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Gran, whites letter to washburne, in which he
tells him that the Contederates have their last man
in the ranks and that nothing is wanting but unity
of sentiment in the North TO insure complete sup
preston of the rebellion in very short Immediate
uot mentioned. A. the same Grant wrote last sum
fler that the Confederates defending their
last ditch in Spetsylvana, ard that ditch turned
cat not be their last perhaps his statement ought
10 ts. received with grains of allowance, espe-
caay When We rceollect that he threatened, long
ago rs the nth of May last, to fight it out ON hs
i.f,' ithat is the line from the Rapidan to Rich
mond if it took him all the SUMMER and that he ~
now, this fifteenth day of September, still twenty
Eve miles from Richmond, with no prospect oil ever
SITTING nearer, unless lac should come prisoner
The threats and boasts of general Who has been
-, ,,ns,ccesst, as Grant would amount TO very lit
n. a, hest In the present case they amount TO
nothing NJ all it being Perfectly notorious that they
are all designed to affect the election The people
n, home pertectly understand Grant, They know
,,,,, his campaign this summer was most complete
.at , most disastrous failure. Nothing could ex-
coed their dependency until the affair Of Atlanta,
IS the following extracts from the New York I'i-
baae and Times sufficiently prove The first IS
the If1baHS, giving III It's auhcSioh ~
after having been long in the habit OF persstentiy
assailins hin every morning 1t is dated the 9th
instant
at is useless to attempt to disguise the fact pa
tent TO every intelligent person in the country that
f,r weeks past until recently, there has been among
all loyal people good deal Ut diSsati saaetion at the
present aspect OF affairs, and good deal Of very
painful apprehension fol- the future. The events Of
the last three months, different from the general
expectation OF signal and decisive results of the
fanmer campaign, while they were the cause OF this
dependency, have justified the foresight OF those
who advised against the assembling Of the Union
Convention in June"
The following extract from the Times, which APP
peared about the time, confirms this view OF
the Tribune:
1.-THE political skies begin to brighten. The
clouds that lowered over the Union cause a month
ago are breaking away. The most careless observers
cannot fail to notice marked change III the tone OF
public sentiment within that time. 1t not to be
denied, and we did not attempt to conceal, that
profound dependency had taken possession OF the
public mind. DistruSt and dissatisfaction pervaded
the Union ranks the Union candidates seemed to
be losing their hold ON the public confidence, and
the enemies of the Administration were open and
loud i'll their exultant predictions OF disaster to the
Union cause"
The article of the Tribune confesses that the
suits of the campaign were far different from
what it was hoped they would be when it COM
nlenCtU. Every 1dlhtt at that uhoibSht,
beat high with hope. Never was there such boast
ing, such exultation, such selfcongratulation, as
when Grant began his march upon Richmond. In
three weeks, in spite of Stanton's daily hes all this
was changed. Ayell of despair was heard through
out the length and breadth of Yankeedonl rs the
daily list of slaughtered victims was unrolled-as it
became daily evident that Grant could not
take Richmond-and as, instead of entering it at
the point of the bayonet, he was found to have
ceded twenty-five miles from the point at which he
was nearest to it.
Our own people were at that time in a state of
mind bordering upon exultation. What has hap
pened since to depress them for that the weak
kneed are respondent at this moment it were folly
to deny Why, Sherman has entered Atlanta
place Of no strategic importance whatever-and has
fought battle with portion Of Hoods army, in
which the latter lost fifteen hundred men In spite
Of the fact notorious ALL that We have been every
where victoria D this summer; that Grant has lost
one hundred and fifty thousand men that Sher-
man has lost seventy OF eighty thousand; that
Banks lost twenty-five thousand; that Hunter lost
fifteen thousand; that We have penetrated to within
full view Of the White House at Washington; that
we hold all Virginia from this to the Potomac that
Texas is Clear OF an enemy; that two-thirds of
Louisiana have been recovered, that Arkansas has
nearly been restored; that our troops marching
upon Missouri, where the whole population is
ready to burst out into blaze /; that Kentucky has
been thoroughly revolutonized; that Forrest holds
West Tennessee; that the Yankee authority in
East Tennessee Is merely nominal-in spite of all
these successes, some Of our people allow them
selves to be cast down by the vaporng of the Yam
kecs-forgetting manhood common sense, and every
sentiment that makes a freeman worthy of fine
name We have no patience with such peop,e-
Thank God, they not the better part of our
population. II they had their way, they would 60
with their hands crossed to the Yankees and ask to
be tied. Such are lot fit for freemen They
ought to be sent to Lincoln. They are Fl. to be the
tools and the slaves OF tyrant, and they tit for
nothing else Grant has lost the flower of his army
His present force is made up of recruits, the
veterans being all gone. lie could not take Rich
mond when he had his whole force Of veterans; but
according to these shiyering, covering, ahiect
slayes of terror, he is going to do it NOR Out
upon the wretehes. 1t is they who cast gloom
over society whenever the slightest reverse our
arms occurs. Ont upon them! We say, with all the
excavations that honest men can shower upon the
heads of those who love themselves and their palty
ends better than honor and their country.
These gentry are frightened at the Yankee yells
Of triumph. Did they never hear them before B.
Have they forgotten Sharpsburg Have they for
gotten Gettysburg Have they forgotten Vicks-
burg Were those yells less loId less threatening
less triumphant, than they are nowi Have they
been fighting them for three years and half with
out having discovered that precisely at the moment
when they are i'll the very agoI1ies Of despair they
seize at the slightest pretence Of success as pre-
text for INDUCING in the most absurd fantaronade,
the most extravagant boasts, and the most outrage
Gus liess Is it because Seward tells the Yankees
that volunteers rushing forward at the rate of
several thousand a day Do they know nothing Of
Seward Have they never heard of his speeches and
letters before! Do they not know that he is recog-
nlzed ON both sides of the Atlantic tho most alb
sYra prognosticator Of events and the most aban-
doned liar that ever disgraced high office! We
beat the scoundrels-we beat them on every field
and then we allow them to he out of our victory
TO convince thatit isthey and not us who are VIC
torious. Or is it this nightly draft, which Stanton
says viii be enforced, now that he sees Mcclellan
has - done for himself" SO thoroughly that there
is longer anything dangerous in him-is il this
much-boasted draft that casts down to the earth
do not our people know that every means to evade
that draft are habitually employed by tie Northern
people! That counties, cities, States have entered
into the business Of kidnapping foreigners and me-
groes as substitutes Look what the New York
1sn'es Ancoins organ in that city, says of the spe-
ees o. force likely to be thus collected Here it is
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