The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-09-06

ton whether such a people deserve
10 be saved I
The time is fast drawing nigh v he
this patriotism viii be put to the ties
The drrft Is designed to give Geners
Grant the hundred thousand and thre
times the hundred thousand men h
needs to conclude the war wiihal.-
That measure rings the death knell q
/ the rebellion. The leaders Of the re
bellion in the South knos it the abet
tors Of the rebellion in the North know
il, and hence their efforts TO lhwari il
The draft will be made in spite Of botll
But il can be made TRANQUILITY and ef
ficaciously, or with lame and impoten
res ults, as the people shalt elect. /
is momenlous issue which hangs OF
that election
CONFIDENCE AND GROUNDS OF
COURAGE.
The more earnestly and honestly
we look at the situation, the more
grounds Of hope we find. Some o.
these grannds can he brie1yset down
One: The body of the rebellion i:
morbnnd. Gen. L. Seymour, whose
critical habit OF thought and conserya,
tive temper, well known to me, add a
prodigious weight to any declarations
he makes on this head, states as the
result of his three months obserya.
tions in the interior Of the South, that
'fhe rebet cause is fast failing from,
exhaustion" This is profoundly true.
whether ii has regard TO the material
resources of the South. from three
fourth of which it is now cut off by the
lines held by our armies, or to lis still
more vital resources in men, of which
the field is now reaped and bare
Every man and every boy is now in
The field; there is nothing behind
The whole South is therefore in the
armies confronting Sherman and
Grant. Of The army opposing Gen.
Sherman, forty thousand men hare been
Subtrdctedbyt the losses 0 ofhegrem lSum-
mer campaign. Of the mn,y COM
manded BY Lee, one half It's force has
been put o@ Of the .fgM since Gen.
Grant crossed tkc Raptdom.
Two: 1t is true, in inhicting this
damage, we also have lost quite AS Sc
verely--perhaps even more so; but
Vf tits lawful to speak thus of so grave
a matter) zee can afford Il. We can
stand to lose man for man, till every
man in the armies of the rebellion is
put horS du combat, and leave behind
untouched force equal to all we have
lost in the war.
Three: But | do not believe it will
be needful to wade through such an
ocean OF blood as this. All that is
needed is blow that will disrupt the
two main rebel armies. 1t is worthy
OF note, that the merciless conscrip
tons that have swept over the South
have even simplified the problem for
us. The war has no longer those ten
told embarrassments that attend ua-
.toaat war, or war on populations
here IS no population. Our task is
confined TO beating the armies at Kicl,-
mond and Atlanta. For the rest, the
Southern people are tired OF the war, |
md sighing for peace.
-Four: In military point of view,
'uch Is the situation held by Gen eral /
Grant AID Gen. Sherman, toward the /
nsurgenl forces opposed to them, that
he reinforcements they will receive
" the draft will certainly enable them
o complete their work. In addition
0 the testimony Of Gen. Grant already
,lven, take the impressive assevera-
ions Of Gen. Seymour on this head:
II Sherman had but $4,000 or
0,O0O more men near, the. South
would be lost, because Hood would be
If Meade had moved in
he Spring with reserves Of 75, 900 TO
0O,O00 men, Lee would have been
crushed. Even at this mo-
nent third column OF 10000 10 50,-
Oo, rightly moved, wodld give unop-
osed blows TO the Confederacy, from
ihlch she could never rise.
Five: THIS wiU be tie last draf.-
here will be no more calls, for there
Ill need no more. The reinforce.
tents It VIII give the armies will end
ne war. This reflection should evoke
le heartiest efforts to make il produc-
We OF The best fruits, which will be
.allzed when our people, coming TO
lew II not as an arbitrary imposition
force, bat solemn call of duty, aud
elections not as a misfortune to
lose on whom they may fall, but as a
'cred laying on Of hands, respond
-omptly and personally TO lis de-
ands.
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