True Democrat., 1863-02-11
The End almost Accumulated.

Nothing more clearly evidences the utter hope lessness of the contest on the part of the northern government, than the great change in popular sentiment at the North, in regard to the object of it. At the beginning, when belief was confident and hope buoyant, nothing but subjugation, the absolute and entire subjugation of the South, was thought or talked of. Their public men proclaimed it, their presses reiterated and their preachers preached it. They were uncompromisng in their opinions and defiant in their tone. They asked no terms and would grant none They regarded the South as vict m to be sacrificed, and deemed her already in their clutches. They clustered and boasted and thought there was nothing to do but take possession and distribute her effects. They gathered together an army of seventy five thou sand men and sent it upon the mission of con quest. It was beaten, routed, driven back, but rothing discouraged, they raise another, seven hundred and fifty thousand strong, and equipped it army was never equipped before. That too defeated at every point aud almost entirely destroyed. Still they were confident, and called for six hundred thou and troops more. This last army, augmented by six hundred thousand of fre2h levies, and amounting to more than million Of men, has been in the field upwards of six months, and has as yet ac ;omplished nothing Rolled in Mississippi, repulsed at Murfresboro, defeated in both North an South Carolina, and routed and slaughtered at Fredericksburg it's career has been any thing but one of conquest and subugation.
 Anl what is now the tone of popular sentiment at the North? It is no longer boastful and def ant, but subdued and covering The face of affairs has changed, the truth has broken in upon them at last-the South is a power that eau neither be crushed or conquered. They feel it, they see it, and they know it, and, instead of the much boas- ted sutugation, they now talk of a reconstruction Having failed, utterly and disgracefuly failed to conquer us in open fight, they now hope to entrap wtaspecious promises. What they arroganty denied us at first, they now anxiously protfer us They offer us guarantees for ights of any kind we may ask, if we will only be again their hcwers of wood and drawers of water. Their idea now is reconstruction, and with that idea as a watch word in their late elections they not only overcome the overwhelming abolition majority that elected Lin coin, but secured the national House of Re4resen- tatives favorable to reconstruction of the Union In less than ninety days proposition to reconstruct
 
 What is there in any guarantee they can give Us to again cntice us into union with them? Did ever any southern man complain that we had not sutf- cent guarantees before! It not abs ,nce of guarantees in the constitution, hut disregard and violation o the constitution itself that se*ercd the Union. Guarantees upon paper have proved to be worthless. The northern people violated those given us by their fathers and their children, equally faith
 less, would violate any they would give us now.- No--we trusted them once nearly to our ruin, we'll trust them no more. They will be friends in peace, in war enemies nothing and nothing less.-- The Uoion is gone and it is gone forever. Tie cru cities they have inflicted and the sufferngs pco- pie have endured attest this fact-the courage and devotion of our troops, .he patience of our people, even the hcroism of our attest it. The Union is gone forever and its destruction will be pointed to in history future generations against the fol- lies of a wild fanaticism and an unbriled avarice.
 The northern people now talk of reconstruction They have learned grent deal, but they have nott yet learned enough. They have learned tho folly O attempting fsyoe they ,nurt yet learn that far pyDa