, 1864-12-30
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REBEL DISSENSlONS.


1neftern logic ot events is forcing ~ BIT
teF contest between the two sustaining ele-
ments Of the rebellion, secessontsm aud pro.
6laVcryism. These twin demuns went into the
war hand IN hand, the shareholders and the
seceealonfsts. appearing 10 be one In scnti-
ment, bccanse they believed themselves to be
one In interest. But the Daviscs, Lees and
Beaurccards, the whole official class of tho
rebels have found their interest in slavery
growing less, and their stake In the rebellion
greater, until the for1nc1is now too insignif
cant to weigh in their eyes against the latter.
II the success Of the latter requires, as they
now declare, the sacrifice Of the former, they
cry nlbud tor tho sacrifice. "Let the
slaves be freed, armed, made land
holders, citizens, oflceholders, anything.
say Davis and Lee, "rather than that we
should lose the t1ibcrty' of riding, booted
and spur1ed, over the necks Of the whole
slavcAo1ding population OF these States.
Onr negroes are gone, our stake in slavery is
gone. We hold NO stock now but Confeder-
ate stock. What We have done you must do.
Give up all your. negroes; free them; live,
march and. fight beside them on terms Of
equality, tor all this Is necessary in order that
we, JEFF. Davis and Company, may rule you
all Otherwise you Will pass under the hated
dcspotism Of the Union Constitution and
laws Of the United Statos, under which yon
lived In happy ignorance Of their cnorm!ty
for 60 many years. whilc VIC, your pious
leaders IN this revolt, will he hung"
While JEFF. Davis, Z. E. Lee, and other
military rebels are thus abolitionized and
urging forwnrd the car Of emancipation, the
Shareholders, especially ofihe cotton States,
Ten years under tho old Union, find them
selves reminded Of the sly fox in Esop who,
having lost his Own tail in trap, strove to
persuade his friends Of the expedlcncy OF
losing Theirs So far from the rebellion hav-
ing built up their interests, it has. ruined
them. Their cotton and crops rot worthless
on their field or are plundered for the snp-
port Of the rebellion. Their negroes are un-
reliable or hostile, or have left for parts un-
known. They are aooded with currency
not worth its weight In oatmeal. And
now, a{ter being robbed by the re-
bellion Of nearly all they: had,
they arc asked 10 give up their
little hope Of having anything in the fu-
tue, to supply the ravenous NAV Of the Same
stupendous crime. In q community in which
the blacks outnumber tae whites they are
asked in substance to admit the latter to
civil md substantial equality. And their in
tcrests and prejudices rebel against this, but
the necessities Of war have brought them to
it. Abolition, the odor Of which cxhaled from
far of Boston iour years ago, was so offensive
to them that they could not worship the same
God nor lire under the same flag with it, now
sits In their capital and commands their ar
mics. The relied Mokaunah reveals his ugli-
ness too late to enable them to rebel against
his worship. They can only bow or be
crushed They may hate but they must kneel
The wooden horse which three years ago they
bore in triumph into their modern Troy, now
in the dark hours Of their hopeless night
emits the armed Greeks who will open their
city gates to the enemy