The weekly union record., 1864-03-26

| W ecS ~" VIC nOdSa se 1oie 10 lscc1 tnc cui'
ergency, forgetting tAat 8 patton founded
upon the divine principles Of freedom and
equality would no. be left to perish, but under
the hand of Providence ways and means
would be devised to extricais rs from the
deadly periIs surrounding Us
The people aroused TO realization Of the
crisis, declared themselves willing to credit the
government and accept its propsr evidences Of
Indebtedness as an equivalent for coin. and
thus without the aid Of tasty John Bull or bis
plethoric money bags, the nation met our first
great want. The rebel government also have
called upon its supporters TO attest their conf
dence in its stability by accepting their paper,
but the relative value of the two show the con-
trast Of the confidence Of the people in the
two powers. While gold commands at the
outside but about sixty per cent. premium,
with Us; dollar 10 coin will buy from ten
dollars to as much as man feels like packing
Of confederate scrip
As with men and money, so with every
thing else. Our arsenals and manufactures
for supplying guns and munitions of war, have
been increased to more than thirty times their
former capacity, and while the south has lost
over one third of its producing power by the
skedaddlrng Of negroes who have chosen to
quit service, the North by its increase in ma
chinery and motive power has fully counter
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States the producing power consists almost cd
tirely of slaves. To sustain slavery they
must keep them ignorant, and where such i.
the normal condition of the laboring classes, it
is impossible that there should be the requisite
amount of energy developed to create new and
improved machinery (for which they have de
pended entirely upon the Nortb), that would
enable them to keep pace with the rapid pro
gress of the northern States, where labor is
genealogical line back far without finding it
hitched to some kind of trade The natural
consequence of this elevation of the working
man is seen in the vast amount Of labor saw.
ing machinery sent forth every year TO in
crease the amount done, or lessen the manual
labor of doing the same amount
We thus find, that while 100000 slaves
have done the greater part of the entire work
of the South, one single Northern State bas
enough machinery in active operation to per
form the work of twenty times that number
Of In I,l; h.,
have sent nearly 100000 men to the war, they
have by aid of labor saving inventions cult
vated as much or more ground, and harvested
more grain in the past year as they did in
1860
While the power of the South is fast de-
creasing. both in men and material, that of
day f.; and in men the disproportion is growing
greater and greater each day the war contin-
ues.
At the commencement of this struggle the
rebels, who had been long preparing, bad q
large supply of provisions and the necessary
supplies on hand; enough, with what they
have raised to keep them until the present
time but from the accounts of "Breadriots"
and the suffering of the people that We find in
the journals Of rebeldom, and from the fact
that our armies have generally found at every
advance they have made, evidence of the
scarcity of food, we may surely conclude their
supplies are more nearly exhausted than their
men, aud in men We find that they are reduc.
ed nearly one third since 1860.
Another thing that tends to show their
weakness is, that where our armies have been
we have set free about 100000 slaves. OF
these while only about 100000 are in the field,
the balance are in the north helping to furnish
supplies for our troops that are now in the
feld-so that while it has greatly taken from
their strength it has aided In like proportion
to strengthen the government. From all
these facts we can but presume that the "be
gning Of the end approaches, and the time
must soon come when the armed hosts of the
rebellion must succumb before the superior
forces of Uncie Sam and by its own depletion
English pens may still continue to demon
strate, as they have done ever since the com
meDcement Of the war, the utter impossibility
of our government being able 10 continue the
war much longer but the inexorable logic of
events is fast loosiog the "gordian knot of the
rebellion-apd while our armies under the gal
liant lead of men like Sherman are striking deep
into the very heart of the coufederacy, the
wall for bread comes up with increasing power
from the wives, mothers and sisters of those
who are contending with all the energy Of
desperation against the superior numbers of
our own well fed soldiers English and South.
ern aristocracy may hope and wish for the dis.
memberment Of these United States, but the
philosophy Of forces change not at each beck
of noble blood, be it of European or Southern
Il.