The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1865-01-14

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lately N preparing statistical tables Of the
wealth, food, and fighting men. remaining
in the Confederacy subject to the command
OF the Government. They prove conclu-
sively tha: the amount Of al these things
Is still very great-enOrmoGs-suf to
support far greater efforts than the Conted-
eracy has yet made. To question the ac-
curacy OF their facts is far from our pur-
pose indeed their truth has been so long
and so wellknown to all who have exam
lned the subject, that the proof and tabu-
| lar exposition seem to them quite super
aaous, and even uninteres;ing.
Material exhaustion is 20. ye; felt by
the mass Of the nation no. fel. in the
slightest or mos: distsn. degree. i Will
suffer 5ron, moral exhaus.atio... The
| country viii never be enable, If will
| ing, 70 supply The wants ofi.s Government,
bat i. may easily become unwilling, and
! then Go pressure o. legislation will ne Of
much value. Pressure will obtain only
| those few drops which trickle from the
squeezed orange, and scon &c: nothing
at al.
| These Southern States are Lands OF
Goshen. A hot summer and fertile sol,
VIII always produce q superabIindance Of
bread and meat. They contain five mil
lions Of the most lighting people Of the
world, and can always supply three hnn-
(, OF life. The exten. Of their territory is 50
great, that is real occupation by the armed
forces OF two Or three such nations as tha.
we are fighting is iDconceivable. The enc.
my Is perfectly aware Of the fact, gnd does
not hase his hope Of sabjuga.ion on the
practical application Of main strength, bl:
upon the SO omission Of the will ard corse-
Quent inability TO contend in the extreini-
~, which he expects TO see AZ some time
! spread over The land.
! Tha. is. ia fact, the OILY contingency Oh
which the subjugatiOn OF the South is pos
sible. The Southern States are ID no dan
ger SO long as the spiri. o. he people IS
what it has hithet.o been; bu. let us not
! be blind 20 he truth thai there IS such a
thing possible as decay of national CONT
dence and q death of national spirit. There
is such thing as hebr.breek for nations,
as tor individuals. There are sach things
as hopelessness ard despair, i.thargy and
apathy. conviction that all il VIII do
must come &C. noGght, a.. sacrifices i can
make be rendered vain. Iy aa i-remedia-
/ bic cause-a conviction resting on rational
grounds, both 0jcet@c;.on and experiment.,
! viii prodl e his state OF feeling IN any
! nation, howeye- heroic and however obs..-
nate.
| NO pe0p.e havo ever or anywhere dis
played more patient courage, more con-
1 ssancy n misfortune, or q greater naCnan-
unity towards rs government. than the
Southern people. Neither Sidney John
som ) evacuation OF Nashville, nor Lovelfs
Of New orleans-neither Murfrees boro. or
Missionary Ridge, or vi,ksnurg, were
sutficien. 70 lamp their energy or their
hope. Armies los: have been replaced by
other armies. Resources snuandered have
been only .he signal FOR the production Of
rev treasures. Nc single calamity Will
disheartan them, nor twenty. nor hund-
.ed, II, by ary ingenuity, they eau per-
suade themselves ,aa. hey are The chances
of war and accident, and not the necessary
consequences Of unfailirg causes. which
must Irodlce the like aga.n an again tor
ever
Blu. il IS impossible 10 bear up AMER
such weight as that painful conviction !:
| and the conduct ofthe Government. is like
y to produce !. IL tire end. The unpara.-
leied absurditv Of that management; which
sent Hood 20 Nashvilieard Sherman 20 Sa-
yannah, has produ ced q certain q goomy i'm
preston upon the public mind. too deep
and strong 10 he removed py an ordinary
anodyne. Words are now Useless. ElO-
quent appeals, manilestoes, high-spirited
resolutions, theories, nostrums of all kinds
will now be thrown away. Nothing will
remove the cloud-or rather the iii-omened
lligh.-which now rests on the future, bat
measures that touch the root Of Our evil.
Such measure there is. A remedy for
all discomfort has suggested itself 10 the
mind Of every man who thinks, and has
been advised by thousand mouths in the
same breath. !, is the creation Of new
! officer-a new Chief-whc
shall exercise supreme control over the ar
mics and military affairs OF the Coneder-
lacy, and the appointment: Of Gen. Lee to
be that officer. Such III act, ii made IN
| good faith, and solemrly guarded against
con te ra citing inf aen ces, " oul3 restore pub
lie confden e. and give The country heart
for new effort equal 20 that which i has
hitherto made. 10 two.ld d. more 20 bring
down the price OF gold and restore faith in
the currency than any law Mr.. Trenholm
can devise, however wise IL principle and
however ingenious n detail.
The people would be satisfied that their
means wo-l3 no. be thrown away; tha: the
bes. use of heir blood and property would
sae made that could ce made. The adop-
tion Of such measure would he the new
birth of the Southern Confederacy. But
i. must De The real, substantial measure,
guaranteed by the rePresen ta;iyes Of the
nation; not sham, no. =. duplex general
order, creating another Eeauregard or
Johnson department under he control Of
the President And ( mus. be adopted
ia ,ime-,ha: is 10 say, now. We utter the
general opinion, bl. confess tha; we see
little encouragement to suppose that this
present Congress has the decision Of char
acter necessary 10 give it forcc.-I.ca4.ol.t.
| Er..s'.eReY.
| pEsFCEDESCy.
FROM tie Richmond WIG Jan.
We are not ready for the yoke, and that
our enemies viii Lna oat, ID their COST
| We have still within Va, 20 a greater extent
than we ever had before, the clements OF
war and victory. We have the men and
the r,o,eyte., and the men have the heart TO
use the ,r.ater.e,. When We warn our coun-
trymen against Submission, we by no
means mean to imply tha: there = any
danger of i. We merely wish 70 remind
them tha. our enemies Will be satisfied ith
nothing less, and that. therefore, il ;s USE
less TO repine.
What is .here 70 maze Us moro despon-
bent at this moment than we have been for
the last year? We have already taken oc-
casion 10 show that, so fer as territory is
concerned. the Yankees bold much less
than they did then that SO far as victo-
ry is concerned, the balance is largely in
our favor-that the Yankees have, during
the campaign, lost between three and four
| hundred thousand men-thet they have
only gained Savannah, while they have
given up atl the country between Tennes-
I = = "a C,,lF F<~rA ;pr