The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-07-06

ready 10 sink with nine nunoreu OIner POuNu9,
this weight, small as it is, destroys his life.
When inqsisltve people ask US, When and
where will be the last struggle OF the rebellion :!
We may properly reply that it will be when the
rebels can struggle no longer, and not before
We must repeat our blows upon them, as Hee-
nan did upon King, until they are PROSTATE from
sheer exhaustion. How many or bow heavy
blows will be required, is problem that is no"
being solved; Grant ID plying them nightly ana
daily and neither the spectators nor the par
ties themselves can tell how many will be re-
ouired before the rebels will fight no more. IL
ia the exhaustion of one Of the combatants, not
the amount of blows which he receives, which
determines the period Of the hnal result 10
1912 France lost in her Russian expedition,
half million OF men; yet the very next year
she was again ready to fight all Europe. But
when she again lost half her only army at Water
loo. and could not raise another, that loss was IT.
reparable; and she sunk at the feet OF her con-
querers as powerless as a little child. When the
period of exhaustion shall come in the Confede
racy. the abilities of Lee or johnson can no more
save it, than the mighty genius of Napoleon
could prevent the conquest of France by her
foreign enemies.
1t is desirable, both for our peace OF mind and
for the progress of thu cause, that We should try
10 acquire a calmuess ard stability Of mind when
We contemplate the war and iIs results, and not
allow our feelings, either of hope or desPonden-
CIV, TO warp our judgment We can rely upon
LII - in this NJ
: surely as we can rely upon any OF the laws
which regulate the course OF physical nature.
: Considering the circumstances under which 1t
, has been conducted, our success thus far has
been all that We had any just reason to expect !;
and the future aspects were never more favorA-
bic than at this day. If we look back only for
5 one year. we shall be surprised to find how
great and favorable a change has taken place.
June, 1868" says a contemporary, twas Il
month Of gloom and trial. The elements OF dis
loyalty in our midst threatened 10 eliminate in
i open war-against the Government. Tue mob
spirit was rampant. miniature rebeliion-em-
u Dracng thousands of armed men-raged in OHIO
another, equally formidable. was incuSa,ing in
J Indiana Our soil was invaded. Lees entire
army was on this side Of the Potomac, march
ing north, sweeping everything before it, paral-
= zng the people, reducing Southern and Central
Pennsyl. ania to the condition Of subject prov
luce, threatening to devastate our cities seize
the great coal mines whence the North derives
it's fuel, and imperiling the National Capital One
year ago to day the enemJ's advance appeared
= in sight of Harrisburg, and actually began to
Z plant its batteries on the opposite side of the
river. The country was panic stricken. The
u most hopeful began to lose heart, while the
more respondent gave up all for lost. Public
> confidence wss impaired-pubc credit was viz
tualy destroy ed-gloom and terror covered the
J. land as with garment.
Il "If the prospect was dark in the East, it was
D little less Aattering at the West Banks had
d been terribly repulsed in his effort TO storm the
L enemys works at Port Hudson. Operations
q against Uirksh~-o had -rt'~----i5 49, - q
y stand still. Grant, having attempted to assault
II the heights in the rear of the city and been
O driven back with a loss of several thousand
Y troops, commenced, what seemed TO be an al
81 most hopeless siege At the came time John
sun was hoooAhb - % AZ liz A~" NV
u threatening to destroy at least drive him frou
IT his position. Has the reader forgotten how
I" blue people we're about Vicksburg this time
e last year? with what misgivings they looked
3 TO the kilograms? how slim the prospect OF re
a ducing the beleaguered city seemed! how great
/ the danger of the siege' how busy the croak
ers were in coujuring up visions OF dsater anC
l. defeat? how jubant the dispatches of Penn
u bertOn were? how the VicKsburg papers ridi-
&c cued the idea of the place being taken? how
- the Richmond prints published frotby bulletin!
e. of " Yankee repulses before Vicksburg? anC
u how uncomfortable such bulletins made US fee
, until we heard from our own side?
Ia "June closed in gloom but July opened il
10 splendor The victory of Gettysburg wa
10 achieved on the Sd, Vcksburg capituated OIL
ID the 4th, Port Hudson succumbed on the 7th
, while almost every remaining day Of the month
y was sgnalized by minor success over the host
ID of the Rebellion"
Al Now cannon are laundering at Petersburg ant
10 Richmond instead of Port Hudson and Vcks
~ burg; Grants army is larger than that of Lee by
: at least 10000 men; we occupy an impregna
= lie position our communications are no longer
&c endangered By the raids of the enemy +; with al
}" our losses We hold 81 900 rebel prisoners in ou
!. hands; aud the steady and increasing organza
ii" ton of the negro element into the war every
year, brings additional assurance Of the ultmat,
&c extinction OF the rebellion. Should the war bs
continued for several years, it will be found tha
four millions OF negro population, armed, disGi
plined, supplied and commanded by white off,
- GERS, will OF themselves be more than match
for all the rebel troops that the exhausted Con.
federacy of four millions Of whites can bring
into the field.
We have dwelt on this subject at considera
Die length, because it lls so largely the public
mind, aud because it is o1iy by careful consd-
Grafton of those great principles which underlie
:, all military success that we can learn to disre-
gard alike the glowing prophecies of sanguine
friends aud the sneers and ridcule of COpperbead
!. traitors, and look at the varying scenes Of the
war, from Gay to day, with a calm and steady
eye, being perfectly assured that if the struggle
is bard for US it is harder still for the enemy, and
+, that through loss and suffering and disaster We
are working our way to final and absolute sue
: cess.