The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-02-10
ruE ENp OF TmE nEBELLIoN.

THE END OF THE REBELLION.
Since tho commencement OF tho war, the
country has not been wanting in prophets
to predict the carly downfall of the rebel.
lion; aid sane man, can hardly think, oS.
cept in dorision, Of the announcements,
made hy aang,iino officials fully two years
since, That thirty, sixty, or ninety days,
would bo sulllcicut TO crush tho rebellion
aud restore the Union. True, no one thon
expected that the contest could DO pro.
longet until tho present time--and all
soomed to trust implicitly in the assertions
Of sensation correspondents, that the re-
bcllion was on its last legs y
The almost ridiculous position in which
these assertions have placed many "pro-
pheto officials" will doubtless servo as
caution to warn others against rashly fol-
lowing their prophetic cxamplo--yet
tho tim, has arrived when nearly every in
tcligeut man fccs confident that tho end
ol organized rebellion against the Govern
mcut is near at hand not because GER
t,in persons have made announcements to
this effect, but because indisputabc facts
plainly indicate it.
At tho commencement Of tho war, tho
rebels undoubtedly had tho advantage in
organized numbers and munitions but as
tho ravagcs Of war begun to tell on these
elements of strength tho superiority of the
North became strkingly apparent All
were soon called to tho field, whilo to fill
the armies of tho North required but a
small per cent. of tho armsboariug popu-
hton, and MS great a contrast was manifest
cd in all tho appliances for successful war
faro-in munitions, provisions, &c. And
now Mt the end of the third year of the
war, we behold tho Confoderacy shorn of
more than two-thrds Of its territory; it's
cntiro white male population, from sixteen
to Gfy-ivo years Of age, in tho army and
it's supply of munitions aud provisions rap
idly and surely decreasing. On The other
hand, tho North has yet bountifu supply
of men, while munitions of war and provis-
ions are constantly accumuating. But that
which most clearly indicates tho approach.
ing end, is the spirit of both the people
and tho armics-Union and Confederate
While the people of the North are rendering
to thoir Government all the men, money, and
moral support that it can ask in prosecu
| ting the contest those of the South are de
nouncng their lcaders--whom they now
accuse of betraying them into the war--and
seoling an opportunity for returning to the
| field of the Union. While our Government
is paying to its veteran soldiers largo
bounty for ro.cnlstmcnt, the rebel author
itios are couscripting, for the war;" thoil
entire army and while our soldiers are re
cnlisting in large numbers, those of the
Confcderacy aro by thousands, desortinp
their cause, and swe airing allegiance to til,
Union and its flag.
Nothing more than this is needed to poin
us to tho inevitable and speedily approach
ing end. Hereafter, the dopletious of thu
rebel army, by dosertions and disabilities
can not be replaced and the rapidity will
which these agencies are now exhaustinl
thcir armies, shows conclusively that th
rebel people must, ere long, accept ono o
the altcrnativcs-su submission or annihihtor
' 1t only remains for tho loyal men of tn
North to be truo to themselves and thei
cause, and to extend to the Govornmcn
/ in the future that aid which has ever bee,
SO abuudontly supplied in tho past, Ifw
pursue this course, we shall insure, 30 ia
as human agencies can, the utter downfa
of the rebellion, ere the close of 1864,