Washington telegraph., 1864-09-07

We enter the fall Of the year Day by day the
shadows stretch longer towards the North, and
tthe evening shades fall sooner The chill
breath of the early winter viii soon be unon
us and for this year there viii lie an end OF all
extensive military operations
The Confederacy still stands unmovcd by
the shocks which have fallen upon her, in rapid
siecession-shocks which would have shivered
to atoms any Kingdom Of Europe save Russia
We look back upon them and are filed with
asionishment at the vast energies of the North.
Never in the history Of the world has any
ton raised and supported such armies and fleets.
There is only one thing more astonishing. The
steady, determined, successful resistance OF the
South, depending alene upon her own resources
cut of from the fellowship of nations-ig-
nored by the world-unsustained save BY her
sense Of right, and her trust in the God of bat
! ties. 1t is wonderful! Not the hand alone,
| but the whole divine form Of Providence may
be seen there, hovcring over the fortunes Of
| the Coniedesacy--her guardian angel
| Could some superior being. when this war
| began, have lifted & corner Of the mysterious
curtain which wells the future, and shown us
the powers that were to be aTrayed against us,
and renewed from year 10 year for cur destruc-
ton, while the nations of the world locked on
! in cold iud;ffcreuce; we would have stood
! sghast at the spectacle, aud fHcd with despair,
have declined the struggle
And, then, could the same power have raised
still farther the curtain, and revealed to US the
Southern Confederacy in the fall of 1864, hsv-
ing resisted all this force fer three long and
weary years, standing then perfect govern
rlcpt, wiih all its parts uuimpaired; holding is
capital almost in hesring of the gans wash
| ipgton; threatening Baltimore and Washington
itsolf; closing the Mississippi river to tic enc
my; and supported by solid and well drilled ar
mics, sna united people, while this powerfuA
North, weak from exhaustsd resources and in
testne divisions, was totterng to It's fall, II on
the brink of military despotism. We, would
have accepted that future with joy, s.hd thrown
ourselves eagorly into tho contest. We woud
have prayed for the consummatiep. Now it is
ours. We h=vr realized il In full, ard from
the position We have now attained. We can dis
cover, not very far away the glorious heights
lighted up by the dawn of free and perfect
independence.
We look back upon the past and again are
thankful 70 Providence. 1t has led US along
the brlak Of destruction, sufficiently near to
teach rs cur dependence. but has mereifullv
Sustained us IL the hollow of his hand Our
sacrifices sre almost made. Not wholly. We
nayc yet work TO perform, and calamtics to
suffer But we have faith in our cause and
confidence IN ourselves, and We know the end
Is sure. The Psst is assurance for the Future
We see that at times orr armies have been
forced 70 yield and fall back before the irrcsst-
ible pressure of their heavy phalanxes. That
/ has ceased to bring despon1ency. We know it
Is not the crash of the she'll but the yielding
Of the elastic lall, Offering greater and greater
! resistarcs, concentrating its powers, and ever
ready to spring back, thr w e off the imposing
! TO C, with q destructive rebound We have
seen that in Virginia time and again, dashirg
! their armies to pieces. We have seea it in
| Mississippi, IN Florida, in Texas, Louisiana.
Arkansas everywhere, and we may hopefully
| expect il again at Petersburg, and in Georgia
Nor will it cease until Missouri and Kentucky
are free, and the Confcieracy stands forth
whole in al its fair proportions. Wen FOR
| them if the reactian does not carry desolasion
| across the Ohio and Potomac! For the dny Of
.heir weakness approaches. 1t is already upon
shcm. II iss seen in their exhausted resources,
their difficulty in recruiting, their internal dis
sensons, their inpotent attacks. They are not
what they were. The frsntic efforts of the col
losssl giant become rerceptibly weaker.
/ Il this retrospect it is not alone in the obvi-
ous AID parceptible aspects of military affairs
| that we see much to inspire US with hope in
our future. The changes in public opinion are
quite IS significant. The fierce demon of abo-
lition is expiring. Like all huge lies which
have possessed mankind for their destruction,
fanaticisn is being itself destroyed by the ter
rible ordeal of FIRE, and Truth is seen rising
purified from the fame.
We read the Northern papers OF every party,
and find 70 longer diatribes against slavery, nor
sneers and denuncations against slaveown re-
There are no abolition meetings and conven-
tons Of strongminded women. Mrs. Stowe is
clnonzed no longer They have seen the ne
gro srer, and have begun to perceive that be
IS not ct for freedom. They have Witnessed
tbe direful results Of thc abolition agitation, and
he scales ass falling from their eyes. Ia the
nli5st Of tfeir desola;iou and ddespar, surrounded
by the EEagments of ruined Constitution, they
turn 20 the fanatics who msled them, and
charge upon them the ruin of their land. The
sentiment extends TO Europe. They are hor-
r,r stricken there with the appalling spectacle;
aud the rawlings of the sbolitionist, which afore-
time maddened their brains, are heard with dis
gust. The whole race of Africa is not worth,
10 the true lover Of mankind, the horrible
scenes Of slaughter which false philanthropy
in his behalf has eng, ndered
Henceforth the Abolilionist will be odious az
the North. 1t will never be forgotten, that 10
him Was owing the ruin Of their government,
the loss Of its fairest portion with the lives Of
haf million in battle. The South will rest in
/ peace. The Truth of slavery, as the natural
condition Of the African race, is felt to be vim
/ dicated. No burnt out fanaticisms ever revive
/ Their ashes rest forever.
/ We may notice growing respect for the
! South, amongst the masses OF the people. 1t
/ amounts almost 10 Il longing for brotherhood