The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-29

has not only bees exposed but made the worst
| OF. IL would not be difficult for any Southern
Rebel 70 make mp from our Copperhesd news
papers picture Of che difficulties which are be-
setting our Government, and OF the calamltIes
| that are threatening the North, that would
| giatify bis fondest hopes or his rankest malice
In the South, generally, the pross has no such
| privilege Of putting tho Rebel cause in an un-
iAvoiable light.
All truths tending 10 dlscouraRement il must
| either conceal or peryert. Upon single acts of
| the Government OF minor importance there may
| be rec criticism but on no occasion 4, there
ever stem fee exposition OF the actual strength
and resources,or the actual trials aud ilisu,tios
OF the Government. The universal business OF
| tue sou bern press is to make things look plea.
SAINT 80 far as essentials 80.
In respect 70 tic number Of men under arms In
thd "COntCdCrHCy,' for Instance, not n hint is
evr given. We know that the Richmond Con-
gress last year decrced a universal conscriptUn
OF all able-bodied men, but no returns have ever
appeared respecting the result Of that conscrlp-
ton, either in any single State or in the nggre-
gate. If the Rebel War Department has ever
n ade any report on the subject, which is very
doubtful, it wa. received by che Congress IN secret
session, and kept suppressed In the Federal
service, the soldiers are raised by definite hume
real rtqulsitions, and tho quotas actually Sc
cmed are officially published, Without the slight.
est restrye.
No state mcnt or iniimation has been given nv
the Rebel Treasury Deparlmcnt-at least not
within the last year or two-COncerniug the Con-
the liabilities must have been piled mountaiu
high, but 10 man is allowed to know its measure
ment. On the other hand the National Gpyern-
ment publishes weekly tabular exhibits Of every
class Of its debts
The CNtrtmC secrecy which fs Tins maintained
by 'he Rebel Government concerning its actual
condition In respect TO ITS two most vital uece,-
81 les, soldiers and money, can have no other
oogect than TO hide conscious weakness. It is
cay enough for us here in the North, with the
census returns Of 1860 in our hands to draw
general conclusions respecting the resources of
the States IN rebellion, and the time necessary
for their exhaustion under the demands of this
tr MT ndous war. But yet, calculate as closely
as we may, we can only roughly approximate the
real truth. We can only be positive that the
Confederate power Of resistance has already
lasScd its maximum, and that at no distant
period II must cease 10 be CtcCtugl. The Con-
iedeiate authorities could give Us more deHnit,
information upon this vital point il they would
but they take the utmost pains 20 keep the
World ln an absolute ignorance respecting 1t, be-
cause they know that the clear light would DIS
sipnte the last particle of confidence In their sue
GEES.
But the truth will only come out in the shape
OF practical results. The growing weakness of
the Rebel ion will he seen alone In the fccbler
blows with which Il defends it.olf No abate-
nent of its high prctenseS need be expected he.
fore the very moment OF It's final submission. No
disclosure OF its real extremity will 10 made or
allowed. Probably, as at NiCksburg. the pro-
testations that there will be no surrender, will
never no so loud as Just rreyOus to the surrender
The effort will he TO make up in assumption what
is ackinB in power.
OF course, all such bravo talk will moro or less
impose upon the people Of the Old World .'who,
at hest, have but Il slender knowledge Of any
thing relative 10 what they cull our " civil war"
They may read, as in this case, IN a newspaper
sympath'2ing with the Rebellion, that T" the
difficulties Of tho South aro far grea er than are
al owed TO appear on the surface" and yet fail TO
see anything significant in the admission. II is
enough for them that the Cnnfrderucy" sill
continues to show what seems to be q stout front
But the Northern people, who have Oh ,ervel,
nom the beginning, how the managers Of the
Rebellion have made cOnCeUlmCnt their stand
policy, should avoid the common error of magni-
wing snd cmbcllshing the unknown. Wha ever
ditfculties are experienced by our National Gov
ernment are sure to be bruited, and made to pro-
duce the worst impression possible. But we may
be assured that the difficulties of the Rebels
which are not allowed to appear on he surface, .,
are vastly greater, and should he prepared to hear
any day that hey at last exceed the power of
human endurance.