The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-12-03
Total 3, 538, 85s 1,34I,18 1879, 998
Leavinc Dixie4. 90. 552 80 l8 $50. 666

Leaving DlNle4, O5O, 052 2,02O, 3l3 500, 666
Now it may be said that many of the seces-
sionists of the recovered States have fled with
their slaves before our advancing armies to
the still rebel districts, where they are now
unfolding the rebellion. We admit this, but
insist that they are ~outnunIbsred by the I'm
ionists white and black who have fed from
the rebel to find refuge and protection in the
loyal States, so that the four millions Of whites
ana two and a half millions Of slaves above
given compose just about the the total popu-
.Ation OF Dixie at this hour, less the waste of
aOle-boHed men by the casualties Of war.
it may be said that the rebels still hold
small portions Of louisiana and ATkansds.-
We. admit it but insist that the population of
these fragments is far less than that OF those
portions of Mississippi, old Virginia, North
and South Carolina, and Texas, which are
firmly held by the armies OF the Union. Thus,
while the loyal States are AS strong to day as
they ever were, the rebellion is certainly a
third weaker than it has been.
The rebels began this contest, Boosting
that, if the Union were maintained by arms,
the war should be waged, not in the seeded,
but in the loyal States. They had no doubt
Of their ability to take Washington III q month,
and dictate peace from the smoking ashes of
Philadelphia or New York within ninety
laws Yet from that hour they have never
seen the inside of Washington unless as spies
or prisoners, and have never gained a perIna-
nent footing in any free State-nor even in
Maryland. And they have not for months
veItured to appear in force in any loyal
State.
1t is, then. the naked truth-scrutinize the
figures for yourselv yes that about one third
q II z., iii, ,,,,.i, -~n l,nIf H., 49,.
population Of the pretended Confederacy are
at this hour restored to the Union
There remain, then, tie two and a half mill
lions Of slaves, and, if any one chose to insist
that they have been swelied to three millions
by removals from the recovered States by their
rebel masters, we will concede that number.
They are worth something to the Confederacy
while they can be- kept fettered and docils
without too much trouble When it comes to
requiring one sound white man to watch and
curb every three able bodied slaves, then they
become a burden. Now thes5 slaves, being
necessarily drawn back from all the frontiers
to preclude their escape to our lines, are far
more compactIy located than Of old. They
have. MOI cover, been, and still must be; cX-
tensively shifted from place to place, increas,
ling their facilities for INSTRUMENTATION.
They now know, down to the woolieSt and
stupidest child among them, that Union
means Liberty for them that the rebellion is
eternal slavery. Can you believe those slaves
Longer an element of strength to the rebI-
lion? Once, they undoubtedly were; but are
they now? How long is it since you have
heard a rebel boast of Their fidelity? or have
heard of their fighting for their masters Are
not the rebels themselves clearly aware that
tae slaves are their implacable ioes2
Then as to supplies We do not believe
the rebels utterly destitute. We know they
cannot be at this season. Their corn crop is
lust made; their pork is now coming III their
wheat should not be all gone yet, nor their
potatoes.
But of beef, dead or alive, they confessedly
have very little; and it must be considered
that The States lett h the rebellion this sfde Of
The Mississippi haze @eUer yet groan their 0aca
food. Crexas is different; but Texas is ut
terIy cut of and isolated from the main trunk
of the rebellion, SO that she can afford it no
aid whatever
Now it is admitted that the crops of the
Atlantic rebel States are very short this year
mot more than half an average. Then the
waste of war is terrible and keeping o.
foot and in active service armies equal to
one in twenty of the entire and one in twelve
Of the free population is a fearful strain III
tie resources of ans country. ltcannot long
he maintained anywhere, much less i'll a
country so poor and requiring such enormou
amounts of army transportation as the South.
Our armies to-day OutnuInher those OF the
rebellion; they press it on every side they
hold Kentucky and Tennessee, without which
the,rebels admit that they must he starved out.
Bnt we need more men to fill up the thinned
regiments. and enable our generals to make
short work of what life remains iii this most
foul treason. The bounties offered are gen
erous; the term Of service will probably be
short, especially if you rally promptly and
generally. MANY hands make light work !"
and two hundred Thousand men added to our
armies in a month, will insure the overthrow
of the rebellion before Spring. Young men
of the loyal States take hold altogether and
speedily finish the war!-NeW York Tribune.
rz,- Il would he difficult to tell which re-
Iceived the most damage ut the battl3 of hat
IfanoogA the COME ierat4s or Coppperhta ads
While the former viii feel the effect Of tbs
bIow from the Potomac to the lilo Ora lde,
the latter will experience a schock from Port
Hand to Saufrauris 0. If Chattanooga give
the rebels an tt rk Of cholera, it hes also
giveu their s~yInplthizcrs an awful spell Of
FITS.
TALK AND ImuUGIir just 30 hollow and
intellectual. for the most part, in eur ordinary
conversation. Surface meets surface. Where
our life ceases to be inward and private, con
versation degener-tts into mere gossip. W.
rarely meet a man who can tell us any newt
which he has not read in a newspaper, or beer
told 10y his neighbor and for the most part
the only difference between US and our fellow
ia that he has seen the new spapsr or bsst
out to tea. and we have not In pr~port'oE
49,. ,av4 Iea f,;ia we o more constant