, 1863-12-11
Qt)tfaQo Gribnne.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER II, 1868,


'~'- . FRIDAY, DECEMBER II, 1868.
- GETTING sRAKY.
i The Southern leaders are beginning to
shnkc nicely in their shoes such Of them
> as have shoes to shake in: We may re-.
gard it as the beginning Of the end, when
they all iall to accusiug each other, and to
; casting about for Bome Moses or Joshua to
deliver them. It shows that their conf
dcnce in themselves is gone and that in
their own minds their w1etchod undertake
ing is hopeless,
"The Prcsidcnt-Davis-must recon-
struct his Cabinet" says the Richmond
:, W1aa." $" He must call to his aid the very
ab1cst iutel1ccts in the country" That is
what has already been done. II the South
ern Confederacy has any abler man than
jeff Davis and the crew with him, they
: are unknown to the country, either North
or South; or they are opposed to him md
his schemes Of abomination, and Of course
cuthis court altogether. The able men Of
the rebellion, are those who figured before
the world this twenty years back, and have
lied our Northern Democrats by the nose.
as 3 man leads yearling colt, and have
thus lorded it over the whole country. If
= there are Others behind them greater than
j. they, their light is wholly hid under a
...bushel, and they will no more como forth
at Davis or anybody else's bidding, than
tie spirits viii come from the vastly deep
because some body in close straits calls for
:, them. =.
And precious crew, according to the
Wig, they are, and pretty mess they
have made Of governing country. It is
well to put the confessions Of these fellows
on record concerning themselves: since it
;: is not long since they claimed, and had the
claim allowed by all doughfacery, of DOS
seeaing all the brains of the country. and
Of knowing how to govern it. It is some
little consolation, after seeing them drive
our Government to ruin as nearly as a.
lowed to do, to see them also, with a fun
swing, push their own craft hopelessly in
to the sands, rocks and freakers, We f;nl
Ike thanking God, especially, for our de-
liyerance from such crew to administer
our Government, even for brief period.
and VIC call upon all good men and women
to pray TINT We may never more be aflict-
edwith such, as our rulers But hear the |
W7i9* confession:
awe have Department Of state that
has not been able for nearly three years to
establish any relations with any other
State; Treasury Department that has
failed to keep its finances from running to
ruin; a War Department in the hands Of a
chief whose studies and course Of life have
been purely and peculiarly civic; Navy
Department without navy; Post Office
Department with very shocking system
ofmails, the Department of Justice "va-
cant"
That last is peculiarly good. The De-
pa1tmcnt Of Justice "vacant." Yes, and it
always has been vacant in that country. |
What use for justice where even its first
principles art unperceiyed For the com.
fort Of the Whig we can assure him that
justice is slowly getting along down in that !
region, and We hope to see it installed all |
oyerthat country in about year more, and
JEFF: Davis and al his Departments, and
the Wing to boot are advised to get out Of
the way as soon as may be-
ave are getting in too deep water" SAYS
the Whtg, @and feeling Of dread is shak-
ing the souls Of the people" We are clad
oft, and expect to see the shaking keep On
till the whole rotten Confederacy goes to
pieces But let not our friends
Of copperhead tendencies lose sight
Of the facts here 30 graphically define
: ated by the Whigl That the Southern
leaders lack the capacity Of governing
well; and that, in every part Of their con
cetn. >,
The truth is those men have been vastly
; oveuated, at home and abroad, from tirst
to last, and from highest to lowest, and
this applies to their civil and to their MILL
tazy mGn, both. 8tonewan Jackson is
over1ated, Lee is oyeuated, and 80 have
been all their leading Generals. When
90 the war broke out nothing was more com
mon than the assertion that 3the rebels had
got all the good Generals except Scott and
he was getting old" As to ourselves we
had nobody but Mcclellan On whom we
put any reliance. Who we're Grant, and
Rosecrans, and Hooker, and Sherman, aud
Thomas, thenP But as the war has gone
;. on, their men have steadily gone down,
while ours have come up. Now they have |
. no General in whom they put much conf
dence except Lee, and he is badly shaken. |
While their civil leaders, not one has
any longer any prestige except Davis, and |
they hold on to him because they have
nothing else to turn to.
The truth is, these men have held their
positions 50 long by single trait, and that
is audacity. The plantation educated
them, each as little monarch, who never
come into measurement with anybody else
in season to give him proper idea of his
actual weight among men. Hence there
was nothing to which each sconndrcl Of
them did not aspire to, and deem himself
equal to. He staggered through the land
counting all men rs his interiors And
such is human nature, that if man will
only claim largely, md stick to it, his
claims will be voted. Let a man swear
thathe owns the sun, and be only positive
and determined enough, aud call on his
fellows to help him get possession, and IN
nnmne1able multitude will set out with
one day's rations to take the worlds lu-
mina1y out Of the skies and rive it
over to him Days or years ago, no mat
ter when, We knew fe]low-no matter
when-who was thought to be m csre-
giously "sna79 5ozo.a." He had abun-
dance Of dash, was good at school in rob
bing henroosts, could drink and swear
like trooper, and WINS hail fellow, with all
rowdics, and 50 he stood high. It was
generally voted that he had talent. But
one day the fellow changed his course;
gave up his rowdy ways; became in fact
pious, and took to praying instead Of
swearing, and to c1horting instead Of rob-
bing henroosts The result was, he lost
al his reputation for talent. He was voted