Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-09-08

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enterprises of rashness that must insure
his ruin.
WHAT GRANT ASKS TO END THE WAR.
These considerations all unite in the
illustration of the fact that the military
status is very fur from being Of that dis
couraging aspect which it wears, not only
in the jaundiced eyes of those whose de-
sires prompt them to invest it in sombrc
hues, but which it assumes even to the
apprehension of mahy who would fain
hope better things. am persuaded that
if our armies did no more than hold their
own in their present positions, with the
grip they have on the rebel armies, the
rebellion must wear itself away and die
out fra, sheer lack of breath. But the
duty is laid upon us, not less in consid-
Grafton for the South Itself than for the
honor and integrity of the nation, and
the material interests of the world at large
to use swifter means for its suppression.
We all want peace, North and South ;
BIT me stdrtcst Get to peace ~ through
vigorous blows at that alone which pre-
vents peace--tho armed forces still un-
der control of the chiefs of the rebellion.
Even in point of time no ambassadors
conlla arrange tsrvhs of peace so qticky
as the mission Of q fresh hundred thou
sand muskets. 1t is 10 mere poor judg-
ment of mine, but the authoritative ut
tcrancc of the head of all our armies. that
it is in the hands of the people to end the
rebellion at blow. Lieut.. Gen. Grant
has dcctureti, Met g u he hal t'e0 UT a
hundred thousand fresh men he could, in
Ny days, DO up all the fighting that
needs to be dyne daring he par." This
is no shallow hearsay; it is the authentic
declaration of the high name give, and
the sentiment is affirmed by every mill
tary alan | have lately met Half that
force added 10 Gen. Grants own imme-
diatc army, would enable him to stretch
bis. line across to the Danvillc road and
positively compel the abandonment of
Virginia the other half would put Hood
army into the hands of General Sherman
Is there living patriotism enough left in
the country to evoke the means for SO
glorious contamination If there were
not. it might well raise the question
whether such people deSerecd to be
saved? ,-..
The time is fast drawing nigh when
this patriotism will be pat tt the test
The draft Is designed to give Gen. Grant
the hundred thoasahd and three times the
hundred thousand men he needs to con-
cludc the war withal. That measure
rings tho death-knell of the rebellion
The leaders of the rebellion in the South
know it, and hence their efforts to thwart
it. The draft will be made in spite of
both. But it c-r he made tsan1uilly and
eflicaciously r4 vi h lame and impotent
results, as the people shall elect 1t is a
nn>menteua Issue which hangs on that
election
CONFIDENCE AND GROUNDS r.' COURAGE.
These is to a people Battling in any
cause force, purely metaphysical in its
character, wh*h Il Sct Stronger tl,ah the
sncws of Har-strongcr than the sincws
of mems arms. 1t is cou,nyc. Never
has it been more needed than of late,
when a fatal paralysis has benun,bed the
public sense, and in the eclipse of faith 4,
- the whole noise of timorous and flock
ing birds, with those that love the twi-
light, huttcr about, and in their cnvious
gat'oac would prngncsticate a ycar Of sec.s
snd sch ~. '.....
bclia,o Sc have already touched the
hadir of oNr fears and our dependency,
and thai n breath of patriotism and hope
is now vivifying the nations pulse. But
each man can swell the rising tide. To
diflusc the inspiration IF courage is the
duty of every patriot. And happily we
need draw this inspiration from no illu-
sivo fountains for the moro earnestly
and honestly We look at the situation. the
more grounds OF hope we find. Some OF
these grounds can be briefly set down:
The body Of the rebellion is mort
bund. Gen. 7. Seymour, whose critical
habit of thought and conservative temper,
well Known TO me, add prodidgious
weight to any declarations he makes on
this head, states as the result of his three
months observations in the interior of the
South, that " the rebel cause is fast fail
ing from exhaustion y This is profoundly
true, whether I; has regard to the mate
rial resources of the South, from three
tourths of which it is now cut off by the
lines teld by our armies, or to its still
more vital resources in men, of which the
Geld is now rcaped and bare. Every
man and every boy is now in the field 4;
there is nothing behind The whole
South is therefore in the armies confront
ing Sherman and Grant. OF the army
opposing Gen. Sherman, forty thousand
men have been subtracted by the losses
of the great summer cs"'paign. OF the
other ARMY edl;iMallded by Lee, one half
its fortc has been put out of the fight
sine" Gen. Grant crossed the Rapidah.
2. Ii is true, inaicting this damage,
we also have lost quite as severely per
haps even more SO but Gf it is lawful to
speak thus of so grave a matter) we can
afford it. We can stand to lose man for
man, till every man in the armies of the
rebellion is put hors DIN conduit, and leave
pehlhd untouchcd force equal to all we
have lost in the war. 80.
8. But | do not believe it will be need
full to wade through such an ocean of
blood as this. All that is needed is a
blow that will disrupt the two main rebel
af,,iies 1t is worthy of note, that the
merciless conscriptions that have swept
over the South have even sihpliaed the
problem for us. The war hos no longer
those thousand-fold cmbarrassments that
attend national war, or war on popula-
tons. There is no population. Our
task is confined to beating the armies at
Richmond and Atlanta. For the rest,
the Southern people are tired of the war,
and are signing for peace
4 In military point of view, such is
the situation held by Gen. Grant and
General Sherman, toward the insurpent
forces opposed to them. that tho re;n.