Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-01-04

Signs Of Dependency Among the Rebels
The New York correspondent of the
London Times, who has all along bOlstered
up the rebel cause in England, has got
some new ideas pounded into him by the
logic Of events. Listen to him:
1 have no very high opinion of the num-
bers and energies Of the so-called Union
party" in the Confederscy. If they really
were strong spd many, more shame on
their cowsrdice for allowing feeble ma
jority to ride rough-shod over them for the
best part Of three years. Nc, the danger
to the South does not arise from the Union
opposition, but there are in every commu-
nifty vast mass Of men without mind or
will Of their oWn-men always ready to
bow to the powers that be, to accept any
change that chance may bring about, to
accommodate themselves to any public
combination, only striving that It should
Rot too hsrshly clash with their private
interests. 1t is this clsss Of persons, "who
never were alive" as Dante has it, the
neutral, passive, unimpTessionable class,
that begins to tire Of the strife in the
South. In the Border States, and in those
invaded by the Northern troops, that class
suffers itself to be mustered up into Re-
publican, and even an Anti-Slsvery party.
They carry the elections in favor Of the
United States Government; they hold
meetings and councils for the reorganizs-
ton Of their State administration, and for
the election Of their representatives to
Congress. Altogether, they show no little
readiness to let bygones be bygones, and
to open the way for reconciliation and
compromise. The disturbances in those
Border States become daily less significant
and less frequent.
That the prOlongstion Of the struggle
may within i've or six months wear out
the South, /, oandidly speaking, believe
by no means impossible, Heroes Of the
Lee and Davis stamp may choose to break
rather than to bend, and for them death or
exile will be the more bearable lot; but II
resistance in the field is overcome, do
really incline to believe that men will be
found in the South willing to put forward
or accept proposals either Of submission OF
compromise; and If the two fractions OF
these disunited States can ever come to
terms, snd the implscsble leaders Of the
Secession movement are proVidentially re-
moved, the pscifcation and Cancellation Of
the rebel districts may turn out less diff
fcult task than people are now fain to
imagine. The States Of Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina. and especially North Caro-
lima, may eventually come under the man.
sgement Of the Washington Government
with no greater trouble than Maryland OF
Missouri, if 1t SO be that the Government
finds plausible solution TO the Slavery
question: matter which, to my mind, Il
not very difficult.
The loves of multitude, ssys the old
Italian statesman, are short lived and
6eeting, and SO are their hstreds and ran.
cors also. For my own part, have found
the Americans as fckle and inconsiderstC
race as any can be, SO far as politica
principles are concerned. The only point
to which they stick, most Of the Northern.
ers, and many Of the SOutherners, Is tbs
preservation Of the Union, the glorifos
ton Of their big country and nstion-s
nation as Mr.. Beeoher elegantly expressed
himself in one Of his late addresses, whicE
is to walk among the pigmy States Of thl
old world "ss an elephant tresds anon:
mice"