Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-08-25
Nearly Subdued.

from confinement in Charleston reports, ac-
cording to the New York Herald that no
one can imagine how utterly used up and
hopeless the rebellion is who has not spent,
as he has done, some months in its very
cradle The sufferings of the people are
beyond belief, and, whatever their northern
sympathizers may think or pretend to think
they themselves are In the lowest abyss Of
despair, and utterly infuriate against the
Richmond tyranny under which they groan
They are in want of the necessalies of
life, and there is not an able-bodied man or
boy in all South Carolina who has not been
ruthlessly conscripted The Madison Jour-
nal, in commenting on this subject says,
| the North knows nothing of the miseries Of
this war compared with what the South has
felt and now feels more wildly than ever.
Men complain here because they begin to
feel the pressure Of the war Up to a very
recent period, the great North, as a whole,
has hardly felt inconvenience from the war
Business has never been SO prosperous, for
| tunes have never been made so rapidly, and
the whole people have never lived more iuXu-
riously. But these things must have an
end. The increasing prices ofall the neces.
saries as well as the Injuries of life, begin
| to reduce the large profits Of business and
labor. Our surplus population have mostly
enlisted. 1t is no longer as it was at the
at home are mostly engaged actively
in the business which they cannot leave
without great Inconvenience. In fact we
are just beginning to feel the pinch of war.
| At the South, on the other hand, for two
years past var has been almost the sole
business Of the people. During the present
year the last man has been put in the field.
Only boys and grandsires and the sick and
manned remain at home Even these are
called into the field in some parts of the
country For years past they have been re-
duced to the barest necessities of life. The
great mass of the population dress in home
spun, and are thankful even if they can get
corn enough to satisfy hunger. They can
raise no home armies Their resources are
nearly exhausted. With the National
armies overrunning every State, they hold
simply strip Of country from the Allegha-
mics and the ocean, of which Richmond and
Atlanta are the key, while both these points
are threatened by powerful armies.
They have but one hope. That purpose
is to hold out until after the Presidential
election-that hope is in the success of the
Copperhead party of the North. With the
reelection of Mr.. Lincoln they know that
they must yield. There is no possibility
! of their fighting four years longer. The
masses would refuse to obey their leaders
| in such mad attempt. But if the struggle
can be protracted until after the Presiden-
tial election, there is a possibility that
Copperhead President may succeed Mr..
Lincoln, when terms Of peace and separation
may be agreed upon. This is the prospect
which the leaders hold out to the masses as
an encouragement to perseYere through the
present campaign. In view of this they
bear the tremendous strain Of the war, and
the sufferings and privations with which
they are overwhelmed. They no longer
hope to achieve independence by fighting,
or bv the aid of foreign intervention, but
only through Northern treacheiy and
supineness.
Let the loyal men Of the North under
stand and appreciate the true issue. Let
them stand firmly shoulder to shoulder with
unfaltering hope and inyincible purpose.
A thousand false issues will be raised.
Corrupt and ambitious politicians will pur-
sue their self-seeking designs. Fanatical
anti-slavery men will assail the Administra-
ton and the conduct Of the war on the
ground that it is not sufficiently radical in
its hostility to slavery, Extremists Of an
opposite character will declare that the war
is only waged against slavery and not to
save the Union. Terrible pictures Of the
loss of life and suffering in the army will be
drawn Exaggerated statements of the ma
tional debt will be published, and financial
ruin predicted The genius of the rebel
Generals will be eZtolled, and every mar
who leads the national armies with firm and
vigorous policy will be slandered and be-
Titled by an unpatriotic and malignant OPP
position. No effort will be spared to dis
courage the people and to prepare them for
a REIMBURSEMENT of the National cause and
the surrender Of the Union.
Such is the disgraecful and shameful