Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-07
RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY, JANUARY :, 1864.
From ,hs Daiiy of Jan. 9.
The Conditic. of EebeIdom.

The Condition Os EeDekdOm.
In their alarm aud despair the rebel
press and rebel sympathlsers are driven
to admissions which are anything but
f1attering to secession hopes, Weare ac-
customcd to the almost daily demonstra-
tion by Northern editors and sensation
correspondents of the dilapidated and
tumblc-down condition OF the secesh
house built upon the corner stone of
slavery But such expressions, coming
from such sources as the following, are
new in the history of this war, and rem
der unnecessary, while they significantly
confirm beyond shadow of doubt, the
most uncomplimentary Northern exhib-
its Of the decline and inevitable doom of
Southern treason.
The Richmond Wing, in it's comments
upon the sweeping conscription bills and
the measures passing through the rebel
Congress to force the retention in service
of those rebel soldiers whose enlistment
contracts are about expiring, says:
A frenzy for the moment seems TO pos
sess both the administrative and legiSla-
tive branches of the government upon
the subject of swelling the muster rolls
of our armies. Whence comes this fran-
tic infatuation2 Is IL a symptom of panic,
Of trptdatl0H bordering on despair IRE zee
reduced to the aecessity Of making such a., el-
hibit0H TO on, enemies and to the W0yka, In re-
sorting to such desperate measures, un-
paralleled in the history of wars The
equality of every man = eggo 'all must
go to the field Y Is not or sca,. based on
The principle and fact, which all history has
demonstrated as q truth-the iae9neltty
Of man-,tor policy we say Of races
SO overwhelming is the fear of such
an exhibition to the world" Of resort
to such desperate measures, unparalleled
in the history of wars, that the Wing
unwittingly makes the exhibition of
"confederacy" in panic, In ''trepidation
bordering on despair" And it Is 10 be no
ticed, incidentally, for the benefit of all
admirers of this model confederacy that
this whole war is waged by them to es-
tablish the Internal principle which
would plunge the world back into the
worst barbarism of ages past--the prin-
ciple Of the "1eqaality Of mo,l--for poltey's
sake only they say Of raees.n
Again, the anti-Union sympathies of
the London Times are well known. That
! sheet has correspondent in Richmond
This correspondent cannot be supposed
to be tinctured with any affection for the
North or desire for its success. Yet just
after our defeat at Chicamauga, and be-
fore the terrible blow upon the rebellion
inflicted by Grant at Chattanooga this
correspondent writes that the ConfGd-
crate States are rapidly approaching
stage in this war which will test the
stubbornness of their temper and pa
tience, and can only be successfully en-
countered by national spirit as syste-
matte as it is resoIute,n And he then
proceeds to show that they are lacking
this very stubbornness of temper and
~atience;'' this national spirit as syste-
matte as rv,v. r.''e'
"No one, he writes to we feoei-SY III
pathizing 'Thunderer, who has been con
versant with the Northern States dung
] the last two and half years, can have
failed to note with astonishment the
! faith stronger than death which the
Northerners have exhibited in their
stars their manifest destiny their
religion, their Alpha and Omega, their
dream of dominion from sea to sea, and
1 Ito quote Mr.. Everetts words from the
Icy Pole to the flaming belt of the Equa-
tor No parallel faith has ever been ex-
4 hibited by the Confederate States in their
Is future. Six great Southern victories in
the field and three drawn battles, ex-
hausting the nine principal collisions of
the war the entire absence of any such
panic routs as Bull Run or Chickamau-
ga, the tried inetficiency of the Federal
"'ockade, the unarrested predatory fight
Alabamas and Floridas, at sea- have
altogether failed to inspire the masses
OF the South with a tithe of that conf
dence in themselves which neither defeat.
nor disaster, nor hope deferred. nor illu-
Ssions dispelled, have ever shaken out of
he Northerners. Deny it who NAV.
kthere is something sublime in this shad
@owy earnestness and misty magnificepce
of Northern faith and selfreliance,-
Honld that 1 could see promise of future and
final Southern triumph IN any correspondent
Equality Of the Southern m1adr'
I He illustrated the condition of the
hConfederate currency and finances by the
marketers statement 1 carry basket
to market to hold my money, and / car
ry pocket book to fetch home what it
buys He gives adiscouraging account
or the little energy displayed about
Knoxville and elsewhere and substan.
italy admits the South sis on the brink of
precipice, with no visible obstacles to
PTS being toppled over by the vigorous
Eontinuance for short time longer of
HNorthern efforts. Somote it be.
REBEL GOVERNORS. = The rebel gov
trnors OF five out of the thirteen States
Elalmed by the rebels, as members of tho
coniederacy, viz Flanagan Of ArLan