Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-20

SuCCeSo IMAM IL Has UCtI many II
may be due to the buoyant elasticity of public
confidence, which cannot bear to be long de-
pressed; or to the development of that inner
faith which trusts implicitly in the strength of
a just cause. But certain it is that the slow
maturing Of plans since the check at Freder-
icksburg, is watched with patient complacen-
cy never manifested before, and with the pro-
found assurance that all will be right.
1t is a testimony to the wonderful strength
and vitality of the government, that 1t has
been able to contend successfully against the
open rebellion of one part of its territorial
sovereignty, and at the same time against Sc
cret conspiracies in another part, without be-
ing hopelesslY demoralized and dismembered.
Whenever it has seemed in unusual PERIL
whenever it has been peculiarly exposed,
either through its own weakness of purpose,
or the malignity of its foes, the reserved forces
of popular patriotism have invariably come to
its relief, with strength proportional to the
need of the hour Now, after two years ex-
perience of the varied and uncertain fortunes
of war, the government wants nothing which
it cannot have for asking,-the only condition
being that the war so foully begun shall be
fought to a successful end.
While, then, the country is so prosperous
all its branches of productive industry in
healthy Experimentation in constant demand
and m citing its abundant reward-capital,
however invested, bearing as abundantly as
autumn-the government would be weak in
deed, and deserve condemnation, if it were
not in condition to suppress the rebellion
speedily and restore an early peace. But tits
not weak and does not deserve condemnation.
There is a united and nvincible public opin-
ion on its side. The voices of traitors, bold
in their bad cause while the sword of justice
is slumbering in its sheath, have only served
to revive and quicken the genuine patriotism
of the land. The public credit is unimpaired.
The public resources are adequate to all
emergencies. The rebels themselves show
their confidence in the ultimate success of the
government, by holding its ''green-backs" at
one hundred and fifty per cent premium over
two hundred and fifty per cent over their
worthless C moderate currency. The army
has been for months improving in organiza
ton, in personnel, and in everything that con-
tributes to esprit de corps and general military
effectiveness.
On the other hand there is only gloom and
encouragement in all the wards of the rebel
confederacy. They have met with no serious
losses. They have sustained no heavy defeats.
They have been lnduatriously ''let alone"
since last fall to perfect their defences and
mature their plans for new years campaign.
Yet from that hour they have lost prestige and
credit abroad, and hope at home. The con-
scription has been enforced to the last limit of
patience. Forced contributions have been
exacted TO the last strain of endurance. The
central government has pressed its disregard of
state rights and personal rights to the verge of
a second revolution. Financially the confed-
eracy is failure and an utter wreck. The
notes manufactured at the confederate paper
at par, have become no nearly worthless that
every kind of commerce and trade is derang-
ed, and the simplest necessaries of life are
as far removed from the poor as the rarest
luxuries were in time of peace. II they have
not already denounced the jeff Davis gov
eminent as the grand robber of all they had
of prosperity and hope in the world, it is be.
cause they are stone blind with madness, or
because the central tyranny is SO absolute and
supreme.
But such a condition cannot last. 1t is not
in the nature of things. Absolute power may
perpetuate itself over people who have never
known any other as it has perpetuated itself
for two hundred years over wretched race
from whom all light has been mercilessly
kept. But it cannot hold permanently over a
people who have once seen the light. Men
who have one spark of loyalty left in them,
though they may now be oppressed by con-
scription, or hunted to the mountains and
swamps where their slaves have been hunted
before them, will one day turn upon their OPP
pressors and pursuers, and drive them to the
wall. 1t is said-we know not with how much
truth-that the earnest protests Of such men
as these, who foresaw that if the federal gov
eminent failed all would be lost for them in
duced the leading democrats of the north to
abandon disloyal opposition and return to
cordial and unreserved support of the govern
ment 1t may be that many of them are ripe
for an open Issue with their pretence of gov
eminent, and are only waiting for an opportu-
nifty which it is in our power alone to give
them. Unless all signs and promises fail
that opportunity will not long be wanting.
There is at least no present cause for de-
spondency. The fairest season of the year
is now opening upon an army as perfect in all
its appointments as the best armies of the old
world. 1t is equal to the work before it if it
is not again betrayed. There is no enemy,
there are no enemies works, that can stand
before them, if they are led now by generals
who have wisdom to plan, courage to fight,
and purpose to win the battles that are to end
the war. This is the presidents concern.
Nobody else can take the responsibility from
him. He may assure himself now that there
Is no honor for himself, there is no safety or
ue1ence for his administration, there is no
nope for the government itself, if complete
anu maj victory over the rebellion is not
H0nie'eu "hile he has the power to gather it's
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