Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-02-26
TIE DESPERATE STRAITS OF TIE RERELLIo!

THE DESPERATE STRAITS OF THE REBELLION
our PEACE PRoPoSITIoS.-Thr news from
Richmond which we have received furnishes II
vivid inside view Of the desperate straits of the
rebellion. 1t will be remembered ihRt in a late
letter the Richmond correspondent of the London
Times fatty stated that if the rebel Congress,
which II must be admitted has hitherto shown
little grasp, or earnestncsS or capacity fails tn
rise 10 the hight of the great argument before H.
there may be expected such misery q. G., through
out the rebellious States) upon earth has never
yet been seem" In other words, this Anglo-rebel
correspondent means to say that unless the rebel
Congress shall provide new armies from States
which have no more soldiers TO give; subsistence
from districts already impoverished, and sub
stantial currency based upon the faith of q Gov.
eminent which has come to be regarded, even in
South Carolina, an exploded impoSture, then
the universal spoliatiOns and destruction of mere
guerrilla warfare will surely fall upon the people
of the rebellious States.
The rebel Congress, thus cOmprehending the
hight of the great argument before it, has under
taken these indicated labors, compared with
which the twelve Iabors of Hercules were mere
child's play. The Solons of rebellion have under
taken the task of filling up their wasted armies
and the task of replenishing their exhausted
treasury but, as was to be expected, they have
failed in both at the very threshold The Rich
mond Enquirer, the special organ Of JEFF Davis
says that the proceedings of his Congress in the
premises betray the workings of panic among
members which will be apt TO create panic
through all the Confederacy = tlat the bill
providing TO raise the sum Of seven hundred mil
lions of dollars by taxation will bring to the auc
ton block all the private property Of the " Con-
federacy" as il now stands while the bill for the
reinforcement of the armies of Lee, Longstrcet
and Joe Johnston provides for nothing more or
less than an absolute, ruinOus and irresponsible
despotism," and general starvation.
These views are correct but 1t is also true that
these extreme measures must be adopted, that the
Southern people concerned must submit TO Il uni
versal and remorseless consumption, and the sac
rifce of all they possess TO maintain the war, or
revolt against JEFF Davis, and submit to the
Union. That outspoken and sensible Southern
rights paper, the Raleigh Progress truly says
there is but one way in which our (Southern)
ruin can be made thorough incomplete, aud that
is to continue the war" Let us bring few facts
to bear upon this point.
Practically, the rebellion is now limited to the
country within the lines of the rebel armies east
of the Mississippi These lines inclose popula-
ton not exceeding four millions, and half this
population is made up of African slaves. The
rebel soldiers defending this diminished Copfeder-
acy, oil told will not exceed two hundred thou.
sund men, To supply this force the region indi-
Gated has been drained of almost every able
bodied white man that can be spared from the
farm and the factory.-N Y Herald.