The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-03
MONDAY, ocronER 8, 1861.
TREHMpENDIVo CRISIS.
Dsnr ATrEESoOE NEWSPAPER.


The history of the national arms during the
last few months is a history of uninterrupted
success. The enemy have been defeated
everywhere, with serious loss of men and
material The drain on his resources in these
late reVerses must have proved disastrous in
che extreme, and the fact ofhis failing strength
ls sienally manifested In the unusual feebleness
with which the assaults Of the Federal columns
are met and resisted.
Hoop has been driven from his powerfully
intrenched position at Atlanta, and has since
made no attempt 10 recover 1t. He probably
feels the utter des Grafton OF his situation,
and prudent.y abstains from renewing con-
test In which he has been fairly overcome, and
probably completely disabled and demoralzed.
The State Of Georgia, In the meanwhile, ap-
pears 10 have lost both faith and heart in the
Rebellion and If report from that quarter is to
be believed, her authorities and people are
anxious TO get out Of the scrape as speedily
~ possible. Her proposition, however, to
secede from the seceders, and set up for her
self "a an Independent commonwealth, is
simply preposterous, since 1t requests the
National Government to concede to one State
right which 1t denies TO several collectively.
The only possible way in which Georgia can ex-
tricate herself from her completely in the
Rebellion is to lay down her arms uncondi-
tionally, and petition to be readmtted into
the Union. There is no middle course for her
to pursue, and the sooner she makes up her
mind TO that, the sooner she will escape a
worse fate than she has yet suffered.
The coils OF an inevitable doom are also
fast closing around Richmond. SHERDAN's
victorious army has pushed the routed and
flying forces OF EARLY almost to the very
gates of the Rebel capital, and GRANT Is
driving, right and left, over all impediments
and opposition, smack up to the very inner
/. most defenses of that devoted citadel. Every
hours news Is now pregnant with momentous
Asidings land the public hope, standing a-tiptoe
FOR the crowning triumph of the war, expects
with every successive despatch to learn that
the central stronghold Of treason has fallen
before the power and persistence of our arms,
and that JEFFERSON DAVIS and his Cabinet
are seeking precipitate escape from the just
retribution due their enormous crimes.
With Richmond taken, the "Old Dominion
will be relieved from the horrible suffering and
desolation to which it has so long been sub
iected, as the main theatre of strife which
was initiated on her soil by men who were
traitors alike to her peace and integrity, and
the peace and unity of the nation. Well may
her sorely afflicted people rejoice at their de-
liverance. As Virginia, the mother of states
men and patriots, should have been the last
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EOld, so should she be the first Of her "erring
sisters" TO come voluntarily back to IT, She
had little 10 gain and very much to lose by
her participation in the Rebellion, and those
who seduced her from her allegiance have
made her pay dearly for her apostasy.
The war, however, may go on even after
Richmond falls. We must not fatter our
selves with the idea that the life of the Rebel
cause Is bound up in the fate of that city, and
that the conquest of one Is the conquest of
the other. But we viii make no mistake in
assuming that the loss Of the Confederate
capital win prove, morally and physically, a
1atal blow to the insurgents; and tbs while
they may, in very desperation, make further
resistance to the decisive discontinue that
must ultimately overtake them, their subse-
quent efforts VIII be but the weak and con-
vulsive struggles of malignant pride, which
will, while 1t may, postpone doom which it
knows and feels is inevitable. Hence, In
rejoicing over victories won and impending,
let us not relax our efforts, but press on with
eyer-increasing vigor and resolution to the
glorious contamination that awaits the ma
tional cause.