Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-09-07

of bis three months observations in the
interior of the South, that the rebel
cause is fast failing from exhaustion.
This Ia profoundly true, whether it has
regard 10 the material resources of the
South, from three-fourths Of which it is
now cut of by the lines held BY oar
armies, or to its still more vital resoar-
ces in mea, Of which the field is nov
resped and bare. Every man .ad every
boy is now in the field; there is nothing
bshind The whole South is, therefore,
IN the armies confronting sherman sBd
Grsut OF the army opposing General
S.surman, forty thousand men have been
shbtraesed BY the losses ofths great sum-
mer campaign. OF she other army, com
mauded by Lee, ose half its force has
been put out Of the fghs since General
Grant crossed the Rspidan ~ a
? Ii Is true, in INJECTING this damage,
we also have lost quite as severely
perhaps even more SO; bat (if il Is law
fnl TO speak thus Of 40 grave . matter)
We can afford it. We can stand to lose
man for man, till every man in the arm
les Of the rebellion is Pot hers d4 eom-
BAT, and leave beSind force unsoaehed
equal TO all we have lost in The war.
8 Bat do not believe il viii be need.
fui 10 wade through such an ocean Of
blood - this AL that 10 needed is 9
blow that viii disrupt the two main rehsl
armies II is worthy Of note. that the
merciiess conscrip,ions that have swept
over the South have even simphEed the
problem for rs The var has no longer
those thoasandfold enbs srrassments that
attend a naiional var, or war on popula-
tions There is no population Our
task is confined TO beating the armies si
Richmond and Atlanta For the rest
The Southern people are tired Of the war
and are sigbing for peace.
4 10 8 military point OF view, such is
the situation held BY General Grant aud
General Sherman, that the reinforce
ments they will receive hy the draft will
certainly enable thsm to complete their
work. In addition to the testimony Of
General Grant already given, take the
impressive asseverAtions Of General Sey-
moar 90 this head:
1T sherman had but $1,000 or Z. 900
more men near, the South would be lost,
beeaasc Hood vsuld be annihilstsd. II
Meade bad moved in the spring. with re-
serves Of $4,000 to 100 600 men, Lee
would have been hopelessly crushed.
Even at this moment . third column Of
10000 to $4,000, rightly moved, would
give unopposed blows TO the Confederacy,
from which she could never rise
"Thsre is bat one cozrse consistent
With safety or honor. Let the people
awake 70 a sense Of their dignity and
Strength, aud few months OF compare
lively triAing exertion of such effort as
alone is worthy Of the great work--snd
the rebellion will crumbls before as
Fill this draft promptly and willingly,
with good and true meB; send q few
spare thousands over rather than uHder
the call, and the sumner sun of 1855
viii shine upon q regsnsrsted land
o. This will be the lest drsh. There
will be no more calls. for there will be
no nerd Of more. The reinforeements
Il will give our armies will end the war
This reflection shoald evoke the hearth
est Efforts 10 make il productive of the
best fruits, which will be realised when-
oar people, coming 10 view il not as an
arbitrary imposition of force, bat sol-
emn call of duty, asd its elections not
a. misfortune 20 those on whom tkey
may fall. bat as . SACRED laying-eus Of
hands resposd promptly and personally
to iul demands. ~ 81. s-f-
If all the considerations. both Of the
actual presensment and future prospects
Of the var for the Union are such ~ to
encourage those who have at heart the
triumphant contamination Of the one
end that adds to this var all its halo OF
glory and freedom. il must not BE lost
sight Of that these inspiring hopes may
BE- baalked and brought 10 naught BY
our own weakness, pusillanimiiy and
folly IL Il not q solemn neaition that
while it is in cur power 20 terminate the
rebellion almost At blow, IL is too in
our power to indefinitely protracs Il, or
worse still 10 sesit cad in hollew peace,
which can De no peace at all, butendless
-ar-ths nation, like The mystical body
Of Crisis, torn limb BY limb, and the one
humiliasing reflection lsft us that there
vas time when little courage, little
practical patriotism woald have saved
as3 WILLIAM SsIETos.