Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-05-03

tee Of tss House AID Ire al Chases estmlte7 as the
Albany Argus has shown, is grossly int'xess Of the
&C ual receipts.
7, ike m,nuer III, assertion that the var has lost
more Of its p7puarisy ia false. Why such speeches
as ,hos of Long, Harris aud Rogers tolerated in ths
halls OF Congress. if the popularity Of the war has not
waneds TgO ars ago, no man at the North would
have dared to ut:e sentiments in private, much
less upon the Aoor Of tbs House. Ii would have been
much hi, life worth 50 have uttered 1.-THE Of
the treason which Long pcu.ed forth. Moreover, IL
he war has not lost is hjl u7o1 the public aft, elton
and the. Northern people as eager ever to spend
their last and tlSr Ia; dolr 70 ensure the crush
ing Of the rebellion, way tasss drafts Tor 100000 n'n
within the spac, OF three four months, way ais fa
ure to enforce any Of these drA, and wherefore this
calling GU. of the ml.ia SIaage that the war thOrd
remlin 50 exceedingly populH, aad yet Grans should
be forced to rip he Atlantic coast the line of the
Baltimore and 0aa RlrOsi, aud even the garrisors Of
Northern forts in order to OBTAIN arms large enough
to compete with that o. Lse. At the sam, time, h is
ecm ,elled to sblniol West Tennessee portion Of
East Tslnessee, probably Arkansas and Missouri, and
10 secep. the a tsnierei by the Gsvegrors of the
No,t hNestern Saes, in order TO gather army lrge
enough TO confront Johnston.
No, the war is not popular a. tSe North. All the
expsdeats of the deng guss in Congress all the Jug
giles Of the loyal 6aane era in Wall street. all the cock
Growing in the newspapers ald all the lying bu etir
hon defeated commanders Ike Banks and Sherman,
cannot make the popular. l. can never aga'n DC
popular, unless, odsed tae great armies OF the Con-
feieracy are beaten and put 20 rous-an event which
reasonable men a: the Norh have lo5g sirce ceased
to anticipate Zoe idea tha the imposition Of enormous
taxes can eec wha. Me-. Ohais limits only mil laFy
success achieve is in the las. degree absurd. The
has preserved It's popularity long sol,y because
Of the money which appeared to bling in and the pros
ect of additional money which the conquest Of the
South would supply. Destroy the hope of copquering
the South bars: the bubble Of the Srlfci prosperity
caused by the deluge of gverblcka, and the war be-
comes a. onca hst3lul and iGtOeTabe. We have shown
in previous article that tho introduction of negro SOL
diers has proved source of weakness to tie Yankee
armies. So the imposition of taxes will Wsake the
pablo faith and undernige the public credit 1t viii
be the lass straw which viii break the eamsrI back
Nothing but this wanting 70 the speedy tIi
umph of the Confederate 0as otly fear is Il a
the viii no. be levied; or if levied will, Ike the
syGs for men, be postponed Indefinitely Let the
bill pass and the Yaukao tax gatherer do his duty faith
fully, We Will ask no more. The madIen into whose
hands the United States have been delivered will Their
have rendered the last Of long series of kindly offices
to the OF Soushers idep.ndarce. Nothing more
viii be required Of them-not even the signing OF s
treaty of peace for that viii s. doae by those who viii
have driven them into eXlls.