The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-17
MONDAY, OCTOBER II, 1854
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DAVIS DFsP0NnUNT.
Nothing but some great, urgent necessity
could have induced Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS
70 make his late tour through the South,
bnsnguing the people on the subject Of the
war II Is quite apparent that the recent
Euccesses Of our arms in Virginia, Georgia,
and elsewhere, have seriously disturbed th'
Usual equanimity Of the head and chief Of the
Rebellion while the utterances into which h,
has been betrayed in addresses at various
place In the course Of his excursion, show
unmistakAbly his waning faith in the power
Of the so-called Southern Confederate States
10 much longer maintain themselves against
the national authorities.
The truth would seem 20 be that the people
Of The South are fast getting tired Of the war.
Ithas been 10 them giant calamity,unrelieved
or mitigated by single benefit or consola-
lion. They no doubt fattered themselves at
enc period with the idea that the struggle for
thsr independence would be short though
. severo one, and that it would end in their
triumph. But in forming those agreeable
aniclpatlons, they certainly relied more on
division and apathy at the North than on any
positive ability of their own to fight the Rebel
hen out TO q successful conclusion. And thus
fAr their calculations in that respect have been
realized 70 considerable extent, while the
Government at Washington has had to con-
tend against the open foe in It's front and the
moro dangerous, because secret, enemies in
its rear.
These conditions, however, are rapidly
changing in our favor, and the Southern
people begin 70 perceive and recognize the
fact. Within the last few months a great
change has come over the spirit Of their dream.
Exhausted strength aud resources, and the
despair Of effective aid and succor from any
quarter outside OF themselves, are telling
harfuIly on their patience; while alarming
symptoms of a growing disposition to give up
She contest, and sue for the best possible terms
Of peace they can get, have forced Mr.. DAVIS
10 make a last and desperate appeal to the
" cl ivalry" not to desert him and his cause
IN this dismal crisis of its fortunes. Al
Augusta, he told the Georgians that they
" mrst leave awhile their wives and children
" cast their gold to tho Winds and help tc
" drive back the insolent foe from theiI
borders" at Montgomery, the Mail re-
ports DAVIS as saying:-
"He would not attempt to conceal the fact that
we (tbe Rebels have experienced great dis
"ssteis Of late. The enemy have pressed our
GImies back into tie centre OF Georgia, threa-
.eIed tie b Tders OF Alabama, and occupied
the Bay Of Mobile; but the city still stands,
",snd will stand though every wall and root
/" should fall to the ground. lie had been disap-
rOinted iu sIl his calculations in Northern
Georgia After sending forward TO the army al
Dalton all the r6infOrcemCnt5 he could collect
" from every quarter, including the troops from
Northern Mississippi, he had confidently v eX.
pected a successful advance through Tennessee
" lntO Kentucky. Had he thought that instead
" OF the forward movement our army would
" have retired 20 Atlanta, he would have left hi.
cod, lemented, and venerable friend, General
"PoLK, to have asssiled SHERMAN upon hi,
" flank by North Alabama But he had yielded
10 the idts of concentration, and the seque
HSs anything than what he had been induced
to hope"
But Georgia is not likely to be delude
much longer by such expostulations. Th
sad experiences Of nearly four years of strife
resulting only In disappointment and disaster
are more powerful arguments than the visior
Ary pyomises Of the Rebel leaders; and unle:
the tide Of war should turn, suddenly an
miraculously, in their favor, we shall not t
much surprised to see the Georgians layin
down their arms and coming back into th
Union under Mr.. LISooLN's proclamation
amnesty.
Their present dis0nection must be grea
indeed, TO compel DAVIS to make so earne
al effort 10 prevent the menaced mutiny. L
knows the slender thread on which the R3be
lion now hangs suspended; and he knows, to
bow fatal TO all his hopes would be the givlr
way ofa single one of the States allied in Il
stupendous conspiracy against the peace al
unity of the nation. He knows that the wit
drawal Of any one State woBld be speedily Z
lowed by that OF another and another, uil
tho guilty Confederacy in treason was entire
dissolved, and its Satanic architects leit alo
and defenseless to their fate.
No wonder, then, that he leaves his capi
and goes among the people OF thc Southwy
brseeching them, in anxious, imploring
cents, 10 keep up their courage, prepare
fresh sacrifices, and resolutely stand by b
Ia tho terrible enterprise in which he d
other arch-contrivers OF the Rebellion cruC
involved them and the whole South. Daspc
ti1n now is the sole remaining inspiration
( 9 insUrgent cause, aud the very appeals
JEFJEEGON DAVIS to his disheT,eneJ
l. gers show that he has lost an assured q
t,.rGce Ia the success of the l.abeIlOI
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