The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-08
telegraph
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1861
sPRIT OF rBB NEW YORK PRESS.
JEW DAVIS CONFESSION.

FROM hc TrihuHo
The man who knows mos, intimately aud com.
pletely the condition Of the Southern CUlfcdsrsry
Is undoubtedly JtG rson Davis. The man who
has the dcepc,tiutercst ro colcea that kuo N,,iyo
Is also Je6,rson Davis, yet IL Is Jefferson Davis
who is The author of the speech which prJ,tims
20 all the world th the military resource, Of the
Rebellion ore well nigh exhausted aud It's hoosl
Of succ ~ nll bot vanished. The Macon speech
IL perhaps the most cNtraordnary confession ever
put forth by great criminal before he actually
stood spun the su lows VII ch was to be tho Ct
end Of his career
This srcecb is so frank and truthful that ity
huth6ntiity Is o. li.tIc suspected Nv single
Southern pspcr, hat there seems no causs for
doubt u is certain Davis has recently been 40
Macon, an0 hiss spoken there. aud that what prO-
fcs es 70 bc report Of his speech appears in the
Macon 1elCV0ph The date is 50 long agb ~
September "a there hls bpe1 abundant time fpr
cOniradicton, hut none has been made. We
conclude thc speech is accurately gtyea in SAB
stance
We know not whether this siuglar confession
will he received vi more rage nv the Southern
or by the Northern comrades Of Mr.. d avis. All
the hopes Of the former, a1d all tho political
hopes OF the latter, rest on the military stre1g
and resources nf the Rebellion. Yet Mr.. d avis
declares that twO-thirds Of the Rebel troops are
deserters, aud thai not many men between
eighteen aud forty Eve are left in the COnfedoracy.
is driven T. own that the people fail of from his
cause, and that the armies are reduced far below
the least strength ever claimed for them.
For IL we put the Rebel forces at four hundred
thousand men when the summercampaign began,
we shall fud, by the estimate Of Mr. Davis him
self, that not more than Que hundred and thirty
thousand men remain in the field. This number
includes the troops both east and west Of the Mis-.
sissippi, aud Is meaa to represent not the actual
but the nominal force Of the Rebel armies. Whit
must be the morale OF those armies, twO-thirds of
whose meu have deserted in the face of the
enemy What their hopes of victory against
forces whom they know to be twice, thrice, four
times superior
Mr.. Davis confessps not only that his armies
are two-thirds wasted by desertion, bat that
there are no men 20 fill them. General Grant
said that the Reres were robbng tue cradle aud
the grave to i'll th, ir ranks. Mr.. Davis cDnfesses
Il Ia true. "YOu have not many men bet Seen
eighteen and forty. five left" Aud the President
of this great CnntedeTacy, the leader of gigantic
Rebellion, is driven TO appeal tO women for sup
port The chance Ofpersuading his soldiers back
into the ranks rests the delusion of their wives
ana daughters. Place is 70 be kept for a bay Of
eight years old at the solicitation of his mother,
and her example is commended 10 the rest
Nay, the chef of great army cOndescends TO
beg that he may he personally informed by letter
concerning deserters To bring the military ne
Cessities Of his condition clearly before the people,
Mr.. Davis tells them that even Macon, "illed
with stores, sick, and wounded" must be de-
Tended, not by Hoofs army, but by the "old
meni 'huO Wnen rue enemy Is driven DtyOnl
Chattanooga y, they, too, can join in the general
rejoicing" Better have said the young men, for
they will have a chanre TO grow old before Shar
man quite reaches Chattanooga in his retreat
The empty holst that he shall be driven back, Is
in pitiful contrast with the exhibit Of military
deficiencies which the rest of Mr.. Davis harangue
presents.
The leader of the Rebellion has heretofore
solicit the respect of Europe by the decOrum of
his public speeches and S'ate papers. In deport-
ment be has been the rival of Mr.. YdrOp,
and IN "genPmhu line>s' has admitted no peer
but General Mcclellan. Yet this perfumed cha "a
lier now permits himself TO talk of "Butler The
Beast" with whom no Commits >ioner Of Exchange
would hold intercourse and induges in cheap
slur aNout B1Iler's effort to got himself white
washed bv holding intercourse With gentlemen.
Whi her have vanished Mr.. Davis regards for
diplomatic proprietieS3 Why are they super
seded bv q passionate explosion of ill-tcmper ?
What will General Mcclellan now say for the
we'll bred traitor whose p rfecdDu of mannerI he
once vehcmen,ly asserted 10 Colonel MetcAf, OF
Kentucky
MIR. Davis defends himself against the charge
of neg, cunR Georgia. He AYERS thlt they ware
no better off in Virginia than in GeOrgI. H.
asSeVerares thai the despatch of Early'S army 10
Atlanta would bave been the destru ton OF r. h
mOnd. He announces, in substance that mere
after each sect N Of The COufederacy must protec
ipelf a best It can. H. believes that "if one
balFthe desertrrs II return to duty.w we can defea
the enemy" But he knows they will not return
He kbews that even the hope of McCel an'i
election has grown faint TO be materially help
full 20 the kehelinn, aud in sullen tit Of deI
pondenCy the great ira burts ont the admission
that the RehelliNn North and the Rebellion SOutt
are 10 fall together IN November.