States had uprisen in oloudless splendor.'
Grant" il announced, would "bc driven out
of Mississippi but asyet he MT The Yam
kee CAPITAL" it declared "would be invested
from Maryland"-but as yet it isn't Rose
Grams" il yatcinated " would be defeated but
Ro,ecrans WASH, able 10 the thing in that light!
so The Richmond Enquirer on the 18th inst. ole
waited its horn aud forctold that Lee would
DO triumphant at lIagerstown. that Johnston
would drive all before him ut Jackson, that
Beauregsrd would slay and fright at Charles
ton, that Taylor would do the most impossible
! ard Tremendous things near New-Orlcans, and
that Morgan would rival Julius Cesar in Ind-
nm. The London IImes from afar caught
the contasion of this Bobadil believing. and,
not 10 be outdone by ia peculiar friends upon
this eide OF the briDy deep announced that
81, confidently expected 10 hear, in week,
Of Davis being in Washington and with
this. of course, ga decision Of the war itself y
Man proposes But God disposes-not The
London Iunssi
often oycrtakes concct nnd undue compa
ceucy, we shall merely and mode,tly remind
! our readers that there 10 such thing as for
tune in wnr, and that recently We have had
no occasion TO complain Of it, ii we have
made no splendid, but desperate and unproft-
able raids, our recent successes, as oil the
world knows or will soon know, have been
large, illustrious, and full of purport. Slowly
but surely, We are opening large masses OF
our territory to military advances, which will
be indisputnble. Gradually but grandly, We
are becoming masters of internal communca-
ton. One by one, points Of strategic import
into our hands. Southern military men, whose
courage it would be folly, in the face of past
events, TO question, seem to have forgotten
that it is not brilliancy but endurance, that 1t
is not dnsh but persistence, which in the long
run sways tho arbitraments Of war--that the
loss Of n campaign by no means necesstates
the loss Of cause-that the waves which
chafe against rock roar and hiss in vain.
whatever their impetus and however loud
their noise The North has had its
own troubles aud embarrassments aud
dsuppointments, but it must be evident
to every Confederate consprator, whether he
lve in Richmond or 10 Ncw-York, that the
North is just as far rs possible from being dis
heartened. While the Reyoted States have
suffered squalid miseries which it would be
painful 10 record. the Northern people, with
that extraordinary facility Of adapting itself to
circumstances which has made il often tho sub
ject of satirlc comedy and often Of earnest com
mcndation, has demonstrated its wonderful
economic genius and its incalculablo material
resources, 80 that, thus far. greedy as tho war
has been OF our treasure, and hardly as 1t has
pressed upon our ceaseless and unrelaxing in-
dustry, mechanical, mercantile. aud agrcultu-
raj. we have nevertheless not done 1.-THE OF
what We may still do, in this great fight for
Republican principles embodied in Republican
forms-this war for tho vindication Of that
Northern good faith and public honor, OF
We have little outbreaks of treasonous
and disloyal discomfort in some of
our cities and towns-but what arc these
to tho generous feelings and tho unqucstioning
self denials and tho noble impulses which at
this moment sway substantially united peopel
There is yet tho hum Of industry in our cities
tho plow Of tho farmer was not left 10 the
furrow, and soon the harvest will nod to las
ito cOngratuatiOns-the keels Of our ships yet
plow every sea-while fighting with one hand.
We have found time to cultivate tho arts of
peace with the other-while contendng with
fratricidal foe in other States the good. the
wise. tho true, and Tho generous have, 10 this