The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-05-16

peasHnee Aahoggb & was being cor
tursd into 81 81 lAHly year u ID,
haanft q egias and co giracy, We
We - half locked ia sseh . develop
meni that 70 eur interpreting eyes d
arrang into being srmer-ela3 Add
ihoogh every movement Of tie pas.
three years bss doubtless deprived Il
II portion Il Is vital energy. iis out.
ward Appearance o. strength has been
- vel sustained 70 The last that IL
end seems Ike sudden lall from.the
height 4 power
FoHy days has witnessed the cap.
iure q the rebel capital. tie surren.
Der o. ibe four armies d the Confed
spey tie d,sbaudng Or al lesser for
oe' Tie fight and aad capture or the
bqmble submission Of the heading trai.
tore Tie utter breaking Up Of al the
machinery Of rebellion, The South
cro soldiers Sho rushed 10 The battle
field four years ago with the cry 'In.
dependence o. death, are leaving Tor
their homes NJ speedily and as quiet.
u as though they had never fought
under such motto. Lees army was
weakened as much by dcsertion as by
the causaliti,s o. The field. During
the progress Of Johnson's negotiations
with sherman most Of bis men went
home without awaiting the action Of
their superior, who confessed his ina.
billty 60 control them. IL will doubt.
less BE- remembered tha, few days
ago the tel graph announced With con-
siderable flourish the surrender Of
JED lhompsons entire army. II now
appears that the entire army of
Gen. Thompson, commander Of the
Northern District, numbered exact
" eight men. Another distinguished 1
leader Of irregular forces in the West
was discovered By passing steamer,
sitting alone by Gre under tree on
tho riSer bank, preparing his meal
with one hand, and with the ether
vigorously plying a bush to keep off
the buffalo gnats which swarmed about
Lis bead, occasionally ceasing his ef-
forts 10 refresh himself from a bottle
standing by hts side. Ills last follow
er bad deserted him upon the news Of
Lees surrender. Never before did
70 great military power SO complete
" vanish in a day. II was not found
td upon tie necessities and wishes Of !
the people, bat was brought into ex-
istenee by a conspiracy Of the arisio.
Gratis, aud the moment the power Ct +,
The iyranncal usurpers is broken, the /
people avail Themselves Of the oppor- /
tunity to return quietly to their form q
er pursuits
Very different is the triumphant !
return Of the Eastern and Western !,
armis 10 Washington, from this scat p
tering Of the Confederate forces. The n
Southern soldiers return with broken d
spirits TO desolaied homes. And not a
Mi, or even good proportion, return.
The slaughter Of all classes Of rle !,
South has been immense. The slave n
holding arisiocracy to man went in d
to the war, and very few of them have t
come out alive. The poorer classes
have suffered their share in a canse :,
which was not ihe;~ go, and those Gs
who hare survived must endure hard. W
ships nearly as severe as those Of war ST
Tor years 10 come. The Affect pov. st
ar;y Of the South is such as a people =
has seldom been reduced to. Gener. !,
as ~ lhe Confederate army, who at "a
Ihe commencement Of the war were il
WORTH Their millions, have nothing left "
hem but their swords The punish. as
neni which the South has eaperienc- -
d Is complete, ard hereafter fear If i.
.ol lore, sill prevent any section from 3,
lsins again STA just government.
The great decisive contest between !,
-eedom and sla' cry has been brought 10
, close. SLAVE labor, disianced BY u,
rec Labor in The arts Of peace. has pie
ought 70 maintain is supremacy 81 am
le sword, and has accomplished iis -
WI destruction. The dignity u Ia ~
or, The strength u free Institutions. b
g adap1eduess 81 Tie republican form 100
gofernmrn Tor times of war a. well 40
Of peace, have i,es proved to the go
sisiaciion Of The world. The battle :. :,
free institutions has been Tough, n
u won iar sa coming time. Neycr .,t;r
am viii people attempt to ,arn The
ek the haraila, marks the progress esH'
the race Rogohs hereafter win A
against monatchies and noi against fiaa
mil o. Af.AHl m -