The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-05
From the LIVERPOOL Albion.

AMERICA Y PEOSYEC1S.
From the Liverpool Albion
Amongst those that are born of wo-
man there beats not holder heart than
that of Jefferson Davis. We are not
ashamed to confess to large amount OF
hcro-worship for the man Tor who his
Northern foes can find no better name
than rebel and slave-owncr. Never un-
duly clatcd by success, never diSmayed
by .adyersity, his voice rings out clear
as trumpet-call Oh the darkest day that
belals his country. Not Cato himself
spoke to his little Senate at Utica with
more dignity and steadfastness than does
the Southern President when addressing
his suffering fellow countrymen. Four
years have passed since the tremendous
struggle began with which his name
will he forever identified; and, il
American figures can be trusted, "a
point on which we always feel Sc
rio,ls misgivinss,) those four years
have Witnessed greater amount OF
bloodshcd and larger loss Of human
l:fa than any other four consecutive years
since the Delngc. The loss OF ten thou
sand men on a single day has become
quite a common event; and cOnscrlp-
ton of oue, two or three hundred thou
sand at time no longer cXcitcs astonlsi-
mcnt. The g OF war has snrged from
North to :, nd Fl ON East to West.
1t has been waved by laud and sea, on
mid-occan and in harbor, and up thou
sands of miles Of rivcr-in the midst Of
forests, on spacious plains, and Oh the
sides OF lofty mountains. Professional
soldiers and amateur generals have tried
their hands upon it; attorneys and poll
ticians have brought their talents to its
aid : every invention Of modern times
has been pressed into its service. New
tangled ships, cannon ofhitherto unknown
calibrc, rifles of novel construction, new
tactics and new tools, al have been used
in turn, and yet the end has not como.
Such energy, such obst;nacy, such deter
minatiOn to win, have been shown on both
sides as were hardly ever seen before,
and such an amount Of money expended
as no other country ever spent III a pc
Rod ten times as long. Ii, in the early
days Of this struggle, We were ever dis
posed to snecr at the efforts Of either
side, we must now, all Of us, confess
that we had moderated both their inton-
tons and their probable performances
II is struggle OF heroic proportions on
both sides. But, come what may, it is
to the weaker party that the highest
amount of admiration is Justly due; and
what is true OF one is doubly true Of the
other. And now, after vicissitudes in
Vulnerable, the tide has turned of late
against the South; and, doubtless, sore
encouragement has fallen upon many a
heart which not long ago was exu,ting in
the sense OF victory. 1t is not, indeed,
q great many weeks ago since We were
told, on what was assumed to be COED
Authority, that discouragemc was
universal throughout the Northern
States, and that the cry for peace
peace at almost any price-was upon
every tongue. The result shows the folly
of generalizing freely from particular in
stances, and yet only forty-eight hours
ago there were many faint-hcarted friends
of the Southern cause in a state border
ing on despair aboutit future prospects.
SO many men are ready to rush from
one extreme to its opposite. But clear
across the waters comes the brave voice
of Jefferson Davis; there is no quaver in
his tones-he speaks with no uncertain
sound. Few as are his words reported
to us, we cannot for a moment doubt his
resolution; his voice is still for war -
Dark as is the present hour, he has
passed through hours as dark before, and
through the gloom he believes he sees
the coming dawn. When New Orleans
was taken, when Vicksburg was suyren-
dered, when Stoncwall jackson fell in
the monday Of his glory, sadness and
encouragement spread over all the
Southern Confederacy and as their un-
daunted President raised anew their
spirit then, so we are persuaded he will
do now. We shall not, of course,
think of denying that the exhaustion of
men and means has been immense since
those events took place; but it must be
borne in mind that, whereas the Southern
armies are still entirely composed of
white men, the Northern army, according
to recent speech Of Mr.. Lincoln, num-
bers two hundred thousand blacks
amongst its soldiers. And Mr.. Lincoln
adduced this fact as 4 reason for main
tanning the policy of emancipation. There
remains, therefore, to the Southern GOV.
eminent the expedient of resorting "a
the negro element for tho reple,ion o.
their ranks; and though this will, nc