Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-14
Rebel Review OF 1868.

press of the North aboundod In con-
gratalations upon the vast improvement
In the national prospects which had tax
en- place since the advent of lS63-upOn
the fact that the begnningo o. the end
OF rebellion had dawned upon us, and
complete restoration OF the Union was q
certainty, Az we are supposed 10 be a
rather excitable and enthusiastic people,
prone 70 extremes in opinion, 1t may be
further encouraging and cassuring 70
find the northern view of the situation"
confirmed by rebel reviews OF the year
just closed
A brief extract from IN editorial of the
Richmond Examiner, OF December 81,
has been forwarded by telegraph and
published. The following is more ex-
tended extract from the same doleful
article ....
To-day closes the gloomiest year of
our struggle. No sangnine hope of in
PREVENTION buoys up the spirits OF the
Confederate public as at the end of 1861.
No brilliant victory like that of Fred
ericksburg encourages us to look for
ward 70 speedy and successful termin-
alton OF the war as in the last weeks of
1862. Meade has been foiled and Long
street has had partial success in Ten
nessee; but Meade's advance was hardly
meant in earnest, and Beans Station is
poor set off TO the loss of the gallant
men who fell in the murderous assault
on Knoxville. Another daring Yankee
raid has been carried ont with compare
tive impunity TO the invaders, and tim
orOus capitalists may well pause before
they nibble at eligible Investments in
real estate situated far in the interior
That interior has been fearfully mar
rowed by the federal march through
Tennessee; and owing TO the deficiencies
Of our cavalry service Lincoln's squad
rons of horse threaten TO be as universal
. terror, as perversive nuisance, as his
squadrons ofgunboats were some months
since.
The confederacy has been cut in twain
along the line of the Mississippi, and
our enemies are steadily pushing for
ward their plans for bisecting the eastern
moiety No wonder, then, that the an
nual advent of the reign Of mud is hailed
by all classes with sense of relief
Meantime the financial chaos is be-
coming wilder and wilder. Hoarders
keepa more resolute grasp than ever on
the necessaries of life.
Whatever number Of men, or whatever
amount of money shall be really wanting,
viii be forthcoming Whatever econo-
my the straitening of our resources may
require, we shall learn to exercise. We
could only wish that Congress was not
in snch feverish mood, and that the
government would do something to-
wards the establishment of a Statistical
Bureau, or some other agency, by which
We could approximately ascertain what
we have to contribute, aud to what ex-
sent we must husband our resources.
Wise, cool, decided, prompt action
would put us in good condition for the
spring campaign of 1864, and the close
OF next year would furnish a more agree
able retrospect than the anus mrabiiis OF
blunders which we now consign to the
dead past
Non-producers, who are at the same
time non-speculators, are suffering more
and more. What was once competence
has become poverty, and perjury is laps
ing into pauperism. A mechanical oc-
Cupation is more profitable than the most
intellectual profession. The most &C
complished scholars in the confederacy
would be glad to barter their services
for food and raiment, and in the COM
plete upturning of our social relations,
the only happy people are those who
have black hearts or black skins.
+ Unreasoning confidence has been sue
ceeded by depression as unreasoning,
and the Yankees are congratulating them
selves on the result, which they hawk
about as the beginning of the end. y
We all have a heavy score to pay of, and
we know it, This may depress us, but
our enemies need not bejubilant over
our depression, for we are determined to
meet them
6IEauLAR RUaoR.---The Washington
correspondent of the Tribune is respon-
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