Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-01-15
The Rebellion a Failure.

} Our readers know that we have not been
! remarkably sanguine with regard TO the prog
ress and issue of our great struggle. And
when we say now that the rebellion has failed,
we do not imply that it has ceased to strug-
/ gle, or viii cease tomorrow, next month, or
next year. The leaders have staked their all
may as well hold cut to the last as give up
the day beforehand will persist 10 Sighting 80
long as their observation-disclosures or canine
can run down another poor white and force.
him into their sAivering shoeless ranks. The
Slave Oligarchy will die in the ''last ditch
not in the last but one. t'e9-
What we do mean is just this-the rebels
have no longer rational hope of success e.
See if our position is not sustained by abund-
ant facts:
/. 10 war, an army cut thoroughly in two is
beaten, because its smaller division is now la
! bic TO be overwhelmed and annihilated. Il lie
the same with a nation as with an army.- p
Now the rebellion was cut fairly in two near
| y six months ago, and has not even seriously
attempted to reunite. All communication be-
tween its forces west and those east of tho
Mississippi, is iBfrequent, furtive, stealthy-
the work Of spies, not soldiers. Gnerrillas
and flying camps seem to diminish the value
| of our possessions of the Mississippi by firing
from its banks at our passing vessels they do
not seek to restore their lost communications.
This is virtually giving up the contest. a'
II. The rebels held good portion of Mis-
souri, two years and more ago, and had at least
treble the Missourans in their ranks that there
were in ours. They had possession Of good
share Of Kentucky likewise, with thousands Of
Kentuckians fighting for them when as yet
none were fighting for the Union. The first
regiment of Kentuckians raised to fight for the
Union had to be organized and encamped on
the free side of the Ohio. Even John j Crit
tenden, we are assured, discouraged the enlist
ment of Kentuckians to fight for the Union,
when Buckner with his State Guard. was
sending them by regiments to fght for the
Confederacy. Gen. Sherman, about two years
ago, estimated that he could hold Kentucky
for the Union with 100000 men. To-day,
Kentucky is entirely clear of rebels in arms,
and has more of her sons fighting for the
Union than against
III. Tennessee, two years ago, was entirely
under the feet of the rebellion. She had not
a regiment in the Union armies. She had
many regiments in those Of the Oonfederacy.
Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga,
were rebel depots of supplies Flour, pork,
with almost every element of military strength
to the Confederacy. To-day her Rebel Gov
ernor is an exile; nine-teuths Of her popula-
tion are under the Union flag, and she no
longer sends ham or bushel Of grain to feed
the Rebel armies.
". Maryland, two years ago, had far
more men in the Rebel than in the Union
armies, and was a source of weakness and an
object of continued apprehension TO the Union
lists. Her great artery Of Communication
with the West, the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, was controlled, or at least obstructed, by
them. Things are bravely altered sine she
is helping our side most to-day, and is no more
likely to secede than Vermont is. ~,
V. Arkansas is at least three-fourths re-
covered to the Union Louisiana is more
than half with liberal slices Of Old Virginia,
North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas
And the prospect to-day is, that we shall have
more before we have less. -.e-:s..- r
tr.VI. But let US suppose that we simply
hold our ground henceiorth till next Spring,
let us see where we stand:
The population of the Slave States in 1860
was little over II Millions sand this popu-
lation was assumed by Gov. Seymour, In his
Tweddle Hall speech, nearly three years ago,
as the substantial base of the Rebellion then
Just breaking out. "You can't subdue IL
Millions of People," was the burden Of his
speech. But of these Twelve Millions, there
are this day reposing under the Union Tag the