Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-01-06
MISCELLANEOUS,
The Southern Confederacy.

Inc couJnern GonfeQeraey.
Remarkable Letter Of The Richa,ona CORES
p0ndeAt of The Lgadon Tlmes-tie despair
Of the Rebellion ackDomiedged- Northern
Faith and SeHthern DjStrast- The Brink
Of Disaster.
[Richmond (Nov 14) Correspon-
dence Of the London Times.
The Confederate States are evident
ly approaching a stage in this war
which will test more than ever the
stubbornness and tenacity Of their
temper and patience and can only be
successfully encountered by nation
al spirit as systematic as it is resolute
Their enemy, with as much pertinacity,
and far more sagacity, than heretofore,
hens in the edges of the rebellion"
on every side, avoids the frequent re-
currence of pitched battles aud gener-
al engagements, pounces with hawk
like swoop upon isolated and made
quately supported bodies of men, evin-
ces possession Of admirable secret in
formation, keeps the Confederate gem
erals constantly on the rack, and, har-
rassed by irruptions OF cavalry, makes
his superiority Of numbers, and still
more his abundance Of supplies for
horse and man, more and more felt,
and finally, in investing the ports of
Secessia with a Gordon of vessels so
nun erOus as for the first time in thirty
months to make access to the Confed-
crate coast really dangerous and diff
cult On the other hand, in rebeldom
itself the Federals have d powerful al
ly in circumstances which, to my
thinking, have from the beginning
quadrupled the Confederate task. No
one who has been conversant with the
North, daring the last two and half
years, can have failed to notice with
astonishment the faith stronger than
death which the northerners have ex-
hibited in their ''star,' their "manifest
destiny" their religion" their Alpha
and Omega, their dreaE Of dominion
from sea to sea, and Ito quote MIR. Ev-
eretts Words ''from the icy pole to the
flaming belt OF the Equa or" No par
allel faith has ever been exhibited by
the Confederate States in their future.
Six great southern victories in the field
and three drawn battles, exhausting
the nine principal collisions Of the war,
the entire absence OF any such pane
routs as Bull Run or Chickamauga, the
tried inetiicacy Of the Federal block
ade, the unmolested predatory flight of
Alabamas and Floridas at sea, have al
together failed to inspire the masses of
the South with 1.-THE of that conf
dence in themselves, which neither de-
feat, nor disaster, nor hope deferred,
nor illusions dispelled, have ever shak-
en- out Of the Northerners Deny it
who may, there is something sublime
in this shadOwy earnestness ard misty
magnltcence OF northern f ith and self
reliance Would that | could see
promise Of future and final southern
triumph in any corresponding quality
OF the southern mind In many fash
ions southern untaith crops up and re-
coils upon the Confederate Govern
ment, making, for instance, Mr.. Mem
mingers task, though he takes his
stand upon raw material worth sixty
Or seventy millions Of pounds sterling,
herculean as compared with Mr..
Chase's, who issues vastly larger prom
AHS'' w P"J Cil a o1buIAiE VI DICfuSGuiI
exports worth only sixty or seventy
millions Of doHdrS. There are, of course,
other reasons to account for the fact
that three dollars in "green backs" will
buy two dollars in gold, while it re-
quires thirty paper dollars Of the Con-
federacy to buy like sum; but the
fundamental explanation Of the decrep-
ancy in value Of the irredeemable pa
per issues Of the two sections lies in
the vastly superior faith in themselves
of the northern people. For many
months we have heard throughout the
Confederacy the cuckoo cry, DO some
thing to arrest the depreciation of the
currency, or we perish;" but hitherto
nothing has been done, and, as as aow seen
By e0erybody, aoe are on tie brink Of q
preeipice.